New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-18

III. .,no -, oo+;y-a aren't of Tilden at the No
vember election in his own state OF CoIneC' J
which he carried for IIiden py 2ooU oven TO
lost for Hancock by over 2,lOO majority gwen "
Garfield. ., - .ho Committee of
1880 is understood to be ' se1nsrinteHdng their
both Barnun ana lHuen' euP0i'
Nh scott of Pennsylvania. was put on the o1m ns
miftee because a pronounced Ilden man; L. uo =;
horne intimate poiitica relations to bir. liIuen NJ,
several campaigns HIS devotion 10 nun - W. H.
illustrated by the incident already oTt cd as
devotion 10 General Hancock was not 80 MAJ keu: 90
his state went Republican by an lncreaSeu '
and his own county, Erie, showed consideraoio
Ahpsm s Hewitt. the member of the committee
from this state was chairman OF the ilden I"n,,
mittee of 1876. and was active in Ml d NV o,d
business partner cx-Mayor Cooper. though nor on
either State or National Committee IN iSSo wa9
treasurer of Mr.. Tldens Committee IN loa3 a@ of
last wear held the important oihcla' posr,1o o IN
Mavor of the one city usually depended upon "
larry the nivotal State of NewYork for the DenTG
racy. His devotion to Mr. niue and appointments.
Knit the result of the canvass IN inc cIrS J' Han
show that he was equally active for Ee no az. nan
cock, for the latters majority was llo'o ''''
'nR' b b smaley. Of Vermont. who was secretary OF
the committed was active In small way ioi r
iiiden in 1875 and was recogn zed rs a MaiI'
friend of his before and after the convention Will
nominated General Hancock lie osteht,t,.outIhS ~
went to Vermont just before the eiectlon, o -; the
State. - e NJ, 1yIden seen in the
organization of the two % ,,-;,h tns cam
the circumstances. had most to DO WIN a.e cam AN
paign for General Hancock-but 1t hcll nrm III III
troll of all the machinery OF the Committees. ri
" NincompOop Bureau" OF loIo was W,ii,om
y Andrews who WAS Mr.. Tildens editor 10 ioioi
prepared the opinions in the form o, 4
FURNISHED the political facts ana .@Des sso and he
never got a decent reward in either canpaien.
Colonel John Tracey. who was the private secretary
and 6 elssk Oi I e IN 1876
in "clippingn the newspapers and documents anu
furnishing suggestions for speakers ana eu,lors
Joseph l.. Hance. who was MI. illuen 9i,' o
only served in those capacities during the last CAM
palgn but was also an assistant secretary TO tne
National Committee. Charles +; Ma Tl1a' wei wei
lately supplied with a, public of1ce py
Mayor Cooper probably at Mr.. Tilden's wish. for
nobody else seems to have urged III, hau peI
sonai supervision of the correspondence bureaus
both of the National and State Committees, Nothing
was lacking of the old guard but Colonel FELTON, the
"cpher scapegoat" of 1875; and his place was sup
of Edward n DIckeuson. whom Mr. Barnum iateiy
designed to make the forgery and fraud scapegoat
Of 1880; Mr. Dickinson Is sad to DC nepnew w o, o,
1876 He was subsequently, and Is DOW, associated
in the law business with Smith N. weed, ana last
year was uuquestonably the actual active secretary
of the Commit tee
The inquiry which Mr.. Barnum was lately so
eager to institute Justification OF himself mas
been abandoned, because Mr.. ridden did nor Wlsn
he does not wish the facts of the retention OF
and Scott on the committee against the wishes OF
General HANCOCK to be inquired in,o. An 1 .;n
of the two committees and their machinery woun
not make agreeable reading for the Democratic
party or Mr.. Tilden Nevertheless II would max
mighty interesting readlng ior tne senoi"
publlC.