Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-28
MIR. TlLDEN's CONGRATULATIONS.
He IS Well Pleased With the Cincinnati
Nominations and IS Glad He Is out of
Politics for Good,
New York Special, June &c. !

nominations ana as Clad He Is out OF
Politics for Good.
New York Special, June &c.
The Herald this morning says: Ex-Gov.
Tilden said to Herald reporter this after
noon: 81 never was ambitious for the
Presidency. did not care for the nomina-
ton when it was given me at st. Louis. At
that time offered it to Mr. Seymour
"Did you not seek the nomination at
Cincinnati2'
''No, did not seek it."
"Did you expect it would be rendered
your"
II felt, since the election of 1876, that l
needed rest. feel SO now. l am not in
good health, although I have no organic
disease. With three months rest will be
all right. l attribute my illness to over
work, the work of fifteen years. l have
been trying to find place to stop.
have not been able to do 80. 1 will now
take the rest l so much need"
800 you not believe you conld have been
nominated and elected this timer"
81 do. Bat 1 did not feel able to enter
upon five years of hard, exhaustive labor.
Ny friends wanted me to conduct the cam
paign myself. I could not DO that
''Did that wish on their part form an is
sue between you that led you to decline to
go before the convention as a candidate:"
SIT might have been consideration, had
it not been fact that had previously made
up my mind not to be candidate. My
decision to thai effect was immovable long
before the question was ct all mooted."
"Were you besought by your friends, even
at tho last moment, to revoke that decision. -
''Yes; I was teleg,sphed to frequently,
asking me to consent 60 allow my name to
90 before the convention"
"If your SUCCESS before the convention
had been assured in advance would you have
changed your mindp"
NO"
"THE LETTER OF DECLINATIoN
that yon wrote 10 the New York delegation
has received various interpretations. ] am
to infer from what you say that belief much
entertained that 1t had double meaning has
no foundation"
eff it has been construed 10 mean any
thing else than ia set forth in the words in
which it is written, the press is to blame
My friends IN the convention know perfectly
we'll that it meant just what is act forth. The
New York delegation we're advised of it. The
last thing Dir. Daniel Manning, the chairman
of the delegation, did before he left for Gin
cinnati, was to GILL on me and receive the
verbal Endorsement of what it contained"
"Do you approve the choics made by the
convention!"
"Entirely, and without reserve"
"Then you think that, of TIE men put in
nomination, Gov. Hancock is the best!"
"Most assuredly."
"Was Hancock the man you favored for
the nomination."
''Yes, he vas"
ADO you think he is the man to harmo-
nize the interest OF the party in the northern
ara southern States?"
"He certainly is the msh noB ifany
man is."
'.Do you think he viii poll the vote Of the
solid South"
"There is Wade Hampton's assurance that
he will.''
"Do You think he will carry New York
State?'
Il think the ticket WILL
ado you think the ticket will be elected?"
"The Democrats, il my judgment, will
probably win. The ticket has every reason
able prospect Of SUCCESS"
"Do you mean by that, governor, that
they may eject the ticket. but not install the
man they elect!"
The governors eyes flashed, and his
trembling hands applied his handkerchief to
bis perspiring brow with almost unnecessary
vigor, as he said in sharper, harder tones
than he had used before: "Ths Democrats
have had just such experiences, sir"
9Wiii VOC devote any time or labor to adj
yancing the interests or the campaign"
II viii certainly give my cordial support
shall not 90 into the campaign with any
activity, such as would be expected of ne if
were tbs candidate myself; bot will be of
aid whenever can. 1 ana now preparing to
move to my house above Yonkers, and al
though l have watched With interest the
course of affairs in Cincinnati, l have, never
theIess, been more particularly occupied in
fixing my house, where have adopted new
and improved system OF ventilation"
"You have been much averse hitherto to
being interviewed, governor!
eyes, for the reason that all the papers in
the country would want particular and
special talk. To run for the Presidency was
a task scarcely less Iaborious than that would
be. Why, my house has been thronged with
at times. I could not make
in favor of one, and could
not receive them all. have had to refuse
papers which have been very friendly"
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