The daily gazette., 1881-12-31
TILDEN AND 1884.
THE SAGE OF GRAMEikcY PARK
NOR A CANDIDATE.
AN ALLEGED TALK WITH THE MAN
WHO WAS CHEATED ou r OF THE
PREsIpENcY-uow me- LIVES
AT HOME HAS NEyER
BKRS A CANDIDATE
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SINCE 1875.
From the 81. Lou Republican.
Mr.. John g. Priest has Just returned
from a business trip 10 Philadelphia
aud New York. lie was looking 10
be In first class condition to enjoy
Christmas eve when Republican re :
porter met him yesterday and asked
hum il he had picked up ] ny news in
his wanderings.
81 accepted an inyitatldn dn TO cali on
exGov. Tllden while | was In New
York. was the reply.
"iIave good time ?"
.slndeed did. passed the after
noon with Mr.. Tilden and John Bige-
low. who was formerly minister to
Fiance and subsequently, secretary of
state of New York. meyer was en-.
tertained better 2"
How did you lind Mr.. Tiiden 80
"Well, | don't find any change In
him physically. He Is an old man
one OF The nndemonstratise 70 sort, but
he ia all right. He looks more feel 10
than he really is. Why He showed
us all over The house wen clear up
into the tower.o
"fhe tower I"
Yes. lie is living at his place
called 'Graystone,' you k now. They
call it that because 1t is all ba,lt OF
gray granite. II is q magnificent
place, some miles up the Hudson from
New York. You've heard of 1t. A
most elegant building-so me twenty
five or thirty rooms, finished In Just
the most luxuriant style that money
can pay for-sixty. five acres of ground
fronting 200 feet on tho Hudson
banks very high-magnificent view.
There Is turret,. or tower, on the
house, lifted up with large telescope
used as an observatory. Mr.. Tilden
walked up the stairs W til us, and
showed everything himself. And 1t
didn't seem 10 trouble him. | noticed
his voice was as clear as a bell while
we were up there
$50 the old man is pretty lively
yet"
"Why, he's an old man, of course,
but bright as a dollar. He is very
methodlcal In bis habits, attends to
large amount of business, keeps two
secretaries with plenty 10 do, and
manages to be hospitable at the same
time, in manner few men ever ac-
quire. In about sixty day his place
at Gramercy Park will DC ready for
occupancy, and he will move down to
town. You know he has been having
L greatly enlarged and COZ ppletely re-
fitted.n
"Does Mr.. Tilden talk on politics?"
"ie talks about anything, and talks
we'll"
'Is he likely to be again candi.
date ?'
"Mr. Tilden is not candidate. He
didn't tell me so, but | knd he Is not.
lie has never been cand didate since
1876, when his own party let him be
chiseled out of the presidency after he
had been fairly elected" !"
''Some of the New York papers say
be is devoting his time exclusively to
his library"
well, he has a library ofabont 20 600
volumes, fittsd up in the D0st luxnrlous
style that Is known TO tho moderns.-
Any one v onid naturally he glad OF a
chance 10 devote some attention TO
snch treasury OF flttefDtufeIH abyoouy
thinks Mr.. Tildsa In buried In library
he is mistaken. He reads eferythlng.-
He is an well posted on what Is going on
In tho world as the Secretary OF State
No part of the country escapes his no
tios, and hs Is lust AZ well ppsted 10 Soc
ial matters a. poiitioal-that is, such ~
become public" NJ, |
NV hat does he say about rammany
"0h, he enjoys the disorgRnlza zation IN
the fammany ranks, OF courhe."
"Does he entertain much r.
"No. He 10 q little out or the way,