Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-09-02
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4 not know whether it was proper or il
s. proper; but | say it was charged to
m improper by the gentleman from low
Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois. / belle
g MIR. Tilden claims in his letter that
3. was not improper.
+ Mr.. Hewitt, of New York. Th
IS was in 1868. Subsequently the rim
perhaps beginning their corrupt pra,
o tees at that time for ought | know
the contrary, became so powerful
r New York that they threatened [
drive out and succeeded in driving OF
: almost every decent man from the den
0 ocratic party Of that city.
Governor Tilden for more than thre
/ years, like o sieuth.hOund upon til
) scent, followed these people patieptly
5 secretly, diligently, spending tina
, money of which the gentleman fror
) Iowa thinks he is so parsimonious wit
! a most liberal hand; with a maguifi
cence of liberality that no private cit
i lzen has ever exhibited in this countr
In the performance of public dut
, not imposed by any obligation of law
J l was with him in those transactions
} l know what he did; / know his un
tIring efforts day and night; / knoy
what an army of clerks he kept busy
| know how he tracked these people K
their dens of iniquity and 6analll
dragged them forth to public execra
ton; and not stopping there, he has
; pursued them until they are either Ii
prison or in exile, and judgments
amounting to millions of dollars have
been taken against them, and over
$6OO, 900 in one case has been restored
to the treasury of the city Of New
i York. lApplause. stsa
| Mr.. Springer. That conduct OF
Governor Tilden is warning to all
| such people, and accounts for much OF
the opposition to his election.
/ Mr.. Dayy. Will my colleague Mr..
/ Hewitt allow me just one question
/ Mr.. Hewitt, of New York. Ger
| tainly. ..-.
+ Mr.. Davy. Did not Mr.. Tilden
meet with Mr.. Tweed as delegate in
the State convention which convened
at Rochester long time after these
occurrences, and after the frauds of
Mr.. Tweed had been exposed, and did
Mr.. Tilden raise his voice against Mr..
Tweed taking seat in that conven-
tion?
| Mr.. Hewitt, of New York. Ny col
league Mr.. Cox] was a delegate to
that convention and can aswer better
than | can.
/ Mr.. Dayy. I asked the gentleman
who is addressing the House.
/ Mr.. Hewitt, of New York. Ger
tainly; but yield to my colleague
for an answer to that question because
he was an eyewitness, and an eye-wit-
ness is better than any secondhand
testimony.
/ Mr.. Cox. I was delegate to that
convention along with Governor Til
den and the other delegates named
from the different districts.
/ A Member. To which convention ?
Mr.. Cox. To the Rochester Con-
vention, to which my colleague Mr..
Davy has referred.
A Member. In what year
Mr.. Cox. / think in 1871.
Mr.. Davy. Does my colleague refer
to the judicial convention or the State
convention ? a iai
Mr.. Cox. Irefer to the only time a
convention ever met there.
Mr.. Davy. o, no; conventions met
there several times. The judicial con-
vention met there.
Mr.. Cox. Not in recent years. Let
me answer the gentlemaq's question.
know that Mr.. Tilden's efforts drove
William NJ. Tweed out of that con-
Vention. ae III
Mr.. Davy. / asked the gentleman
whether Mr.. Tilden raised his voice
in that convention against Mr.. Tweed
taking a seat.
Mr.. Cox. There was no necessity
for bis deilg So, because MF. Tweed
was not in the convention.
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York. Mr..
Tweed had no seat in that convention.
passed in that convention against the
Tweed delegation taking seats?
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York. The
question which the gentleman asked
me was whether Mr.. Tildenprotested
against Mr.. Tweed takinga seat. Mr..
Tweed took no seat in that conVen-
ton,
Mr.. Davy. That is not the question
put to the gentleman. asked him
whether Mr.. Tilden ever raised his
voice in that convention against Mr..
Tweed taking a seat.
Mr.. Randall. He did not have a
seat there.
Mr.. Davy. He did have seat in
that convention. ts..
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York. 1 can
give satisfactory answer to the gem
tleman's question. / can say to him
that MIR. Tweed at that time knew
that Governor Tilden was his bitter
enemy, and Governor Tilden knew
that Mr.. Tweed was trying to crnsh
him; ann, as the gentleman knows
perfectly we'll, if it had not been for
the stanch support and absolute conf
dence which the rural democracy Of
the State of New York extended to
Governor Tilden he would have been
driven from the chairmanship of the
State committee, as Mr.. Tweed threat
ened he should be. But he was kept
there by the honest democrats of the
State Of Now York until be had pulled
down and destroyed this temple of in
iquity and driven these scoundrels out
OF the places they disgraced. 4af
Mr.. Hewitt, t Of New York. Now 1
am not going to be interrupted and
cross-qpestiOned. a -7t 5ea
Mr.. DaYy. / have one more ques-
ton / would like my colleague to ans.
wer.
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York. I will
answer; but l want to say that l am
an utterly unpraeticed speaker. l have
never before addressed a body like
this without notes for anything like
this length of time. If gentlemen are
putting these questions with the pur-
pose Of disconserting me, they ought
to have more respect for themselves.
Mr.. Davy. 1 hope my colleague
does not attribute any such motive to
me.
A member, Ito Hewitt.) You can
hold your own very well.
Mr.. Davy. | want the naked facts
| of this case.
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York. The
bare, naked fact is this There was
war, war to the knife" between Gov.
| TiIden and Mr.. Tweed; and it ended
| in the defeat aud exile of Mr.. Tweed.
Loud applause.] That is all there is
about it.
Mr.. Davy. Now will my colleague
permit me to ask him
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York. l will
not be catechised. n
Mr.. Randall. | ask that the gentle
man from New York Davyl take his
seat. His colleague [ Hewitt declines
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