The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-08
TIE ZINE ITALIAN HAND
or TiIden Ones more Grssping the ReIns
of the Democracy.

VI th6 RethuCEAcys
NEw YoRE, June THE Hendricks
interview hasaroused some interest amopg
the Democracy in this city. Mr.. Tilden's
friends have lost no time in disarranging
the old ticket plans Of the Hoosier states
man by the announcement that in no case
can Mr.. Tilden be candidate. 1t is a fact
beyond contradiction that Mr.. Tilden is
entirely out Of the race. There can be no
circumstance, no combination which, his
warmest friends declare, will change his
purpose.
This positive announcement, coming, as
It does, 80 early after Mr. Hendricks re.
Tented, is most pointed. The deg may have
wanted 10 wag his tail in 1880, but In no
case can the tail wag the dog in 1884. That
is Mr.. Tilden's ultimatum, and his name
will never more be connected with that OF
Mr.. Hendricks. Such connection was
not very pleasant for either party.
"REMINISCENCES OF '76 AND 80.
Mr.. Hendricks thought Mr.. Tilden ought
to have been the vice.presidential candi-
date in 1876. When the candidates met
at Saratoga to compare their letters Of &C.
ceptance Mr.. Tilden's good nature was
shocked, and all his bachelor instincts
aroused by the gossips about the hotel,who
reported Mrs Hendricks as saying that Til.
denis money had bought place which her
husbands abilities had earned. The two
gentlemen met in the most formal way, and
they have 10: seen each other since. In
1880 Mr. Hendricks set up for himself, and
publicly said that he had played sec.
ond fiddler long enough, when Mr.
Tilden at once saw Hendricks action made
his nomination and complete party har.
mony impossible. So he declined the
honor in letter 70 the Cincinnati Conven.
tion, which his friends have always said
was entirely sincere. Then it was that 10.
seph Z. Mcdonald, Indiana's Senator, who
was delegate to the Convention, instruct.
ed for Hendricks, could have been nomi-
mated, but the'story goes that Mrs. Hen.
bricks would not allow her husband to
retire, and Mcdonald refused support
which would have made him formidable
and perhaps successful. Hancock was
named, and another fatal Democratic mis-.
take made.
M'DoNALD on THE TRACK.
It is now believed that Mr.. Tilden's
friends, who'are powerful especially in the
West and South, have agreed to put for.
ward Mcdonald for the race next year, and
it looks on the surface as II such were the
case. Mr.. Mcdonald is, undoubtedly, one
OF the ablest Democrats in the land. His
nomination would, in 1880, possibly have
pleased Mr.. Tilden, and the present cir.
cumstances have emphasized the desire OF
the Iatter's friends to give Mr.. Hendricks
gentle rebuke.
1t is a long time before the Democratic
Convention meets, and many things may
happen, but unless all purely political signs
fail, the Tilden contingent will be forced
into opposing Mr.. Hendricks old ticket
by supporting the new Indiana candidate.
"Let bygones be bygones" will be the
party cry, and II Mr. Hendricks objects to
hearing the knell which dooms his political
hopes be can recant his recantation about
the insigniiicance OF tails to Presidential
ticket, and turn in for his staunch friend Of
1880, Joseph E. Mcdonald.