Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-04
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Making Presidential Candidases.
David Davis is reported to have ex-
pressed the opinion in recent interview
that Mr.. Tilden's friends were undoubt.
pdly moving heaven and earth to secure
his denomination for the presidency and
that bis affected unwillingness to enter
the race was as insincere as was his
pretended indisposition to the nomi-
nation in 1880. This interview has
called out Daniel Naming, the
close friend of Mr.. Tilden, who,
in q New York Sun interview,
reiterates that MIR. Tilden is now
determined to remain in private
life and he affirms that Mr.. Tilden's
letter of declination sent to Cincinnati
in 1880, was in strict accord with what
his friends knew from his own lips to be
his irrevocable determination to not un'
dertake the presidential canvass even
though he could have been nominated,
as Manning insists was certain.
II there was, as is here claimed, dir
tinct and conclusive understanding te-
tween Mr.. Tilden and his New York
friends that he would not be candidate,
they did not deal ingenuously. Mr.. Ran
dali, who was q delegate from this state
and who was for Mr.. Tilden and only a
candidate himself in the event that Mr..
Tilden was not, had an interview with
Mr.. Tilden on his way to the Gin
cinnati convention the Sunday before
it's meeting, and after that he went
on to the convention, impressed with the
idea that Mr.. Tilden was and would
continue to be candidate. Mr.. .Randall's
own candidacy, which developed only
after he himself reached Cincinnati and
Mr.. Tilden's carefully withheld declina.
tion was produced, was embarrassed by
his presence there, as if he were person.
ally directing his own canvass.
1t was the general impression of intel
ligent Observers there and then that
Mr.. Tilden had acted badly with Mr..
Randall and had rendered his nomina
ton impossible that he had also been
toying with the Payne forces and that
bis letter of declination had never been
intended to be produced until his nomi
nation was seen to be impossible. Had
his withdrawal been unequivocal and
unmistakable long in advance of that
convention, its result might have been
different. Gen. Hancock 8 support in this
state was rather resort of the opposition
to Tilden than the outgrowth of sincere
interest or confidence in his own candi.
dacy and it was only when the positive
aggressive anti-Tilden sentiment of the
Convention was found to be the most
radical element of its composition thai
the scattering Hancock forces were
welded into an organized and controlling
power. If Mr.. Tilden was from the
start sincere in his withdrawal and hi:
friends had acted upon that theory ht
could have controlled the nomination.
1t is this disposition on his part and
theirs to a policy of indirectiOn ant
evasion that creates such antagonism Il
them. If he is not a candidate now ant
under no circumstances will consent tt
be it would be an easy matter for him tt
say so, himself, in terms not to be mis-
understood. Meanwhile Mr.. Hendrick
rises up to declare himself, substantially
for the old ticket, which IS interpreted t.
mean that, if Mr.. Tilden is not a candi.
date, Mr.. Hendricks will take frs
place from his friends, and if he is a can
didate Mr.. Hendricks is not to be counted
among his competitors. The New Yorl
Sun, which sometimes seems to speal
for Mr.. Tilden and often does not, ora
cularly lays it down that if Ohio i:
unanimously for Thurman, while Indiana
and Illinois are not united in favor o.
Mcdonald and Palmer, Thurman will bt
the candidate if Indiana is unanlmou:
for Mcdonald, while Ohio and IllinOi:
are divided, then Mcdonald will be The
candidate and if Illinois is unanimOu:
for Palmer, while Ohio and Indiana art
divided, then Palmer will be the candi
date.' 1t might go further and say a.
as much for New York, Pennsyl
vania or any other doubtful
state, that if their Democrats were
unitedly for one candidate, and
those of no other state agreed upon a
candidate, the man with the big state
behind him would have the best chance
But as no state as yet seems to be
able to settle its own differences, spec.
ulations upon the next Democratic
candidate are no more valuable than the
opinions of Bunsby, and the field is
much stronger than any favOrite.
The sold Ticket"
An interview with Thomas A. Hen
bricks is published, which represents
that statesman as under the impression
that there is a strong feeling in the coun-