The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-16
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Tilden and Hendricks.

The Democrats have two perennial
candidates for President. They are
Tlden and Hendricks. They were once
persuaded to pool their issues and run
on the same ticket, but since then each
man has been for himself, against the
other and against everybody else. At
this very day, three years removed from
the next Presidential campaign, and at
atime when the people, both Democrats
and Republicans, are chiefly concerned
about the life of an actual President who
has won the respect and confidence of
all parties, these two politicians are said
to be engaged in working up remote
chances Tor Democratic nomination in
1884, which, if obtained by either one
of them, will place the successful one
as far from the coveted Office as the one
who shall fail to get the nomination.
There has never been more striking
exhibition Of impotent greed for office
than that which Tilden and Hendricks
are now making. -.
The hand of the willy old politician of
New York State is clearly visible in the
preparations for the local campaign this
coming fall. John Kelly is on deck, of
course, but such opposition only serves
to whet the old mans ambition to take
the wheel and run affairs to suit himself.
There may be pretty fight, but Tilden
knows he will be no worse off than he is
ff Il n 1o<x, IL 1,
that victory over Kelly, supplemented
by a victory over the common enemy
the Republicans will gain for him some
such political glory as that which led to
his nomination in 1876. Indeed, it is
limited that Tilden is actually willing to
run for Governor, en- 20rOpriG persona,
in order to monopolize all the triumph
of a possible success. It may be, too,
that he counts upon some assistance
from the disaffected Conkling faction,
either indirectly, if the machine shall
gain control of the Republican Conven-
ton, or directly in case the machine
shall be put down in that convention.
In the meantime Mr.. Hendricks is
said to have gone to Saratoga in order to
fight Mr.. Tilden on his own ground. He
points to the successive defeats of Sey-
mour, Mcclellan, Greeley, Tilden and
Hancock as clinching arguments against
the nomination of New York candidate
in 1884, He is said to have been in
close communication with John Kelly,
and to have made strong alliance with
Tammany. He does not hesitate to
criticse and antagonize Tilden, openly.
In a recent interview with reporter he
is credited with the following state
ment: ...sHr III. b. f.
Did Gov. T1den ever converse with
you on some JOINT course of action after
you were both deprived of your offices
by the inauguration of Hayes and
Wheeler ?" a.s ..L.s'...5t ...,s.
"He did not; and there think he
was at fault. Perhaps his mind was too
much occupied with a great variety of
suggestions from men nearer to him.
But I waited, expecting he would con-
fer with me, but he never did SO. /
think Gov. Tilden, on that day when
Chandler sent his. defiant message that
Tilden and Hendricks had not been
elected, ought to have expressed him
self distinctly that he regarded himself
as elected, and meant to maintain the
authority of the majority. Had I been
the candidate at the head of the ticket
should have done just that, and there
would have been no contention either,
because the orderly portion of the Re-
publican party believed we were elected,
and would not have resisted our taking
the offices, with Congress in our favor"
To those who are familiar with Mr..
Hendricks vacillating and trimming
methods it must be very amusing to
read of that gentleman's condemning
Tilden's course after the election of 1876,
and telling of the bold things that he
would have done if he had been in Til
denis place. At the same time it has
been, and still is, the Democratic incli-
nation to blame Tilden for his conduct
then, and Hendricks may make some
capital out of i. Both men are likely
to create a good deal of popular disgust,
however, by their Vaccinations at this
time, and eachmay possiblyprove ofsome
service to the country by helping to kill
off each other. Chicago Tribune.