The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-03-25
mr.. Tilden.


A telegraphic> correspondent of the
Chicago Times sends that paper the fol-
lowing from Washington:
samuel J. Tilden has been the subject of
numerous paragraphs, of late, In connection
with the Democratic Convention OF 1881. Ii is
said that he desires to have the honor OF re-
nomination, and that, IL he is electei, ne VIII
hold the Office only for a short time, ana then
resign in favor of the gentleman occupying
the second place on the ticket. He would per
haps remain in the office for SIX months, IN
auglirate one or two great reforms, and then
do what no American President has ever done
before, resign. This would vindfcate him IN
history. This story, with elaborate varia-
TONS has been printed II nearly every d news,
there is for il was shown to-day in a CONVERSE
ton held by the Times correspondent with one
of the leading managers of the Tiiden cam
paign in 1876 ut present an official in high
position. He was one of the financial agents
of Mr. Tilden in that campaign, and has since
maintained reasonable intimacy with Mr.. III
den and his advisers He says he has no doubt
somewhere down in Mr.. Tilden's mind there
may have been developed just such an idea as
the one represented in the story above men
toned, but that nothing more impractcable
could have been developed from the widest
imagination. He says If the public understood
the physical condition of Tllden to-day they
would not listen to or credit any story of his
future candidacy. He says that Tilden is
now so disabled that he is unable to
feed himself. He has nurse and at
PENDANTS constatly with him He is not able to
cat solid food, and the little he eats is fed to
him with a spoon. His voice cannot be heard
the distance of four or five feet from him, and
it is only with the greatest difficulty that his
friends can make out his wishes. He is in the
very last extreme of feebleness, and, in conse-
qHence of physical ills, his mind has become
seriously affected. No one now in attendance
upon him believes that he will live AS long as
1884 and If he does no one then will be so I'M
kind as to mention the name of this paraly tic,
exhausted, WORKOUT old man as candidate
for even such a defunct organization as the
Bourbon party"
Mr.. Tilden is in reasonable health.
This is to say, that he is neither an ath-
lete nor cripple. He is immersed in
his own private concerns. He lives at
Graystone while his house in Grammarcy
Park is being enlarged and reconstruct
ed. When it is finished it will be one
of the two or three mansions in the city
of New York which can be called
splendid. He supervises the work upon
it almost daily. He may be seen three
or four times a week down town, either
at his own offices or at board meetings,
where he is director. He is a very
rich man, and an necessarily busy one.
He has no more idea of being the next
President of the United States than the
Chicago Times correspondent has of 60
ing to heaven. He could not be in
duced to accept any nomination or
public place whatever. He loves his
country, is loyal TO his party, and takes
live interest in current affairs. His
counsel and his purse are open to his
party. His person he has reserved to
his declining years, which he proposes
to enjoy with his friends, his books and
his pictures, of which he is fond. He
enjoys society as keenly as he ever did,
and is as pungent and epigrammatic as
of yore in his conversation and repartee.
No one has ever heard murmur of
complaint escape his lips. Those who
know him best know that he is the exact
opposite of disappointed man, and
that he regarded his liberation from
party obligations and services as an act
of emancipation. We speak advisedly,
therefore, when we say that, under no
circumstances, could he be induced
again to enter, personally, into the
struggles ofpolitical life. A more tram
quill, more happy, and more agree
able philosopher is MOTTO be found, and,
Being such, people need give themselves
no concern about his future, either as it
relates to himself or the plans, schemes
and aspirations of other men.-Loaisuite
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