The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-07
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(Fro,n the Ne,c York Tribune Of May 81, 1876. }
ITr. TILDEN and the Democrats.


Mr.. Tilden is by no means the only
Democrat at the east whom good citizens
might rejoice to see nominated for the
presidency. His name would undoubtedly
do honor to the ticket to be made at st.
Louis, but it is not essential to the credit of
the party, and if some of his own political
brethren are bitterly opposed to him. that
is. in one sense, family affair over which
the outside world need not greatly vex
Itself As an indication of the tendencies
OF the Democratic party, however, the
causes of the hostility to Tllden become
matter of national concern. The first SER
ious manifestion OF enmity came from
Tammany Hall, and it finds expression IN
the columns OF The Express, where it is
alleged that Gov. Iilden has made use
Of his position to organize personal party
| But this is such a strange complaint to
come from the Tammany Hall autocracy
| that there must be something more behind
! it, The World, whose change of prop
Irietorship is generally interpreted as
| blow at Mr.. Tilden's pretenslons, has not
word to say against the governor: it only
insists, with good sense aud good temper.
that there are other eminent Democrats
whose merits and chances are entitled to
consideration. But on Wednesday co.,
| ference of leading Democratic politicians
was held at Albany to consider how Mr..
| Iilden could be most conveniently thrown
overheard, and from them it would seem
that we ought to obtain some light upon
the interesting question which neither The
World, nor The Express, nor fammany
has seen fit to answer. There were pres
ent at this conference Chief-J Justice Church
and Justice Allen, ex- Lieut. Gov Beach,
eX-GOy. Hoffman, ex-Speaker Littlejohn,
and other we'll known men, and the Judge
inent of the meeting is understood to
haye been unanimous that Mr.. Tilden,
having alienated large faction of the
Democracy, is not the man for st. Louis
We mean no reflection upon the integrity
of any Of these estimable gentleman, but
it is a significant fact that pretty nearly all
the most reputable Democrats whose names
have been. either rightly or wrongly, con-
nected with the Tweed and Canal Rings,
were found on Wednesday in their CON-
pany. 1t was probably not the fault of
Judge Church and Judge Allen that the
Canal Ring and what was left Of the old
Tammany Ring united in 1874 to run them
both against Tilden, first one and then the
other, in the canvass for the nomination
but it is certainly their mis- fortune. That
fight of the rings against Tilden was a
matter of notoriety, and the nomination of
our present governor, instead of Judge
Church or his cousin Judge Allen, was
generally recognized throughout the state
as a triumph OF the better elements of the
Democracy over the thieves and corrupt.
ionists. 1t seems to be the same fight
, * NJ h,Vn a IL
known as the author of the much criticised
decision Of the court Of appeals which re-
leased Tweed from Blackwell's Island
Mr.. Beach is remembered as the gentle.
man who made such a strange exhibition
of himself last Summer by publishing /;
card IN which he Unexpectedly denounced
a report of the canal investigating com.
mission as 'unfounded in every partic
u!ar," and Who then being subpenaed By
the commission, swallowed his card anC
, convicted himself of official neglect out o
his own mouth The history and affilia
tons of ex Gov. Hoffman are we'll enough
known.
Altogether it may be said that the Al
tany conference only brought to the froo
the men who have always been recognized
: as Governor Tilden's enemies and rivals
and who from their peculiar position
could not be his friends, not because the,
are not persorally,good men, but because
reform movement cannot be carried on il
New York without hurting their allies an
). adherents. And if we go outside til
the state we find the anti Tilden sentmen
confined to the western infationists an
communists, who hate every man that be
lieves in dollar, and are perfectly frank
in the daa}arafJnn of thpIr {
Now, as we have said before, the Dem
/ ocratic party is not so poor that it ca
name no one for the presidency whose fit
! ness is not so marked as Mr.. Tilden's; Blu
if he is to be thrown overheard the count
ry has right to insist that the reasons fo
his rejection shall be made quite clear
otherwise it is sure to draw u2pleasan
conclusions The Democratic candidate
;. whoever he may be, must be man whot
e repudiators, canal thieves. and the relic
i1f hn oil I'or,, ~