The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-14
HEWITT AND TILDEN.

The esteemed New Orleans States enraged by some recent utterances or the venerable Abram s. Hewitt, anent the coal miners strike in jPennsylVa- mia, proceeds to attack him in these re- markable words: G.,
 "As a member of congress 1t was due more to his influence than any other cause that the theft of the presl- lency from Samuel J. Tilden was &C., complished in 1S76 because he made speech in the house in favor of the electoral commission plan to determine Whether Tilden or Hayes should be seated as. president, of the United States. which eventuated in the-7 to 5 (should read to ? decision that robbed Tilden of the fruits of a victory he had honestly won. It will be- re membered that at the time the demo- crats in congress opposed the idea Of having the result of the presidential contest determined by an electoral commission because they knew that Tilden had been fairly. elected by the people, and their plan was to seat nlrr' | if necessary, by. force. This pro- gramne, which MT. Tilden himself ap- Eproved, would have been successfully Fcarried out, because his election had been conceded by majority of the most prominent leaders of the republi-
 can party and public sentiment was
 overwhelmingly in his favor. In an i'm
 passioned speech, however, MT. Hewitt opposed the idea of resorting to force and declared that the matter should be settled by ballots and not bullets"
 If MT. Hewitt ever delivered that i'm
 passioned speech-he certainly deliv'
 cred a speech of some description-he spoke as MT. Tilden's personal adVo'
 cate and representative, not as his op
 ponent. It is we'll known to every ac
 tor in that dramatic episode that MT
 Tilden himself forbade, the plan of th'
 demorcatic leaders to seat him If nee
 essary by force"
 During the memorable winter O
 1S76-7 there was conference at MT
 Tilden's city residence on Gramerc,
 park. The prominent democrats wh' had his interests in charge proposed t'
 him very simple programme. The
 proposed, in a word, that on a certain
 evening Mr. Tilden should address concourse to be assembled in front 0
 his house and say to them in effec
 that he had been lawfully elected pres
 ident by the people of the United State and that on the 4th of March he woul
 go to Washington and have himself in . augurated. -. That was all. His friends undertoo , every duty and responsibility. The , asked of Mir. Tilden merely this solem declaration, which they would the :, disseminate broadcast throughout tn | land. The rest they pledged then i selves to do. And to this programm . MT. Tilden interposed his absolute en !: phatic veto
 Whether MT Hewitt encouraged M
 TiIden in this attitude, we are not in position to say with authority, but W do know with certainty that it was 6 MT. Tilden's closest friend and qualifie spokesman that he accepted the elet toraI commission which afterward pro nounced in favor of MT. Hayes. It wi I be strange hearing to the democrat I leaders who figured in the eposide th ! MT. Tflden approved the plan to ina' 8 gurate him. If necessary by force and that MT. Hewitt's treachery pr H vented that consummation. They 8 know that MT. Tilden himself rejecte the plan, and, that his friends were le with no alternative, save that of a q cepting the electoral commission VI q need say little of the astonishment will cause many men now living to he T this accusation against Mir Hewi S from a state whose legislature al H whose democratic leaders agreed to d liver the electoral vote to MT. Hayes 1 consideration of the local loaves al fishes. Indeed, the less said of tn episode the better.-From the Was H ineton Post