The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-08-25

In that convention against Mr.. Tweed
| taking a seat.
Mr.. Randall: He did not have seat
! there.
Mr.. Davy: He did have seat In that
convention.
MIR. Hewitt can give satisfactory
answer to the gentleman question.
can say to him that Mr.. Tweed at that
time knew that Gov. Tilden was his bit
ter enemy. and 1ilden knew that Tweed
was trying to crush him and, as the
gentleman knows perfectly well, II it bad
not been for the stanch support and ab-
, solute confidence which the rural Deinoc-
racy of the state of New J ork extended
to Gov. Tilden. he would have been
driven from the chairinanship OF the
state committee. a. MIR. Tweed threatened
he should be. But he was kept there by
the honest Democrats Of the state of
New York until he had pulled down
and destroyed this temple OF iniquiiy and
driven these scoundiels out OF the places
they disgraced.
Mr.. Davy'rose.
MIR. Hewitt Now | am not going to
be interrupted and cross questioned.
Mr.. Davy have one more question
would like my colleague to answer.
Mr.. Hewitt | will answer; but want
to say that | am an utterly Impractical
speaker. | have never before addressed
a body like this without notes tor any
thing like this length of time. Ii gen.
tl.men are putting these questions with
the purpose OF dscUnccrtlng me, they
| ought to have more respect for them
selves.
Mr.. Davy: hope my colleague does
not attribute any such motive TO me.
\ Member Ito Mr.. HEWITT: You can
! hold your own very well.
Mr.. Davy: | want the naked facts of
| This ease.
Mr.. Hewitt: The bare. naked fact
is this: There was war. ''war TO the
knife" between Gov. Tildeu and Mr..
Tweed: anu ii ended in the defeat and eX
lie of Mr.. Tweed. Loud applause. !
That is all there is about it.
Nj. Davy: Now. will my colleague
permit me to ask him
Mr.. Hewitt: will not be catecised.
Mr.. Randall: ask that the gentle
man from New York Mr.. Davyl take his
seat. His colleague Mr.. HEWITT declines
to be interrupted further.
The speaker pro tcmpore /: The chair
| must insist that tie gentleman from
New York shall take his seat
Mr.. Randall Ito Mr.. Davy): Take your
seat you are out of order.
Mr.. Davy: Now, ask my colleague
The speaker pro tompore: The chair
must insist that the gentleman from New
York (Mr. Dsvy) shall take his seat.
Mr.. Davy: Certainly. bow to the
| decision of the chair but did not pro-
| pose to yield TO the decision of the gem
tlcman from Pennsylvania Mr.. Rand
DALI
Mr.. Hewitt | call this house to wit
ness that have answered and am willing
to answer every question OF substantive
character bearing upon the merits OF this
| case which any man can ask me. But
| when gentlemen undertake TO catecise
me about petty matters of detail | mus
decline to answer. Mr.. Speaker. the fact
is perfectly notorious, and certainly nc
man in his senses, no fair and just man
will ever tor u moment intimate that
there was the slightest intimacy, per.
| sonal or political. al any time between
| Samuel j. Tildcn and William NJ. Tweed
| There never was, sir. There was that
| association which comes from the en-.
forced appointment of men on com.
mittees and OF their living i'm the same
| community and belonging to the SAME
| party: but the one man stood in the
! community above and beyond reproach
and the other was always an object OF
suspicion and finally OF detestation.
MIR. Davy rose.
| Mr.. Hewitt: will not be interrupted
more. have shown a disposition to an
| swer all reasonable questions, and | de.
| cline to be interrupted any more. Now
! the gentleman from Iowa
Mr.. Lapham The gentleman is speak
ing by the grace of this house.
/ I II N nv hf
grace of anybody but of my own col
| league and of my constituents. Now
| the gentleman from iowa INDUCED in one
insinuation Of so mean and despicable &
character that almost hesitate to refer
| to it. Ifhe could have blushed-and
| looked into his face as sat near him OF
| purpose-if he were capable of blushing
| he would have blushed then, but he die
| not. He insnuated that the private for
| tune of Gov. 1ilden had been acquired by
| some dishonorable-and did not dare &c
say dishonest, but he implied It-dishon
| est practices in connection with railway,
and corporations. Now, when q man
makes an insiDuation OF that sort, Inc
should be prepared with the proof. 1t Il
a mean, unmanly, dishOnorabie charge
| for any man to make behind the back OF
| another man who is not here to ans wer
But / can tell that gentleman. and
hope his own record is as clear and as
good, that Gov. Tilden was called from
1857 to 1860 into almost every broken
down railway corporation in the West
that while he found them unable to pa,
running expenses, he took them in hand
and so administered them that in every
case the bonds, whether first. second or
third mortgage, and the stock, preferred
and common, all ultimately went above
par; and he enriched people
that were wise and tortu-
nate enough 10 have Sc
cured his services. am personally
| among the numbers OF those who were
| benefited by his wise aud segacous man
agemenf and say, so far from having
been overpaid in any OF these transac
lions. that his legal fees and his personal
| poorly rewarded have ever known in q
long business career, dealing in large
| transactions in all parts of this country
and in Europe. defy these gentlemen
to lay their hands upon a dishonest dol
lar IN the possession Of SamuelJ. Tilden
! say that the people whom he served
are his friends to-day. and his bes
! friends. And II is his service there Which
he rendered To the West, notwithstand
ing the insinuatlons OF the gentleman
from Iowa, that will give him the vote Of
| those great Western states within whose
borders he reconstructed highways which
are tn them to-day the arteries Of com
merce and public blessings, the value o.
which cannot be properly estimated
And as through the whole OF his remark
able career he has been the wisest o
them, he has been the truest of friends
he has been the most jealous and earn
est OF patriots, so to-day he is tn,