The New York herald., 1879-12-03
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON. Dec. 2, 1879.
T1AL NoM1NATIoN-wHoM HE WILL SUPPORT
AND WHOM OPPOSE.
The announcement in these dispatches that Mr..
Samuel J. Tilden intended to take active part in
naming the democratic nominee for the Presidency
next year created . sensation among Senators
and Representatives to-day. the opinion having
generally prevailed that Mr.. Tilden would
not seek to influence the choice Of the
National Convention when it meets next summer.
The programme outlined by Mr.. Tildens friends
however. convinced the most Incredulous that he
means to be heard and is determined to be vindi-
Gated. The question debated whether he would
Insist upon receiving the nomination, and IL he re-
tired from the field whom he would support for the
first place the ticket. The name of Ex-Governor
Parker, Of New Jersey, was discussed. we'll the
names Of General Hancock and Justice Field. but
one appeared willing to mako . prediction. MIR.
Tildens opposition to Mr.. Bayard. Mr.. Thurman
and Mr.. DAVID Davis is admitted. Senator Bayard
it sad joins with the other prominent democrats
who were members of the Forty-fourth Congress in
resenting the charge that Mr.. Tilden was not con-
suited about the expediency Of creating the Electoral
Commission to decide tho disputed returns. His
friends say that during that critical time Mr.. Tlden
was silent. The charge Of Mr. Tilden that he was
not consulted has aroused the deepest on
the part OF the democrats who were the leading
spirits in urging the passage OF the act. What Mr..
Tilden is said to declare Is that the creation
of the Commission was the work of the
Senatorial caucuscs and that tho prominent
democratic Senators were virtually committed
to the plan before he approached about it. and
this has also developed the of his opposition
to Senator David Davis. who it is said. to have
bcen the fifth judge selected and whose vote would
have changed the result for the democrats as the
selection OF Judge Bradley gave the returns for
tho Hayes and Wheeler electors. Mr. Tildcn, it is
said, claims that the bill passed before Mr..
Davis elected to the Senate. and that his refusal
to servo on tho Commission such an evasion of
duty should forever make him ineligible to Pres
idential nomination.
EX-GOVERNOR JAMES Il ENGLISH AS A pREsI-
DENTAL AsPInANT.
Among the aspirants for Presden tial honors in the
democratic party is Ex-Governor James L. English.
of Connecticut. whose trumpetcr will be in Washing
ton next week to sound his praises and enlighten
the democratic statesmen at the Capitol concerning
the early history Of this candidate for tho Prcsi-
Dental nomination. The claims Of Mr. English will
be urged with zeal. and brief biography has been
printed for general circulation throughout the
country.
SESSION.
Senator Eaton is trying to convince his colleagues
that the best thing the democrats in Congress can
toward securing democratic President next year
to let President making alone, stick to business
leave tho republicans to pound their desks over tho
distressed condition of things tho south and let
the financial question remain in peace tho remainder
OF the session. Hc admits that there is q bad state
of affairs in his state lConnecticu there being
at the present time four clcrgymen un-
der Indictment for murder and lesser Of
fences. He says II is truly deplorable
and something might be done to reform the clergy,
but what Congress has to do with 1t he does not
understand. Yet he thinks IL has quite as much to
do with the morals OF his State Senators from
New England have TO meddle with the affairs Of the
Southern states. He has prepared resolution
proposing tho reference Of the tariff question to
commission to bc composed Of eminent mon. and
rspssssntins ths commercial. agricultural iron,