Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-07
BEATEN BY BOOKWALTER.
The Causes Which Led TO the Defeat Of
of Pendlet0n
For the Ohio Senatorship-Payn and
the Presicency-Other Candidates.

new YORK, March 5.-Col. C. W. Wool
ley, of Cincinnati, who was Senator Pen
dleton's friend in the contest for the SEN
atorship last winter and six years ago,
said to a reporter at the st. James Hotel
last night: "Pendleton got his finishing
dose from Bookwalter Why, l can re-
member when Pendleton came to me and
called me an egotist because | wouldn't
support Bookwalter. He said to me: You
set yourself up as better than the party:
you should let the party decide for YOU.
He got up dinner for Bookwalter at
Cincinnati TO appease the wrath OF promi-
nent Democrats against Bookwalter, and
he rendered his services to Bookwalter
and the committee, and then Garfield
died and there was no speaking, and Book
walter was defeated, and now he turns
round and stabs Pendleton. Pendleton
made mistake in his civil service bill.
| couldn't agree with its terms. |
would have had it provide, first of all,
for an examination of every man in office
to let us see how many are unfit for SER
vice, but he was only doing what two
national conventions and two State con-
ventions had directed him to do. He was
obeying his constituents. A party that
will direct its public servants TO do a thing
which it afterward slaughters them for
"How about Ohio"
"Mr. Payne can't carry it; you may set
that down. II he and John Sherman are
the nominees / shall go fishing, but will
bet on 25 900 majority for Sherman, and 1
think it will reach $4,000 or $4,000. We
want man with constituency. That is
Democracy. We don't want a man merely
for pocketbook. Mcdonald cooked his
goose when he got Carlisle elected Speaker
and stirred up his tariff muss. He could
have been nominated and elected if he
had just kept quiet on that subject and
kept it from being agitated in Congress.
He had the influence to do it, too. He is
a mighty good fellow. Payne's speech at
Columbus has killed him. 1t made a bad
break in two ways. 1t killed him in the
East, where the civil service reform SEN
timent is strong, and his straddle ON
the tariff used him up generally.
Everybody in our party knows that he
is a protectionist, and that ends him.
Logan is the only man he can beat in
Ohio. Tilden isn't to be thought of now,
any more than in 1880. l would vote for
Arthur before 1 would for Tilden. Pm
out of politics, but as I've spent more
money in politics in twenty-seven years
than any other Democrat in Ohio, with one
exception, l hold a right to speak my
mind pretty freely"
julius Refs, of Cincinnati, who was a
Tilden delegate in the Democratic Ma
tional Convention of 1880, said: "If Til
den wants to be nominated for President,
he can have my vote and influence. He
could be elected. The American people
believe that he was defrauded and that he
ought to be righted. | think, however,
that Mr.. Payne will be the nominee. In
spite of the talk OF Mr.. Pendle-
toms friends Mr.. Payne is very
strong in Ohio. / only know Of one
man who can compete with him and that
is John Sherman. 1t would be nip and
tuck between them. Sherman is very
popular with the Germans. l don't say
he could whip Mr.. Payne, but it would be
close fight. Mr.. Pendleton's mistake
in Ohio was not wholly in his civil
service bill, but in handling HIM
self before his constituents. The bill
was mistake, but not such a great one
as was magnifed by his enemies. 1t was
in Cincinnati be did hinself the greatest
injury. He promised me to attend the
ratification meeting OF the Highland
House tregular) Convention. Six hours
later he declined, and meanwhile bolt
was organized. This declination made
every one of the twelve members on the
Legislative ticket, which was finally
elected, feel that his defeat was deserved
by Pendleton. Thus was one-fourth OF
the votes in the Democratic caucus lost by
one small action"