Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-15

AXAy1S point, and the ghost ia
SV5E-@S laid for the time being.
49, At the meeting Of the
congress Of charities in
Chicago Frederick H.
Wines delivered memorial address defending
President Hayes from the charge Of bargain
ing to obtain the presidency. Gov. D. H.
Chamberlain. who was at that time governor Of
South Carolina, publishes . letter denying the
truth Of Wines statement and says there was
bargain and that Hayes was cognizant Of it,
can confirm Gov. Chamberlain statement II il
needed confirmation, for was at that time with
Col Peiton and other friends Of Gov. Tilden in
charge OF his interests here. The facts came to
us almost as soon as they TRANSFERRED and ru-
mors of the bargaining were traced to- their
source, and 1t was known to Gov. Tilden's
friends that the man behind Gen. Gordon and
the other southern mon was the late Justice
Lamar. He kept himself in the background.
put was the inspirer Of those who took part in
the "Wormiey conference"
REFUSED AID FOR SOUTH CAROLINA.
never blamed the friends Of Gen. Hampton,
for the national committee under Hewitt treated
the state Of South Carolina very badly and re-
fused the means promised In aid of the ex-
penses OF the campaign. Was at Columbia
when Gen. Hampton was nominated and was
fuily authorized to tender what help was needed
In the campaign, but when the committee was
called on by Gen., now Senator, Butler for aid
Mr.. Hewitt refused 1t, and made excuse that
the funds OF the committee had been depleted.
Or. Gwin offered to raise the sum needed IL
authorized, and that was refused. At St. Louis
the day Hewitt was made chairman Of the ma
| tional COMMITTEES DIR. Gwin said his appoint
ment was fatal to the success Of Gov Tilden,
and so 1t proved. Through his action we lost
South Carolina, and by his unauthorized state
al Sba al
commission it passed Congress. Mr. Manton
Marble was present at the interview in which
Hewitt affirmed Gov. Hlden acquiesced in the
formation Of the commission, and have his
letter before me contradicting Hewitt fatty.
Gov Hoadly denied it in q speech on the au-
thority Of Gov. Tilden.
GOV. TILpEN's DENIAL
A day or two before the final decision by the
electoral commission was sent to New York to
obtain from the governor a denial to be used
on the Hoor Of the House Of Representatives,
and obtained it. but it was too late. That
bargain was made no one cognizant Of the
movements at that time doubted. and it
was carried out and the troops removed Gov
Chamberlain was m position to know all he
asserts. He bad become SO conservative at that
time that his nomination by the democratic
convention was very seriously urged by some Of
the most conservative democrats in the state
Gov. Tilden wrote a letter to Mr.. Julius Brown,
son OF Gov. Jos. E. Brown, denying every state
ment made by Hewitt and others that he had,
even for moment, considered the question Of
submitting his claims to a commission however
appointed, and always said there was sufficient
| power in the Constitution to determine the
result and none outside Of it. The telegram
| which reached US on the day the vote was taken
| In Congress reiterated what he had ALWAYS said
| ton before you talk OF other and illegal MEANS
THE STAR EVERYWHERE.
1t would seem The EVENING STAR penetrates
| all parts of the world. had some months ago
| letter from a friend living in London thanking
me for kindly allusion to him in recalling his
residence here during the years of the war,
when he was military representative of the
| state Of Pennsylvania, and 1 have Just had
another from an old friend from Los Angeles
county, Cal, recalling events OF fifty years ago.
when, as young wings and ardent lovers of
Henry Clay, we sang and marched to the tune
of Rally, Wings" This letter speaks of Wash
ington as we knew it then and OF the friends
who were with US. but, alas now gone beyond
the stars. Fifty years, a half a century, and in
| those fifty have been crowded all the great in
ventions, the vast improvements and extern
| sion Of this country from the icy shores of
| Alaska to the sunny slope of the Pacific
1t is saddening to read of those who at that
time made up SO much Of the life of Washing
ton, and the memory of whom can now be re-
| called by but very few of the living. The con-
trasts in everything can hardly be realized.
The changes produced by discoveries in
science, the application of them to our daily
life, has so obliterated the past that we wonder
how We managed to live without the present
appliances which have revolutionized the
world Time and space have been annihiiated
| since that May day in 1874 when for the first
| time the telegraph became q realized fact
That was the entering wedge and all the rest
followed, for since that day discoveries and i'm
provements have been and are being made
daily, until nothing seems unattainable or be-
yond the reach Of human knowledge and
| human effort.
FORMER STATE AGENT.
| The letter from London comes from Sir John
Pulesou, now a member Of the British parlia-
m nt and banker, and he recalls with much
| pleasure the four years he passed here looking
after the Pennsylvania troops, as the agent Of
| the state when Gov. Andy Curtin, as he was
then called, WAS the war governor of the key
| stone state. L rarely enter Brady's gallery
| without admiring the governor as be then was,
one Of the hardsomest historical characters
| which look at Us from those walls, crowded
| with the great ones Of historic renown and
| recall them in their pride of manhood The
old governor was here some weeks ago and sub
mitted to the camera Of Mr. Brady and though
age has dealt gently with him he looked with
| a very proper pride at "the counterfeit pre-
| sentiment OF nlnsel1 taken thirty years ago.
| Col. Puleson, as he was then. returned after
| the war to his home in Wales aud became
| representative in the house of parliament and
| was knighted for some service rendered the
British government. He takes a deep interest
in Washington, where but very few Of his old
friends are left, for death has been busy among
| them.
| ANOTHER OLD LANDMARK GONE.
| Another old landmark has been swept away
within the last few weeks by that iconoclast
the spirit Of improvement. My earliest recol-
lections of Bacon's corner where in 1903
Mr.. Samuel Bacon, the father Of the late
! Samuel Bacon and of Gen. Peter +. Bacon, es-
tabiished himself in the grocery trade, and where
his sons succeeded him, and where until this
change Gen. Bacon remained all his life. He
was born on that spot, and only retired at the
mature age of eighty, yielding to the demands
of improvement, whose resistless advance
wipes out all traces of the long past, leaving
! only the record on the frail memories OF our
boy hood and our matured life.
The old hotel adjoining was rendered somewhat
| famous by Tom Lloyd, a bright, witty son of the
emerald isle. whose sayings and whose subsequent
| political effort to renominate John TYLER are
remembered by the old fellows Of that day.
| In the long ago the old tavern was a famed
boarding house, where the statesmen Of that