Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-02-09
Mr.. TIlden.

Fr0m the Courier Journal.
A telegrsphic correspond ant OF the
Chicago Times sends that paper the fol-
lowing from Washing.On:
Samuel j. Tilden has been the sub
/ Ject Of numerous paragraphs of late in
connection with the Democratic conven-
tion Of 1884. IL is sBid that he desires to
have the honor OF denomination, and
that, IL he is elected. he will hold the of
ice only for short time and then resign
In favor OF the gentleman occupying the
second place on the ticket. He would
perhaps remain in the office for six
months, inaugurate one or two great re-
forms. and then do what no American
president has ever done before, resign.
This would vindicate him in history,
This story, with elaborate variations. has
been printed in nearly every newspaper
in the country. How much foundation
there is for it was shown to-day in a con-
versation held by the Times correspond
ent with one Of the leading managers of
the Tilden campaign in 1875. at 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.. Tilden and
his advisors. He says he has no doubt
somewhere down in Mr.. Tildens mind
there may have been developed Just such
an idea as the one represented in the story
above mentioned, but that nothing more
impracticable Imagination, He says if
the public understood the physical con-
dition of Tilden 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 him
self. He has nurse and attendants coz
stantly with him. He is not able to eat
solid food, and the little he eats is fed to
him with 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 his feebleness, and, in consequence of
physical ills, his mind has become seri-
ously affected. No one now in attend
ance upon him believes that he viii live
as long as 1884, and if he does no one then
will be so unkind as to mention the name
of this paralytic, exhausted, wornout old
man as a candidate for even such de-
funot organization asthe Bourbon party"
No man ever lived who, in his own life,
was the subject of SO much misreport as
the person referred to in the following:
Mr.. Tilden is in reasonable health
This is to say that he is neither an athlete
nor cripple. He is immersed in his own
private concerns. He lives at Graystone
while bis house in Grammarcy park is
being enlarged and reconstructed.
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
week down town, either at his own
Offices or at board meetings, where he is
director. He is very rich man, and
an ihsessantly busy one, He has no
more idea of being the next president of
the United Statee than the Chicago
Times correspondent has of going to
Heaven. He could not be induced to ac-
cept 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 in 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 epigramatic as of yore in his conver-
sation 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 disap-
pointed man, and that he regarded his lib
Grafton from party obligations and SER
vices as an act of emancipation gWe speak
advisedly, therefore, when we say that.
under no circumstances, could he be in
duced again to enter, personally, into the
struggles of political life. A more tran
quill, more happy and more agree
able philosopher is not to 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.