Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-06-15
Sound in Health, SineWy in
Mind, but he Won't Ac-
cept the Nomination.
An Interesting Letter from
Henry Watterson Telling
All About It.
The st II Route Trial-Charge of the
Court-The Jury Out Eleven
Hours without Agreement.
Various Items.
Ex-&0YernOr Tilden.

CHICAGO, June u Hon. Henry Wat
terson, who has been spending some
days with Mr.. Tilden, has written the
following account of his visit for the
Courier Journal, in which paper it will
appear to morrow morning:
Il have been spending few days at Grey
stsne with Gov, Tilden, and not merely because
his old friends in the west and south have an
ever-present PERSONAL interest in him but because
his name is at the moment upon the lips of poll
ticians of every class all over the country pro-
pose to give the readers of the Cnurier-J ournal
some particular ac cunt of him. When parted
from him year ago did never expect to see
him again. ludeed, | was so skepucal of the
stories concerning his restoration to health
as to feel a delcacy about intruding
upon his privacy. He was good enough TO send
for me and went over to Gramercy park in
somewhat sorrowful sympathetic state of mind.
My surprise almost exceeded my qualification.
The old house is undergoing reconstruction and
enlargement on magnificent SCALE but the old
library is still the same, being held from the
hand of despoiliug splendor for the last. I take
1t as tribute OF affectionate remembrance of old
times, old friends and old books. There found
the governor. If an apparition had stood before
me could not have been more astoni>hed the
days of 1867, seemed to have core back. His
low voice was fonnd again. His eyes were
bright and his cheeks rosy. His intellect as Siu-
envy ana clear, and his wi; as inclSive as they
were when he made uothlng of riding Blackstone
to Harlem and back, or driving the Kentucky
boys from Gramerey Park to Gteystene. He
took me all over the new mouse, pointing out
the various changes, explaining his gene
raj design, and discussing architecture and
architects with characteristic intelligence. He
quite tired me out, a fayoIite and maevolent
way he has of Furnishing his friends climbing
long stairs, meanderlng through labyrinths OF
decorative art and threading through the tapes
tired and frescoed mazes of the corridor and
chamber. On current affairs he talked with his
usual pungency and candor. When endurance had
ceased to be virtue | said: -" Governor, don't
you think we have had enough OF this % He
smiled, and in his dry half -pitying, hah-sarcas-
tic way, replied: IF You are tirei we will go
down stairs" At Grcyst0ne. his life is of
the simplest and busiest. He has farm hard by
and no eud of pigs, poultry and blooied stock.
OF course had to be dragged over TIE farm, and
the device which the old gent emau put siy'y
forth 10 trap me into some unguarded treason TO
the butter and eggs of my blue gras country
were many and inglorious L stool my ground
like hero, but ii must be owned that the gov
ernor's 'arming is like every thing he undertakes,
thoroughly we'll done. l asked him whether
he tried to make any money out of
it. ''0h, no." he said. 1t is easier
made some other way. While l was at Grey
etOHe, uOI SO lnuCn as the Slau0W o. the g0OSt OF
u ponIlclan crossed thu Inresnhold, or gppeared
upon the grounds. Surrounded by his nieces and
his books, the old statesm and phiieso gher was
as unreserved in his conversation as he was and
always is simple and cordial in his hospitality.
One ef the young ladies told me that the little
household had got through over tive hundred
volumes the last winter The governor is a vora-
cOuS and ersatie reader no less than an attentive
and wise observer of affairs, and takes note of
everyth hing from Thomas K. Kempis to Th ,mas
A. Hendricks. He llaytul,y observed, that the
chief objection he had heard to the election of
oil Mr.. Carlisle to the Speakership, was that in
some recent volumes published bv one Mr. Fraude,
there was a suspicI that he mlstreated his wife.
Here l must stop. l know that the PUB ic is
INST curious to learn what are Mr.. Tilden's
views of polit cal affairs. current and prospect
I'VE. l have little doubt that, ii L had the
right to speak, [ could b. faithfully reporting
him make myself at once entertaining and in
structive; but the opi ions of every man are his
own, and his house is sacred. / never bnew a
man more entirely frank in his intercourse with
his friends thsn this sage of Greystone,
but l not his mouthpiecs and it is
not for to come all the way from
Kentucky to New York to do that which he is so
much better able to do for himself. / can say,
however, for myself, that nothing passed which
leads me to modify tn opinion have so often
expressed, that no pewer on earth could induce
him to accept the presidency.
Signed, II. W.