The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-11-13
is TJLDEN DEAD.

party, and to select lta most conspicuous |
leaders az victims OF the several startling |
collisions between the parties in this
ante. Presidential year. The result in
Ohio brought out volume Of funeral
orations over Senator Thurman, and the
telegraphiC pulsations which scattered
the news from New York have not Ceas'
ed, before the country has been con-
fronted with broadside ofobituary liter
ature over Mr.. Tilden. The tendency is
to rush to conclusions regarding these
and other gentlemen who have been
prominently named in connection with
the Democratic nomination for the high
est Office in the country. Mr. Tllden is
Just now the person chiefly under con-
sideration as a corpse; but, taking his
political history in connection with an
unbiased and calm analysis of the result
of the election in New York, it may be
we'll questioned whether he is ready to
take the forward position in a political
funeral procession.
Mr.. Tilden has led the Democratic
party to some of it's most important vic
tories. His election as Governor of New
York, when he personally carried the
flag, was brilliant achievement for the
Democracy at a critical time, and exerted
political influence which extended all
over the country, and for years ahead.
His administration of the Office, associa'
ted with his unequaled skill as polit
ical manager made him the leader Of his
party in the last Presidential campaign,
and his failure to assume the position to
which, in the judgment of nearly the
whole of his party, as we'll as respecIa'
BILE portion of the opposition, he was
elected, did not arrest him in his career
as the most acute politician and the
strongest party leader of the time. Mr..
Tilden's situation in the critical emer-
pency of 1875 was delicate in the extreme
and no man of less personal power and
mystery than his could have weathered
it to become, three years later, even the
most prominent of the defeated in the
Empire State. Mr.. Tilden assumed per-
sonal conduct of the Democratic Presi-
dental campaign, but he discriminatory
drew the line of personal responsibility,
when he was urged to take up line OF
march to the White House in the face
of certain open rupture. When others
mouthed, he declined to rant. He en-
veloped himself in his mysterious man.
tie, and keenly observed the course OF
events. It was more desirable to look
at the electoral struggle from Gramercy
Park, than from the port holes of Gov
ernment gun-boat. Mr.. Tilden doubt
less saw that those who were demand
ing the most of him as a leader in a
movement which would have called olt
the physical power of the Government,
we're not in Washington with their
hands in their hip.pockets, and their
breasts barred for the impending battle.
Through all the doubts, fears and
ordinations of these trouhlous times, Mr..
Tilden held his position as the man who
was cheated out of the Presidency; as
man in whose person the monstrous
Democratic grievance was centered. In
the eyes of multitude of his party he
has been looked upon ever since as the
fit instrument with which to rebuke the
great fraud, when the question might be
arbitrated at the polls. He watched the
rise and seeming deCadenCe of other
Democratic statesmen. His plume was
the last to wave in the Democratic dis
asters of 1879, ard the question is, Does
it still WaveY The Democrats in Ohio,
State next in pivotal Importance to
New York, lost in October, and then all
Democratic eyes turned to New York,
and to Tilden, who was recognized rs the
sponsor of the regular Democratic ticket,
with Robinson at its head, Is Tllden
heaten because the head of his ticket
failed through a tremendous local schism
in the party, grounded on the platform
of local spoils2 What would have been
the effect on Tilden ifthe tell, instead o.
the head of the ticket, had been defeat
ed? In the language of the excited bar
rister in the play, Isn't one man as good
as another" The whole Democratic
ticket, with the exception of Robinson,
is elected. 1t was TIden's ticket, and il
was successful to the extent of amply de-
monstrating that the State of New York
is Democratic. The Democrats pOlled
the most votes, but one of their candi
dates was beaten simply and solely on
account of division of the Democratic
vote in his case.
1t was the detection of John Kelly that
DEBATED Robinson, and it becomes inter
eeting to note the fate OF Mr.. Kelly. If
Tilden was overthrown, it would seem
to be logical conclusion that his most
inveterate opponent, Mr.. Kelly, was sue
cessful, This does not appear IN have
been the case with Mr.. Kelly, He was
crushed in the ruins of the temple that
he pulled down on the Democratic head.
The party received less damage than
Kelly did. He had no prospect OF being
elected Governor himself, but ran as the
figure head of Tammanv, which had in |
view the spoils in New York. His local
candidates were beaten in New York.
He reaps no substantial reward; nothing
but party ignominy. Nothing remains |
for him but to meekDy return to the par
ty with his wings clipped He can fly |
high no more. He has none Of the cleo |
to show for his efforts, while Tilden has
Mr.. Tilden can point to the majority for
the Democratic State ticket as an accom-.
plishment under his party command.
What Democrat in the United States
can point to more, or as muchP Whose
head, in any State, is higher above the
Democratic wreck than Tilden'sP Whose
devoted poll can he distinguished above
the debris in Ohio? Has any Democratic
nose been seen pointing out of the heap
of States which went undeniab!y Repub-
lican on Tuesday last2 These be qnes
tions to Solemnly consider before writing
of the political epitaph Of Samuel Jones
Iilden.-Cin. Eng.