New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-19
EWING AND TILDEN.
GENERAL EWING SLIPS INTO TOWN AND OUT AGATN
A LONG TALK WITH A FRIEND OF THDEHs

GENERAL EWING SLIPS INTO TOWN AND OUT AGAIN
A LONG TALK WITH FRIEND OF THDENs
MONEY FOR TIE ONO cAMPAGS-THE
ALLIANCE.
An interview took place at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel Wednesday night which, if it could be re-
ported IN all its Details would prove it is said of
great interest to Ohio Democrats in particular, and
TO the whole country i'll general. Between . ana
10 o'clock General Thomas Ewing, the Democratic
nominee for Governor Of Ohio, called upon senator
Barnum, OF Connecticut who was at the tifth
Avenue Hotel. They retired to private room and
were a long time in consultation. Senator Blrnum
was accredited in the campaign of 1876 with occu-
plying the same relative position to the barrel of
money! that Nephew Pclton" d. to tho lit
erary Bureau aud later was reputed to be skiltul
in buying mules" II is suspected that lie bears
the same relation now TO Mr. Tilden that he did In
1876.
This interview between General Ewing and sena-
tor Barnum was looked upon yesterday as the first
step toward an offensive and defensive alliance be-
tween the CIR enback Democratic candidate for
Governor OF Ohio and the hard money candidate for
the Presidency of GraInercy Park. Ii was believed
that the only interest General Ewing could have IN
such an alliance was Intimately connected with the
money that Mr.. 1den might be induced to roll
into Ohio to secure a much needed Democratic
victory there this Fall. b9,rel now In use, has
been filed to oyerfiowinQ it is supposed, BY the
sale of much of Mr.. Tllder's heayy interest in tho
New-York Elevated Railway. IL was said that
General Ewing, if he were willing to forego his
chances Tor the first place on the Presldenual
ticket m ght be dad 10 arrange WIFE the head ana
front of the fraud inheritance tor the second place,
which would make him as 1t were helr-apparent 70
the first place ii an iH5crutabe Providence should
remove an aged and care-wOrn aspirant. MT. Ill
dens interest in an alliance with General Ewing,
il was asserted, much stronger IN tact SO para
mount that General Ewing might almost name his
own terms In the first place the Tlden Democrats
are very DESTROYS of Democratic victory IN ONO
this Fall, and If General Ewing should be success
full Mr. TIlden might be compelled TO base bis hopes
for n denomination on General Ewngs good nature;
but the attcrs own availability for the first place
| would then be so manifest, that the only safe way
| of counting on his influence in the National Con-
yeptiOn would be for Governor iiden 10 trade for
il or to purchase it before the battle opened. Mr..
| Tilden, it was said, the only DemocratIc
| pecuniary assistance, and his own Ohio Democratic
| exchequer would by no means pay for the KIND 81
campaign General Ewing and his colleagues feel IL
| is necessary TO carry on in the rather desperate
strait in which the Ohio Democrats lind themselves.
| General Ewing's visit to New-York was remark.
| ably short one. He arrived at the st. james Hotel
| on Wednesday evening and departed from 1T on
| Thursday morning. He apparently did not seek
| out many OF his Democratic friends. as John Kelly
said yesterday, in surprised way on being In;
| formed OF Ewing's visit! why didn't know that
| he had been in town." Little doubt was expressed
of the truth of the report, however that Ewing had
sought out Barnum the night of his coming lt
was regarded as very probable that some such
alliance as that sketched above had been formed.