The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-16
OLD TICKET REDIVIVUS.
The Boom Gathering Force and At
tracing Political Attention.
The Recent Saratoga Interview Accepted as
an Indication of Tilden's Willing
ness to Make the Race.

The boom for the old ticket oil 1llden ana
Hendricks seems to be gathering new force
every day, and sagacious politicians are free
to admit that it would sweep the country by
an unprecedented majority
I Mr. Hendricks's willingness to accept po-
sition on the ticket is treated as a significant
event. The position is taken that it would be
impossible for Mr., Tilden at this time 10 stand
in the way of general or organized demand
for historic yindication OF the great wrong
and injustice perpetrated by the installation
OF Hayes as President. Mr.. Tiiden can never
again be a candidate for Office until the peo-
pie shall require it for the purposes OF this
vindication. He is not candidate, this is
absolute. 1t is equally absolute that if de-
mand should arise spontaneously, and the
convention should renominate him, he will
not repeat the personal plea presented in his
great letter to the Cincinnati convention. The
ball is not set in motion by Mr.. Tilden or
his friends Mr.. Hendricks has at last risen
to sense of the true Democratic issue.
The movement must be worked
out in this way-initiated by
Mr.. Hendricks and reaching the day
of election without word or act on Mr.. Til
denis part, but resting on this joint response
bility 1t is further stated that Mr.. Tilden
is perfectly informed of the activity OF
great number of persons for the odd ticket,
On the subject of the labors of the office, 1t
is suggested that by attention to principles
instead of mere details his engergies would
amply suffice, and it is well remarked i'll ref
erence to Mr.. Arthur that his labor is in
large degree gastronomic. Mr. Kelly is
kindly spoken OF and his opposition recog-
nized, but even if disposed to oppose the
ticket he could not carry off his followers,
and the vote of New York would be cast for
Tlden, as it was in 1876, by great majority.
Pulitzer's Impressions of Tilden.
New York World.
The editor of the World accidentally en-
joyed the pleasure of Mr. Tilden's company
while the latter came in yesterday from Yon-
kers. We are prepared to dispose alike of
the sensational stories of Mr.. Tilden's ex-
treme weakness and of the equally sensation
al stories OF his exceptional vigor,
In the first place, Mr. Tilden must be an
early riser as he boarded the train which
leaves Tarrytown a few minutes after eight.
In the next place, Mr.. Tilden was not accom-
panied by any servant. In the third place,
Mr.. Tildens walk is perfectly easy and his
figure more erect than that of most people of
his age.
He walked down the aisle of one of the or
binary cars quietly and naturally. With his
plain straw hat, his cean-shaven face, he at
tracted no more attention than any other of
the thousand elderly business men who
come into New York on the morning trains
of the Hudson River road,
As to his health, we are not prepared to
give physicians diagnosis nor physicians
certificate. But if clearness of complexion
and brightness of the eye are safe indications,
Mr.. Tilden is certainly as healthy man as
he was seven years ago. His complexion is
certainly fresher and healthier, and his look
has no indication of weakness about it. The
partial paralysis or palsy, or nervous affec-
ton, or whatever ii is of his right arm and
hand, continues, and he is probably unable
to make any efficient use of that arm but as
for his going to sleep, or slipping from his
seat or needing assistance, it is absurd. The
Southern Congressman's" description is so
evidently borrowed from Dickens's descrip-
ton of Grandfather Smallweed as not to
need notice.
Mr.. Tilden's voice has not changed notice
ably 1t is hardly strong enough to be heard
across the roar and rattle OF a railroad train
speeding by the cuts and hillsides, but his
voice was never strong When a man habit
ually talks in low tone of voice as Mr. Til
den has done always, it is a sign that his
vocal muscles and organs are not strong.
low voice is a type OF character, just as a
| loud voice is a type of another kind of char
acter At no period OF his life could Mr..
Tilden have been loud-voiced speaker like
one of Shakespeares ''robustuous, periwig-
affected in any way, and, except when his
| voice was drowned by the noise of the train,
his remarks reached his hearer
He talked freely and fiuently; whatever
impairment his body may have suffered his
mind is as clear as ever. His memory is re-
markedly retentive and accurate, extending
to trihing incidents that one would hardly
expect him to recall. He talked about poll
tics, about the electoral commission, the
dangers of interviewing and other natural
topics of a half-hours ride. There is no
doubt that he still maintains the same keen
interest in and intelligent attention to poll
tics and to business
Is he candidate for the presidency?
He does not look like a man who was wor-
rying himself about it,
But we are inclined to think that Mr.. Til
den is not very angry to hear himself talked
| about for the nomination. In fact, we rather
judge from mis- healthy complexion that he
could be persuaded to Serve another term.
How 1t Is Regarded in New York.