The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-23
Mr.. TiIden ReWiIdCred,

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Mr. TiIden BewiIdcred.
FsoDl the ". 7. Breni,tg Post
Mr.. Samuel J. Tilden, one OF the leaders Of
the New York delegation in the late Demo
cratic Convention, and long known in this
State as a good lawyer and as great light o
the Van Buren, or 'barnburner' wing Of the
Democratic party, has written a letter nomi-
nally to Mr.. J. D. Hoover, but really, as the
Worid insists, 'tO the Seymour and Blair
ratification meeting at Washington" The
World remarks that this letter ''ptches the
tune" for the campaign, and proposes that all
"stlike i'm
Mr.. Tilden begins by assuming that the
contest is all q joke, made up, in fact, like
play to show OF the actors. The "great
theatre" he tells us, twill be the populous
and powerful commemorative which stretch
from the Hudson to the Mississippi. The
people OF these cOmmonw ealths, by their votes
next November, will practically determine
the fate OF constitutional freedom in the New
World"
MIR. Tilden here forgets that New England
has not been disranchised. He forgets too,
that the Hudson river is too short to form the
boundary of the Southern States. He forgets,
too, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas,
California, and other Western States, which
are not between the Hudson and the Missis-
,sippi.
But, strapgest of all, he evidently forgets
that his own residence, the city OF New York,
is on the east, and decidedly not on the west
side OF the Hudson river; that Mr.. Tilden
himself, so far from being an actor in any play
in the theatre named, could not be even
spectator, but must stay outside.
The Worid, being thus sung entirely out of
the play, by the very key note" Of the ever
ture, makes mild protest. 1t comments
thus
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states which stretches from the Hudson to the
Mississippi, and beyond. In this magnificent
belt res ides the mass of our peOple-here is the
c"lef seat OF American industry, commerce.
and political influence. Outlying fanaticsl New
EnRlard, and the outlying desolsted South, are
OF little account in the campaign"
The little words and beyond are adroitly
added to Mr.. Tilden's emusic" to make it
more harmonious for the World. "BeyOnd"
means, first, little way east, so as to include
Park Row; second long way west, to include
everything from the Mississippi to the Caifor
MIA coast. In Short the World would inter
pret Mr. Tilden's language as highly poetical
as well as "musical'' for by the Hudson it
understands him to mean the eastern boun-
Diary OF New York, and by the Mississippi
river it understands the Pacific ocean. A
happy instance OF that ''amplifcation," to
use a technical term, which the World is so
fond of in Figures" of every kind, arithmeti-
cal or epistolary.
Mr. Tilden, with the World as chorus, goes
on to sing in the following strain or, more
exactly, to strain out the following song
"IIecoguize two grand and predominant Ideas
moving JDe popular mind to demand such q
'Ifese are justice to the people and economy
Justice TO the people. This is threatened by
Senatorial olIgaTchy, which, having already
gated by the Constitution to the judicial and to
the executive branches OF the government
seeks now to perpetuate Itself by system
under which Senators OF straw, nominated TO
order by three millions of newly eniranchised
negroes, shall exert Twice as much political
power as lhe representatives oI JAlrleeh NIL
lions ana a.hsll of our own race, ruling the
great belt OF the Union between the Atlantic.
the Mississippi, and the Lakes"
That Congress has threatened the Demo-
cratic party with 'iustice to the people" is a
melancholy fact to Mr.. TildeD; under which
all the consolation his music can give him
seems to be needed. But this method by
| which a senatorial oligarchy "seeks now to
perpetuate ITSELF is one Of the dimmest elu-
cidatons in all the lyric literature Of political
| mnstrels. in what way Senators of straw
can exert power in perpetuating an olgarchy,
| and how their eXertiOns can be intensified or
| tLeir success ensured by the fact that they
are nominated to order by three millions OF
| negroes does not appear at all, The only fact
| that is evident concerning the poets fine
! frenzy is, that 'the belt" which has juat
| before reached only from the Hudson to the
Mississippi has now been stretched all the way
| from the latter river TO the Atlantic.
But the peculiar inspiration OF the lark,
| (Which singing still doth soar and soaring
ever sings" is certainly initiated with vigoI
in the next passage
| ECONOMY in the Government. This Is i'm
| possible under system which, with It's cognate
! systems, annually consumes a sum nearly equi.
! VBlent 10 all the net earning of labor, and all
| the net capital In our country"
| he nat aor,inU of 1abop ia abOuf 90 O00
OCO, ,OOO per annum sin our country" The
''net capital" is about SIS OOO, 600, 600. The
sum is $2l, 600 600, 600; and this, according to
MIR. Tilden and the World, is about what ouI
Government annually consumes. We have had
occasion sometimes to correct the JVorld fol
its neglect Of small sums aud trinng disors.
pancies of statement; but this must all be
retraoted now. The mind which can soar
even in a sublime lyric, TO such disre