Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-07-13

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event happened which could not have been
foreseen, but which was pregnant with the
mcst important consequences. To the eternal
honor Of the Democratic party Of the city
and State, on the issue thus made up by Mr..
Tilden they gave him their cordial and ire
sistible support. The result was overwhelm-
ing, and not only changed the city represen-
tation in the legislative bodies Of the State,
but, in its moral effect, crushed the "ring."
Mr.. Tilden was one of the delegates chosen to
represent the city in the next Legislature.
In Difference to the views of his principal CO.
adiutors, Mr.. Tilden devoted the six weeks
interval between his election and the meeting
of the Legislature to the prosecution Of its
investigation in the city departments and in
preparing the vast mass of accurate informa-
ton which was the basis of all the judicial
proofs that have since been employed success:
fully in bringing the members of the "ring"
to justice or driving them into exile.
Mr.. Tilden gave bis chief attention, during
the session of the Legislature, to the promo
ton of those objects for which he consented to
90 there, the reform Of the judiciary and the
impeachment of the creatures who had &C.
quired the control of it under the Tweed dy-
nasty. Mr.. Tilden had thus, by his bold acts,
made himself prominent in the work Of re-
form, and was recognized as the man to lead it
in the State. Prominent friends of reform
urged him to accept the nomination for Gov.
ernor. They said he could be nominated
without difficulty and elected triumphantly,
and in his triumph the great cause Of admin.
istrative reform would receive an impulse
which would propagate it not only over the
whole State, but over the Union. Mr.. Mlden
ultimately consented to take the nomination
for Governor.
He was nominated and elected, and what
ever lessons or eloquence could be expressed
in big majorities were not wanting to lend
their eclat to his triumph. MI. Tlden's plu-
rality over John A. Dix, the Republican can
didate, was $685. MI. Dix had been elected
two years previously by plurality of 30, ,451.
Mr.. Tilden is now in the sixty-third year of
his age He is FIVE feet ten inches in height,
and has what Psychologists call purely nervous
temperament, with its usual accompaniment
of spare figure, blue eyes and fair complexion.
His hair, originally chestnut, is now partially
silvered with age At the Utica Convention
resolutions we're passed presenting bis name
as a candidate for the Presidency, and request
ing the delegates to vote as unit.
..4i ....,.g ag GOV. HENDRICKS. 80
Thomas A. Hendricks was born in Musk.
ingum county, Ohio, in 1919 and is, there
fore, fifty-seven years of age. He removed
to Indiana, and in 1851 was elected to Con-
gress where he remained until 1866, when he
was appointed Commissioner of the Land
Office. He filled this position until 1859,
when he was elected United States Senator for
six years. In 1868 he was the Democratic
candidate for Governor, but as the passions
and prejudices were then too strong for any
Democrat to be chosen, Mr.. Hendricks was
defeated by small majority. In 1874 he
was elected to this position which he has since
filled with signal ability, adorning the place
with the simplicity Of the early Roman
times, when the robust virtues were valued at
their true worth. Gov. Hendricks is one of
those unaffected great men who impress them
selves forcibly on the era as much by the
wide contrast with others as by their own
simple worth.