Daily globe., 1883-07-28
Will HE BE A CANDIDATEe

NAL that he will accept a nomination under
any circumstances, yet it does not assume
to say it is authorized so to speak, but
seems, rather, willing to have it inferred
that it speaks by authority.
Some days since the GLOBE took the po-
sition that as Mr.. Tilden we'll knows the
discussion that is going forward, and the
assertions and denials as to his candida
ture, it is fair to infer, in the absence of
any refusal on his part, that he is willing
to accept nomination if rendered him by
his party. The New York World, of late
date takes the same position. It says:
''How easy Mr.. Tilden might settle this con-
troversy among his friends! A few words
would dispose of the vexed question. Whatever
his decisions might be, such letter as he can
write would make an admirable opening of this
years important campaign in the State''
We can readily see, with all due defer
once to our esteemed contemporary, that
Mr.. Tilden might regard it indelicate to
write letter avowing that he is anxious
or even willing to accept a nomina-
tion, thus putting himself in
the attitude of self-seeking,
Or of self-nomination; while there would
be no indecorum involved in his positive
authorization of a statement that he would
not accept nomination, if such is really
his position. In the absence of any such
negation, as we have said, it is right and
proper, to infer, and the inference is not
violent one, that if he does not person
ally seek, he will not decline a nomina-
tion.
Those who take the position of the Sun,
and do not decry him on the alleged
ground of physical and mental infirmity,
nevertheless wish to hedge him about, an d
weaken him before the public and set the
current in regard to the Democratic
nomination for the Presidency in some
other direction. This question, even this
vexed question, should, in some way, find
a solution, and should not
much longer be left to
unauthorized assertion, or denial, or unsat-
isfying inference. Mr.. Tilden may yet find
it necessary, in Difference to the wishes of
his personal friends, and in behalf of the
welfare of the party, to be restrained no
longer by motives of delicacy, but to come
out decisively and define his position. The
World again says:
''There is room for dispute and doubt as to
Mr.. Tllden's position in regard to the presiden-
tial nomination. Some of his closest friends,
who ought to be well acquainted with his wish
es, insist that Mr.. Tilden is prepared to accept
nomination from the Democratic National con-
vention next year, and to endure the labor of a
campaign, provided it is thought desirable to
put forth again the old ticket which was sue
cessful at the polls in 1876, but was cheated out
OF the election. Others keep reiterating the
statement that Mr.. Tilden positively refuses to
be candidate under any circumstances. The
assertion that he is willing to run appears even
to irritate them"
While this uncertainty exists in regard
to the position and wishes of the most DOW
erful and popular leader in the party, an
lnharmoniOus element of weakness is being
infused into the ranks o. >e Democracy.
and that concentration Whit s the augury
success is wanting. Let the party strength
be concentrated on the ''old ticket" let it
be nominated by acclamation in the Dem
ocratic National convention, and the tocsin
of victory will already be sounded, and it
will thrill like the voice of salvation
through all the ranks of the Democracy
and carry dismay to the fraud perpetrators
and abettors of 1876.
The attempt to mystify the public and
disparage Mr.. Tilden on the ground of
alleged mental and physical infrmity is
base, and worthy only of the spirit of the
pit Mr.. Tilden is in full mental vigor,
and is possessed of strong physical en-
endurance, the dastardly assumptions to
the contrary.
If Mr.. Tilden has his equal, he has no
superior in mental grasp and power, and
in intellectual culture and equipments,and
no man is more capable of holding the
helm of state with a steady hand than he.
In regard to Mr.. Tilden's health, we
have testimony "from personal knowl-
edge" that cannot be gainsaid or dispute d.
The New York World is of too high re-
putation to sacrifice its character for
honor or truth by stating a positive un-
truth on alleged personal
knowledge. We have the
Worlds personal veracity that Mr.. Til
denis ''health is good" In its issue of
July % 1t said:
''There is no room for dispute in regard to the
condition of Mr.. Tilden's health. We speak
from personal knowledge when we say that his
health is good, and that he is physically better
condition than he was two or three years ago.
The stories about the impairment of his facul-
ties are without foundation. They are as bru-
tai as they are false.''
This positive assertion of personal
knowledge of an honorable journal ought
to settle, once and for all, the question of
Mr. Tilden's mental and physical condi-
ion aT11 ~ IA
minded men. of whatever party.
Let the Democracy put in nomination
the old ticket next year, and the overthrow
of the dynasty of corruption is sure, with