Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-21

very cordial to General Garfield, and assured
| him Of his earnest support and assistance, and
that he was confident Of . victory as grand as
any the Republican party had achieved. MIR.
| Cameron also talked over the plans for car
| rying ON the campaign. What with Cen
gress and the recent Convention | feel a lit
tie exhausted.
What opinion have you of the recent ses-
| sion of Congress?
/ think that it is really the most useless
| session that l have attended in Congress
| ional experience of twelve years. The least
beneficial legislation was enacted, and next
| to that extra session, the most vicious legis-
lation was attempted. Appropriation bills
were passed, it is true, but almost all the
| other bills that might have been useful to the
country were left either ia the hands of the
committees or lying on the table.
Who do you think the Democrats will nom
mate at Cincinnati?
That's hard to tell. I don't think that
among the Democratic politicians at Wash
iugton there is man who pretends to any
knowledge on the subject They have no
more idea who will be the candidate than Sc
many men in a country town. They seem to
be at sea, with no agreement among them
selves. If the Democrats do not nominate
Tilden they give up their war cry of Fraud, :"
which they have been yelling at the top of
their voices for the past four years, and if
they do nominate Iilden we can beat them
so easily that they will wish that they had
given up long ago, and selected some other
man.
TILDFN's LETTER MADE PUBLIC.
CINCINNATI, June Goth - To. night the
New York delegation held meeting at the
Grand Hotel, and organized by choosing
Daniel Manning for Chsirman and s. B.
Holiday as Secretary. VIM. Pecllham read
tho follnu-i,er 1nf4ar I
TILDEN's LETTER.
New YORK, June IS 1889
To the delegates from the State OF New York to
tine Democratic National Convention: Your first
assembling is an occasion in which it is proper
for me to state to you my relation to
the nomination 10: the Presidt ncy, which you
and your associates are commissioned to
make in behalf OF the Democratic party
the United States HaviIgpassed my early days in
an atmosphere filed with traditonsO Of the war which
secured national independence and of the stTuZ
giles which made continental system govern
mCnt for the people, learned to idol Ze the insttu
tons Of my country, and was educated to believe
in the duty OF every citizen Of the Republic to take
his fair allotment OF care and trouble in public
affairs. / fulfilled that duty 20 the best OF my
ability for forty years private citizen. Although
during al my life giving AZ least as much thought
10 public affairs as 20 all other objects, | have
never accepted official service except for
b ief period, for special purpose, and only when
occ sion emed to require OF me that sacrifice OF
private preference to public interests Ny life has
been substantially that OF private citizen. Twas
presume. the success of the efforts in which
private citizen had shared to overthrow the
rupt combination then holding dominion in our
metropolis and to purify the Judiciary which had
become its tool that induced the Democracy OF the
State in 1874 to nominate me for Governor. This
was done i'll spite of the protests OF the minority
that the part had borne in those
to me as a candidate | felt constrained 10 accept
the nomination, the most certain means oil put
ting the power of gubernatoral office on the side OF
reform, and OF removing the impression wherever
it prevailed that faithful discharge Of ones duty
citizen fara to his usefulness public
servant. The breaking up of the canal ring, bet
ter management OF our public works, n large reduc
ion of taxes and other reforms accomplished during
my administration, doubtless occasiOned
MY NOMINATION FOR THR PRESIDENCY
BY the Democracy of the Union, in the hope that a
similar process would be applied 10 the Federal
Government From the responsibilities OF such an
undertaking, appealing to my sense Of duty. as it
seemed TO me- did not feel at liberty 20 shrink
In the canvass which ensued the Democratic party
represented reform in the administration of the
Federal Government and restoration OF COM
pex political 81 stem to the pure ideas of its found
ers. Upon these issues the people OF the United
States, by majority Of more than quarter OF
Million chose the sjority Of the Elec ors 10 cast
their votes fer the Democratic candidates for Presi
dent and Vice President 1t is my right and priyi.
