Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-12
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. TILDBN HEARD FROM He Declines To Be A Can
 didate. HIS PUBLIC CAREER CLOSED. Done Forever With Cares
 Of Office. THE OTHERS IN THE FIELD. Butler To Run For The
 Greenbackers.
THE OTHERS IN THE FIELD.
POLITICAL.

Relief for the Remaining Candidates
 NEW YORK, June 1.-The following letter aas been furnished for publication
 NEW YORK, June 10, 1884, Daniel Manning. Chairman Democratic State
 committee of New York:
 In my letter of June Is, 1880, addressed to he delegates from the State of New York to Having now borne faithfully my full share of labor and care in the public service and wearing the marks of it's burdens, desire nothing so much as an honorable discharge. [ wish to lay down the honors and tolls of sven quasi party leadership and to seek the repose of private life. In renouncing the nomination for the presidency do so with State of New York or of the United States, but because I believe that it is 8 renunciation of re election to the presidency. To those who think my renomination and reelection to an efectual vindication of the right of people to elect their rulers, violated in my person, I have accorded as long reserve of my decision as possible. but [ cannot overcome my repugnance to enter into a new engagement which involves four presidential office is above merely personal ambition, but it creates in me no illusion. Its value is ss 8 great power for good to the country. I said four years ago in accepting the nominations: Knowing as do therefore from fresh ex- perience how great the difference is between gliding through an official routine and work ing out 8 reform of systems and politics it is impossible for me to contemplate what needs to be done in the federal administration without an anxious sense of the difficulties of the undertaking. If summoned by the suf- frages of my countrymen to attempt this work I shall endeavor with Gods help to be the official instrument of their wiIl.' Such work of renovation after many years of misrule, such a reform of systems and policies to which would cheerfully have sacrificed all that re- mained to me of health and life is now fear beyond my strength" My purpose to with draw from further public service and the grounds of it were at that time we'll known to you and to others; and when at Cincin- natl, though respecting my wishes yourself you communicated to me an appeal from many valued friends to reIinquish that pur- pose I reiterated my determination uncondi- tionally. In the four years which have since elapsed nothing has oc- cured to weaken. but everything to strengthen the considerations which induced my withdrawal from public life. To all who have addressed me on the subject my inten- ton has been frankly communicated. Sev- eral of my most confidential friends under sanction of their names have publicly stated my determination to be irreversible. That I have occasion now to consider the question is an event for which I have no responsibility. The appeal made to me by the Democratic masses with apparent unanimity to serve them once more is entitled to the most def erentis1 consideration and would inspire a disposition to do anything desired of me if it were consistent with my judgment of duty. I believe that there is no instrumentality in human society so potential in it's influence upon mankind for good or evil as the gov ernmental machinery fer administering justice and for making and executing laws. Not all the elesmosynary institutions of private to which philanthropists may devote their lives are so fruitful in benefits as the rescue and preservation of this ma chinery from the perversions that make it the instrument of conspiracy, fraud and crime against the most sacred rights and in- terests of the people.
 For fifty years as private citizen never contemplating an official career I have de- voted at least as much thought and effort to the duty of influencing aright actions of the governmental institutions of my country as to all other objects. I have never accepted official service except for 8 brief period for special purpose, and only when the occa- sion seemed to require from me that sacrifice of private preferences to the public welfare. undertook the State administration of New York because 1t was supposed in that way only could the executive power be arrayed on the side of the reforms to which as 8 private citizen I had given three years of my life. I accepted the nom- ination for the presidency in 1876 because of the general conviction that my candidacy would best present the issue of reform which the Democratic majority of the people de- sired to have worked out in the federal gov ernment as it had been in the State of New r 1aI14 hot l1k~ rkH ,1T1 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 to 8 successor faithful to the same policy Though anxious to seek the repose of private life I nevertheless acted
 upon the idea that every power iE a trust and involves duty. In reply to the
 my nomination I depicted the difficulties ol
 the undertaking and likened my feelings in
 engaging in it to those of soldier entering
 battle; but did not withhold the entire con
 secration of my powers to the public ser
 vice.
 Twenty years of continuous maladministra
 ton under the demoraiizing influences of in
 ternal war and of bad finance have infected
 the whole governmental system ot
 the United States with the cancerou
 groWths of false constructions and corrupt
 practices. Powerful classes have acquired
 pecuniary interests in official abuses and tht
 moral standard of the people has been i'm
 paired. To redress these evils IS work o
 great difficulty and labor, and it cannot b accomplished without tbe most energetic ant efficient personal action on the part of tn chief executive of the republic. The canvas and administration which it is desired that should undertake would embrace pc riod of nearly five years. Nor can admit any illusion as to their burdens Three years of experience in ths endeavo to reform the municipal government of th city of New York and two years of experi ence in renovating the administration of tn State of New York have made me familia with the requirements of such work. A tbe present time the considerations which in duced my action in 1880 have become ln perative. I ought not to assume tas which I have not the physical strength t carry through. To reform the admin to realize my own ideal and to flu All the just expectations of the peoPl l vould indeed warrant as they could alon l comnensste the sacrifices which the under | taking would involve. But in my eondltio l of advancing years and declining strength ! feel no assurance of my ability to aocomplls thoae objects. am therefore constrained l say definitely that cannot now assume ln labors of an administration or of canvass ! TJndervaluine in no wise that be: off of heaven-the occasion and th 1 nower sometimes bestowed upon
 mere individual to communicate a impulse for good; grateful beyond all word to nv fellow countrymen who would asslg such bensficent function to me, am COT l soIed by the reflection that neither the Dem ocratic party nor the republic for whose flu ture that party is the best guarantee IS no or ever can be dependent upon an one man for their successful progress in the path of a noble destiny. Having give I to their welfare whatever of health an | strength possessed or could borrow fro the future. and having reached the term { ! nv capacity for such labors as their welfal now demands, but submit to the will God in deeming my pubic career forev' l closed. SAMUEL J. T4LDEN. ! Advice in the DemOcrats-TIlsfr Chance Gather in the Independents.
 l RosroN. June 1.-The Transcript th
 evening says: The Independents propo ! a programme which would revolutionize u iDennocrasfc party and make it an organiz
 ttion worthy of encouragement. They "
 ask the Democratic convention to declare f
 civil service reform extending into eve
 1 department of the government, revenue I ! form to the extent of removing the burde