The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-01
MIR. TILDEN REFUSES ONCE
MORE.
Comfort for Terrified Supporters
of Fraud,
LDaiIy Union. Manchester. n. H., May 20.


The Republican press and politicians
are indulging i'll their usual tTepidatiOn
lest Mr.. Tilden shall turn up as candl-
date for Office this year. They proceed
upon that well known trait of human
nature which leads men to hate those
they have wrOnged.
They know now as they always have
recognized that Mr.. Tilden is inYulner-
able in the State of New York when
candidate for office, and that he has
stronger hold upon his party than ever
before. They know, too, full well that
he is not a candidate for Governor; but
because he refuses to deny their silly re-
ports every day they are not able to
quiet their fears lest by some unlucky
political chance he may step into the
gubernatOrial chair without notice to
them. In short, they have felt his power
and they hate and fear him.
These easily frightened people have
always had host of imitatOTs in the
Democratic party, where, strange as it
may appear, there are men who have
been anxious for years to keep the party
down to small dimensions, so that they
might lead it. When Mr.. Tilden sue
ceeded in bringing in its first victory in
twenty years, simply because he had
given it an issue to win with, the fears
of these Democrats were at once aroused
| lest the party should get away from
| them. These men have for five years
| been charging cOwardice on Mr.. Tilden
because he did not take an Office of
which they themselves had robbed him,
! by creating an illegal tribunal unknown
| to the Constitution, in which they gave
| their opponents the advantage of loaded
| dice, when everybody knows they could
! cheat with even honest ones. Since the
| Electoral Commission declared its re-
| ho1 IaH OF nf
| a private citizen of New York, having
declined a denomination in 1880 and
| taken little OF no part in the political
| cOmplicatiOns of the country. 1t is true
| the mention of his name has been dis
| agreeable to the Republicans, and that
some of the TOgues, like Morton and
Chandler, have gone to their last ac-
| count in disgrace, while the victim of
their YilIainy has remained the greatest
political figure of the country.
There need be no fear on the part of
either of these classes that Mr.. Tilden
will be a candidate for Governor of New
York this year or for President in 1884.
He did his party and his party and his
country and the cause of honest govern
ment excellent service, but he has
neither desire nor intention to again
take up the burden. He said to the
writer some weeks ago that he had never
routine President and to have his name
go down among the list, something akin
to being one of the two hundred Roman
COnsuls. He further declared that he
would not accept the nomination for
Governor this year for fee simple title
to the State of New York; and that he
had no more intention of being candi-
date for President in 1884 than he had
of becoming an applicant for the throne
of Russia.
He has repeatedly expressed the same
determination to other persons, and he
surely has the right to ask that he be
taken at his word. He has never been a
dissembleT. When he has been cOndl-
| date for office he has said so, and when
| he has accepted a nomination he has
| been successful. He has taken no part
in politics during the past four years, of
| his own accord. He has made no utter
| ance except upon the demand of his
| party and his friends. In fact, no man
| in the country has been more thoroughly
out of politics so far as his own efforts
are concerned than has the great citizen
who has lived quietly in the retirement
of his country place, content to spend
his declining days among his friends
and his books. Not even the hysterlcal
demand of the men in his own party,
who. in a united chorus with Republl-
can tTicksteTs, have vilified him since
his great success, will be able to draw
him from the quiet he has earned so
well.