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Hewitt WattcrsDn

York sun, addressed 10 Hon, ADraln
S. Hewitt, Chairman OF the National
Democratic Executive Committee, ac.
cuses that gentleman Of betraying Mr..
Tildcn, by refusing to make known TO
the Democrats in Congress his (Tilr
dcn's) opposition TO the electoral com
mission bill aud supprcssing other
facts that might have defeated thai
measure, Mr.. Watters0n closes his
letter by anlying to Mr., Hewitt the
stigma Of personal dishonor, NC. Mr.,
Hewitt answers the letter by calling
Watterson %"another," and the friends
OF both parties are under the impress
sion that an appeal TO the code is like
" to be resorted TO. in regard TO this
matter the New Orleans Times is
"hard' on both Of these honorable
gentlemen, and sums the whole matter
up us follows:
This affair is narrowing the Ameri
can public nightly. Nothing more
dreadful has occurred since the immor
;aI Tupn an Wrinkle tragedy which was
with such great difficulty arrested by
their mutual friends. Indeed, we
doubt whether, in really homic;dCl
qualities, it does not surIass hat mem
orabIc episode. Some Of our readers
may have heard Of Wattcrson. He is
he alarming person who wanted to in
vito 100, 900 unarmed KentuckiaHs to
Washington to Influence The Electoral
Commission, and who, during the sum
mer OF 1876, stopped the press Of the
Louisville CUulicr-Journa to write a
double-leaded article announcing that
at - Il. m" he had sren snakes. at.
tersOn is u bad man from Bite! Creek
"A dangerous man-a one eyed man.
They used to call him the "%Fighting
TaranteIcr of the Baggage Train du
ring the war. and it IS currently re-
ported that once, on IN occasion Of fG.
yerisiI excitement, he was kicked at by
an army mule WNucrsOn is the man
who reproached the White League for
not fighting the United States troops
on the 10Th Of September, 1874. He
said the people of New Orleans were
windy braggarts because they did not
die in the streets and call down war
upon Louisiana in order to furnish the
Northern Democracy with campaign
capital. Oh, Watterson is Il very bad
man, indeed; and Hewitt is pretty
much the same kind Of a hreech load
cr. Hewitt, though, is Il different man
to look ut. Wattcrson is n poet, n sol
der, a humorist Cat 2 a, M with ev-
cry appearance Of being dangerous to
fool with. Hewitt, on the contrary, is
a SUBSTANTIALLY marriage. He mar
rled a daughter Of Peter Cooper, which
gave him money and, having money,
he naturally became an object Of pecu-
liar interest and solicitude in the eyes
Of 5 }. Tildcn; all of which made him
Il statesman. That's what w call be
ing u statesman by marriage. But
though he is only n philosopher and
scholar, Hewitt Is in his secret heart a
warrior. The fearless and outspokcn
manner in which he advocated the late
army bill, the perfectly reckless intre
pidity with which he urged the Ameri.
can Hot Corn Kitchen for the PARIS
ExposiliOn-tiese facts speak for his
suldlr soul in terms OF unmistakablc
eloqucnce.
Such are the two men who are now
breathing war and carnage across the
space intervening between New York
and Louisville, while the nation holds
its breath for fear. Watterson says
that Hewitt fooled the committee in
February, 1877, Ivy giving a false mes
sage from S. j. Illden, which message
had the effect OF keeping the 100000
unarmcd Kentuckians AT home, beating
them out of a free ride to Washington
and unlimited drinks, and beating the
Democracy out Of its President. Hcw
lit says Waiterson is a liar and cock
eyed horse.lhiei, that he didn't do any.
thing of the sort, aud that he can whip
his weigh. in Wattcrsons any hour OF
the day. There is no telling at what
moment they may not :u4h together,
with frumious hair and nostrils all
ahame, and snatch each other bald
headed. Just now they are doing it
on paper, in the old familiar style Of
the late war. Watterson writes a scold
ing, old woman letter at Hewitt, which
the admiring press calls "a scalhlng
arraignment :" and Hewitt comes back
with II you're another reply which the
trembling editors term 81 sharp re-
tort" Aud that's all so far. But we
might as well be getting ready for
something aMfully CORY before long.
Some day Watterson will load himself
with Bourbon and take the 2 a. m.
train for New York, aud if, about that
time, Hewitt don't take the 8 a. IN.
train for Canada, it will be because he
hasn't heard o! Wattcrson's approach.
Verify, this is n dreadful time. The AR
is full of portenis. The midnight all
seems to be laden with Hewitt and
Walterson lives on the bleczc. Across
the dizzy sickening smell of blood
there watts an odor Of patchouli.
Things grow confused, and flicker as it
were. 2 a. m! Hot Corn! Bury
them where the roses blow!
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