Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-21


 New York State convention, and that 8 letter similar to the one just promulgated was pre- pared at that time to be read, but that Tilden was induced by his friends to withhold it, as it's publicity at that time would have weakened them in the contest for party supremacy in the State. The formal withdrawal of Tilden as candidate caused sensation here to-day, and this effected measured change in the situation. Tilden's letter announcing his withdrawal was read at the meeting of the New York delegation this evening It WAS listened to with marked attention and re- celved with very evident signs of satisfaction on the part of the majority of the delegates. One of the immediate effects of the letter is a cessation of the bitter contest which has been waging here between the Tammany and nti-Tammany delegates. A meeting of the rival New York delegations has been fixed for tomorrow, at which an effort will be made to agree upon the basis of compro- mise in regard to the contest of the dele gations for seats in the convention, and also to unite upon New York candidate for the Presidential nomination. The leaders of both factions say tonight that there will be no difficulty whatever in uniting the two wings of the party now that Tilden has with drawn, and union of the factions to-mor- row as far as the contest for seats in the convention is concerned, and also as far as the presidential nomination is con- cerned, IS regarded here tonight certainty. OOAiO OA 11OCh6 } AlOSG 0dTuS6G 1TlcuuS dIo chagrined and vexed at the course he has taken. Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier Journal, does not attempt to conceal his disappointment and said might that he was going to have room to write Tllden's obituary. It is impossible to ascertain to- night for whom the New York men will vote, now that Illden is out of the race. There is some talk of attempting to unite the dele gates upon Hewitt, but the movement in his interest has not as yet taken form.
 The following is copy of Tilden's letter To the delegates from the State of New York
 to the Democratic National Convention:
 Your first assembling is an occasion on which 1t is proper for me to state to you my relation to the nomination for the Presi- dency, which you and your associates are commissioned to make in behalf of the Democratie party of the United States. Having passed my early life in an atmosphere filled with traditions of the war which secured our national inde- pendence and of the struggles which made continental system government for the people and by the people, I learned to idol ize the institutions of my country and was educated to believe it the duty of citizen of the republic to take his fair allotment of the care and trouble in public affairs. I fulfilled that duty to the best of my ability for forty years private citizen. Although during all my life giving at least as much thought and effort to public affairs as to all other ob- jects, I have never accepted official service except for a brief period for 8 special pur- pose, and only when then occasion required of me that sacrifice of private preference to public interests. My life has been substan- tially that of private citizen. It was pre- sume the success of the efforts in which private citizen had aided to overthrow a corrupt combination then holding dominion in our metropolis, and to purify the judiciary which had become it's tool, that in- J7,aa 41a nnronnronx1 Of fho S&ota in 1876 to nominate me for Governor This was done iR spite of the protests of a minority that the part have borne in those reforms had created antagonistic to me as 8 candidate. I felt constrained to accept the nomination as the most certain means of put ting the powers of the gubernatorial office on the side of reform and of removing the i'm pression wherever it prevailed that the faith full discharge of ones duty as a citizen is fatal te his usefulness a public servant. The breaking up of the canal ring, the better management of our public works, the large reduction of taxes and other reforms accom- plished during my administration doubtless occasioned my nomination for the Presidency by the Democracy of the United States in the hope that similar process would be applied to the federal Government. From the re- sponsibility of such an undertaking appalling as it seemed to me, I didGot feel at liberty to shrink In the canvass which ensued the
 
 administration of the federal Government and restoration of our complex political system to pure ideas of it's found CTS. Upon these issues the people of the United States by majority of more than quarter of @ million chose majority of the electors to cast their votes for the Democratic candidates for President and d Vice President. It is my right and privilege here to say that was nominated and elected to the Presidency, absolutely free from any engagement in respect to the exercise of it's powers or the disposal of it's patronage. Presidency did everything in my power to elevate and nothing to lower the moral stand ards in the competition of parties. By what nefarious means the basis for false count was laid in several States I need not recite. These are now matters of history about which whatever opinion may have existed in either of the great parties of the country at the time of their consumn1ation has since practically disappeared. 1refused to ranso m from the returning boards of the Southern States the documentary evidence, by the suppression of which and by the substitution of fraudulent and forged papers a pretext was made for the perpetration of false count The constitutional duty of the two houses to count the electoral vote as cast and to give effect to the will of the people as ex- pressed by their suffrage was never fulfilled An electoral commission, for the existence of which have no responsibility, was formed and the houses of Congress abdicated their dety to make the count by @ law enacting that the count of the commission should stand as final unless overruled by the concur rent consent of the two houses. Its false count was not oFerruled, owing to the com plicity of Republican with the Republican majority of the commission. The cleo toral commission counted out the men elected by the people and counted in the Tna o1aotnd hIrt tho 11ao111a and fha ST1h- version of the election created a new issue for the decision of the people of the United States tranScendlng in importance all ques- tions of administration. It involved the vital principle of self government through elections by the people Theimmense growth of the means of corrupt influence over the ballot box, which is at the disposal of the party having possession of the executive ad- ministration, had already become pressing evil and great danger tending to make cleo tions irresponsible to public opinion, hampering the power of the people to change their rulers and enable the men holding the machinery of government to continue and perpetuate their power. It was my opinion in 1876 that the opposition attempt to change the administration needed to include at least tWo-thirds of the voters at the opening Of the canvass in order to retain majority at the election If after such obstacles had been overcome and majority of the people had voted to change the administration of their government, the men in office could still procure false count founded on frauds, per juries and forgeries furnishing pretext of documentary evidence on which to base that false count, and if such transaction were not only successful, but if, after the allotment of its benefits were made to it's contrivers, abettors and apologists by the chief beneficiary of the transaction, it was condoned by the people, practical destruc- tion of elections by the people would have been accomplished. The failure to install the candidates chosen by the people, Q contingen- cy consequent upon ne act or commission of mine and beyond my control has thus left me for the last three years and until now, when the Democratic party, by its delegates in National convention assembled, shall choose new leader, the involuntary but necessary representative of this momentous issue, as such denied the immunities of pri- vate life without the powers conferred by public station, subject to unceasing false hoods and calumny from the partisans of an administration laboring in vain ts justify its existence. I have nevertheless steadfastly en-
 deavored to preserve the Democratic party of the United States. The supreme issue be- fore the people for decision next November is whether this shall be government by the sovereign people through elections, or gov ernment by discarded servants holding over