New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-27
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Ex-Colonel and ex-Judge 4. c. Haskell, Of
South Carolina. has favored on Augusta news
paper with a rote three columns and quar-
ter in length apropos of the controversy
started by General Gary respecting the rea-
ton between the Hampton and Tilden parties
during the campaign of 1876. The substance
of Colonel Haskelrs remarks is that the South
Carolina Democracy was in perfect accord
with the National Executive Committee, that
Hampton and his friends worked faithfully
for the Tilden electoral ticket and never had
the slightest desire TO abandon IL, and that
although they asked Mr.. Hewitt, Treasure OF
tho National Committee, for money, they were
not offended when he - deemed ii better chat
" his assistance should be rendered elsewhere"
As Mir. Haskell was chaiTmln of the State
Democratic Committee in 1876, and is so still,
me may be supposed to speak with authority.
He adds the usual lofty denunciatiOn of the
alleged fraud" by which the TildeD electors
were counted out" and the usual boasts of
the gaantry of the South Carolina Bourbons
in fighting against The money influence Oh
their Radical opponents.
This is interesting enough SO far as it goes,
but Colonel Haskell ncglects to explain that
the GOODNESS between the Tilden and Hampton
people occurred after the election and during
the progress of the count. When Mr.. Smith
Weed went to Columbia TO fix the can
vassers me reported in cipher TO Gramercy
Park great Indifference TO say the least
on the part of the local politicians, and com
planned bitterly that Hampton's friends gave
him no help. He and they were soon at
eros purposes, pursuing Numerically Opp0-
site policies i'll their applications to Chief
Justice Moses, and both being apparently
quite ready to sell each other out. The
trouble was that if the votes of certain bull
dozed counties were admitted Hampton had
small majority on the face of the returns but
Tilden, as Weed confessed, was clearly de-
feated in any case. The State party wished
TO prevent the canvassers froin going behind
the returns that wonld make Hamptop safe,
and they did not care for Iilden. Weed on
the contrary desired TO give the canvassers
ample power because he expected to buy
them and if they counted Tilden in, lamp
ton might look out for himself. Hence the
unfriendliness.
Later. Colonel Haskell himself had a littlo
cipher correspondence with the Tilden head
quarters in New-York, and 1t seems to be a
pitv be forgot to mention it as an illustration
of the gallantry of the South Carolina Demo-
Gratis in making their fight against the money
influence of the enemy. Colonel Haskell used
the cipher signature "Spain," and the person
with whom he communicated in New-YorlI was
Mr. Smith Weed The dispatches had reference
to "E June" discovered to signify $4,000.
which Spain required to make Bath all right"
Ii is not clear whether " Bath means the Re-
turning Board or the august bench over which
Chef-Justice Moses presided, but the sum OF
s., 900, at any rate, was wanted to make
Democratic majority ! and it is n curious fact
that instead Of sending TO the National Com
mittee, Colonel Haskell applied to the private
agent of the Gramercy Park statesman. Six or
seven kilograms calling for this money were
dispatched TO Weed by Colonel Haskell and
General Gordon and at last Weed answered
" If five Thousand can make a. jority in House
"and York May Fix SenateY] Spain can draw as
YOU telegraph" This was while Mr.. Tilden's
friends were laying their last plan TO buy up
a majority of the L gislature, as preliminary
TO ousting the Republican electors, and unless
the money would secure this Interior purpose
they were not willing to send II. Lake Mr..
Hewitt, they deemed it better in that case,
THAT their assistance should be rendered
elsewhere" Tallahassee, perhaps,or in Ore
gon. 1t does not appear whether Colonel Has
kell ever got the K June.
All these transactions are now ancient history;
but when the persons concerned in them have
the sublime assurance to talk about the frauds"
of the South Carolina canvassers, and the noble
fight of the Democracy of that State against
the money of their adversnries, the public recol-
lection of the case ought to be refreshed.