Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-03-06
Ex-Governor TiIden.

/ over the present result of the Presidential srug
gle, but what many people would like to ascer.
tain is, "HoW does ex Gov Tiiden feel?' And
his many adherents, who declare that he has
been cheated out Of the Presidency and there
fore regard him in the light of the monumental
martyr of the nineteenth century, feel particu.
larly anxious on this point, more especially AZ
MIR. Gildeu's constitutional aversion to the TO-
tervi wing process has kept the public mind 10
complete igoorauce of his feelings and views
during the momentous crisis which has just ter.
minated. a personal inquiry Of ex Gov. Til
den was all the more pertinent, however, aud
his silence aud comparative seciusion had rem
dered possible all sorts of rumors, representing
him to be i'll and prnstrate from the effects nt
bis great disappointment. These stories, which
have been induslrou:ly circulated for several
days past, were maDifestly untrue, but 10 ob
tain an authentic statement of the feelings of
the democratic chiet ex Governor Tllden Was
personally visited with the following result:
representative Of this journal called upon
ex-Gov. lidep yesterday noon. He had just
come 10 and was about eolng out again. He
spoke to the reporter with his usual urbanity;
but it was obviously quite Impossible to engage
| him 10 conversation. He was looking 10 excel
|
tive called on him on the day after the election,
on the 7th Of November last, found him at the
door aud walked rouud with him to the Ever.
EFT House. 1t would be difficult TO see that
yesterday, when he received the Intelligence
| that he had been counted cut, and 90 the day
| % which the writer last saw bim on the streets
TO be congratulated upon bis last election, there
was aUy perc" ptIbIe difference in his demeanO.
We understand he told fricod the other day
that the cause which he represented So 40.
sOrbed his feelings that he vas not able 70 cD-
tertain any distinct emotion on the suljnct."
The same representative OF the Herald visited
him 10 Albany on the night when, after re.
turning from a TWO hours ride, ex Gov Tden
came 10 and was informed that he had been
nominated by the ST. Louis Convention, aud he
received the ueWS without a change Of the eye
or Of the couuteDance. The same representa-
tive was also present on July ii, 1876, when
MIR. TiIden made brief reply to the address Of
Gen. McCleruand at bis residence in Gramercy
Park, the following passage from which MIR.
Tllden deems pertinent to the present stu.
alton :
II am not without experience of the difficulty
and the labor of etfectug administrative reform
when it requires q revelation in policies and in
measures long established in government. II |
we're to Judge IN the year and a halt ln which J.
have been ln the State government | should
say that the routine duties OF the trust have
had imposed on me are a small burden COM
pared with that created by the attemp pt to change
the policy OF the government OF which | have
been the executive head. Especially is this 80
where the reform is to be worked out with
more or less of the ca operation Of public officers
who either have been tainted with the evils to
be rcdressed or who have been incapactated by
habit of federation ofthe wrongs to be corrected,
to which they have been conscnting witnesses.
|, therefore, if your choice should be ratified
by the people at the election. should enter
upon the great duties which would falI.upon me,
not as holiday recreation. bur very much iu
that spirit of conservation in which the soldier
enters battle
1t is understood among ex Governor Tildcn's
friends that the reforms 10 the federal govern
ment, which he thinks are indispensaby ueccs-
sary involve such change Of measures that
he has never been able to contemplate the
toll connected with their realization without
certain amount OF dismay." 1t was in view of
this great and arduous duty that he likened
his feeling to that Of a soldier entering battle.
Never" said ex. Governor Tllden, the other
day 20 gentleman who repeated the remark to
US, has anybody, however near to me. seen
ny eye light up at the prospect Of success in
nomioation or an election which involved
work so arduuus and so necessary to the whole
country that the great duty could only be per-
formed at the sacrifice Of every comfort, at the
peril of health and at a total surrender of the
repose DOW desrer to me than any personal OBJ
ject n lite; but yet 1t IS enough to say that l
would have undertaken it 10 the hope that the
country might be completely paclhcstcd, sec
tiopa strife ended aud a com plete reconciliation
e ~ nd oil olo Of
fccted; that our institutions of popular sell.
government might be completely restored from
the perilOus uvcrgroWths of civil war, our ad-
ministration purified and the prosperity of the
peopIc renewed. Such mission may well be-
the object to which one would consecrate him.
self at whatever cost or sacrifice, but it is not
thing to be regarded with any selfish JOY.
It Is UNDERSTOOD that Ex-Governor Tildrn
will DOW feel at liberty to indulge in period
of rest and recreation. though we cannot look
upop him without saying that it was never less
necessary Nevertheless, it is nnderstooa
that while * Governor riIden feels no per
sopal disappointment, he completely coocurs
with the body Of the pool l., who, he believes,
regard the capturing OF the Presidency Of tho
United States by the threat OF futce and the
use OF fraud as the most deplorabe event In
the history Of the country, and he thinks "lt
II mans Tor the people 10 Say Wnc'ncr such
transaction shall carry with IL public esteem,
public honors, such as would naluraIize the
system by which success, has been DOW achieved,
and mike it rule u all lulure Presidential cleo
TONS
An intimate friend OF Mr.. Tilden stated yes
terday that Mr.. Tilden had been ali along op
posed 10 the Electoral Commission scheme.
When he was asked why Mr.. Hewitt, who was
supposed to be Mr. Tilden's moulhpiece.
urged the scheme if the Gev:rpor was cIcary
opposed to it, the gentleman replied that.t vas
a popular error to suppose that MIR. Hew.
tits movements during the struggle for the
Presidency we're inspired or dictated by
Mr.. Tllden. As far as Mr.. Hewltt's c 'ursc ap-
proving the Electoral Commission was COZ
ccrned, this was certainly not the case Mr.
Hewitt acted quite independently of Mr.. I'll
den in that matter, and ever since the formation
| of the commission with republican majority
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