New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-16

present consideration OF tnem TOT Iho PURPOSE
of expressing the gratitude OF the public for
their enlivenment of dull season, and to ada
that as soon as things get quoted down and
begin to be dull again everybody will be de-
lighted to hear more about how MIR. Tllden
did appear to those who saw him in the Crisis;
how he would have appeared 1t he hadn't
appeared as he did; what he did say, and what
he would have said IL he hadn't said what he
did; and what he actually did, and what ne
would have done if he hadn't done what he
did; also how he looks on horseback. AT the
beginning of this controversy, there was
prevalent impression that Mr.. Tilden had
not exhibited the audacious boldness
of the foreman of fire company,
or even the blind courage of the book agent
Mr.. Watterson had offered him 100000 Ken
tuckians to march against Washington with,
and had been put off with the remark
that be would see him later; and tins
treatment of the proposition had excited
profound disgust in the bosoms OF mlt-
lion Democrats who were just aching TO
march on Washington and put their names on
the Government pay-rOlls. It has been the
task of Wattersou and Marble to remove this
impression. They have partially succeeded.
They have worked the matter up to point
where, as it now appears, Mr.. Iilden stood
on the Constitution, and rung the bell for a
chambermaid, to whom he said, in his bold,
outspOken way, that there he was and he de-
fed her or any of her relations to dispIaee
him.
We stick q pin here rs the point where the
resumption of other topics compelled tenn
porary cessation of the debate. 1t will be re-
vived some time. And though we may not
fix the time-for no one can tell when the
public will get tired of everything else
we may forecast the progress Of the revival
Some time during the next three months o
Southern newspaper will remark, IN the
free and easy way Of political discussion
in that section. that Tilden can't be renomi-
mated because he showed himself coward IN
1876. At this Mr.. WattersOn will rush to the
front with the remark that 1t is too early to
talk about nominations for 1880, and that he
doesn't care a copper who is nominated, but
that be viii not stand by and see
any man treated with injustice. He will
then relate what actually occurred IN Gram
Grey Park during the crisis, proving by atii-
daVits of persons residing in the neighbOrhOod
that Mr. TiIden, having covered himself all
over with cutlasses. side-aTms, bIunderbusscs,
torpedoes and field artillery, did prance out
into the Square and demand to be led
against the foe that several nurses
in the Park, overcome with terror at the spec
tacle, upset their peranbuIators and fied wildly
up Lexington ave-, and that much excitement
ensued bat that Hewitt, the "red snake in
" the grass" 4" faisifer aud charlatan," brought
the scheme TO nOugiIt and headed OFT the whole
revolution by pretending to lead the old gen
tleman against the foe, instead of which he
led him into the house, with the absurd remark
that at his time of life he ought not to go out
with nothing on bat artillery. These things
will all come out when the subject comes up
again. There will then be another lull in the
controversy, bat before the dominating con-
venuon of 1850 We shall reach by these slow
and gradual approaches the absolute bottom
facts, from which it will appear that at the
very last moment, when Tilden had got all
ready to descend on WASHINGTON alone, Hew-
lit chloroformed him and kept him back.
And this will lead up to the nomination OF
Mr.. 1iden by acelamation-perhaps.