New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-09-19

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tige of success. When he has seemed to be
overcome by the opposition, and on the edge
of disaster bis friends have said in the words
Of notable witness in great case, " Give
'the old man chance" and have expressed
! confidence that he would come out all right.
He usually has answered their expectations.
| We have always given him the credit OF
being very sagacicus, far-seeing, careful,
cool, and prudent political manager. We
! still believe that the small measure OF
success which has attended the struggles of
| the Democratic party to maintain its existence
and regain power was due more to Gov. Til
den than any other one person. But the Presl-
Dental campaign seems to have broadened out
before him and dazed him with its extent He
fails to cover it, He managed the State OF
| New-York with great shrewdness and good
| Judgment. He understood the school districts
| and knew the committees. But the whole coun-
| try is too much for him. He is endeavOring to
manage it all himself, and is making of it
conspicuous failure. He postpones too much,
and waits too long.
There has been a marked contrast between
his treatment of questions as they have come
up, and the treatment of the same sort of
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| Gov. Hayes, for we believe he has not under
taken any oversight of the canvass, but to tho
gentlemen who have been conducting the Re
publican campaign. Gov. Tildcn has in every
case required time, has considered and discussed
and delayed until the people have taken such
facts as they had and run forward to their
conclusions and their judgment upon Them, be-
fore Gov. Tilden has made up his mind how
to present his side of the case. Gov. Illden's
| wisdom seems to have been exhausted with
the invention of the methods by which his
nomination was effected. A wiser and more
far-seeing man than he, knowing as much as
he did of the internal discussions OF his party
and the danger of fatal compromise, would
| have provided against the nomination oil
such a man as Hendricks as second on the
ticket. Mr.. Tilden and his friends never
| looked beyond the nomination of the head OF
| the ticket: never considered the necessity Tor
seeing to it that his opponents did not put
milestone round his neck. They have lost
everything since his nomination by waiting
| and illy-dalying, and trying CHASTITY expert
| ments, to meet emergencies which should have
been considered and guarded against before
they arose. When they fixed upon Abram ).
Hewitt as their candidate for Governor they
did what seemed to be wise. But they
had not sufficiently considered it. They were
caught without an anchor to the windward.
when Sir. Hewitt's ineligibility was discov-
cred, and the only thing they could do was to
rush the nomination OF Horatio Seymour
through the convention. That piece of strategy
was one of the worst blunders they have COM
mitted. The nomination subsequently OF Mr.
Lucus Robinson was not by any means such
a stroke of strategy as the desperate straits
to which the party was reduced demanded.
1t was simply the first thing thm
presented itself Gov. Tiden managed the
whole business. He fought all the time with
out any reserves. He waited too long to find
Hewitt ineligible, too long TO find DOrshemer I'M
practicable, too long to do anything but take up
Robinson. And then, too late, it appeared that
the fizz and gush of Seymour's nomination went
off with his withdrawal, and that the nomina-
ton of Robinson could not make up for it
that it was simply point to stop at, and not
to rally from.
So with the Governors long delay in
answering the fatal charge that he, the rep
resentative refOTmer of his party, the man
who denounced the administration of the Re-
publican party because il taxed the people so
| heavily, did not pay his own lawful taxes.
He rides a waiting race His opponents catch
| him in a tight spot, and he makes no answer.
He starts out with the statement that he and
his friends are TO make an aggressive cam
paign for reform. He relates at great length
how the Government has been extravagantly
administered, andhow taxes have been unequally
adjusted, so that the poor man and the labor
Syyift nm
the charge, backed by official documents, that
he himself has evaded mis- legitimate taxes, and,
by so much as he has escaped, has increased
| the burden of the poor and working classes.
The aggressive campaign stops. He makes no
answer. Days and weeks go by and the
ardent partisans who said Oh, give
" the old man chance" themselves
grow tired of waiting; still no explanation, no
| defense "By and by" they say, he will
explain it all" Two or three times they have
undertaken TO explain it themselves, but in vain.
! The people have concluded there Is no expla-
nation. They have reached the conclusion that
| it would not be entirely wise to trust the adj
| ministration of the Government to a man who
! talks so much about honesty and reform,
and evades his own honest obligations to the
! Government And all this time Gov. Tilden
hastens slowly and rides a waiting race.
Hastens so slowly that Gov. Hayes will be in
the White House before he gets his campaign
fairly organized. Rides such waiting race
that by November people will have almost for
gotten that he is in it at all.
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