Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-18
THE NEXT PRESIDENCY
Senator Ba,,t,t'ft Of Connecticut, hnirntal,
of the National Deliberate Committee.
: Thinks 1t ,ciIt be San. Tilden.

Senator Baiptsttft Of Connecticut, CAnirn,al.
of the National Democratic Committee.
Thinks 1t ,cill be San, Iilden.
A Lexington, KY, correspondent of the
Cincinnati C0nanae,'cial in letter dated the
10th inst, makes the following important
statement:
AL doubt that may have been entertained
about Mr.. Tilden's position in regard to the
Presidential succession in 1880 may now be
considered settled. One who is authorized
to speak for him has stated that it is Mr..
Tilden's intention to be candidate for the
Democratic nomination.
Not long ago Senator Barnum, Chairman
of the National Democratic committee, in an
eight hours conversation with gentleman
of this city, who; with his brother, promi-
nent Congressman from Louisiana, hap
pened to be journeying with Mr.. Barnum
from New York to Washington; related many
things of interest about the conduct of the
last Presidential campaign. Parts of that
conversation were repeated to the represen-
tative of the Commercial.
From this it appears that Mr.. Abram s.
Hewitt, who stood before the country as Mr..
Tilden'E best man and champion, and as
sumed the role of the great American paeifi-
Gator, did SO without any other sanction tran
that of his own vanity. He produced the
impression that he was acting as lieutenant
for the Democratic claimant for the Presi-
dency, when, in fact, he was entitled in no
sense to speak or act for Mr.. Tilden in a
representative capacity. The position and
views of MIR: Tilden ON the Electoral Com
mission have been entirely misunderstood
and, to great extent, misrepreseuted. This
also is to be attributed to Mr.. Hewitt, with
whom the compromise was a pet scheme.
AS an instance of the little confidence which
he and his supposed chief reposed in each
other. Mr.. Tilden absolutely knew nothing
of the electoral compromise until it was
sprung. He was opposed to it and set his
face against it, but when it had assumed
substantial form, knowing that his chances
for the Presidency were lost, Mr.. Tilden qui-
city submitted to the wrong inflicted upon
him unconsciously by his own friends. From
the first he had regarded it as device to let
him down easy-f sort of honorable means
of escape from the alternative of submission
to wrong or resort to civil war to enforce his
claims:
The general impression was that Mr.. Til
den favored the compromise measure SO long
as there was hope of Judge Davis being
placed on the commission and the eight to
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Barnum denied most emphatically.
Another instance in which Mr.. Hewitt mis-
represented Mr.. Tilden and deceived the
country, was in the choice of Speaker. Mr..
Morrison was the choice of Mr.. Hewitt,
while Mr. Randall was the selection of Mr..
Tilden, who wanted man in the Speakers
chair who would not be afraid to act in case
of emergency. He had anticipated the cleo
ton going into the House, and he desired a
man of frmness as presiding officer in what
might have been the most trying circumstan-
ces. Mr.. Barnum was during the election
campaign one of the most active of Mr.
Tlden's friends, and more than any other in
his confidence. Indeed, he had been selected
by him to choose his Cabinet in the event Of
his Inauguration. He is, therefore, entitled
to speak for the Governor, and he knows
whereof he speaks.
Mr.. Barnum is positive on the point thai
Governor Tilden will be candidate for thu
Democratic nomination again. He regard.
it as absolutely essential that the nominee
should be taken from New York. Practic
ally the necessity of the last campaign vii
exist in the next. The solid South canno
: elect a President without New York, and
Western or Southern man cannot carry tina
State against popular Republican selected
from her people. Florida, Louisian
and Oregon would not compen
: safe the Democracy for the los
of the Empire State. A national cam
} paign entered upon without consulting he
l interests and without recognizing he
3 strength, would inevitably end in failure
3 The best thing for the democracy to dc
! thought Mr.. Barnum, was to renominat
8 Uncle Samuel. He had been defeated of hi
rights to the Presidency, as Jackson ha
: been, only that in the case of jackson th
constitution had not been violated, nor ha
L tribunals unknown to the constitution bee
e resorted to to compass his defeat-in othe
t words, he had not been defrauded. But tt
: sympathy of the people was so great for tt
defeated soldier that he was nominated tr
o umphantly second time, and elected Pres
It ident by an enthusiastic nation. Mr.. Barr
J, UNI believes that the inherent love of JUST.
: in the American people will cause them
rally to the Tilden standard, if it be agai
u raised, and conduct the victim of the compr,
/ mise scheme of Mr.. Hewitt and Senator e,
uunds in triumph to the White House. M
o Tilden will enter actively into the canva
r for the nomination with the confidence of
$, man who feels that he is but asking for VIII
} he conceives to be due him as a right.
" The schooner E. Il, Pray, loaded at New 70
for Baltimore, was found adrift in North riv
ID Thursday of last week, her cargo gone and t
vessel scuttled. The shippers who charter
her ana the officers Of an interested insuran
;, company believe that the captain, Melvin
- Clark. aided by his crew, stole the cargo Al