The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-07-26
TILDEN TALKS.
what Ne Has to Say Of the hlcc-
local COmmisSlOn-And Also
Of tie Returning Board
Indictment.
New York special to Cincinnati Enquirer
18th inst

New York special to Cincinnati Enquirer
eth inst
Mr. TiIdcn, accompanied by Score
tary Of State Bigeow will sail on tn
Scy!hia day after tomorrow for
a three months stay abroad. lie ha
been spending the no. weather at See
Grit, New Jersey, and to World cor
respondent who visited him there yes
tcrday, he expressed himself quite free
~ on current topics, lie said his triI
has no connection whatever with AM
business enterprise or railroad scheme
as announced without authority il
some papers, In regard to the Electo
raj Commission, he said he had neye
had any real confidence in the arbitra-
ton OF the question where there wa
so much at stake by u body Of the
kind. The Republican party, and mer
who had managed it in the past, were
too anxious to retain the Administra-
ton to yield any point in IN arbtra-
ton The result Of the Electoral Com
mission, therefore, was what might
have been expected, considering the
power and influence brought to bear
upon the political majority Of that
body as finally constituted He fur
thermore never liked the scheme rs q
matter Of principle, believing that the
direction Of the Democratic appeal was
not away from three hundred and six
tyniuG Representatives Of the people
toward fifteen individuals, and still
less. from fifteen individuals toward
one TO be selected necessarily with a
large element Of chance, not to say Of
trick and device. He thought there
should rather have been an appeal from
the three hundred and siXty-nine rep.
rcscnlalives to the eight million Of yo-
tcrs through a new election, He was
distrIsLiUl or the secrecy, celebrity and
improWdcncc with which the arrange
mcnt was carried through and ushcred
into being; but the proposition ap
peaIcd to the hopes Of the business
classes, which were anxious above all
things for settlement Of almost any
kind, at almost any price, and rs twas
presented by the unanimous report OF
the Joint Committee it became the on>
ly representative Of public desire Iol
peace.
The events which are now attracting
SO much public attention in New Or,
leans, and the disclosures which per.
haps may follow, Mr.. Tlden considers
only the logical outcome of the rGVolu.
tionary acts Of last fall and winter. In
a Government like ours, he said, such
fraudulent practices as we're reported
from New Orleans last November,
sooner or later must come to light, and
The guilty parties. with their practices,
must be made known. 1t wna 50 with
the ring frauds in New York. II has
been the case to 4 certain extent in
Washington, and like result will fol
low IN NGw Orleans. II is against the
natural course Of events that deeds Of
this kind should ultimately fail of be-.
Ing brought to light in all their cnor.
mites. All this was said with phio-
sophie calmncss, and without any heat
Whatever, In regard TO his own pDlit-
ical future, lIr, Tilden had nothing to
say, except that he could not soc any
possible contingency which could in,
,luce him to be q candidate for, or seek
an election to 4 seat in the United
States Senate.
He felt entirely confident of the sue
cess of the Democratic party this CALL
in all the large central States, and cs-
pecIaIIy in this State by very large
believing that events were all
pointing in that direction