Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-25
BLAZING INTO HEWITT.

BLAZING INTO HEWITT.
Henry Patterson Lifts the Hair Trops
Titden's Nect Friend.
Interview with Henry Watterson in the New
York Sun-1
You really think, then, that the Potter in
vestigation revives the candidacy of Mr.. Til
den?
1T would be ungracious as we'll as inexact
and lnsincere, in me to say, Sufficient unto
the days is the evil thereof" Besides, Mr..
Tilden has been most abused, misrepresent-
ed man, and should be most unjust one if
did not sympathize with the desire and in
tention of his friends to see his conduct
throughout trying ordeal put clearly, fully,
and correctly before the country. 1t is too
early to begin the work of making President.
But 1t IS never too early to tell the truth.
When the mists clear away. it will be found
that many people have been misled and mis-
represented by the laundering and muddling
of that fussy man. Hewitt
How came MIR. Hewitt to object to your pres
ence in the Democratic caucus the other even
ing?
Il was sitting in the House talking with aIr.
Morrison, of Illinois, and did not observe that
caucus was assembling until the doors had
been closed. A caucus is enough of bore
when it is your duty to attend it, and, having
no amateur taste OF my own to crafty, l
promptly rose and was quitting the hall when
Gen. Hooker, of Mississippi, GOT up and, as I
passed out, asked unanimous consent for nv
remaining. Not intending to remrin, I did not
stop to hear the result of this very common
and trivial courtesy. afterward learned that
Mr.. Hewitt objected and that the rules were
suspended and the invitation given in spite of
his dissent. He is the only person whom I
ever refused FUSED to recognize without
petty spi4 He perpetrated most outrageous
falsehood during the winter of ls76-77, under
circumstances of particular emphasis, and l
never spoke to him afterward. | should not
mention this, but that it was made the occa-
sion of transferring the meetings of the Joint
committee OF Amusement from his house to
another place, and is known to many besides
myself"
Would you object to naming some of
| what you consider to be Mr. Hewitt blunders?
His whole transaction of the business of the
National committee, of which chance had made
him chairman. was mess and bungle. His
Eighty and ridiculous intrigues or would-be
intrigues with Grant his silly row and hui
! his incessant blatherskiting and egotism--why
he wanted to issue an address early in Decem-
| Der, resting our case upon the vote of Oregon
and few Of us had time of it suppressing
! him. His latest escapade was to charge the
| confederates of the House with betraying Til
den, when the objects of his rage had done lust
precisely what he had done himself, that is
| voted for the Electoral bill and stood by the
count
Has not Mr.. Hill, of Georgia, recently con-
| frmed Mr.. Hewitt's view by statement that
| there was round-robin of forty-two confeder-
ates?
No, sir, he has not. l talked especially
! with him on this subject while was in Wash
| lngton, and he denies having said anything of
! the sort. What he said was that the country
owes the settlement of the succession to the
| fidelity Of the confederates, who, having voted
| the commission carried out its decision in good
faith. An analysis OF the vote for the COM
mission and for the count will show that MIR.
| Tilden's Immediate friends stood by both the
| one and the other. 1t is true that Mr.. Tilden
| was seriously opposed to the electoral bill.
fplepa aed Mr iBom ala
| in the Senate, MIR. Hewitt and Mr. Field
| in the House. Coming South, the
confederates who supported it, and
afterward stood by it, US Mr.. Herman and Mr.
! Hewitt did, were such men as Tucker, Hill,
Gordon, Gibson, and Lamar, two of them en-
| tering upon six years terms in the Senate, and
| two prominently named for members of the
Cabinet should Mr. Tllden come in. The men
who voted against the commission, and who
6libustered to obstruct the court Excepting Mr.
Field, who joined in the latter were generally
| w
| Gent answer to Mr. Hewitt's gable, very
properly and promptly rebuked by MIR. Ellis.
But behind it there was q caucus
rule, pledging the party to stand by the count.
What motive, for example, could Lamar ard
Hill have to feel lukewarm. They had Just
| been elected Democratic Senators They had
{ everything to lose and nothing to gain by the
incoming of Hayes. As early as the 18th of
December. Mr.. Lamar joined Mr.. Randall, Mr.
| Ottendorfer, and myself in sending telegram
| from New Orleans to Mr.. Tilden of about this
purport: You have carried Louisiana. The
State will be counted against US. Issue an adj
dress to the country stating that you are elected
President, and will maintain your title I
think no" that the country owes its peace and
the Democratic party its united existence to
the abstinence and forbearance of Mr.. Tilden,
who could only have headed a popular emeute.
But l did not think so then, and it is false of
Mr.. Hewitt to pretend at this late day that
there was any improper collision between
Southern Democrats and the Hayes set. l am
sure that Mr.. Tilden himself is of more Just
and discriminating turn of mind; but in this.
as in other matters. it is not the first time he
has been misrepresented by that frisky person
| who goes about with much cry and SO little
| wool