New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-10-09
49, rlLDEN AVN ~ ELAIal

Here's more trouble. TIE bloody -mlndrd
Montgomery Blair -tllkcth abroad IN Wash
incton crying op My and audlbly, " Tiiden OF
Death - II hc doesn't fright the souls OF
fearful adver.ares, hc certainly comoicates
situation alrcady so wildly tangled that Ho"tio
SEYMOUR. from III, rclirom M at Utica. says
the consideration OF il makes lnm feel
like one Of the figures In liolbein''
Dance of Dcath,'" and Francis herman
from the same political centre remarks that
though lie is 10y 10 means lukCwarm he
has no time even to think of il. Wig the
Undetermined Blair should. at this time Of
all othc~s prance In upon the scene and lii
his thrilling whoop does not clearly appear.
His time has usually been the midsummer
season, and it has been his habit to nominate
Mr. Tildcn at great length in those newspa-
Der. which are chiefly valued in that season as
hypnotics. 1t has not been his habit to
pcrcmptOrily dcnInd the nomination with
a threat of havoc and destruction III
case of refusal. His attitude HAS been
rather one of enEeaty and persuasion, and ms
tone more like a wall than Il wor-whoop.
But now. If we may believe The u OrH news
paucr-and who would discrcdit the only Dem
ocratic journal in the city that is printed In
the English language Pho is on the war-paih.
lie is rcportcd-and We regret To OH
serve that he is iwcyTently described
as an "ancicnt maker OF mischief AS
going about openly asserting that if Mr..
"Tilden is not nominated again for the
PRESIDENCY he will play over again the part
"playtd 10y Mr.. Van BuTen in IS, and break
cup the party" The presumption is that he
will do it under the advice and counsel OF Nh.
Blair. who by this token is understood TO have
blood in his eye. Truly we are in the midst
of startling gOings-On. No one en- tell
precisely what these remarks of Mr. Blair
portend. Few people believed when Drifting
Goose and his band broke loose a month or
two ago that we should shortly have an In
dian war with the Utes. True, there seems
to be no immediate connection between the
two occurrences; but is there not lesson To
he learned from the circumstance that the
present disturbance was preceded by the
Drifting Goose outbreak; the lesson that
trouble may be apprehended whenever Drift
ing GoOse-that or any other one-starts out
on the war-path
I'm this state of things we are greatly IN
couraged as well ms edited by the effort of
The World newspaper to bring the matter 10
Mr.. Tildens attention, in order that that emf
ncnt statesman may "put an extlngul,hcr on
" him (Blair) at the earliest possible mo-
"ment." Nothing short of an "extinguishcT
will set this matter right, and relieve the
country of the apprehension that the Demo-
cratic party is in danger of being broken un
IN the event of Mr. TIlden's defeat as "A can
didate for denomination. Clearly there is bul
one way to do this, and that, as our c0ntcm-
porary most obliglngy points out, is for Mr.
Tilden to call in his agents (whOse exist
"ence he has not denied), to dsavow the diff
81 erent persons now at work all over the Union
Gin his name, under the immediate super
vision of Mr.. Barnum, and in good faith
absolutely to retire from the personal pro-
Emotion of his own candidacy in $780,
The dsinterestedness of the proposal is only
equalled by the simplicity OF the plan. And
vet simple as the plan is we doubt if it has
ever occurred to Mr.. Tilden, or ever had until
it was brought to his attention by our contem-
porary. Mr.. TIlden and The World both
anxious for the election of Governor Robin
son, and The World expresses uncommon con-
fidence in his success, but IL says this great
result can only be accomplished by an
"amount of anxious and exhausting work
(which would be instantly lightened and
"lessened Ivy the retirement of Mr.. Tilden
from an arena In which he has nothing to
hope for, politically or personally, but dis
EASTER if not disgrace" Stated in this
friendly and considerate way. Mr.. Tilden can
not help recognizing the fact and desiring to
retire, though he would naturally shrink from
the publicity of such an act. Knowing his
proverba modesty. The World assures
him that che need not fear that ii
"would be looked upon as an unseemly
"act of self-assertion in him to decline