Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-08

SO many letters, sent out so many hys-
terical circulars, proclamations and
general orders, that his own party
friends jumped at any chance to speak
derisively of him. And now that by.
cones ought to be bygones, they are
busy again with awful disclosures of
his mismanagement. Now is tho time
for business of that sort.
In any case the burden of the song
is; I" 1t might have BEEN" 1t seems a
hard case to come so near winning a
prize and to lose it after all. OAe
electoral vote would have turned the
scale. In the contested election case of
Pacheco Us. Wigginton, in the Fourth
Congressional District of California, the
Democracy lacked only one vote, and
they deliberately decided to take it.
They would not allow little thing like
that to stand between them and their
desired end This was not SO easy in
the electoral count, and they never
weary of belaboring each other because
somebody did not snatch that vote. At
present it is Hewitt's turn to be abused.
If he had published some awful disclos-
ures concerning the electoral count, the
other day, he might have escaped. But
when he had told, in mysterious whis-
pers, of the dreadful things which he
mightdivulge, when he had darkly limited
at the overtures to sell out which had
come to him from the South, and when
the excited members, shouting " Name!
NameW gathered about him in the
House, with mouths and ears wide
open, Hewitt disappointed everybody.
They asked for something hot and
spicy, and he gave them the cold, cold
rehash of Maddox, Littlefeld and Gov
Wells There was a howl of disap-
pointment, and it was obvious that
Hewitt had long since got to the bottom
of his barrel of awful disclosures.
1t may be true, as the Louisville
Courier-Joat17,dL asserts, that Hewitt was
the arch-mismanager of the Democratic
campaign after the election. But is it
not a refined cruelty to bring that up
against him nowP Was there really
anything to be made out of the wreck
of the campaignP What is the use of
reopening the dead past in which Til
den and Hewitt are buried togetherP
Yet here is Mr.. Watterson, who prom
ised to import 100000 unarmed Demo-
Gratis from the West, and who did not
do it, making threats of exposure. He
says that when the complete history of
the mismanaged campaign of Tilden is
written, it will be found that Tilden was
opposed to the Electoral Commission,
and that he sent telegraphic orders to
Hewitt, who suppressed the dispatches,
and went ahead on his own responsible
ity. Where was Pelton all this timer
He was lodging about the lobbies of
Congress, full of business and mystery,
and pouring the secrets of his uncle
into the greedy ears of David Dudley
Field and the other Tilden managers.
Yet the Courier-.JouTndl would have us
believe that Hewitt was the sole reposi-
tory of the Democratic candidate 8
opinions and plans, and that when he
crammed certain mandatory dispatch
into his trousers pocket he thereby
suppressed the chiefs mastery scheme
and ruined everything by pressing the
Electoral Commission bill. We are
even told that Hewitt went ahead in
spite of his master; and that, but that
it was unsafe to swap horses in the
middle of the stream, Mr.. Hewitt would
have been superseded in the middle of
January" This is all ancient history.
1t is not specially diverting, except as
showing that harmony does not and
cannot reign in the Democratic camp.
The skeleton of Tilden rises to reproach
and to SOW dissension. Just now, there
is not much homogeneity in parties.
But so long as the unquiet ghost of
Samuel walks, there is no peace for the
defeated Democracy.-N. Y. Times.