Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-26
Especial Telegram to the Globe. !

reached the city, within the last few days
that fall ON the Democratic ear like a voice
from the tomb. The fiuttering among the
party leaders who have heard the welcome
or unwelcome news is an indication of JOY
or trepidation that will seize on
the rank and file of the
Democracy when the facts are
better known. The tidings are that s. j.
Tilden, whilom of Gramercy park, but
more recently known as the "Hermit of
Greystone" has got new lease of life and
proposes to re-enter @he political arena.
Gentlemen who have visited Greystone
during the last month are surprised and
delighted at a marked and rapid improve
ment in Mr. Tilden's condition of general
health.
They say his voice is restored, and is now
clear and firm; his eye is brilliant and
penetrative. His nerves are steadier and
his carriage erect and his tread almost
martial in its evenness and solidity. His
mental vigor, which always remained un-
impaired even in his worst bodily estate,
now acts with his restored condition, re-
cuperated energy and nervous power. In
q word he appears to be
we'll and thinks he is about entering upon
that Indian summer of life which has been
vouchsafed so many men of the present
and past generations. In fact, he attrib-
utes his restoration to health in a great
part to his following the example of his
friend, Chas. O'Connor who, after escaping
from the jaws of death, dismissed his doc
tors, ''threw physic to the Dogs and
retiring from the active duties OF the
world lived a regular life and allowed
nature to recuperate.
Mr.. Tilden fully understood what he was
about when he retired to his country seat
at Greystone and allowed it to be given
in the field of politics, and
might not much longer be in the
land of the living. He desired to escape
for a time from politics, and he succeeded.
Many of them were foolish enough to in
terpret him literally as they did at Cincin-
NATL. Theie are men who have been run
ming round telling people for the past
eight months that Tilden was no
longer factor in politics; that he
was little more than corpse, and would
never be heard of any more.
Some of them really believed, but with
many more the 'wish was father of the
thought" The hermit of Greystone heard
their voices through his telephone, and was
! grieved to detect among the tones of the
! jubilant the tones of some who had always
professed to be his warmest
friends, but he allowed the jabber to go on
while he smiled and regained his health.
How quick these fellows will change their
| L., i
| they behold Sammy's head looming up
again above the political horizon. They
will find the surviving factors of the
Democratic party have a lively corpse on
| their hands when the next presidential
campaign opens.
| A few of Mr.. Tilden's friends have un-
derstood the situation all the while, and
have known the motives and objects of his
retirement, but the public generally have
accepted the reports of politicians as true
and have come to regard the sage
of "Gramercy Park'' as de-
funct politician and almost a dead man.
And yet they have had some misgivings
about it when they read in the New York
papers that Tilden was spending $4,000
on new banquet hall in the Gramercy
park residence. Such extravaganza ap-
peared to the common mind uncalled for
in the corpse of bachelor, and not in ac-
cordance with the usual prudence and fore
sight of Mr.. Tilden if he was so
near his end as reported. But the public will
learn in time that the $4O,O00ldining room
was destined for the future use of its owner
and his friends, and not for the mourners
at his funeral. Its frescoed ceilings are
yet to echo sounds of revelry by night, and
may be, too, resound with the cheers of fu-
ture Democratic triumphs.
There are shrewd politicians who be-
ieve that the Gramercy park mansion will
be the real headquarters of the national
Democratic party in the campaign of
1884. Mr.. Henry Tilden, a brother of
Samuel j., has been in Albany the last two
days, and fully confirms the reports of the
great improvement in his brothers
health, although he is reticent
about his future plans and prospects. But
Samuel was never in the habit of pouring
into the ears of Henry his political or
private schemes. He reserves these for
his special friends and admirers in the
| world of politics, who are sincerely devoted
| to his fortunes. He is reported to have had
recent accession to this select circle in
the person of Roscoe Conkling. Something
| in the nature of an alliance, offensive and
defensive, is said to have been lately con-
| tracted between these two disappointed
statesmen. 1t is known that Conkling was
| in favor of counting Tilden into Office
in 1876 on the ground, as he
claimed, that it would be b est for the Re-
publican party ultimately. What he was
willing to do in 1876 for Republicans, he
is said to be anxious to do now for revenge.
Mr.. Tilden gladly accepts him as an ally
without scrutinizing his motives. If success
crowns the alliance Conkling will get his
reward. In any event it can't be less than
he has right to expect from his own party
| in future.
| Mr.. Tilden is reported to have been led
| to entertain the idea of re-entering the po-
litical arena not more by his improved
health than by his great disgust at seeing
the Democratic party fritter away oppor-
tunities and privileges gained in
| the tidal wave triumph
of November. 1t grieyes him to behold
the shortsightedness of Democratic poll
ticians who are running the party, and the
pettiness of the motives that actuate them.
He and his friends see the need of an ex-