The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-04-29
A STAMPEDE IN SPITE or BUR-
CESS.

II is hard TO tell what Mr.. Tilden
does mean. We are satisfied that he
cannot be the nominee OF The Demo-
cratic party, for there have been too
many conventions like that one"at Gal
weston, the other day, ready almost to
resolve that the Democracy will not
support the wretched little wrecker.
It has Just been related OF him that
he has reached that stage when pol
iticSShas no charm for him, add we
we're led to repeat expressions about
him showing that he was more ready TO
start on a voyage to Kingdom Come
than to the White House. One thing
is quite certain, that if he were to start
in dead earnest for the latter place he
would be stretched out, ss cold and stiff
as was Horace Greeley, before March A.
SSG2 Hs stS a RSss:dxey and :. saw his
were he to run again and be defeated, as
he certainly would be, the laws of hu-
man nature would make him more pas
sive than ever. 1t iscertainly the height
of folly to talk about the candidacy of
Mr.. Tilden, and yet we have seen this
New York convention, held at SYRIA
cuse last week, turned into Tilden
machine. When we Re fleet upon those
inscrutable ways of Providence, that
We are taught to believe in, we are led
to confde in the everlasting laying aside
of this old man of Grsmmercy, or our
faith in sacred teaching must receive q
terrible shock. While theNew York De-
mocracy are preparing feast of roses
for Tilden there is anything, we think,
but bed of roses being laid for him
in other quarters. Mr.. Tilden is going
to fall, and his New York friends
should see to it that his descent is
easy, or he will not live beyond the
fatal hour for him, which tells that
Bsysrd, or Hancock, or Hendricks has
been sent up, while he is cast down.
This trifiiDg with decrepid old man,
when he is already whispering to
those who have, as the spiritual
lists say, ''passed over" should
be stopped. There is no credit
IN such action to the Demo-
cratic party, and there should be an
end to it. II the old man simply
wants an Endorsement from the Cincin-
natl convention, aud declaration that
he has been president since March 4,
1877, then there may be some reason in
this conduct Of the New York Democ-
racy, who may really be after prepar-
ing for him the bed of roses referred to.
II resolution, declaring that he has
been president during these four years,
and that the country does owe him
$500, 900 on Salary falsely paid to Mr..
Hayes, could pass, then the old man
may live on indefinitely, hoping to be
reimbursed for the $170, 900 not long
ago psId over To Hewitt and Dorshei-
mer for advances made in the car
vass Of 1876. II this be all, we
are willing to see him graft
fed in the interest of longevity. |
for it might be valuable to science in |
showing what hope could do when |
planted in the human breast. There
is something inscrutable about this en-
dorsemenI Of New York Democrats,
for 1t is well known In New York and |
that Mr.. Tilden would fail
to get from eighty to one hundred |
thousand Democratic votes IN New
York State; and yet in spite of all
these things we are gravely told by q
New York exchange that Mr.. Tilden
hiss really Undermined TO play = si-
gantic fraud on the Democratic party
It large" It may be 60. but in this
event nothing but the Inauguration OF
he millennium. in spite of Burgess or
my other Democratic exhorter, can
Keep Texas Democrats from breaking
he corral and stsmpedinG in every d.
,ection.