Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-06-10
TUESDAY. JUNE 10, 1879.
ABOUT TWO PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATES.

The nomination of Gen. Ewing
by the Democrats of Ohio, is sore
disappointment to two Presidential
candidates. Senator Thurman's man
was Gen. Rice, but he didn't have
"grip" enough on his party in his
own State to control the convens
ton. Now that Ewing has been
chosen, Mr.. Thurman expressed
satisfaction, but every one knows
that it is a sort of negative satisfac-
ton that doesn't satisfy at all.
And to ado to this discomfort, it is
said that Gen. Rice will not accept
the second place on the ticket with
out assurances that Ewing is to
have the track for Senator, who,
in the event of his election, will re-
tire at once and allow Rice to bes
come Governor.
But the worst hurt man is Samuel
J. Tilden, the great American Re-
former, who led the Democratic
hosts to defeat three years ago.
Gov. Bishop was his man. We will
let the Memphis Appeal tell how
Tilden yearned for Bishops nomi-
nation. 1t says:
mo man ever made the transit
from the position Of great popularity
to that of deteslatiOu so rapidly as
Samuel ]. Tilden. The events of
almost every day develop his unpop-
ulariiy. He never had any personal
magnetism. Men were attracted to
him solely by the belief that he
was a refOrmer, a man whose
ambition and abilities would make
him 8 successful leader, and that in
the hour of great trouble he would
rise equal to the occasion. But after
the Democrats elected Mr.. Tilden to
the Presidency his pusillanimOus cow
ardice, his trucking timidity, his si-
lence and seclusiOn when his appear
ance at Washington, cOuTageOusly
claiming his rights, would have Sc
cured for the Democrats the victory
they had won, destroyed the conf
him as q leader, and having no person
al popularity 10 fall back upon, he
may now he regarded as out of the race
for the Presidency. A fatal blow was
struck to Mr.. Tilden's aspi-
rations in the Ohio Demo
cratic convention, ON Wednesday
last, by the defeat OF Bishop, who was
an open and avOwed friend of Tilden.
Bishop is the present Governor of
o1V int
factory to his party. He was a candi-
date for another term, and it has been
customary TO Te-nOmihate q faithful
official but Bishops friendship for
Tilden was a load too heavy for him to
carry, and he was defeated in the con.
ventiOn. The signs of the times I'M
mistakably indicate that Samuel J.
Tilden has no prospect for a nOmina-
ton as the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency. The war which his
friends are making upon Hendricks,
through the columns of the Courier
Journal has aroused the Democracy
OF Indiana, which is now bitter
in its opposition 10 Tilden. His
failure to play the part of a lead
er like Jackson, and to make a he
TOic effort to assume the Office to
which he had been elected in the face
of the fraud, forever DESTROYED his
ice, silence and seclusiOn, when per.
sOnal presence, boldness and ringing
words were necessary, that made the
electoral commission possible. He is
physically unworthy of the exalted
position to which he was once elected,
and to which he again aspires. The
South was solid for the nomination
and election OF Tilden in the last can
vass; but in the approaching contest
aTr J. =.
nomination, and should he be foisted
upon the party he may be accepted as
the least of two evils, but the dissatis-
faction and lukeWaTmness of thou
sands OF Democrats will make the is-
sue doubtful in many Southern
States"
Little remains to be said. Here
we have an admission by a leading
Democratic paper that the defeat of
Bishop means the rejection of Til
den. What Tilden's friends in
Ohio will have to say about it is
another matter.
This is no fight of ours, but it
might be interesting to read what
the New York San has to say about
the charge that Tilden acted cow
ardly. 1t says:
1.-THE objection which has really
hurt Mr.. Tilden, is that he was once
elected President and did not take the
office. But how was he to take it
when Congress, with the assent of
many Southern Representatives, de-
clared Hayes elected? Whether Mr..
TiIden made any serious attempt to
stamp out the ubiquitous scheme OF
unconstitutional arbitration, we do
not pretend to say. But we do
most emphaticaIly say that the