Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-12
DIsGUsTED AND PALsIED.

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| A ReDorted IntervietU JVfth TiIden-He is
Tired of Politics and POiiticians-PaI-
| SIZED Ia Both Hands and Generally De-
| m0raliSed.
Boston Special, April 8.
The Herald publishes hig hly interesting
dispatch from a special correspondent in
New York, who gives an interview with Til
den: 81 don't care about going through the
tedious ordeal of q formal interview" Mr..
Tilden said to the writer, s'but do not mind
telling you frankly that the time has now
come when don't care continental penny
for either politics or politicians" Some run
ming conversation of a social nature had pre-
ceded any allusion to politics, bat the fore
going was in direct response to plain ques-
tion whether or not he intended to again as
pire to the Office and honor
which presumably belonged to
him already. Incidentally, Mr.. Tilden
declared most emphatically that he was
cheated out of the Presidency in 1876, and
the remark was made in such a connection
as to leave the inference that his experience
in the line of national politics, as managed,
had been such as to destroy his future am
bition. 81 don't care for politics any more"
was an expression that he several times re-
peated in the course of the evening.
"But you will continue to take lively in
terest in the campaign, even if you are not
candidate?" queried the correspondent.
"Well, yes; but am not carrying on such
an establishment of politics as some of the
newspapers make out; though you see 1
have got very large house here, but it is
not the terrible den of political iniquity
hoe Tod To roo6 ho
papers you would believe that I have
an army of clerks who do nothing
but send out circulars and money to agencies
and bureaus in every part of the country.
l can assure you, sir, there is nothing of the
kind, neither has there been, and there never
will be-
Mr.. Tilden told the correspondent that
he receives five hundred letters daily, the
important of which he answers very briefly.
"Besides letters,' he says, II get a good
many slips of complimentary articles from
editors for prelimin airy perusal, but seldom
use them. got one to-day from the south,
over two columns long which was so soft and
soapy as to be almost disgusting. I read a
few lines of it and then burned it. The fact
is, am no more moved by fiattery than
am by abuse. There has been many
cunning and ingenious expedients devised
within few weeks to bring me to formal
declaration in this presidential question. 1
don't care anything about this, for I shall not
speak until get ready. Again say, I don't
care for the politicians or for hattery. The talk
abo ut me debating nomination is ridicu
lous. Of course have preference, but not
living man knows tonight what that pre-
ference is. In few weeks 1 shall be prepar-
ed to speak, and if you are around at the
time I shall be glad to see you, and give you
my views on this whole matter. Some of my
ardent political friends are worrying me for
public avowal, but tell them l am not
ready yet. Only the other
day I got letter of this kind
from Gen. Mcclellan, which was almost in
dignant in tone, because do not tell the
politicians what am going to do, or who is
my favorite for the Democratic nomina-
tion."
Later in the conversation, without any re-
ference to the matter by the correspondent,
Mr.. Tilden stated that this breeze about the
income tax had occupied more of his atten-
ton lately than political matters had, but he
declared in the same faint breath that he did
not allow it to'worry him.
In speaking of his correspondents Tilden
whispered: "You would be surprised to see
the number of matrimonial letters which
have come to me during the last five or six
years, and some of them" he added affected,
'.are from ladies of high standing in the COM
munity. / have in mind one in particular,
which received only few days since, and
it was not altogether love letter either, but
contained some sentences of political Wis
dom bearing upon the present situation,
which propose to make public in short
time"
The correspondent goes into quite dis
QUESTION on the condition of Tilden's health,
declaring that both his hands are palsied,
one of them seemingly withered as well
as deformed and useless, while with the
other he is barely able to hold
pen long enough to affix his name
to such documents as necessarily re-
quire his signature. His whole system trem-
bles violently at all times. and it seems an
absolute certainty that the disease is slowly
but surely possessing the entire body. The
''obliquitous eye,' as it has been often
termed by his opponents, consists of droop-
ing or partially fallen lid, which more than
half obscures one of the organs of vision,
giving distinctive look rather than an ap-
pearance the opposite of prepossessing. His
voice, as before intimated, is the feeblest of
the feeble, and in conversation he is COM
PEELED to sit almost in contact with his
listener in order that the almost incoherent
utterances may be thoroughly understood.
Such, in brief, is the precarious physical
condition of the man who is such terror to
the army of Democratic politicians aspiring
to the Presidency.
Conflicting Statements.
New York World.
We are inexpressibly panied to observe in