Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Washington Post and Samuel j.
Tilden-Greeley and Tilden.
Ability and Availability = Hanoock's
Career Broadhead and Tilden on
Horseback.
Grant and Arthur and Wall Street
Peculiar Character of the Coming
COntest-The Bursting Banks.

Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-The Post
this morning says in an editorial
leader:
are entitled tn know that Samuel j. Thden Is
not an aspirant for presidential honors ut
their hands. He VIII not be n candidate be-
fore the Chicago convention and he will not
accept Its nomination under any circum.
stances.
The Post might have added that Mr..
Tilden, however painful the statement,
is incapable of serving his party,
himself or his country. Even if he
wish, as alleged, to dictate the nomi-
nation, his physical and mental condi-
ton is such that his wishes and opin-
ions can have no influence at Chicago.
1t is said that he prefers Payne or Ran
dali or Dorsheimer, Payne being his
first choice. 1t signifies nothing. Mr..
Iilden is no longer a pOnderable factor
In American politics and while
we may deplore, we must
The ablest representative of the marty
will most certainly best represent the
masses of the people and most surely
win. Availability is to be supera dded
to moral and intellectual uualifica-
tons for the candidature and for the
Office. When suggesting the names of
Dorsheimer and Hancock THE GA
ZErTE correspondent contemplated the
relations of these men to the pa,ty.
to their several states and to sectional
and other prejudices of the whole
country. If any living Democrat can
carry New York Dorsheimer can
achieve this result. Next after Sunset
Cox, he is most closely allied 10 the
Democracy of New York CITY. 1t has
been shown how naturally he draws
after him German populations of the
East. He was Tilden's fidus Achates
when Tilden was governor of New
York and is Tilden's peer in statecraft
and when we con over the long cata-
logue of Democratic leaders, DORIS
heimer as man, legislator, scholar.
speaker and thinker and as a geo
graphical fact becomes most conspicu-
Gus. 1t is needless, in a Texas news
paper, to recite Judge Hancock's per-
sonal or political virtues. He differed
radically from the majority of his par.
tisan associates in 1S6i65
put when Issues of that pc
ROD were determined by the
bsyonet, he was still a Democrat with
OUT tue shadow of turning. His
ndelity 10 the stars and stripes gave
MN unwonted influence in Washing
Ton ana ne exerted 1t persistently In
behalf OF the people of Texas. ii he
Grants encouragement, L,ndanIet
Williams, to reconsider the "opinion,,
that advised Grant to sustain Davis
and eject Coke from the governors
place, he would command the
gratitude of Texas through ali time
But Hancock devoted months and
years to the personal and political SER
vice OF those who had been, through
five years, his bitterest partisan and
political Toes. No state ever sent nm "a
representative to Washington who
rendered such extraordinary and vai,,
able services to individuals and TO the
commonwealth. If there had been NJ
hancock Texas would have remained
for an indefinite narioa
the prey of the spoiler anj
Davis and his Mamelukes have assn'
lated the state. Texas owes him every
thing, and thewhole Union confessss
the nationality" of his worth and
patriotism. "Au
MR., bRoADHEAD AND MIR. TIrnpN
ME 4 write MIR. Broadhead of
Missouri Is telling of the condition ~
MT Iliden, whom he visited last week.
He says Mr.. Tilden talks in a whisner
but that his intellect Is unimnaired
anu INA, tnat the old gentleman took
little airing on horsehacL
a few days ago. Mr.. Broadhead ssa",s
TO think that Tilden would he WILL
pleased to be renominated. There r.
700 much at stake. 1t was well enonoh
that Greeley sank into mental inaSi,
tion, since he was already beaten. We
propose TO win In this next contest
and would hardly send living cornss
House. "n'.e
Tilden, as the Post insists "a
.out Of the field,n aud IL IL
time that the people were
casting about for his substitute.
~ better ticket than that which THE
u.iAzErrE suggests can be proposed
lts claims upon popular confidenee
should be discussed. The Convention
instructed for Tilden, is practicable
uninstructed, and delegates TO CHICAGO
should know how to register the de.
crees OF the people. We would win
New York; but not by ap-