Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-03-27
EGREGIOUS NONSENSE.

The most absurd idea possessed by por-
tion of the Democratic press, headed by the
Ishmael Dana, of the New York S,n, which
is neither fish, flesh nor fowl, and whose ut
terances on so vital point as affecting
Democratic prospects in the South, should
be taken with great allowance, is the effort
to get up boom for Tilden as the next
Democratic nominee for President. Two
propositions, if no others could be adduced,
render all the talk on the subject absurdly
ridiculous. First, his age and bodily mfr
nifty. If we mistake not, he is near, II
not quite, 20 years of age, and all accounts
agree in representing him as bodily infirm
almost to helplessness. Secondly and more
potently, if interviewers are to be relied
upon, he has said, and reiterated the state
ment, that he does not wish the nomination
and will not accept it if rendered. This
should close the question and remove all
doubt in the premises. But it does not.
The Atlanta Constitution of a late date con-
tains what purports to be an interview be-
tween one of the staff Of that paper, and
Mr.. Tilden, in which the latter is made to
say that he will not accept the nomination;
and yet the very same paper is laboring
industriously to manufacture Tilden SEN
timent in Georgia. With all the needed
physical qualifications for the office-his
mental abilities are not denied-we doubt
if he would be acceptable to majority OF
the Democratic party, and when he says
emphatically that he does not want the
nomination, we think that political senti-
mentality is reduced to fine point by the
persistency in which his name is urged on
the plea that it is due to him, he having
been defrauded out Of his election eight
years ago. We are not prepared to say that
he was not elected then; but with this much
in his favor to start with in the next Presi-
dental campaign, he would not prove an
available standard bearer. He did not en-
thuse the Democracy to any great extent
eight years ago, and his nomination now
would fall upon the party flat and ensure
defeat, where, with man adapted to the
times, victory is possible.
On the subject of Mr.. Tilden's health, the
well-informed Washington correspondent
of the Augusta Chronicle writes:
81 do not deny that Mr.. Tilden could get
the nomination, but l seriously doubt his
acceptance of it, under any conceivable cir
cumstances. He is paralyzed everywhere
except in the brain, and that may be in
volved at any moment. He cannot cut his
food or carry it to his mouth. All motion
is painful and rapidly becoming impossible.
He is losing control of the muscles Of his
mouth, and saliva trickles from it disagree
ably. DR.. Austin Flint, his physician, pro-
nounces that if he accepted the nomination
he would not survive it thirty days. Is the
Democratic party prepared to nominate
man who may die during the campaign?
That would be frightful and disastrous be-
yond expression. John Kelly makes no op-
position because he hopes that Tilden may
win the fight, but that Hendricks, his friend,
will be the residuary legatee. | am begin
ming to believe that the Tilden movement,
however genuine and spontaneous, is des-
tined, by the very necessity of the case, to
die out. 1t is a sensation that can hardly
last to the accomplishment of its object.
The party has wild desire to do now what
it should have done nearly four years ago.
1t is remorse of vindication that has come
too late. And yet what distemper it man
tests in party that turns to a palsied old
man, on the verge of the grave, and asks for
deliverance from the wrath to Gomez"