The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-09
TILDEN's CONFIDENTIAL AGENT
A Washington special to the New Orleans
Times gives the following extraordinary piece

A Washington special to the New Orleans
Times gives the following extraordinary piece
Of intelligence:
One OF Tilden's confidential agents here says:
The old man Is sure to have majority OF the
votes IN The convention fr r., honishna and
TO deliver the goods" Though the statement
Is not believed here, yet, the person saying It L.
one Of Tiiden's most reliable men, who has just
been South on a still hunt.
The story has made quite an impression rs 1t
may possibly be true. Tilden claims Tsnnes
Kentucky and Texas rs certain. with Il fighting
chance for two thirds of the Southern States
not mentioned. l: Is impossible to ascertain
the truth OF these assumptions.
party who proposed to deliver the vote Of Lou
istana. but sage he is very prominent Demo.
eminent.
Ii Mr.. Tilden has any more agents OF
similarly confidential and reliable nature
scattered throughout the country, he would
do admirably we'll to Call them In at once and
have them restrained, gently but firmly, In
the various lunatic asylums In and around
New York. Such reliable" information as
the above administered to the sage of Gram
mercy Park In large and frequent doses by
his confidential agents will tend to make him
take a sombre and dyspeptic view Of life to-
wards the latter part of June next, and utter
ly annihilate his faith in human nature, II
after his extended political experience he have
any remnant Of such faith left.
1t would be entertaining to the Dem ocracy
OF Louisiana to know who the reliable
party" Is who has undertaken to deliver over
delegates to the "old man" as 80 much
goods" to be manipulated by him In the
national convention and to vote just as he may
choose to dictator The benighted members of
the Louisiana Democracy do not know of any
man. either In Office or out OF 1t, who could
engage to carry out such a contract. and least
of all a contract to deliver the goods" to
Mr.. Tilden. Had the statement been made
In reference to almost any other prominent
Democratic candidate 1t would have been ab-
surd certainly, butnot so strikingly and pre-
posterously ridiculous.
Ii the claims set up for Mr.. Tilden In re-
gard to the other States mentioned in the
dispatch have no better foundation than this
story about the capture of the Louisiana del
egation, then will the "old man," as he Is
reverently called by his confidential agents,
be q sadder and wiser man after the result
Is proclaimed at Cincinnati.
We may reterate here what we have said
before, that Mr.. Tilden is not the choice of
the Louisiana Democracy, and 1t is our can
did opinion, based upon careful review of
the situation, that his candidacy at Cincin-
natl would not be hailed with enthusiasm or
even with satisfaction In the South
The strenuous efforts on the part
Of confidential agents, and all the other DO
litical agents that Mr.. Tilden knows so we'll
how to employ, and the determination he
evinces to force himself upon an unwilling
party by manipulating the primaries In the
various States In his interest, are not calcu-
lated to commend him to the people OF the
country. and especially not to the people OF the
South. who believe that the Office should seek
the man and not the man the office. We sim
cerely trust that Louisiana will send to the
delegation OF gentlemen who
shall be absolutely unfettered by pledges In
behalf OF any candidate instructed only to
ally themselves with those elements that
have the true interests OF the party at stake,
and not leopardize success simply to ad vance
the interests Of any individual.
The preference Of our people is very nntu-
rally for Hancock, and If, after canvass OF
WIG Soif oAlAoup AC puthH pEOF6 ID D6 Nn6
strongest candidate we shall be delighted to
see the vote Of Louisiana cast for him solidly.
nor should he object to the passage by our
State Convention Of resolution expressing
The preference OF the Democracy for him
but 1t would be, In our opinion, an exceeding
ly unwise thing to trammel the delegation by
. pledge. 1t Is the bad habit of Radical con-
ventions to make of their delegates mere ma
chimes and mouth-pieces, and to send them
handouffed, as 1t were, with no liberty of
Individual action whatever. Whenever 1t
has been tried In the past by the
Democracy Of this State the result has
been unfortunate and sometimes disastrous
to the best interests OF the party. We have
no fear that our people will make any such
fatal blunder, nor have we the slightest idea
hat the hopes and confident assertions of
Mr.. Tilden's confidential agent" will be |
Justified by the course of our convention, or
II the delegates chosen to cast the vote of
Louisiana at CINCINNATI