Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-11-08
THE OLD MAN MAD.
How Tilden Opened His Mouth
and Put His FO0f In Ii.

From the New York Times.
But the Great Defeated seems to have been
loaded In such way that single spark
would fire him off. The beginning and the
ending of the speech were each as cold as the
orator is reputed to be. In the middle was
interjected howl. A chance word from the
crowd below threw all this nicely arranged
programme into confusion. As some of the
following said, "The old man got mad" He
suddenly dropped Jefferson, Madison, and the
Federalist. and, throwing dignity to the
winds, jumped into the ring with wild hur-
rg,h. There was no reason to complain of the
old mans coldness chen. He jumped up and
down like manikin on wires, and his cele-
brated pump handle gesture was repeated so
rapidly as to excite burst after burst OF uncon-
trollable laughter. AS if intoxicated with the
distinction of having been candidate, he
talked precisely as if he were a powerful per-
son, making and executing laws, and guard
ing the interests of the country as a regular
business. He shrieked at the top of his
voice, Il am unalterably opposed to any in
crease of the army. | will never consent to
it-never-no, never! never Precisely
what the consent of Samuel j. Tilden, ESQ.,,
a defeated candidate and discarded leader of
his own party, has 10 do with any proposed
increase of the srmy, is not at all clear. Til
den is not Congressman to vote on this i'm
portant subject, and it is by no means clear
that he could control even Hewitts vote, if
the question should come up in Congress. We
take it that the increase of the army is not
party measure, since General Mcclellan,
Democratic candidate for Governor of New
Jersey, favors an increase, while Tilden, who
has only private citizens influence in the
matter, says he is ''unalterably opposed" to
enlarging the force. No wonder the crowd,
always appreciating good joke, greeted this
egotistical sally with great laughter. There
Was another outburst when, after some intri-
cate platitudes the orator screamed "Flaud
fraud !" and demanded "you won't condone
i'll You won't condone it :" And when a
shrill female voice replied in the negative, the
effect was what is sometimes called electrical.
Tilden, crying out for revenge upon his ad-
received only this response. And
be swore that whatever happened he would
as they have been handed down by our faith
srs. 81 swear l swear will :" he cried in
frenzied accents. ''Say that you will !" he
,hrieked to the audience in the manner of the |
Uou-arv bootr;ool v>oroop Thoro uoo rouch
laughter, and solitary voice replied "You
bet ~
This was broad farce. The man has worked |
himself to the belief that he was not only |
elected President of the Unised States, but |
hat he is actually at the head of the nation. !
Daniel Webster once, when he had been ,
dining" hearing some one deplore the size |
If the national debt, drew out his usually !
Empty wallet and said "The national debt!
must be paid I'll pay it myself. How
much is it P" Tilden, with equal confidence,
ieclares he will forever oppose an increase of
he army, maintain the Republic, and never
,ondone the aforesaid ''outrage," by which
lie was kept out of place and power. These
ire mighty fine words from a man who can
lot carry a convention of his own party
lgainst John Kelly, and who has been quietly
helved by the Democratic politicians in and
mt of the State ASA tiresome nuisance. These
re big words from shutting politician who
'vaded his obligations to support the Repub.
ic by taxation, and they are fine words for
me whose own house was the headquarters
# conspiracy to force fraudulent votes by
corrupt means into the Electoral College.
But this weak and vain old man howls about
be Electoral Commission as though it were
lot as much Democratic measure as Re-
publican. And he throws mud at the men,
,ers of the commission which Democratic
congressman helped to make, just as though
e wanted to prove to the country that II had
lucky escape when he failed to reach the
Presidency.