Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-02

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WASHINGTON, July LIT has come to
pass that among the political observers
there is well planted conviction that the
coming campaign in Ohio will be, on the
Democratic side, good deal of Tilden
affair. The friendship existing between
Judge Hoadly, the Democratic nominee.
and Mr.. Tilden, is too well known to be
referred to in the nature of anything like
a novelty. They are warm personal
friends. When that travesty of Justice.
called the electoral commission, was at
work carrying out that for which it was
packed-the declaration that Hayes was
elected in 1S76-Judge Hoadly was one of
the principal counsel which ap-
/ peared before it in behalf of Mr.,
! Tilden. He volunteered his services and
was accepted. He argued ably and work.
ed lndefatigably to an end which the CON-
position of the commission made it i'm
| possible for any means shorter than those
OF divinity to accomplish. Before that
| date he and Mr.. Tilden were great friends.
Ever since, they have been greater friends.
Mr.. Iilden has expressed himself as
| being thoroughly delighted with HOadlv's
nomination by the Ohio Democracy. He
will do all in his power to aid a success
ful issue to follow the nomination. 1t is
currently believed that Mr.. Tilden will
do much to aid in defraying the expenses
of Judge HOadly's campaign. Ohio
politicians say that Judge Hoadly is as
trmly impressed as ever with the cOnvic-
ton that Tilden ought to be President.
These facts have given the foundation to
the belief, which has become an estab-
llshed fact, that politically the
coming campaign i'll Ohio will
have infused into it direct
issue of Tildenism. 1t will be successfnI
there is not much doubt. The effort 1 the
Tilden men, including Judge Hoadly, of
course, will be to throw the weight of that
success to the advancement of the inter-
ests of the sage of Gramercy Park.
Whether this course will help that active
and robust climber of stairs (see Henry
WattersOn) is matter much more doubt
tul than the issue of the coming campaign
in Ohio.
There is going up all over the country
a howl about trade dollars. People are
refusing to receive them for more than 50
or 80 cents. Placards are posted around
warning the public not to take the coin
unless at discount. 1t is generating
into regular warfare against the trade
dollar. Let not the readers of the NEWS
be deceived by this crusade. tits but one
simply scheme to make money. No
longer than three years ago the same war
fare was conducted. 1t was agitated and
agitated again that the trade dollar was
worth but 80 cents. The banks. the
railroads, and dealers generally, refused
to receive them for a greater equivalent.
The consequence was that people who
came INTO possession of them were per-
tectly willing to exchange them at the
rate of 80 cents on the dollar. The DUR
chasers were the people who started the
war against the cOin-the brokers and
SPECTATORS who had started the crusade
of depreciation. When they had bought
the trade dollars at 50 and 80 cents they
held on to them.
In the course of time the hue and cry
against these coins having ceased. they
began to circulate at their face value and
nave so circulated ever since.
The spectators having cot
rid of them at a handsome profit, now
start again to play the same old game. !
They are decrying and causing to be |
printed all the old statements about the |
baseness of the trade dollar. They are
simply trying to make another profitable |
deal unto themselves. Those who man. |
aged the last crusade had their headquar- |
tiers in Philadelphia. Now they are Ope-
rating from New York. 1t is a shreWd |
game, and will very probably be worked |
with certain degree of success. but not |
so successfully as it was about three |
years ago.
Hon. John Amber Smith, Of Virginia
is Radical Republican. He is also a he |
adjuster. l asked him to-day if he thought |
Nirginia's next electoral vote would be in |
the Republican column. 81 do notv he |
replied. sit is a certainty in my opinion |
that her next electoral vote will be Demo- |
cratic. The Republican party in my opin-
ion has just as much chance of carving |
mississippi in 1884 as it has of carrying |
Virginia. The people down in the old |
Dominion are sick of MahOne-sick of his |
pretensions and his ambitions. He is all |
for Malone and for nothing else. |
The recent changes in the inter- /
nal revenue districts have done |
much to add to the disgust. |
There were five internal revenue districts |
in the State. They have been c0nsoli-
dated into three. The three men who are
Collectors of the present districts are all |
Malone men, it is true. But how do they
stand as regards the Republican party? |
Every one of them voted at the last cleo
tion for Hancock and English instead of |
for Garfield and Arthur. 1t is a succession
of such maneuvres as this which disgusts
the Republicans of Virginia. 1t does not
add strength to the party to have three men
who voted the Republican ticket turned
out and three men who voted the Demo-
cratic ticket put in. 1t is, to say the least,
very discouraging." 1t is stated here. and
generally believed, that when the internal
revenue consolidation scheme was under
President Arthur was 10th
to turn out the men in Virginia who had
voted for him and put in men who had
voted against him; but that he was con-
strained to do so by Mahone's threat that
if he did not get what he wanted in this
matter the administration need not look
for the support of his vote in the Senate
the coming session.
A report has reached here that some of
those agile gentlemen, known as ''GeOr-
gia Republicans" and who, by the way,
have succeeded most ably in making that
term laughing stock in the city of Wash
ington, are preparing some more war
paint. This time they are reputed as
for the scalp of Walter John
son, now Internal Revenue Collector for
the whole State. The aforesaid agile gen
tlemen can save themselves trouble by
listening to fact or two. There is no
use in the world of their attempting
to get Walter johnson out. He
is one of the very tew-General Long
street is about the only other one-of the
Georgia Republicans who has any
with the President and Secre-
5ary Folger. The latter gentleman is par-
ticularly pleased with johnson. The
fr6SlU6nI IS generally OF the same mind |
rs his Secretary of the Treasury in ali
matters governing that department. Sec
retary FOlger said to-day that he was not
acquainted with even the slightest cause
'Or removing johnson. He did not know
IN all the internal revenue service a bet
.er Collector than he. The fact of the ,
whole matter seems to be that the 'tGeor-
gia Republicans had better content
with a back seat-at least
Turing the present administration. They
nave told co many different stories about ;
some things and have been on so MANY :
lifferent sides, that they might as well
elevate their harps upon the willow, Dis
rict Attorney Darnell and District AttOr
ley Speer are, for the manner in which
hey conducted themselves in the Pleas
mt Wimberly business, the acknowledged
eaders of the insncere. :
1t is thought here that Collector Walter
Johnson VIII give Jesse II. Wimberlv a !
rood place in the Georgia Internal Reve- !
lue Service.
A gentleman who was clerk in the !
Navy Department at the time gave me to-
lay an Interesting account of how the /
luildipg of the FIRST monitor, which |
disabled the Merrimac in Hampton /
Oads, was decided upon. The
,oard which had the matter in
harge consisted of Rear AdmiraIs
'auiding, Davis and Smith. OF course f