The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-08-07
THE DEMOCRATIC alARPLOT.
riain Truths for the Party Leaders at the
North.
E.om tLe Nc,p Yoyl. Herald.

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United States, Mr.. Tilden and will
your clear head and practical mind yor
ought to see this as everybody else see
it. You have doubtless certain power
in your party, for you can probably ruiz
its chances, if you want to, by forcing i
to take you, or by leading faction tt
defeat it if it refuses to submit to your
demands. Either would be fatal to tho
Democrats next year, and the first, il
our belief, even more certainly SO thar
the last. You cannot be President, Mr.
Tilden, but you can be something else
You can resign your pretensions to the
nomination, can publicly take leave o.
public life, and in this retirement you
would discover, to your surprise, per.
haps, and certainly to your qualification
VIC hope, that you possessed more inAu-
ence over your party, and were better
able to turn it to those policies which
you believe to be truly Democratic, and
would have greater, or, at least to 9
man Of ideas, more desirable position
than you have ever had, or than the
Presidency, if You could achieve it,
WOulu Ue lOT you.
You cannot be President, Mr.. Tilden,
for a number of reasons. We will not
here refer to certain disagreeable events
in your career, because that would be
unkind, and we are now addressing you
in the most friendly spirit. We will not
allude to your unfortunate income tax
suit, with its painful adjuncts; nor 10
the still more unfortunate cipher dis
patches; to your sometime relations with
the late William NJ. Tweed nor to your
relations to certain shipwrecked rail-
roads. 1t is far from our purpose to re-
vive in your own mind the recollcctions
of events which, nevertheless, are fresh
in the public mind, and which, as all
sensible Democrats very we'll know, their
opponents would, if you should have the
ill-fortune to procure yourself to be nom-
mated, take care to advertise abundantly
to public which, though it may not be
squeamish in its own pursuit of fortune,
is, perhaps for that reason, the more rig
idly particular about the character of its
servants. 1t is not necessary to refer to
these matters, Mr.. Tilden, for the truth
is there are other reasons besides these to
prevent you from ever becoming Presi-
dent. You are undoubtedly an able
man, but your action in partisan politics
is disastrous to the party which you seek
to control. You follow your own career
with such unfaltcring determination that
you notoriously forget everything else,
and politician of whom it is generally
suspected that he means to either rule
his party or ruin il cannot expect long
continued success. You succeeded once.
You became Governor of New York.
You ought to have seen that this was
properly the end of your career as IN
officeholder.
The Democratic party, with wise man.
agement. has fair chance of success
next year. A great many people begin
to think that, on the whole, the country
would be the better for change of par
ties. The Republican party has done
much good work for the country in its
eighteen years of power; but the people
are little disgusted at the deadly
tenacity with which Republican leaders
cling to the Offices; it makes them sus-
picious; they think it wise to have u
change, if only for four years, and no
doubt they are right. If the Democr
should next year offer them a safe plat
form and fit man we believe the voters
might accept them. But you ought to
see that it is just here that you are out Of
the question. You are a Marplot in
your party, which will not have you if it
can help it; and if you should succeed
in securing the nomination the country
which will not change unless it can
change for the bettor-the country, Mr..
Tilden, would reject you: and, VIC say it
in all kindness, it would be right in do
ing so.
Suppose, Mr.. Tildcn, that putting aside
that over-cautions hesitation, which is
one of your bcsotting sins-suppose you
should tomorrow openly end entirely
strike out Of your life every thought Of
the Presidency or any other Office, and
help others instead of working for your
self! Can you not see that you would
stand at once on higher plano Of life
that you would rise very greatly in the
esteem of your party2 that could easily,
and, indeed, would naturally become one
of its sagcs, its chief advisers that liv-
ing in the pleasant retirement of Gram
ercy Park, your house would be the
Mecca of Democratic politicians, and
you could influence platforms, inculcute
sound principles, show the younger men
how to secure the confidence and the
votes Of the people, as you cannot now
do? Democratic principles, you have al
ways said, are dear to you. 1t is the too
general conviction that you want to use
them as ladder for yourself, Mr. Til
den, which has disabled you heretofore
from making the force of your reasoning
and the value of your policy felt by your
fellow Democrats.
What the Herald proposes to you,
therefore, and what perhaps, you have
yourself almost resolved on, is to follow
the practice and sensible example of Gen.
Grant and retire definitely from public
life. Grant, emulating the noble exam
pie Of Washington, retires to Galena; he
remains abroad, it is understood, to avoid
hippodrome receptions, partisan oyationi
and an undignified scramble for the
Presidential nomination; he announces
from far OF Japan that on his return he
will retire to Galena-as Washington re-
turned to Mount Vernon. Caa you, Mr.
Tilden, resist the example? g? Can you for,
get the course Of your political prophet
and great cxemplar, Jotltrsoni lie was
the sage of Monticello; how iii THAT YOU
should be the sage Of G.arnetcy Park
Each party would then possess an ad'
wiser, counsellor in all its difficulties.
and while Republicans turned to Galena
Democrats would hasten to your shady
nook in Gramercy Park for the supplies
of political wisdom which they would
there find awaiting them.
You cannot be President, Mr.. Tildcn
but you can serve your party by retir
ing TO private life. DO that-and who
knows? we may have 4 Democratic
President yet.
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