Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-14
SuccessfuI Candidate for the E'resi-
dency Next Year - The Possible
impeachment OF Hayes a. Par
ticeDs Criminus In the
Great Fraud.

/ press by personal contact MS Cldluls Tor the
| Presidency
Does he be ieve ne will be elected eeDa-
tor by the New York legislature that will be
elected this fall?'
''He knows he will. He has that matter
| fixed. Here is the first vantage ground. He
| weakened on the commission of senators, rep
| resentatives and judges who seated Hayes,
| but ne Is desperate now"
| docs he expect to uDseat Hayas?"
! mo, of course not; but he proposes to
| keep his name so prominently before the
| public, by reason of his being a senator, and
| by reason of the new question Of Impeach-
ment, that Thurman, Blyard and Hendricks,
and all must stand aside and let Tlden be
| the nominee against Grant in 1880.
But he Is so oldT"
"He will be the livehest old fossil you ever
saw in 1880"
EVERY congress has two sessions. The
first is the long one of the forty-ffth con-
gress that Is past the next session of this
congress adjourns by constitutional limit
ends March 4, 1879. 1t meets the first Mon
day in next December"
''Ges, but even that Is provided against
1t is so arranged that they are to cal a ses-
sion of congress on the fifth of March, 1879
Ia other words, the forty-sixth congress will
i'm nediately success the forty fifth. TIlden
is to DE elected senator this winter by the
New York legislature, the impeachment of
Hayes will commence 10 February, and Til
den and the other new senators will be seated
on March 5th.'
''The house much impeach and the senate
try the accused upon the articles of impeach-
ment"
True, but the house is Democratic. No
body believed the Potter resolutions would
pass. but they did
"But there Is no assurance that the next
house will be Democratic
That has nothing to do with it. If this
house and this senate declare that the next
congress shall meet on the fifth Of March the
next congress must meet then, and the senate
must go with the impeachment trial
cit is usual for the President to call an ex-
traordinarY session of congress. Do you sup
pose Mr.. Hayes would do so under such cir
cumstances 2"
He would be forced to do 50, Or admit the
weakness of his case"
But suppose he did not?''
Then he would lose the opportunity That
matter is settled in the minds of the men who
are managing this thing. They do not want
Hayes to call congress together IN extra
ordinary session; they want him to refuse to
do 50, and IN the meantime the impeachment
trial will go on, and it cannot in decency
stop"
"What do you mean by that?"
Simply that the impeachment articles will
pass the house in January, occupy the big
gest pa t of the senate's attention IN Febru-
airy, and be pending IN March. The senate's
lii s.r nt the failure of the appropriation
Dllls may make an extra SESSION necessary.
All these contingencies have been weighed.
and the advice of at least a dozen of the very
best lawyers in the United States has been
obtained.''
"For mercy's sake, upon what point?"
Upon the point that nothing can stop the
progress IN the senate if articles of impeach-
ment are presented by the house"
Not the constitutional limit Of a congress /
man s career?''
Nothing Admit that the congressman /!
salary stops, and that ne Is no longera public |
servant. A new congress IS elected, the new !
senate Is Democratic, both houses are Demo |
cratic, even this Republican senate will be
forced to help the house call the new con-
gress together or public opinion will nomi-
nate and elect Iilden President. In that
event, assuming that it will not be necessary
TO coerce the senate by defeating the appro-
prlatlon bills, Illden viii be a senator, and |
while apparently taking no part, will slyly
the Bayard, Thurman and Hem
tricks influence for the next nomination"
DO you suppose anybody Is going to be-
ieve that?''
"They will; and tell you they will see it
commence as tell you, and that Tllden will
axe Conkling's seat next March,
"Why did Manton Marble give such an
extended and curious history of the electoral
businessP"
THAT is another part of the programme.
Ilarble did that to build up the waning
hances of Tilden for the nomination. Il
vas not for Marble to speak; but Tilden chose
0 speak through him. | look upon that as
good stroke of policy; so do all 1ilden's
riends. If you read that paper carefully
on will find that every squirt of incidental
influence around it Is deliberately aimed
galnst Thurman. 1t was a document in
ON n Nah
1lden is surely afraid. You must under
tand IN this connection, too, that Tilden has
hree liked ideas IN view: First, he does not
xpect to get Hayes out; second, he proposes
D have him impeached, tried and acquitted
nth doubt; third, he proposes to raise the
cry devil all the time to keep his own name
resh tor the next convention and counterfeit
he influences that seem arising in favor of
thurman, Bayard, and that chronic candi-
ate, Thomas A. Hendricks. In all this the {
Democrats assume and confidently believe !
hat the next President will be a Democrat !
hey are fighting for the nomination, and
1lden seems to have the inside track, fearing |
My Thurman
Show can they be thus assured?" Il
''Iilden has three trusty men out, much
etter men than those who spent his 'bar'l of s
loney' IN the last Presidential campaign. [
e knows his men now, and the Illden l
lovement Tor the convention of 1879 Is or C
anlZed beautifully and has all the money on a
lie Democratic side. You see there are a I
lumber OF bondholders among the Democrats '
no are watching this matter closely. They G
ould be satisfied with either Tilden or BAY i
I'd, because both are sound on the money /
1estion, but when you mention any western {
IAN S name IN connection with the PresIden- /
? they scare at once. They tremble at the y
anne of Thurman because he is a soft-monev {
an, and they want New York and San t
ranclsco to do the exchange of the east, in a
cad OF forcing the Asiatic to 90 around the b
Grid to make his exchanges in London, as S
has usually done, and would continue TO
II our currency was expanded"
Then, according to what you claim to
now from headquarters, Mr.. Tilden is doing OF
5 level best to be renominated?"
He Is. He will be elected by the Albany !.
glsature, next winter, to 4 seat in the SEN :,
e, and the forty-sixth congress will meet on =
e fifth of March. 1879, with an impeach- :,
ent case pending. Further than that, events =
ust determine Tilden's future" :
The New York city editor referred to, with h
hom this conversation was had. Is a very 4
ointment one, and l would mention his :,
me only that he requests 1t be not done o.