Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-08-01
Having annarnntlr fnlRlIed bis ntlis.-

Having apparently fulfilled his obiiga-
tiOns to Eastern friends by seeking an on
portunity to speak, and making the occa-
sion remarkable by the omission to say in
the speech anything characteristic of him
self, General Ewing wandered about from
Washington to Sandusky, still saying moth
ing that meant anything, and last week
again visited New York, this time taking
pains not to see TIlden, a circumstance as
suspicious as his first call upon the Sage Of
Gramercy Park. He arrived. Wednesday
evening last, at the st. James Hotel, and
that night met Senator Barnum at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, where a long consul
tation was held between the champion of
Rag-Babyism and Money Bags incarnate.
Senator Barnum is a man OF money. He
answers perfectly the description of the
man General Ewing has been abusing with
the utmost strength of his lungs and brains
for years. The New York Tribune makes
upon the Ewing and Barnum negotiation
the following comment:
This interview between General Ewine,
and Senator Barnum was looked upon veS7
terday as the nrSt step toward an offensive
and defensive alliance between the Green
back Democratic candidate for Governor of
Ohio and the hard-money candidate for the
Presidency of Gramercy Park nj was ba
could have In such an alliance was fntimate-
ly connected with the money that Mr. TiIdeD
might be induced to roll into Ohio to secure
much needed Democratic victory there this
fall This barrel now in use has been filled
TO overnOwlng, IL is supposed, by the sale
OF mueh OF MI I1lden,s S heavy interest in the
New York Elevated Railway. 1t was said
thatGeneral Ewing, If he were willing to
forego his chances for the first place on the
Presidential ticket, might be glad to arrange
with the head and front of the fraud inbeTi-
tance for the second place, which would
make him, as it were, heir apparent to the
nrst place If an inscrutable Providence
should remove an aged and carewOrn aspir-
ant. Mr.. Tilden's interest in an alliance with
General Ewing, it is asserted, was much
stronger, IN fact so paramount, that General
Ewing might almost name his own terms
In the nrst place the Tflden Democrats are
very desirous of a Democratic victory in Ohio
Lhls Iall, and, If General Ewing should be
suecesssul, MI. ridden might be compelled to
oase mis- hopes for a denomination on Gener-
al EWlngs good nature; but the latter's own
availability for the first place would then be
so manifest, that the only safe way of count
ing on his influence in the National COnven-
ton would be for Governor Tflden to trade
for 1t or TO purchaseit before the battle OPEN
ed, Mr.. Iilden, it was said, was the only
Democratlc aspirant to whom General
Ewing could look for pecuniary assistance
and his own Ohio Democratic excheouer
would BY no means pay for the kind of cam
1t necessary to carry on in the rather desper-
ate strait in which the Ohio Democrats lind
themselves"
The sum of all is, there is every reason to
believe that Tilden and Ewing have
planned two campaigns, of which that in
Ohio is the first, and that if there should
be Ewing victory. Tilden is to have the
''uSufruct" next year. In other words. if
Ewing should win in Ohio, or make a for
midable showing-lf he is not thoroughly
wounded in-every respect"-he will be the
master of his party in this State. and in a
position TO take the second place on the
ticket next year. Since his interview with
Senator BaInum, General Ewing has been
silent and invisible, engaged, no doubt. in
preparing a set of sentences suitable for
the campaign upon which he is entering.
In our judgment it will be easy to read be-
tween his lines his partnership with Tilden.
a loud devotion to the equivOcations of the
platform; guarded fury about the free
coinage of silver; a deep sense of the aw-
fulness Of the National banks, but nothing
about at once affording ''relief'' by print
ing thousand millions in greenbacks; a
great deal about the woes Of the bayonet
and the perils Of personal liberty, and the
pangs that U. S. Courts and Marshals in
fiict, with very lively sense of the fraud
OF the centennial year on an eminent citi
zen Of New York, but nothing in terms for
the payment CT the National bonds in legal
tender paper. and not even a positive as
sault upon the achievement of resumption;
an attack upon the processes by which re-
sumption was reached, but no plain propo-
sltlon to go back upon resumption itself
these things will indicate unerringly that
the ticket for 1880 of the Democracy. if
ratified by the people Of Ohio in October
next. is to be Tilden and Eving