Connecticut western news., 1884-06-18
SAMUEL J. TTLDEN SPEAKS
HE CANNOT AGAIN BE A CANDIDATE
 FOR PRESIDENT.
His Positive Declaration of 1880 Repeated md for the Same RensOns He Announ- ces that His Political Career Is Closed Forever.

NEW YORK, June 10, 1884. To Daniel Manning, Chairman of the Demo
 cratic State Committee of New York:
 In my letter of June IS, 1880, addressed to the delegates from the State of New York to inc Democratic National Convention, said:
 "Having now borne faithfully my full sharo of labor and care in the public service, and wearing the marks of it's burdens, I desire nothing so much as an honorable discharge. I wish to lay down the honors and tolls of even quasi party leadership, and to seek the repose of private life. dency do so with no doubt in my mind as to inc vote of the State of New York, or of the ITnited States but because believe that 1t IS a renunciation of reelection to the Presidency.
 "To those who think my renomination and reelection indispensable to an eifectual vindi- cation of the right of the people 10 elect their corded as long reserve of my decision as pos sible, but cannot overcome my repugnance to enter into o new engagement which involve; four years of ceaseless toll.
 GsThe dignity of the Presidential office is above a merely personal ambition, but il creates in me no illusion. Its value is 8 great power for good to the country. ] said four years ago in accepting nomination:
 "Knowing as do, therefore, from fresh ex perienee how great the difference Is between gliding through an official routine and work ing out reform of systems and policies, it is impossible for me to contemplate what needs to be done in the Federal administration with. out an anxious sense of tho difficulties of the undertaking. It summoned by the suffragei of my countrymen to attempt this work, shall endeavor, with Gods help, to be the ef fcent instrument of their will.
 'Such work of renovation after many year. of misrule, such reform of systems and policies, to which I would cheerfully have sac Tificed all that remained to me of health ane life, is now, fear, beyond my strength" My purpose to withdraw from further pub lie service, and the grounds of it, were at tha time well known to you and to others; anc | when at Cincinnati, though respecting my wishes yourself, you communicated to me aI appeal from many valued friends to relinquisl I that purpose, I reiterated my determination internationally.
 | In the four years which have since elapsed nothing has occurred to weaken, but every | thing to strengthen, the considerations whiel induced my withdrawal from public life. T, all who have addressed me on the subject m, | intention has been frankly communicated 1 Several of my most confidential friends, unde | the sanction of their own names, have publicl! | stated my determination to be irreversible | That have occasion now to consider the ques tion is an event for which have no responsi | bility. The appeal made to me by the Demo ! cratic masses, with apparent unanimity l. ! serve them once more is entitled to the mos 1 deferential consideration, and would inspire | disposition to do anything desired of me, if i
 were consistent with my judgment of duty. | 1 believe that there is no instrumentality il human society so potential in it's influence upol mankind for good or evil, as the governments | machinery for administering justice, and fo making and executing laws. Not all the eleemos | ynary institutions of private benevolence t | winch philantbrophists may devote their lives I AF,.I | preservation of this machinery from the per | versions that make 1t the instrument of con | spiracy, fraud, and crime, against the mos
 sacred rights of the people.
 | For fifty years, as private citizen, neye
 contemplating an official career, I have de | voted at least as much thought and effort { l the duty of influencing aright the action c
 the governmental institutions of my country | as to all other objects. I have never accepte
 official service, except for brief period, for | special purpose, and only when the occasion
 seemed to require from me that sacrifice 0
 private preferences to the public welfare. l I undertook the State administration of Ne'
 York because it was supposed that in that wa | only could the Executive power be arrayed O l the side of the reforms to which, as priyat
 citizen, had given three years of my li:o.
 I accepted the nomination for the Prei I deucy i'll 1876 because of the general conyiC | tion that my candidacy would best present tn | lsSub LII TeIOIIn Lilt 1el0OGlALlC nAlnTlt | Of the people desired to have worked out in tn Federal government as 1t had been in that Q l the State of New York. believe that ha | strength enough then to renoyate the admins tration of the Government of the Unite States, and at the close of my term to han
 over the great trust to a successor faithful t | the same policy.
 Though anxious to seek the repose of pr vate life, nevertheless acted upon the idle | that every power IS trust, and involves
 duty. In reply to the address of the commit
 tee communicating my nomination. depicte the difficulties of the undertaking, and lkene | my feelings in engaging in it to those of sol
 dier entering battle, but did not withhold th entire conservation of my powers to the publi
 service
 Twenty years of continuous maladministra
 ton, under the dsmoraiizing influences of in testine war, and of bad finance, have infecte
 the whole government system of the Unitet States with the cancerous growths of false con structions and corrupt practices. Powerful classes have acquired pecuniary interests II | official abuses, and the moral standards of tn i people have been impaired. To redress thes
 evils is work of great difficulty and labor | and cannot be accomplished without tue mos energetic and efficient personal action on thu | part of the Chief Executive of the republic.
 The canvass and administration which it | desired that should undertake would embrac l period of nearly five years. Nor can adml
 any illusion as to their burdens. Three year l of experience in the endeayor to reform tn municipal government of the city of New York ! and two years of experience in renoyating tn administration of the State of New York, hay
 made me familiar with the requirements O | such work.
 At the present time the consideration
 which induced my action in 1880 have be i come imperative. 1 ought not to assume
 task which have not the physical strength t | carry through. To reform the administratio | of the Federal government; to realize my owl | ideal, and to fulfil the just expectations of tn ! people, would indeed warrant, as they coul l alone compensate, the sacrifices which the un | dertaking would involve. But, in my condi 1 tion of advancing years and declining l strength, feel no assurance of my ability [
 accomplish those objects. l am, therefore I constrained to say, definitiyely, that canno
 now assume the labors of an administrator | or of a canvass.
 l Underwriting in no wise that best gift 0 | Heaven-the occasion and the power some | times bestowed upon 8 mere individual t ] communicate an impulse for good; gratefu | beyond all words to my countrymen who wouh | assign such beneficent function to me, 1 al | consoled by the reflection that neither tn l Democratic party, nor the republic for who's future that party is the best guarantee, is now or ever can be, dependent upon any one ma for their successful progress in the path of noble destiny.
 Having given 10 their welfare whatever c
 health and strength possessed or could bol
 TOW from the future, and having reached tn
 term of my capacity for such labors as thei welfare now demands, but submit to the wi
 of God in deeming my public career foreye
 closed SAMUEL J. InpEN.