New-York tribune., 1880-06-21
TIE GREAT SUSPENSE ENDED.

TILDEN's LETTER RECEIVED AT LAsT-TIE DoCC-
MENT READ TO THE NEw-YORK DELEGATES
AN IMPRESSIVE sCENE-PAYSEs : CLAIMS not
PUT FORWAHD-AN OPPORTUNITY MISSED.
tBY TELEGRAPH TIE TRIBUNE
C1XcINNATI, June 20.-The suspense OF the Tildcn
managers ended this morning when Mr. Henry a.
Tildcn arrived from New-YOIk. bringing with him
the one-looked-for letter of withdrawal. the exist
encc OF which was definitely announced III dis
matches TO THE TRIBC neon Friday night The sltu-
alton was indeed becoming little painful The
friends of Mr. 1ilden had acted on the suppOsitiOn
that he was to Withdraw and here wcro their prom
ises apparently going to protest They had not even
any tclcgraphc advice as to when the bearer of the
important document would arrive. There was a
GOOD deal of quiet muttcTnR and growing about
"thc old mans constitutional blank dilatonncss."
and some little uucasincss as to the posi-
ton in which his friends would find them
selves il he should procrastinatc little too
long. But the arrival of Mr. Henry A. Ill
den brought relief to this grotcsqnc situation.
MANNING MADE CUSTODIAN.
Tho letter passed Immediately out of his hands
into those OF Daniel Manning chairman Of the
New-Yo1l delegation. The letter IL addressed to
the Ncw-York delegation. Mr.. Manning, to escape
inoniries respecting the letter. Immediately put it
in place OF safe keeping, and II Is understood that
from the time it came INTO his possession not more
than two or three persons were allowed to sec IT..
though many Democrats OF National prominence
sought to learn its contents. Mr.. Ilanning con-
ccjyed it to be his duty to keep it in trust, and did
So Various rumOrs were afIoat concerning 1t, ana
some vague versions of il arc said to have been clc
praphcd to Ncw-York last night. when, in fact the
letter had not reached here yet. This has not pre-
vented however, the confirmation or contradiction
of various IumOrs with respect to It's contents. One
ruunor was that the letter would not be found to
be n positive withdrawal OF Mr.. 1idens name {;
that il would merely dIsavOw any intention to
claim the nomination, repuCIate the lden OF having
= mortgage on the party. and thus leave the Con-
vention still free to nominate him if it chose.
This was emphatlcally denied by those who knew
what the letter did contain They declared that 1t
would be found to ke a positive withdrawal.
Several gentlemen are believed to have seen por-
tious of the letter In It's rough shape in NcwY0rk,
or memoranda of portions of 1t, and some indica-
tiops have been gathered from them of its tenor.
| These are briefly that Mr.. Tden finds himself un-
abIe because of physical nrmities, to bear the heat
and burden of canvass and is therefore required for
his own sake to withdraw candidate. Only a
small proportion of the letter. however, Is devoted
| 10 these personal explanations. The document IL
| in fact long lecture upon the fraud" of 1870,
delivered in q high key, In manner which anyone
who is at all familiar with the style of Mr.. lldens
public documents will know beforehand without
beirg told The letter Is spoken of with great adj
miration by these who will allow themselves to
sneak of it all. 1t Is cnIDbatlcally MIR. IIldcn's
farewell address to the Democratic party. and Dem
ocrots will no doubt find it impressive. 1t is some
what long. and may make column of The TRIn-
UNE. 1t was not completed and signed until lluls-
dav night so that there was about US much pro-
crSstination in the affair as was safe.
! SPEEDY PUBLICATION DESIRED.
As soon as tie letter was in the hands of the
T,lden managers the question arose as to the best
time aud way for making it public, Many of the
| special friends of Judge Payne were anxious that
It should be given to the newspapers at once to be
printed tomorrow morning; but Others OF the
Payne men of the opinion that tins would give
the other candidates too much time in which IA
| form combinations against the Ohio candidate
| For this and other reasons it deemed at hrst