Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-27
MIR. TILDEN AND THE PREsl-
DENCY.

DENCY.
We believe that the country at large
expects that Samuel j. Tilden will DC
nominated for President. Still, we VIII
NOT reach that conclusion, for we believe
that better counsel will prevail. The
talk now is that he was made a martyr
in 1876. and must be avenged. The
pith of all that was taken out by the
action of the Democracy four years ago.
Mr.. Tilden wrote a letter declining the
nomination, but any one who pleased to
read between the lines could plainly see
he wanted it. But his party refused to
read between the lines, and gave the
prize to another. To nominate him now
on the old cry of avenging his wrongs,
would be a dead give away, for there is
no child of 10 years Of age in the Union
who does not know that if Mr.. Tilden's
hank account was as frail as his physical
health. his name would never more be
heard of as a candidate. The old man
is very rich, is willing to expend his
money freely in q campaign, and his
ability to manipulate q political cam
paign is suberb. 1t will be for these rea-
sons that he will be nominated, if at all.
Salt Lake Tribune.
Mr.. Tilden's money, his bar1, is no
objection to him, the way things go.
Certainly our Republican friends appre-
ciate the Importance of "soap." Either
this or they are less grateful as a party
to Stephen w. Dorsey than the Presi.
dent confessed himself to be.
Mr.. Tilden will be the Democratic
nominee if he considers himself physically
strong enough to endure the labor and
nervous strain of the campaign. That
he will be the Democratic standard
bearer, according to the signs, as we In
terpret them, is a foregone conclusion,
unless unexpected illness prevents. We
would like to be at the National Demo-
cratic Convention for one reason more
than all Others. We like the emotions
that are excited by great phenomena in
nature. We enjoy a healthful convul-
sion in the atmosphere attended with
the play of forked lightning and the
thunder guns it lights of. 1t is good
and pleasant to get out Of dry air in the
interior of the country and stand on the
beach when a storm is raging and watch
with a sensation of awe the great deep
sending its majestic white-crested mes
sages crashing against the shore. We
would like to be in the crowd of massed
representative Democrats in Chicago
when the name of Samuel j. Tilden is
mentioned. Then will come a storm that
will make disturbances Of air or water
seem cold and tame. The blended souls
of millions of free but injured free men
will speak under the inspiration Of one
instantaneous, universal, headlong i'm
pulse. 1t will be a grand, healthful hui
man phenomenon-the mingled glorifed
shouts of men, discordant, perhaps, if
tested by the mathematical rules of
music, yet more el~oquently musical than
any sound inanimate ever invoked by
the Great Creator on this earth or among
the spheres. The auditors heart will
throb and his very spine will be chilled
by the magnetic cry OF blended thou
sands. Whirled away out Of himself for
the instant by ecstacy such as he never
felt in like degree before, he will awake
afterwards to a fuller and better r~ealiza-
ton Of human spirit on eloquent occa-
sions. The sensation he experienced
would be a more graphic theme than
ever Niagara could be for him to analyze
and tell his neighbors and his children
about.
The righteousness of Tilden's nomina.
tion and election has grown upon the
people of this nation until it can no
longer be denied. The older the memory
of the Fraud Of 1876, the greater the
desire to rectify the one act of National
Disgrace Of which this Republic is guilty.
This is why his election is called for now
with more earnestness and vehemence
than four years ago. 1t Is alone
through the person of Samuel ]. Tilden
that our National Honor can be vindi-
Gated. This being SO, were he as feeble
in body as the Republican l~ampooners
say he is, were he about to die even, We
would make him President; we would
advocate this not as a Precipitation for the
sin Of those who showed themselves As.
sassins of Liberty, for their sin is unpar-
donable; but as an atonement for the
transgression of many partially innocent
people who, through ignorance Of the
true nature Of the crime, acquiesced in
the enormity.
All of which we say without reference
to Tilden, except in SO far as his nomina.
ton and election are called for as a mat.
ter of popular equity and honor. In this
sense, his personality is out of the ques-
ton, and he is the property of the com
monwealth.
Of Tilden's notification for the office