Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-26
MIR. TlLDEN SPEAKS.
What he Thinks of the Cincinnati NOnlina.
tiOus.

Ex-Governor Samuel J. Tilden, riding
from IOnkers to New York yesterday
afternoon, said to i Herald reporter to
whom he was speaking about politics: 81
never was ambitious for the Presidency.
l did not care for the nomination when it
was given me in st. Louis. At that time
l offered it to another man."
WHO was the man."
''Mr. Seymour
''Did you seek the nomination a, the
hands of the Cincinnati convention which
just nominated Hancock?''
"NO, l did not seek it"
"DO you not believe you could have
been nominated and elected this time ~
IL do. But did not feel able to enter
upon five years of hard exhaustive labor.
My friends wanted me to conduct the cam-
paign myself. could not do that
did that wish OH their part form an
issue between you that led you to decline
to go before the convention as candi-
date ~
1T might have been a consideration
had it not been Il fact that had previous
ly made up my mind not to be Il candi-
date. My decision to that effect was i'm
movable long before the question was at all
mOOted.'
"Were you not besought by your friends
even at the last moment to revoke that de-
cisiOn -
eyes, was telegraphed to frequently,
asking me to consent to allow my name to
go before the convention
"If your success before the convention
had been assured in advance would you
have changed your mind ?''
NO.
The Letter had Double Meaning.
"The letter of declinatiOn that you
wrote to the New York delegation, gov
ernor, has received various Interpretation
on all sides. | am to infer from what you
say that belief, much entertained in some
circles that it had a double meaning has no
foundation?''
IF it has been construed to mean any
thing else than what is set forth in the
words in which it is written the press is to
blame. My friends in the convention knew
perfectly well that it meant just what it
set forth. The New York delegation were
advised Of it. The last thing Mr.. Daniel
Manning, the chairman of the delegation,
did before he left for Cincinnati was to
call on me and receive the verbal endorse
ment of what it contained"
Yet he telegraphed you on the day of
the nomination asking again that you re-
woke your decision. and assurin.; you of
his faith in your success did he nOt?'
''Ies. My answer to his despatch has
been published. | received many des-
patches like that
The following is Il copy of the despatch
which Mr.. Tildcn referred to:
JUNE a, 1880
Hon. DANIEL MANNING, Grand Hotel,
Cincinnati, Ohio:
"Received your kilograms and many
others containing like information. My
action was well considered and is irrevOc:.-
bic. No friends must be allowed to cast
doubt on my motives or my sincerity
"SAMCEL J. TILDEN.'
g In this connection" Mr.. Tilden added.
after Il pause - Il do not think | am
called upon to reiterate my own words.
Do you? They should be, in the light of
the present situation, convincing.
He Endorses Hancock.
"DO you approve of the choice made by
the convention?''
~ approve OF it entirely and without
reserve
Then you think that of all the men
regularly placed in nomination before the
convention General Hancock is the
beSt?"
Most assuredly.'
"There was for sometime before the
much talk of Field. Payne
and a score of others standing in the posi-
tiOn of your residuary legatee. Did General
Hancock, after all, occupy that much
discussed relation %
"Indeed, | cannot be expected to explain
many things in politics. Certainly none of
those of which have no knowledge what
soever. So many things are said. you
know"
"To put the question more directly then
Governor, was Hancock the man you |
favored for the nomination?''
''Yes, he was"
''Do you think he is the man to harmon
ze the interests of the party in the North
erE and Southern states ~
''He certainly is the man now, if any
nan is.
''Do you think he will poll the vote of a
solid South ~
''' There is Wade IIampton's assurance
hat he will
g Do you think lie will carry New York
tate?''
I" think the ticket WILL
" Do you think the ticket will be elected
n November ?"s
{" The Democrats, in my judgment, will
win. The ticket has every reas-
'nable prospect of success
' Do You mean by that, governor, that
hey may elect the ticket, but not install
he men they elect ~
The governors eye flashed and his trem-
,ling hands applied his handkerchief to
lis perspiring brow with almost unneces-
ary vigOr as he said in sharper, harder
ones than he had used before " The
Democrats have had just such experiences,
ir."
Will you devote any time or labor to
dvancing the interests of the Democratic
ampaign this summero''
Il hardly know how to answer that
uestion. l will certainly give support to
he ticket. | will give 1T my cordial sup.
urt -
81 mean will you devote any attention
o engineering the canvass and advising
he leaders
81 shall not go into the campaign with
ny activity such as would be expected of ;
ne if were the candidate myself. But |
1ill be of aid whenever can. | am now {
repairing to remove to my house above s
although have .
7atclIed with interest the course of affairs .
4 Cincinnati have nevertheless been
bore particularly occupied in fixing my
Ouse, where have adopted new and
improved system of ventilation.
You have been much averse hitherto
D being interviewed, Governor 81 Ii
"Yes. For the reason that all the pa
ers in the country would want particu- =,