New-York tribune., 1879-12-10

lng the Democratic statesman with his gilt
terng eye for an interview, starts h's pumps
invariably with the inquiry: What do you
"thnk Of Mr.. Tildcn's prospects for rcnom-
inauon7"
IL ia now announced-though the announce
ment can be traced TO no authoritative source
that some time during the next month or
two-the 1st of January OF the Sch, or some
other anniversary-Mr. Tilden will write
letter or deliver IN address. or III some
way burst upon tho world with a fual and
conclusive statement as to the whole bust
ness; will pluck several handius OF arrows
from lis bleeding breast and ladle out from
his o,sophagus u whole wagon-load OF hot
shot from Tammany, and consent that the
funeral proceed. IL is believed that IN
this testamentary proceeding he will In
dicate his successor and several dlstln-
guished Democrats are now in process OF
being led up TO the alleged remains to extort
"A favorable wink. But the question who Il
his second choice excites only a languid in
terest at present, from the fact that 1t j. gem
orally believed he has not got so far as that.
There is widespread incredulousness in the
first place as to bis being dead and in the
second place as to his being wiling to own
UP TO it if he is. And until he is himself con
yiuccd, and will admit that he is quite gone,
he is for all practical purposes as good
as alive. The movement toward extracting
his second choice has signally failed. II has
drawn out from him some very definite state
ments as to who is not his second choice, and
this includes an uncommonly wide range OF
leading Democratic statesmen. All the candi-
dates who were in any way concerned in the
passage OF the Electoral Commission bill go
with one sweep. Horatio Seymour md Judge
Church are also barred out with the emphasis
Of man who will not condone. and not one
of the leaders VINO has lately enjoyed a
boom" is viewed with any favor.
We saw it stated the other day with great
confidence by a Connecticut newspaper that
ex-governor English, of Connecticut, who
has been riding a little "boom," is Mr.. Til
den's first choice. after himself. for the NOM
nation. And this may be so, for it has not
been contradictcd. Or perhaps it is not of
sufficient consequence TO deny. We suspect
however, that there is no such thing as
second choice in the old mans mind.
The nomination lies in his mind very
much as the favOrite meadow lot did
in the mind of the old farmer who
making his will or his death-bcd, dis
posed of everything else bat that. One
of the family having asked him what he pro-
posed to do with il, he said he felt as though
he could not give that up; he had made up
his mind to keep it himself. The gentlemen
having "booms" in charge who are gathering
round the ped of Mr.. Tildcn in the hope that
he will drop on their fayOritc as second choice
viii find out, by and by, that he proposes TO
keep that himself. Meantime, all these opinions
as to the old gentleman's condition, whether
he is comatose or moribund serve to entertain
and amuse the public. Mr.. Samuel Cox's latest
proclamation that he is 'as dead as Il herring"
will bc received with some allowance, since the
wish is so evidently father to the thought.
Mr.. Cox may step down. Who is the next
Democratic expert to hold candle to the old
mans eye7