The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-06-14
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
rilden Refuses to be a Can
didate.
His Declining Years Given as
the Reason.
The Nicaraguan 1nter-Oceanic
Canal Scheme.
A Trusted Teller EmbezZles
a Cool 100000.

aCool 100000.
A Letter from Tildela.
NEW YORK, June 1.-THE follow.
mo communication from Samuel J.
TiIden has been given the Associated
Press:
NEW YORK, June 10, 'S4.
To Daniel Manning, Chairman of the
democratic State Committee, New
York:
In NV letter of June, 1884, ad-
dress ID to delegates from New York
to the Democratic National Conven-
ton, l said: "Having now borne
faithfully my full share of labor and
care in the public service and wear
ing marks of its burdens, I desire
nothing so much as an honorable dis
charge. l wish to lay down the hon
ors and tolls Of party leadership and
to seek the repose of private life. In
renouncing the denomination for
the Presidency, 1 do so with
no doubt in my mind
a. to the vote Of the State of New
York, or of the United States, but
because I believe that it Is q renunci.
alton of reelection to the Presidency.
To those who think my denomination
and reelection indispensable to an
effectual vindicatlOn of the rights Of
the people to elect their rulers, viO-
lated in my person, 1 have acceded
IS long 4 reserve of my decision as
possible, but [ cannot overcome my
repugnance to enter q new engage.
ment which involves four years of
ceaseless toll. The dignity of the
Presidential Office is ab',ve merely
personal ambition, but it creates in
ine no illusion that its value Is as
great power tor good to the
country. I said four years ago, in
accepting the nomination, knowing
as I do, therefore, from fresh sx'
perience, how great the difference ls
between gliding through an official
routine and working out reform of
systems and politics, it is i'm
possible for me to contemplate
which needs to be done in the federal
administration. Without an anxious
sense of the difficulties of the under
taking if summoned by the suffrages
of my cOuntrymen to attempt this
work I shall endeavor with Gods
help to be the efficient instrument OF
their will. Such work of renova-
ton after many years of misrule, such
a reform of systems and politics.
which l would cbeerfully have sac.
ritied all that remained to me of
health and life. is now beyond my
strength
Nv purpose to withdraw from
further public service and the grounds
oft We're 1T that time we'll known to
YOU and others, and when at Cincin~
natl, though respecting my wishes.
YOU COMMUNICATED to me an appeal
from many valued friends to re-
linquish that purpose, l reiterated
my determination uncOndltlonally.
In the four years which have since
elapsed nothing has occurred to
weaken, but everything to strength.
en-, the considerations which induced
my withdrawal from public life. To
all who have addressed me on the
subject, Ily intention has been
frankly communicated. Several of
nv most confidential friends, under
the sanction of their own names,
have publicly stated my deter
minat,on to be irrevocable. That l
have uccosion now to consider the
question is an event for which !
have no responsibility. The appeal
Nade to me by the Democratic
nasses with apparent unanimity to
serve them once more il entitled TO
the most deferential consideration.
and would inspire disposition to do
anything desired of me If 1t were
nsistent with my judgment OF
duty. l believe that there is no
fundamentally in human society so
potential in its influence upon man.
kind for good or evil as the govern
mental machinery for admins
tering justice and for making
and executing laws. Not all the
elemosyn4ry institutions of private
bent violence to which phllanthroplsts
may devote their lives are so fruitful
ia benefit as tue rescue and preser-
vation of this machinery from the
persons that make it the lnstru-
ment of conspiracy, fraud and crime
against the most sacred rights and
interests of the people For fifty
years, a. q private citizen, never
contemplating an official career. l
have devoted at least as mucn
thought and effort to the duty to In
fuencing Alright the action OF the
governmental institutions of my
country as to all other obJec's. l
have never accepted political service
except for a brief period, tor speclal
purpose and only when the occasion
seemed to require from me that sac.
rif"e of private preferences to the
public welfare. 1 undertook the
State administration Of New York
because it was supposed that IN tnal
Way only could the executive power
be arrayed on the side of the reforms
to which as a private citizen, l mao
to give three years of my ire
| accepted the nomination
for the Presidency IN 1876 because OF
the general conviction that my can
dldacy would best present the issue
Of reform which the Democratic ma
Jority of the people desired to have
worked out in the federal govern
merit as it had been that of the State
Of New York. I believed that l had
strength enough then to renovate the
administration of the government OF
The United States and at the close Of
my term to hand over the great trust
Ma successor, faithful to the same
politics. Though anxious to seek tne
aepose Of private life I nevertheless
acted upon the idea, that every power
ia trust and involves duty. In re-
ply to the address of the committee
SSoommunicating my nomination, ]
deprecated the difficulty of the ul>
H;.eItaking and likened my FEELINGS In
tIo !" these of soldier entering bat
"e, oon n9t l did not Withhold the entire
t,o,ahs,iederation of my power to the
t;uonc tf;uoac service. Twenty years of con
wh;u IIus maladministration, under
"u'ch the demoralizing influences