The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-01-05
Mr.. TiIdeM.
Kansas City Journal.

Kansas City Journal.
Mr.. Tilden is beginning to be q
subj ect of very significant Observa-
ton of late. Several confederate
generals have recently visited aud
been closeted with him. The men
in Washington who are anxious to
be considered his confidants-to be
near the thr0ne-havO given cut
that the meetings held at Indianapo-
lis and Chicago and Lancaster, Ohio.
were suggested, or ordered by him.
He is determined to take the oath
of Office, even if he has to do it be-
fore justice of the peace in New
York.
And now comes out the fact that
has boon 8 topic of private remark
fer q long lime-Tilden is drinking
very hard. Those who know the
man will not be surprised at this
for that has been known for years.
He is net q public drinker, but for
years he has been 8 heavy after-din-
ner imbiber-and since the election
when the terrible spectre of failure
in his life ambition has confronted
him, he has kept up his spirits by q
usual method of pouring them
down. He talks of nothing else
is almost mOnomaniac on the SUBJ
ject of the presidency.
Such is the picture drawn Of his
present condition by those who
know most of him. A mans pri-
vate habits are q good index to his
moral characteristics. Tilden has
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tioD-money and political power
He made money any way he could
that it might help him to one object
Of his ambition, the presidency. He
has never had any domestic ties
his associations have been with the
worst political elements of the
countrY-TWeed and Tammany-
and money has ever been the means
of operating on public sentiment
By the testimony of his own party
he bought his way tn the nomina-
ton and his money flowed like wa
tor during the canvass.
His personal habits are such as
are common in New York politics
He is gastrOnOme in eating-hGV-
ing the best cook in New York
for the belly Is the weak point Of
the spoils politician. His wines
brandies and whiskeys are of the
choisest, and he knows them all by
the supreme test of sam ping.
These habits, these associations,
these influences, are all intensified
and with the ambition of disease
and desperation, the man cares nc
more for his country, save as il
ministers to his desires, than lift were
q ward of New York. 1t is impos-
sible, looking over the mans life,
his actions heretofore, his assecia-
tons, his methods and his habits,
for such e man as Tilden to be in
spired or controlled by those higher
impulses and purposes which are
essential in statemanship, let alone
the high fHnctiOns of chief msgis-
trate. he has not sought the office
from high and noble ambition
only as the ending of life of polit-
ical management, pIunder and
spoils.
This fact accounts for the silence
he has maintained as to his own po-
sitiOn. He is incapable of the open
manly and patriotic utterance of
Governor Hayes-that whatever
snder the law shall be the result,
he and his friends will quietly and
readily submit. 1t is because he
has set his heart, risked his fortune
and debsuched the ballot TO be
president, and is determined to at
tempt revelation if he cannot sue
coed.
This is the "reform" about which
he so loudly prsied during the can
vass, and he stands before the cOun-
try now, as q plotter against lite
laws, its peace, and the prosperity
of his countrymen. 1t perhaps
needed just such q man to teach the
lessen to the people of the United
States that the class Of men to which
he belongs and the associations from
which he comes, are as dangerous
to public liberty and good govern
ment as the holder men who sought
by arms to maintain the power
which the people acting through
the forms of law denied them at the
bsllot-box. Tilden has become q
man.