Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-11-14

Som e Campaign secrets That Ex-
plain Hitherto Mysterf-
Gus Points.
New YORK, November 11-Speak-
ing to Colonel Tom James, q Tilden
man-and a Hancock man, too-yes-
terday, he said: "You are mistaken
in supposing that Kelly's nomination
of Grace did not hurt Hancock. 1t
produced such reaction in the feel
iDgs of many democrats that they
made the particular point to beat
Grace and the Tammany ticket, and
under the fear that Hancock might
help that ticket out, they cut him
too, neglecting to vote for him or
voting for Garfield. And I will tell
you something, said the colonel, "per-
haps new to you. Do you know that
John Kelly expected to go into Han
cocks cabinet 2" rF... u
"You are joking, colonel?' p ..-s
''No,' said the colonel: she had
his eye on the cabinet He was so
elated at beating Robinson and then
being taken back into the democratic
party at Cincinnati that this town
became too small for him. He went
directly back home from Cincinnati
and set up a game to make Wallace,
of Pennsylvania, chairman of the
democratic national committee. He
got Hancock into it. Kelly tele-
graphed Wallace, who came to the
Gilsey House, New York, to meet
him. Wallace and he had both been
in favor of Tom Bayard."
"You don't mean to say that Bay
ard was Kelly's candidate?"
eyes he was. Dorsheimer and
Kelly agreed on Bayard, and Wallace
was for Bayard. Hancock, Penn
sylvanian, was impressed with the
idea of putting Wallace at the head
of the committee, and they had de-
signed to make Bill Scott, of Erie,
resign, so that Wallace could go in
his place, and then the national COM
mittee was to elect Wallace chair
man. Kelly had his eye on Wash
ington-to be secretary of the navy,
perhaps-for he got his whole start
in life under Frank Pierce, who let
him make two hundred appointments
in the navy yard in Brooklyn"
"Well, colonel, wouldn't Wallace
have made a good chairman?"
GAS soon as Sam Randall and his
crowd heard of the scheme" said
Colonel James, "they became
alarmed, and whooped up the Tilden
men generally. Hancock saw he
had made mistake, and wanted to
take back his influence from Wallace.
But Bill Scott, of Erie, said: Il
will relieve Hancock. I'll be id
if Iresign at ALL And therefore Wal~
lace could not get on the national
committee So Barnum was re-
tanned at the head of the committee
by the Randall -Tilden influence"
''Well, colonel, how do the honors
lie now between Barnum, Ran
dali, Wallace and Bill Scots"
They are all pretty badly hurt,
said the colonel, ''but I think that of
all men, Tom Hendricks, of Indiana,
is the most cut down. There was
never the least sense of his mental
prospective of the campaign. He
thought if they could work the head
off the old ticket that he, as the tail
would become the head; and so he
had the constitution of the state
misinterpreted so as to make Indians
an October state. Why, sir, if he
had been nominated every Tlden
man in this country would have voted
for Garfield. The idea of his think
ing that he would be stronger with
out old Sammy Tilden! 'And be-
tween ourselves said the colonel
''the only democrat that has got any
profit out of the election has been
Tlden. All the democrats now say
that he ought to have been nominatec
and was wise political leader, anc
the republicans don't take the trouble
to deny it. So the old man has com,
? to a period of general respect and re
pose.