Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-15
sAMMY,s HOPE.

The Enn'ssnries OF Tiide,, Lnboring to Conn
pass His EtevntiOn to the Prexideneu-
Hayes to Be Intpenched aud Tilae,, to be
Nominated in 1880.
New York Correspondence Washington Sunday
Herald.
AS matter of fact Samuel J. Tilden is
buster to-day than almost any other man in
America. He not only expects to take
President Hayes place, but he expects to be
the nominee of the Democracy in 1880.
Charley O'Rourke, manager of the New York
City Press association, and myself were
walking down John street, New York. yes
terday, when we met prominent New York
merchant, whose name must not be men
toned. "Con ress,'' said he, "will meet on
the 9Th day of March, 1872
.sFor what?''
ssTo impeach Hayes
"What makes you think so?''
81 know, sir; know that to-day Samuel
j. Tilden has emissaries (three of them) out,
and | know what his programme is. He
proposes to be elected to the United States
Senate in the place of Conkling, and also to
press by personal contact his claims for the
Presidency
'sDoes he believe he will be elected Senator
| by the New York legislature that will be
elected this fall!''
s'He knows he will. He has that matter
fixed. Here is the first vantage-g ground. He
weakened on the commission of Senators,
Representatives and judges who seated
Hayes, but he is desperate now.'
"Does he expect to unseat Hayes?'
"No, of course not; but he proposes to
l,ofo
public, by reason of his being Senator,
and by reason of the new question of I'M
parchment, that Thurman, Bayard, Hen
bricks and all must stand aside and let Til
den be the nominee against Grant in $780,"
ssBut he is so old?':
ssHe will be the llveliest old fossil ycu
ever saw in 1892
''Every Congress has two sessions. The
first is the long one of the Forty fifth 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 of ne t December"
Eyes; but even that is provided against.
1t is SO arranged that they are to call ses-
sion of Congress on the 9th of March, 1879.
In other words, the Forty sixth Congress
will Immediately succeed the Forty fifth.
'Tilden is to be elected Senator this winter BY
the New York Legislature, the impeachment
of Hayes will commence i'll February, and
rilden and the other new Senators will be
seated on March the 9TH
1.-The House must impeach and the Senate
try the accused upon the articles of impeach-
ment.'
81 rue, 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!''
'sThat has nothing to do with 1t. If this
House meet on the 9Th of March, the next
Congress must meet then, and the Senate
must go on with the impeachment trial."
1T is usual for the President TO call an
extraordinary session of Congress. Do you
suppose Mr.. Hayes would do so under such
clrcumstances?''
HE would be forced to, 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
extraordinary session; they want him to re-
fuse to do so, and in the meantime the i'm
| decency STOP"
"Simply that the impeachment articles
will pass the House in January, occupy the
| biggest part of the Senates attention in
February and be pending in March. The
Senate's matter of the failure of the appro-
priation bills may NIKE an extra session
| necessary. Al these contingencies have
| been weighed, and the advice of at least
dosen 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 I'M
parchment are presented by the House,
SHOT the constitutional limit of Con-
| gressman's career?"
Nothing. Admit that the Congressman's
salary stops and he is no longer public
servant. A new Congress is elected, the new
Senate is Democratic, both houses are Dem
ocratic, 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 Tilden President. In that
event, assuming that it will not be necessary
to coerce the Senate by defeating the appro-
priation bills, Tilden will be a Senator, and
| while apparently taking no part will slyly
clrcumvent the Bayard, Thurman and Hen
bricks influence for the next nomination
"Do you suppose anybody is going to be-
| lieve that?"
'.They will; and tell you they will sea it
| commence as tell you. and that Tilden will
| take Conklings seat next March,
''Why did Manton Marble give such an
extended and curious history of the Elec.
| toral Commission business?''
"That is another part of the programme.
! Marble did that to build up the waning
chances of Tilden for the nomination. It
was not for Marble to speak; but Tilden
chose to speak through him. look upon
| that as a good stroke of policy; SO do all
Tllden's friends. If you read that paper
carefully you will find that every squirt of
incidental influence around it is deliberately
aimed against Thurman. It was document
| intended to stab Thurman, a man of whom
Tilden is surely afraid. Tilden has three
| fixed ideas in view: First, he does not ex-
| pect to get Hayes out. Second, He proposes
to have him impeached. tried and acquitted
| with doubt. Third, He proposes to raise the
very devil all the time to keep his own name
| fresh for neyt convention and counteract
| the influences that seem arising in favor of
Thurman, Bayard, and that chronic can
| didate, Thomas A. Hendricks. In all this
the Democrats assume and confidently be-
lieve that the next President will be
Democrat. They are fighting for the nomi-
nation, and Tilden seems to have the inside
track, fearing only Thurman
Chow can they be thus assured?'
"Tilden has three trusty men out much
better than those who spent his 'barl of
money in the last Presidential campaign.
He knows his men now, and the TiIden
movement for the convention of 1879 Is or
gained beautifully, and has all the money on
he Democratic side. You see there are a
number of bondholders among the Demo-