The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-13
And Announces that the Cipherer
Will Not Be a Candidate.
On the Contrary, the New York World Has
Information that the Sage Is Seeking
the Nomination.
MIR. TILDEN.
Mr.. Watterson Declares He Could Not Be In
duced to Accent a Nomination

ouceO TO accept q nomination.
LOUISVILLE, June 12-Hon Henry Waiter
son, editor of the Courier-Journal, recently
visited Mr.. Tilden at Greystone and will
print the following in his paper tomorrow;
have been spending few days at Grey
stone with Governor 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 politicians of every class
all over the country, 1 propose to give the
readers of the Courier-Journal some particu-
lar account of him. When l parted from
him, year ago. never expected to see him
again. Indeed, l was so skeptical Of tine
stories concerning his restoration to health
as to feel delicacy about intruding upon
his privacy. He was good enough to send
for me, and l went over to Gramercy
Park in a somewhat sorrowful, SYM
pathetic state of mind. My surprise
almost exceeded my qualification. The old
house is undergoing reconstruction and en-
largement on magnificent scale, but the old
| library is still the same, being held from the
hand of the workman for the last take it.
as a tribute of affectionate remembrance of
old times, old friends and old books. There
| found the Governor. If an apparition had
stood before me l could not have been more
| astonished. The days of Us, '76 and III
seemed to have come back-his low voice
was found again; his eyes were bright and
his cheeks rosy; his intellect as
sinewy and clear, and his wit as
incsive as they were when he
made nothing of riding Blackstone to Har-
lem and back or driving the Kentucky bays
from Gramercy Park to Greystone. He
took me all over the new house. pointing
out the various changes explaining his gem
eral design, and discussing architecture and
architects with characteristic intelligence.
He quite tired me out-a favorite and maev-
olent way he has of Furnishing his friends
climbing long stairs, meandering through
labyrinths OF decorative art, and threading
the tapestried and frescoed mazes of 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 this2'
He smiled, ana in his dry, half plying,
half sarcastic way, replied, "If you are tired
we will go down stairs"
At Greystone his life is of the simplest and
busiest. He has farm hard by, and no end
of pigs poultry and blooded stock OF course
had to be dragged over this farm, and the
devices which the old gentleman put slyly
forth to trap me into some unguarded 'trea-
soH to the butter and eggs of my bluegrass
country" were many and ingenious. l stood
my ground like hero, but it must be owned
that fine Governors farming is, like every
llllIB ne uuOSTIdheS, Well uOne.
| asked him whether he tried TO make any
money out of it.
"Oh no." he said; 'it is made some other
way"
| While was at Greystone not so much as
| the shadow or the ghost of q politician
crossed the Threshold or appeared upon the
grounds. Surrounded by his nieces and his
| books, the old statesman and philosopher
was as unreserved in his conversation as he
was and always is simple and cordial IN his
hospitality.
One of the young ladies' told me that the
| little household had got through over 200
volumes during the last winter. The Gov
ernor is a voracious and versatile reader, no
less than an attentive and wise observer
of affairs, and we talked of every
thing, from Thomas a Kempis to Thomas
A. Hendricks. He playfulty observed that
the chief objections he had heard to the cleo
ton of Mr. Carlisle to the speakership was
that in some recent volumes, published by
one Mr. Froude, there was suspicion that
he had mistreated his wife.
Here 1 must stop. / know that the pub
lie is most curious to learn what are Mr.
Tilden's views of the political affairs, current
and prospective. l have little doubt that,
had l the right to speak could by faithfully
reporting him, make myself at once enter
tanning and instructive; but the opinions of
every man are his own, and his
house is sacred. | never knew q man more
entirely frank in his intercourse with his
friends than this sage of Greystone. But l
am not his mouthpiece, and it is not for me
| to come all the way from Kentucky to New
York to do that which he is SO much better
able to do for himself. l can say however
for myself, that nothing passed which leads
me to modify the opinion | have so often ex-
pressed, that no power on earth could induce
him to accept the presidency,
Mr.. Tnden Busily Laying Pipes to Secure the
Democratic Nomin alton.
Albany Special to New York World
The trip of Mr. Manning, the chairman of
the State convention, to New York and his
| interview in the Sun about Mr. Tilden and
the convention of 1880 turns out not to have
| been the accidental affair that it was an
nounced. A member of the State committee
who has been let into the secret informs me
tha the sending of the interview was all ar
ranged at Greystone, and that it was put out
fall as preliminary to 1884 The same per-
son states that "Mr. Manning had two
or three consultations with Mr.. Tilden
at Greystone and Gramercy Park and
that the programme for this year was
all mapped out while there. The result is
| that some of the politicians who have
acted as couriers in the past for Mr. Tilden
! were sent for and requested to commence
their work again as on former occasions. The
Manning interview was all an arranged ruse
to throw the politicians off the scent until
Mr.. Tilden's agents get their work in. l tell
| you the plans are all made. The politicians,
outside OF the few in the scent, don't believe
that Mr., Tlden is a candidate, but have
positive evidence that he is. l obtained my
information from one of Mr.. Tildens old
workers, who has been sent for and requested