The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-12-06
Tilden at Home.
Picture of the President Elect-The
Mansion in Gramercy Park
and its Dist guished
Occupant.
A woMAN's OPINION OF THE COMING
| MAN.
New York Cry
Nov. IS. 1861

NEW YORK Cry J
Nov. Is, 1876
Amidst the solemn, the EXCLUSIVE
elegance; the unobtrusive pomp O
Gramercy Park, fine mansion rear
its massive front, and announces OF
its shining door-plate that the mar
who is the cynosure of all New York
whose name is on the breath Of al
the world, resides within. Cold
arstocratic, we'll suited to each 9th
er, are both the locality and the mar
who lives within it's narrow bounda
ry. Women of fashion sweep thei
velvets across its pavements and mer
of wealth step grandly from theil
carriages into their gorgeous homes
A beggar seldom passes in his rags
and it is difficult to realize that the
great heart Of New York throbs anc
pulsates onl y few blocks away
The bit of green park, with it's lock
ed gates and its strict privacy, re
minds us more of English pomp than
of New York gayety. Very unosten-
tations yet spacious and thoroughly
elegant is Governor Tilden's home.
Every minutia of its detail betrays
its owners high bred, cultivated
taste, and the country may rejoice
that we shall at last have refined
gentleman in the White House-for
to the White House this man will
surely go between this time and the
4th of March, 1881, unless the shad-
owy touch of the pale horseman
shall fall between him and it. The
parlor of the Tilden mansion invites
with its tasteful furnishing, with its
hrlc.a brac and magnificently bound
books and engravings in the costly
book case and on the tables. In this
parlor the cold, keen, passionless
man has stood for many days, recei-
wing the honors and the tributes of
the great men of the land, aye, and of
its fairest and proudest women, too
women whom he has been wont to
meet at the social board and amid
The glitter of the reception ROOM
The floral clair stands near the win
dow-the chair that an admirer sent
to Tilden as cmblamatic of the chair
of state which he will be called to
occupy; but, alas! in this perturbed
condition of the nation and mad riot
of partisan feeling it is hardly prob
able that the chair of state will
prove us thornless as the chair of
flowers that ornaments his parlor.
WILL He GO TO THE WHITE HOUSE
ALONE?
An on DIT has been afioat that if Til
den went to the White House he
would take with him bride, lady
chosen out of the great world of
fashion, lady whose heart from
childhood has beat in unison with
the principles of the Democracy, the
daughter of a man who has consorted
with Presidents and the great states
men Of the past, when for so long a
period the Democratic rule swayed
the land, man who voice has long
been silent in the Legislative halls of
the nation, but who comes conspicu-
ously to the front and helps to sweep
back the Republican ashes that have
smothered the camp-ires of the De-
mocracy. Surely it were well that
the daughter of such a man should
do the honors Of the White House as
THE WIFE
of President Tilden. Passionless, I
called the man. Yet that were not
well-chosen word, for in all the vast
ness Of the land there is not a man
and there are many such-who is
more swayed by the passions of am
bition than this thin, wiry, intellec.
tual man, with the delicate yet firm
features and the round, smooth face
the man who through patient toll,
through most consummate diploma
cy, and by the might of nerves of
steel and will of iron, has aspired
to and commanded the proudest po-
sition in the land. Like the great
be stands surrounded by
his braves. The battle is over, the
victory is won; yet their leader may
be condemned to the isolation of a
political St. Helena. Whilst the
bent of Tilden's mind and the frame
of his will and the GOODNESS of his
nature naturally at this period of his
political career suggest the triumph
and downfall Of the mighty usurper,
yet the resemblance is in spirit alone