The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-13
TEL.I..EGRAP 5IC
TILIDEN.
Henry Watterson has Talk With
the Old Statesman.

the Old Statesman.
New York, l2.-Honorable Henry
Watterson, 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 morrow morn ng: have been
spending few days in Greystone with
Governor Tilder, and not mtr ly because
of his old friends in the west and south
have an ever present personal interest in
him, but bec8use his name is at this mo-
ment upon the lips Of politicians of every
class, all over the country. propose to
give the readers of the COITieT-J ouTndJ
some particular account Of him. When 1
parted from him year ago /
never expected to see MIN again.
Indeed, l also was so skeptical of the
stories concerning his restoration to
health, IS to feel delicacy about intro
ducing myself on his privacy. He was
good enough to send for me-. I went
over tosGramme!cy Park in somewhat
sorrowful, sympathetic state Of mind.
My surprise almost exceeded my gratifi- :
cation. The old house is undergc ing
reconstruction and enlargement on 8
magnificent SCALE but the old library is
still the same, being held from the hand
Of despoiling splendor for the last, I
take it, as tribute of sfectionste remem-
brance of old times and old books. Then
l found the governor, If an spDariiion
had stood before ne, could not have
been mora astonished. The days of
1857 emeG to Rave come back, His
low voice WAS found again; bis eyes were
hrTO hsa be in4a
wss as bright and clear and his wit as in
cisive as Shen he made nothing of rid =
ing Blackstone" to HARM on horseback
or driving Kentucky Boys" from
Grsmmercy Park to . Gray stone.
de took me over his new house pointing
out the various changes, explaining his
general design and discussing architec.
ture and architects with characteristic
intelligence. He quite tired me out. II
was astonishing tn way he was punish
ing his friends, clint ing along stAira,
meGnderirg through labyrinths of deco
rative art and threading tspestried and
| frescoed mEzos of corridor and cham Der
On current affairs he talked with hiG
usual pungency and csndor. When en-.
durauce had ceased to be virtue said,
Governor, don't you think we have had
enough Of this?" He smiled, and in hil
dry, half plying, half sarcastic way, re.
piled: "If you are tired we will 60 down
stairs" At Grsystone his life is of the
simplest and busiest kind. He has 8
iarmyard by and no end of pigs, poultry
and blooded stock of course. I had tc
be dragged over this farm, and the de-
vices which the old gentleman put slyly
forth TO trap me into some unguarded
treason to the butter and eggs of the blue
grass Country were many and ingenious
l stood my ground like be; but it mus
be owned that the governors farming il
Ike everything he undertakes, thor
oughly we'll done. asked him whether
he tried to make any money out Of it
"Oh, no,o he said, ''It is easier mad
some other way" While was at Gray.
stone, not so much as shadow or q
ghost OF politician crossed the threshold
or appeared upon the grounds. Sur.
rounded by his nieces and his books,
the old statesman and phiioso.
pher was ns unreserved il
his conversation as he wa
and always is simple and cordial in hi
hospitality. One OF the young ladies tolC
me that the little household had go
| LuTOQku ONOE ZUO NOluVcH IASI Wlul0T
The governor is aIvoracious and vereatile
reader, no less than an attentive and wise
observer of affairs, and we talked o.
everything from Thomas A. Kemps, to
Thos. A. Hendricks. He playfully OBJ
served that the chief objection he had
heard TO The election Of Mr.. Carlisle ia
the speakership was that 10 some receni
volumes published by one AIR, Froude
there wss a suspicion that he had mis-.
treated his wife.
Here L must stop. I know that the
public is most curious to learn whs! are
Mr.. Tiden's views of political affairs
current and prospective. have little
doubt that, il / had right &c
speak 1 could, by faithfully re-
porting home, make myself at once in
teresting and instructive, but the opinions
of every body are his own, and his house
! is IS sacred. never knew a man more
entirely frank in his Intercourse with
his friends than this sage Of GrsystOne;
but am not his mouihpiece, and it ii
not for me to come all the way from
Kentucky to New York etc., to Go that
which he is so much better able to dc
himself. can say, however, for myself,
that nothing passer which leads me &c
modify the opinion have so often ex'
pressed, that no power on earth could IN.
I duce him to accent the presidency