Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-11
rILDEN,s CANDIDACY.
He Thought He -H0ntdn't and TIte. IE0ug
He W0uld be q Candidate.


He You'd be q Candidate.
Washington Special March s. to Chicago
Times.
A member of the Democratic Congress
sional committee that conducted the CAM
paign of 1876, in conversation with the
Times correspondent to-day, gave an inter
esting account of Tilden's resolution to with
draw from the approaching canvass. He
said that shortly after the Pennsylvania con-
vention Mr.. Tilden became convinced that q
canvass upon his part would be hopeless
one, and he made up his mind to withdraw.
He prepared letter upon the subject, ad-
dressed to the public, formally announcing
that he would not be candidate before the
convention Of 1880. He wrote this letter
without any consultation with his friends, but
before giving it out to the public he read it
to one or two of his most intimate associates
in New York. They were panic stricken
at the idea, and asked the old gentle
man to delay day or two before finally
making up his mind. They then telegraph
ad to Washington to Sam Randall and one
or two of Tilden's special friends in this
city, to come over to New York at once.
These gentlemen went over, and were then
made acquainted with the fact that Mr.. Til
den contemplated publishing letter of with
drawal. 4 consultation was had, and then
these friends went in body to Mr.. Tilden.
They said to him that as the matter now
stood there was very strong organization
in his name: in fact, no other Democrat had
any organization. His withdrawal would
simply result in demoralizing the only Or
ganization inside of the Democratic party.
Mr.. Tilden said, after some argument, that
he was not in the habit of DESERVING his
friends, and that if that was the
way his friends looked at it he would
temporarily withhold the letter.
This letter is now in one of the pigeon-holes
of Mr.. T.ilden's secretary. No one expects.
however, that it will ever see the light. The
arguments that were 80 convincing then
| have since been used with great force upon
the old gentleman. The stronger the chances
of Grant being nominated, the easier it is to
persuade Mr.. Tilden to take the chances of
another canvass. His friends tell him that
the anti-third term feeling in the country is
more than enough to counter balance the
anti Tilden feeling in New York, and that
against Grant he would win. The anti-El-
den people in the city are working hard to
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candidate, in hopes of weakening him there
by. One of those gentlemen said to-day:
"Just as soon as Tilden is nominated, four or
five Southern States are gone right away, be-
ginning with Virginia"
The Democratic union committee is not
much encouraged by the spirit evinced in
these declarations. There is evidently to be
war to the knife between the Tilden and
Kelly factions. 1t is believed, however, that
the fight will eliminate at the State conven-
ton to nominate delegates to the Cincinnati
convention. 1t is thought that in the State
convention Kelly will meet with inglorious
defeat, and that the protesting delegation
which he will probably lead to Cincinnati
will be quietly snubbed by the national con
vention, after which, il is thought, very little
will be heard of the Kelly bolt. The best in
formed politicians here are decidedly of the
opinion that John Kelly can not head any
formidable movement against the national
Democratic nominee.
The prevailing sentiment is well expressed
in the following words from Ex-Governor
Beedle, of New Jersey: ga bolt such as &C.
CURED in New York, last fall, may be sue,
cessful once, but it is not in the nature of
things to do it twice. Democrats do not like
to throw away their votes more than once,
and a Presidential election is not the time to
do it. l don't believe the temper of the
Democratic party at this juncture. would al
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