New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-03

man and Bayard had already determined upon
their action without consulting with him he
would not give advice on the subject any
one eff. however, be adds, my friends
have any doubt as 20 my election II there
is a reasonable doubt as to my election by
"the people, the Constitution prescrlbes the
"remedy-an election of President by the House
" of Representatives, by vote by States; and
." that is what l expected Congress to do III
" the House of Representatives had elected
"me, would have taken the oath and gone
"to Washington to take the Office, believing
" that my friends would have put me into the
"White House"
How slowly the old gentleman hobbies to
his conclusions to be sure. Here he has been
these three years, under the suspicion OF cow
ardice, submitting to abuse of all sorts because
he had no plan Of his own and wOuld not
listen to the proposition made by Watterson to
call out bundled thousand kentuckians to
see him inaugurated, when after all he did have
q plan, and was ready when it was carried out
and he was declared elected by the House OF
REPRESENTATIVES to march ON to Washington
and into the White House. And he has only
lust now concluded to tell of it. Why, this
slow-going hero of Gramercy Park is on the
score of reticence actually ga bigger man than
"Old Grant" No man ever kept so important
fact 80 long to himself. All the time that he
has been enduring obloquy, calumny, abuse
and Misrepresentation for not having the
courage to seize the reins of Government
he has been conscious OF the injustice OF the
accusations, and full of the knowledge that,
instead of being coward, he was actually a
man on horseback with his soul in arms and
eager for the fray, while the men who denounce
him were holding him back by his bridle-rein
The number of men who could calmly submit
to such injustice for so long time without
explanation protest, Is very, very small
But Mr. Tilden is a man who does not exhaust
his ammunition at the first or second fire. lie
does things by easy stages. 1t may
look to some sceptical minds as il this
were an afterthOught of the old gentleman S !;
but it is more likely that he has been keeping
back the revelation until the time when it
would afford him an opportunity to step to
the front and keep himself from sinking ont
of public sight He did not come out and
DENY the cipher business until the time was
a little more than ripe for it, but he made his
party come up to the rack and give HIM It's
official Endorsement and vindication in that
matter. 1t is 10y no means certain that he
will not presently have an investiga-
ton set on foot by Congress which will
end in his partys indicating him from
the charge of cOwardice. 1t will only
remain then for him TO set them on in
vestigatng the charge that he is " cold as
9" dam clam" and force them to an official
declaration that he is a warm-hearted en-
thusiast and that none know him but to
love him, none name HIM but TO praise.
Meantime, "a this revelation OF his heroic
qualities is so startling that it will take the
public some little time fully to compre
bend it, he ought to be doing some
thing to accustom people to the new
character To that end we suggest
that lie attend the coming masquerade ball on
horseback clad in chaim-armor, and attended
by the retinue whom he expected 10 have
at his back in pursuance OF his plan for
taking the White House By force. 1t would
go great way toward refuting the charge
of cowardicc and be considerable addition
to the show. At any rate, for all that we
can see, the world will have TO revise its
Judgment Of him, and view him here
after. not simply rs the Bad, but as
the Bold, Bad Man, with blood in his eye who
was only restrained in his revolutionary pur-
pose 10y the fact that Senators Thurman and
Bayard had made up their minds without
consulting him. And. even then. the wonder
will continue why he should keep il to himself
long.