2497. ELECTIONS (Presidential, 1804), Non-Interference with.—
[I said to Colonel
Burr] that in the election now coming on, I
was observing the same conduct [as in 1800];
held no councils with anybody respecting it,
nor suffered anyone to speak to me on the subject,
believing it my duty to leave myself to
the free discussion of the public; that I do not
at this moment know, nor have ever heard, who
were to be proposed as candidates for the public
choice, except so far as could be gathered
from the newspapers.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 205.
Ford ed., i, 302.
(Jan. 1804)
