Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-08
THE TILDEN SYNDICATE.

Speaker Randall aud Other Friends of the
Ec- GOcernor of Ne,v York on a Mysteri-
outs Mission
Washington Special (Feb. 29) to N. Y. World. I
Speaker Randall left this city yesterday
for New York to attend meeting of Mr..
Tiiden's syndicate, called for Sunday noon.
The Speaker and Mr.. Scott will represent
Pennsylvania at that meeting. Mr.. Randall
has doubts, which increase day by day,
whether, Notwithstanding all that has hap
pened aud all the loyal service he has rem
dered Mr.. Tilden and MIR.
Pelton, the mantle of Mr.. Tilden
will fall upon hi.a at Cincinnati. Of the
national committse of thirty-eight, which
met here on MONDAY last, and which was ap-
pointed at St. Louis in 1876 as a committee
of Mr.. Tilden's friends, only ten could be
found to go with Mr.. Scott in advocacy of
Mr.. TilGen's plan for the coming campaign.
This unexpected detection from Gramercy
Park has led to the formation of the new
"syndicate'' which is to hold its first meeting
in New York to-day.
The prevailing opinion in Washington
among Western Democrats is that Mr.. Til
den will use the machinery which he organ
and during the CANVASS of that year in order
to bring about complimentary nomination
of himself at Cincinnati. In the Southern
States the Democratic delegates to the st.
Louis convention are likely to be re-chosen
if they are alive and desire it, and there
fore it is held to be certain that the influences
employed by MIR. Tilden four years ago this
month will continue in operation in June,
1880. Mr.. Tilden appeals with considerable
force to the sympathies of the older mem
beers of his party. but with the younger men
in the South and West there is, it is said,
visible Impotence with his methods and his
political selfishnoss. That he will actually
be the Democratic candidate this year no one
expects. The earnest and fighting men
among the Democrats are said to be
EVERYWHERE IN THE WEST
out7poken in opposition to any scheme which
implies that the Democratic delegates are to
go to Cincinnati handicapped with any othe,
purpose than that of picking out the tittest
Democrat in the country to be the President
of the United States. To a complimentary
resolution respecting Mr.. Tilden, if he asks
it as an Endorsement" they do not object
But they say it would be childish to offer q
nomination to Mr. Tilden on an understand
ing with the syndicate that some member OF
the syndicate will have letter in
his pocket from Mr.. Tilden declining
"the unsolicited homer" Such proceedings
would bring contempt on the ticket from the
start, and enable the opposition to say that
the Democratic ticket represented only "a
pocket borough" in New York. As west
ern senator remarked yesterday, "The Gin.
cinnati convention must make q vigorous
platform and pu.An it vigorous candidates
in order that the country may feel that the
Democracy means business and has some
thing higher in view than conducting the
affairs of mutual admiration society,""
The opinions of the World respecting the
issues of 1861 and 1880 are commended on
every side. Democrats say that the World
is right when it says that the Democracy, il
it IS to win in 1889, must cease to act any
longer on the defensive and abandon the
''still hunt" One consequence of the Dem
ocratio refusal to give battle to the Stall
warts openly and boldly on the living South
ern issues of 1880 has been that the Stal
warts have grown moro and more aggressive
while the Democratic spirit has become
more and more timid. The incessant talk O.
late about conducting the canvass of 1885,
on the returning board doings of 1876
only brings Pelton more and moro to the
front, and tends to make the canvass q strif,
between the partisans of Pelton Oh one sld'
and of BabcOck On the other.