Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-26
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What Democratic OO,0resemen Thinh; O.
Mr.. Titden as q Presidential Candidate.

What Democratic OOfi0resemen Think of
Mr.. Titden as q Presidential Candidate.
Syracuse Special. April 10.
Milton 81. Northrop, editor of the Syria
cuse Courier, who has been in Washington
for ten days past feeling the political pulse,
will contribute to his journal tomorrow a
series of interesting interviews held with
Democratic members of Congress on the
Presidential question. The conclusions
reached are that, while the Democrats in
Congress are divided as TO their preferences
for President, a most remarkable unanimity
is found as to one point, and that Is to the
unwisdom of nominating Mr.. Tilden. Whom
to nominate is question on which there is
a variety of opinions. Ask whom not to
nominate, and the response, in general cho-
rus, is: Samuel j. Yilden." This feeling
is so pervasive and 80 emphaticRlly expressed
as to strike the inquirer with absolute amaze
ment. Mr.. Northrop confesses to having been
overwhelmed with establishment at the
breadth and depth of the anti-Tilden senti-
ment on the Democratic side in Congress.
1t is not confined to members, but permeates
the lobbies, and the casual visitors who ebb
and flow in mighty currents through the
corridors of the capitol are equally pro-
nounced in their belief that the nomination
of Mr.. Tilden would be the sure precursor
of Democratic defeat at the polls. This
opinion is not shared alone by these who
are concerned, as per Sc anti Tilden men.
1t is shared and expressed with regret by
many with whom Mr.. Tilden has been
and still is the first choice for President.
Their opposition to him now is due to a
conviction, reluctantly forced from them,
that he is no longer available; that, in fact,
MIR. Tilden could lead them again only to
defeat. Thus it happens that men from the
South who, like Mr.. Money, of the Third
district of Mississippi, were strong advocates
of Mr.. Tilden's nomination IN 1876, are also,
like MIR. Money, opposed to his nomination
in 1880, because they believe him no longer
available. 'Mr. Tilden," says Mr.. Money,
sis not popular in Mississippi. He was
popular in 1876; he is not so now" It is
freely predicted that Mr.. Tilden as candi-
date, Virginia would certainly be lost to the
Democracy, with a grave chance of losing
half dozen other Southern States. Demo
cratic congressman from North Carolina,
| FL rida, Alabama and Louisiana say it will
be hard work, if not impossible, to hold
| their States in line if Mr.. Tllden
heads the ticket. "In fact" says the
editor, "after looking the ground all over
| am forced to the conclusion that were
Mr.. Tiden again in the field he would stand
as poor chance of carrying half dozen of
the large Southern States as he would, with a
| divided party, of securing the electoral vote
| of New York, and perhaps even poorer. No
man who has not made study of the situa-
ton can have any idea of the universally
and the bitterness of the opposition to Mr.
| Tilden which exists among Democrats in
both houses of Congress. What is the &c.
| cret of this state of feeling among Demo
| Gratis toward the man they elected by an
overwhelming majority President of the
United States only four short years ago!
The resons assigned for this revulsion Of
sentiment are various. Some relate to the
cipher dispatches disclosures, and others to
the income-tax business, but the overshadow
ing reason which seems to have worked
most of the revolution is that, Mr.. Tilden
having been elected President, did not take
the Office. He did not git thar