"WASHINGTON, _Dec. 11, 1877_.
"DEAR SIR,--I did not forget, on my return to Washington,
the promise I made in New York to send you the copy I have of
Judge Bradley's letter explaining his action on the electoral
commission, but for some days I could not find it. Having now found
it, I enclose it to you, and also an extract from an article which
appeared in the Newark _Daily Advertiser_ about the same time, and
to which the judge evidently refers in his letter.
"The language of the letter[21] justifies some of the comments of
the press upon the change of views which the judge experienced
shortly before the vote was taken in the Florida case.
I am, very sincerely yours,
"STEPHEN J. FIELD."
[21] Judge Bradley's peculiar if not exclusive responsibility for
counting Mr. Hayes instead of the candidate chosen by the people
into the Presidency is more clearly set forth in a communication
of the writer entitled, "The Supreme Court and the Electoral
Commission: An Open Letter to the Hon. Joseph H. Choate," first
published in the New York _Sun_, on the 19th July, 1903, and later
in a pamphlet by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.