The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-07-05

state folks, do not expect psrfect probit,
Of motive as a necessary aualificstion q
serve the country admirably. As a genera
rule, prefer a good politician like Disrael
to crsbid reformer like Gladstone. Tb,
world is like milk, bsss preserved by no
looking down on il, ana ruined by tot
much thunder. We do not want Johr
Calvin to apply the golden rule in bis pc
culisr way To the republic. rhe grievo1i
curse of our politics Is that of which Mr.
Tilden has been an exponent all his life
vigorous, resentful party spirit and diseip-
line. As tie grand inquisitor OF Albany
regency, MI. TldeD had no more conscien-
tious duty t3au to SEE thatHoffman and any
other Democrat wss counted in II possible.
He was as energetic 10 do this as TO assail
the canal ring stterwsrd. To be a REFORM
or. therefore, be must adopt the agure OF
scripture and enter into the womb and be
born again, ana use his old age to eat up
his maturer record. do not know rhetb-
er the people otthe state have more criti-
cally examined hls record since they elect
ed him governor IN 1874. II would appear
from the diminished vote his candidates
Ieceived last year, while he was in the
height OF bis performances against the ca
nal ring, that Mr.. Tilden is not as strong
IN New York now as when ne made
that almost hopeless race against DIX.
But his character is so quaint and
his art so fine that he will
give the Democratic party what they have
not bad in a candidate for years-the ele-
ment of humor. He is funny TO look at
and funny to vote for, and funnier "a Ie-
former than in any other way, He is such
reformer as the clown Gramsldi, who
lived in the time of the No Popery riots.
Other people wrote on their doors TO save
the house, "No Popery." He wanted TO
take wide range and wrote 'No Reli-
gion." Now, perhaps. Tilden may be so
complete reformer as to hazard on his
door-plste, "No Principle"
TILDEN's POLITICAL RANK.
Mr.. Tilden is European rather than an
American politician. Managing property
and corporations all his life, he has insen-
sibly developed like Metterpich or st.
Armand, and his very love of country is
subtle and oblique in its manifestations.
He meditstes coups d'etat, deals in sur
prises, and acts by proclamation. A very
politician, he yet drew his ear
ly inspirations from the least heroic though
one OF the ablest OF our presidents, Martin
Van Buren,. The impression left by Van
Buren on the country, of an sdroit, feline.
cold-tempered man, Is, on the whole, the
true one. Beginning lite Federalist, he
turned Clintonisn, and deepsned into q
radical Jackson Democrat, and then re-
traced his steps, and led a Barnburner re-
volt against the regular party to defeat
Cas-. Possessed of fine abilities, he see lis
to have no ether rule of conduct than per-
sonal political success. Yet he leaves
respectable memory in the state of New
York among those old anti-slavery
Democrats who voted for him against
Cass in lS4S. That revolt was really the
breaking away of the Republican butterfly
from its Whig and Democratic cocoon.
Young Sammy Tildeu was Van Buren's
neighbor, protege and secretary in his re-
tirement at Undertook. He saw Van
Buren under the proudest circumstances
of an ex-president's lite-s beaten man,
still full OF battling powers, who could
beat the regular candidate if be could not
recover the crown himself. 1t is but hall
days horseback ride from Tilden's birth
place 10 Van Buren's mouse in the Dutch
village of Kinderhook, or Child Point.