iege here to say that
PRESIDENCY,
Absolutely free from any engagement in respect to
the exercise OF its powers or the disposal of its pat
ropage. Through the whole perioi Of my relation
to the Presidency, did everything in my power TO
elevate and nothing to lower the moral standard in
the competition Of parties. By what ne .arious
tie basis for false count was laid in several
States need not reeite These are nov matters Of
history which, whatever diversity ot opinion may
have existed in either If the great parties Of the
country at the time Of their cOusummation, have
practically disappeared | refused to ransom from
the Returning Boards OF the Southern States doeu-
mentary evidence, by suppression of which and by
the substitution of fraudulent and forged papers,
pretext was madefor perpetrai1on Of afase count
The constitutional duty Of the tive hou ca Congress
to count the electoral votes cast, and to give
effect to the will Ci the people expressed by their
suffrages, was never fulfilled. An Electoral Com.
mission, Tor the existence OF which have no re.
spOnsbiity, was formed, and to it the two houses
Il Congress abdicated their duty TO make the count
by law enactng that the count OF the Commission
should stand as final unless overruled by the con-
current action of the two houses It's false count
WAS not oyerrued, owing to the completely OF the
Republican Senate with a Republican majority Of
j0Ity Of eight to seven, the Electoral Commission
counted out the men elected by the people, and
counted in the men not elected by the people
THIS SUBvERsIoN oF THE ELECTION
Created new issue for the decision of the people
If the United States transcendue in Importance
all questions OF autilNtSNTaliCi IL iuFCiNcU tNe
vital principle Of sei-government through elections
by the people. The immense growth OF means Vi
corrupt influence tae ball1t-box, which is at
the disposal of the party having possession Of the
executive administration. had already become
present evil and great danger, tending to make cleo
tions rrespoasive to public opinion, hanpeTing the
power of the people to change their rulers, and en-
abling men holding the machinery OF government
to continue ard pefpetu2te their power. 1t the
opinion in 1876 that an opposition attempting to
change the administration needed to include
at least two-thirds of the voters at the
opening " the canvass i'll order to etain majority
at the election If after such obstacles had been
overcome and majority Of the people had votedto
change the administration Of their Government, the
men in Office could still procure false count,
founded upon
FRAUDS, PERFUMES AND FoRGERILs,
Furnishing pretext Of documentary evidence on
which to base that false count and II such trans
action were not only successful, but il, after al
0.ment OF its benefits were made to its contrlyers,
abettors and apologis.s by the chief beneficiary OF
the transaction, it were condoDed by the people, .
practical destruction Of elections by the people
would have been accomplished. The failure to in
stall the candidates chosen BY the peuple-a con-
tingency consequent upon no act or omission OF
mine aud beyond my control-has thus left me for
the last three years, and until now when ths Demo-
cratic party, By it's delegates IN NatIor al Convention
assembled, shall choose new leaders an involuntary
but necessary representative OF this monentous
issue. As such, denied the immunitieS OF
private lie, without the powers conferred BY public
station, subject to unceaSng tllsehcodS and Calum
nies from parts OF administration laborng in
vain to Justify its existence, have nevertheless
steadfastly endeayored TO preserve to the Demo
cratic party OF tie United States TIE supreme ques
ton issued before the people for their decision next
November whether this shall be q Government by
the sovereign reople through elections or Govern
ment by discarded servants holding over by force
and fraud and have withheld sacrifice ami neg.
iected no opportunity TO uphold, organize and
consolidate against the enemies Of resent.tivc
institutions, the great party which alone, under
God, effectually resist their overthrow.
YEARNING POR PRIVATE LIFE.
Having borne faithfully my full share OF labor
and care ia public SERVICE and wearing the marks of
Its burdens, desire nothing 50 much honor
able discharge. wish TO lay down the honors and
tolls OF even quasi party leadership and to seek
the repoSe Of private life In renouncing renom-
nation and the election Indispensable our ef-
fectual yindlcation of the right of the people to
elect their rulers violated in my person, have
corded as long OF my decision possible,
but cannot overcome my repugnance to enter n
new engagement which involves four years Of
less toll. The dignity Of the Presidential Office is
above mere personal ambition, but it ere
ates in me no illusion. Its value is as
great rower for coed to the country |
said four years ago in accepting the nomination
Knowing as do, therefore, frcm fresh experience
how great a difference there is between gliding
through an official routine and working out re-
form of systems and policies ii is impossible for
to contemplate what needs 10 be done in the Fed
era administration without anxious sense of the
difficulties of the undertaking. Ii summoned by