New-York tribune., 1879-12-13
MIXING IT UP TO HIM.

General II. r. Gary, OF Edgefeld. whom the
independent Democrats OF South Carolina talk
OF running for the GovernOrshIp next year,
has been chatting with a Northern newspaper
correspondent about politics. past and present;
and in the coarse OF his vigorous and highly
spiced remarks he has intimated that if Til
den should be nominated again the entire
South would ioyfully support him as an act of
atonement.' General Gary states with con-
siderable emphasis that Ia South Carolina Mr..
Tildcn was not counted out in 1876, but de-
hberatey thrown out by his own party in
other words that the Hampton faction made
"traitorous arrangement to secure their
State ticket by the sacrifice of the electoral
ticket. General Gary adds that the scheme
was opened to him by Wade Hampton in per-
son: il was even proposed that the 1ilden
electoral ticket should be formally Withdrawn,
but that part of the plan fell through.
General Gary's intelligence is interesting.
but it is not exactly new. Ii has been known
this long time that the Hampton party was
not LOYAL to Tilden in 1876 Moses and the
other coparceners have always betrayed an IL
ritation against the South Carolina Democrats
which would have been quite unaccOuntable
but for the light thrown upon the transactions
When Smith Weed went to Columbia to
watch the count" he quickly discovered
what had been going on. He telegraphed to
Gramercy Park, the day after his arrival,
that there were rumors of trade, but he did
not then believe in them. Two days later he
reported that he got DO aid from the Hamp-
" ION party. who. to say the least, were in
different" TO Tilden's success. Meanwhile
be made careful canvass of the county re
turns. and aseertained that taking the figures
as they stood and admitting the notoriously
"bulldozed counties of Edgefeld and Lau-
rens (Judge Haskell te.egraphed to General
Gary after the election that Edgefield had
made itself "immortal ~, Hampton was
elected by about / 400 majority, while Til
den. being from 1,S00 to 1000 behind, was
unqnestionably defeated. Satisfied appa
rentIy of the treachery of Hampton,
Weed now began eounterplOt. He
was already in negotiation with Hardy
Solomon for the purchase of the Canvassipg
Board, and he proposed. after getting the
Board. To save two of the seven electoral
votes for Tilden by some sort of a barter
which has not been clearly explained. Later
il was determined to buy the whole outright,
and then the divergence of interests between
Tiden and Hampton became manifest. Con
tent with the figures as they stood the State
leaders applied to the Supreme Court of South
Carolina for a writ commanding the Board to
canvass the returns Enthusiastically and the
party newspapers maintained with great heat
that il WIS monstr0us TO pretend they had
power to revise. Correct or throw out any re-
turns whatever. As soon as Smith Weed dis
covered, from an examination Of the figures,
that the effect of this writ would be TO let in
Hampton and leave Tilden out, he telegraphed
20 GrameTcy Park This may compel us 10
"change front in court Tomorrow as to
''power of Canvassing Board y; and change
" front " accordingly the Tilden lawyers ac-
tually did. demanding that the South Caro-
lima cauyassers should "go behind the re-
turns "-not far, only little ways; while
the Hampton representatives at Columbia.
like MantoD Marble at Tallahassee and tie
Tilden men at New Orleans insisted that the