The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-24
TILDEN IN 1880.

What Senator Baynum Of Connecticut, has to Say
--Tllden and Hewitt Pulling Opposite Ways.
Lexington (Ky) Correspondent Cincinnati Com.
mercial)
All doubt that may have been enter
tained about Mr.. Tilden's position in re.
gard 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 a candidate for the Democratic nomi.
nation.
Not long ago Senator Barnum Of Con.
nectiCut, Chairman Of the National Dem.
ocratic Committee, in an eight hours
conversation with a gentleman Of this
city, who, with his brother, a prominent
Congressman from Louisiana, happened
to be journeying with Mr.. Barnum from
New York to Washington, related many
things of interest about the conduct Of
the last Presidential campaign.
From these it appears that Mr.. Abram
S. Hewitt, who stood before the country
as Mr.. Tilden's best man and champion,
and assumed the role of the great Ameri.
can paCifcator, did so without any other
sanction than that of his own vanity. He
produced the impression that he was act
ing as lieutenant for the Democratic Clai.
mant for the Presidency, when, in fact,
he was entitled in no sense to speak or
act for Mr.. Tilden in representative ca
M nitu Tho Y,OuiEiOr onJ tho xriauo Of
Mr.. Tilden on the Electoral Commission
have been entirely Misunderstood and,
to great extent, misrepresented. This
also is to be attributed to Mr.. Hewitt,
with whom the compromise was a pet
scheme. AS an instance of the little con-
tidenCe which he and his supposed chief
reposed in each other, Mr.. Tilden abso-
lutely 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 a substantial
form, knowing that his chances for the
Presidency we're lost Mr.. Tilden quietly
submitted to the wrong inflicted upon
him unConsCiously by his own friends.
From the first he had regarded it as a
device to let him down easy-a sort OF
honorable means of escape from the al
Tentative of submission to wrong or re-
sort to civil war to enforce his claims.
The general impression was that Mr.
Mlden favored the compromise measure
so long as there was a hope of Judge Da.
Wis being placed on the Commission, and
the s to should be in his favor. But
this Mr.. Barnum denied emphatically.
Another instance in which Mr.. Hewitt
misrepresented Mr.. Tilden and deceived
the country, was in the choice of Speaker
Morrison was the choice of Mr.. Hewitt
while Mr.. Randall was the selection Of
Mr.. Tilden, who wanted a man in the
Speakers chair who would not be afraid
to act in case of emergency. He had
anticipated the election going into the
House and he desired man of firmness
as presiding officer in what might have
been the most trying circumstances
Mr.. Barnum was, during the election
campaign, one of the most active of Mr.
Tilden's friends, and more than any 9th
er in his confidence. He is, therefore
entitled to speak for the Governor anC
he knows whereof he speaks,
Mr.. Barnum is positive on the poin
that Gov. Tilden will be candidate fol
the Democratic nomination again. He
regards it as absolutely essential that the
nominee should be taken from New
York. Practically the necessity of the
last campaign will exist in the next The
solid South cannot elect President with
out New York, and a Western or South
ern man cannot carry that State against
a popular Republican selection from hei
people. Florida, Louisiana and Oregon
would not compensate the Democracy fol
the loss of the Empire State.