Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-03-02
Tilden: As He Was and IL.
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There was a time when Mr.. Sam
uel j. TIlden was very important
public character. Now he is merely
a private citizen with gobd many
ugly lawsuits on hand, but with
plenty of time to give them his per-
sonal attention. Not to speak disre-
specially, Mr.. Tilden for few
months past has been very live
lion; but all at once he has become q
very dead dog. The likeness is sug
gested by the conduct of his friends
and political associates. When Mr..
Tilden was using that barrel of mon
ey where it would do most good,
and while there was a prospect that
that he might become the dispenser
OF some 10000 offices, his friends
clung t. him with an enlhuiasm en-
tirely commensurate with the pros
pective ability of Mr.. Ti.den to re-
ward it. From present indications
it will be but short time till none
can be found SO poor as to do him
reverence. His is not exactly the
.plaintive lament of old Rip Van
Wrinkle who cried, care we SO soon
forgotten when we are gone?", but
the recollection of HIM by his party
friends is altogether unenviablc, be-
ing tull of reproach and resentment.
Had it fallen to Mr.. Hayes lot to re-
tire to private life, he would have
been followed there with the best
wish of his party friends and even
the admiration of his opponents.
But the opponents of Mr.. Tilden
have been too sincere all along in
their conviction of Tllden's conspic-
u"us untitness tor the chief Office in
the nation to change their opinion
in the hour of his defeat, and now
even his party friends are beginning
to desert him with ill-natured filings,
to blame him tor the defeat that has
come, and to acknowledge that
much that has been said to his dis
advantage was true. That this dis
position has cropped out even before
Mr.. Hayes title to the Office has been
finally and fully confirmed is indi-
cative of a good deal more to come
when the political remains of Sam
uel J. Tilden shall be formally laid
away for good and all.
Mr.. Hendricks ardor for Tilden
has cooled of considerably since he
discovered "v"rtures made by the
Tilden faction to arrange matters
SO that the House should elect Til
den President and the Senate to
elect Wheeler Vice-President. 1t
was selfish and mean, III view of the
fact that Hendricks had lost the
nomination for President IN the first
place through Tilden's lavish use Of
money. and then had taken the Sec
ond place under protest to help car
ry rilden through. Mr.. Hendricks
faith in human nature was naturally
a good deal imL aired at being desert
ed the moment Tiiden thought he
could help himself by sacrificing
Hendricks. 1t is not surprising,
therefore, that Gov. Hendricks
should now say freely that, "the
Electoral Commission having gone
according to law, the result is the
election Of Hayes and Wheeler"
| Hendricks accepts the situation al
most complacently, and is opposed
to the tactics of Desparadoes. Of
course, he thinks that the present de-
f at will inure.to the benefit Of the
Democratic party in the next elec'
| ton, but this is very likely because
he expects to head the Ticketin 1880,
instead OF playing tail to Mr.Tilden's
kite.
The Washington Sunday Herald,
which has had nothing but good
words for TiIden during the cam.
paign, now rebels at the suggestion
that he will again be- candidate in
1880, and speaks right out in meet
ing. 1t says plainly that Democrat
ic defeat is mainly to be attributed to
Tilden's dictation through the cam
paign, and the disreputable methods
which he adopted to achieve success.
His Cooking the primaries" "salt'
ing" the politicians ut st. Louis, max
ing money the key note Of tho cam-
paign, establishing the Liberty
Street Literary Bureau, receiving
and sending rascally cipher dis
patches at Gramercy Park, and SINH
lar incidents in Mr.. Tildcn's career
as a candidatc,arc openly denounced,
and it concludes that it is preposter.
Gus, "after such an ignominiOus and