Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-21
FULL OF FIGHT.
The Sage of GrGmercy Bound to Figh
TGnsnGny to the Death.
INaw York Snacial Anri1 II

The Sage of Gramercy Bound to Fi0h
TGnsnaGny to the Death.
New York Special, April H.
The Evening Star has dispatch which it
vouches for as coming from a confidential
friend of the Gramercy Park statesman, and
which it says may be accepted as reliable.
From this dispatch it appears that Tilden will
not withdraw. On the contrary, he lie making
the most earnest, though quiet, political con-
test of his life to crush out John Kelly in New
York politics and establish his supremacy. To
surrender to or compromise with Kelly, he
holds, would be as fatal now to the Democracy
as a surrender would have been by the regular
State convention to Mr.. Kelly's secession con-
vention last fall at Syracuse. The following is
the text of the dispatch
"Gov. Tilden declined again to-day to be in
terviewed as to his reported withdrawal as a
candidate for the Presidency, on the ground that
if he did so it would take the most of his time
to correct the reports regarding his personal
and political affairs. / have learned, however,
direct from those in his confidence, and you
may ssrey upon this as absolutely correct,
that he has not decided to withdraw as a candI-
date. On the contrary, Gov. Tilden is making
the most earnest, though quiet, political con-
test of his life to save the Democracy of this
State for the coming Presidential campaign,
and however this results personally to himself,
he will be satisfied if the State is saved to the
Democratic party. He believes that if the
power of John Kelly and his faction (as he
terms it) is not destroyed this spring that the
State is lost to the Democracy in November,
and hopelessly lost thereafter if full or partial
control of it's organization is left in the hands
of Mr.. Kelly. This is the precise situation,
which Gov. Tilden regards as much higher
than mere personal candidacy. In his opinion,
if the legitimate organization and control of
the party are not retained and enforced in
every election precinct in the State of New
York, it is quite immaterial whether he or any
other Democrat be nominated at Cincinnati,
for this State could not be carried for him.
To surrender to or compromise
with Mr.. Kelly, Gov Tilden holds, would
be as fatal now to the party In the State a
surrender would have been by the regular State
convention to Mr.. Kelly's secession convention
last fall at Syracuse. When MIR. Kelly and his
following return to the regular organization
the question of Presidential candidates and
further control of the party machinery in New
York may be an open one, but not until then"
The chief weapon wherewith Tilden wins his
successes Is a mystery. Democrats admit that
even his most intimate friends can never tell
where the old man stands. They are only
trusted with superficial round OF his views,
sha ped in such wise that he can turn and twist
6QSn 10 duJ tuIuS budO ouLec Ills pun POoO oV ouy
moment. Probably no politician of equal pow
er in his own party has ever before done SO
shrewd work in SO secret way, accomplishing
aims without revealing the different means
employed to any one person, yet making each
near friend think himself the sole trusted adj
wiser and confdant. Of course the sly old dog
hasn't withdrawn, though it would not be at
all surprising that he had let Illinois Springer
or Pennsylvanias Randall, or other
Of his henchmen to believe that
to withdraw was his purpose. All that
business was part of the programme to test
the Democratic feeling concerning defraud-
ed, maligned, and lied-about man of purest
mold aud most iliustrious craftsmanship. A
Democrat said to-day that Tilden was os-
tensibly in the field for the nomination for
President Then he secretly took up Randall,
and afterwards, when these two knew he was
merely trying to use them for his own pur-
pose, the old man found himself in the lurch.
The anti-Tammanyites will leave early Mon
day morning for the convention, and it is said
Tilden himself advances the money to defray
their expenses. A great many of their follow
ers will go up to shout for him. Some of the
best known strong handed ones are booked for
the passage, and will do everything In order to
initiate themselves into the friendship of the
wealthy friends of TIlden.
The Kelly men, most of them, take the same
train. and say that they will make Syracuse
IivIier than it ever was before. They are GO
ing up to slaughter Tilden and punish the Sy-
racuse liquids.