The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-04-19

day last, says;
The interview between Mr.. Tilden and the
California Democrats yesterday, it would APP
pear, had Il greater significance than the
meagre and conflicting reports in the morning
Journals would seem to imply. It's true that
Mr.. Tilden said he was thinking of writing a
letter to the Utica or Chicago convention de-
clining a denomination, and that even IT ne
were nominated he would decline to quality
But, according TO the gossip of the clubs. the
most important incident of the interview,
which subsequently TRANSFERRED, is not men
toned mt all. The talk is that after NJ. Ill
denis statement to the above effect it was rep
resented to him that the party was just now In
such a state of generalization and division
consequent upon the tariff question, that 1t
would be useless to enter Presidential cam
paign on that issue with any expectation of
success, but that if the convention met at
Chicago under the inspiring influences of the
''old ticket with ''the right of election and
the twill of the people, inscribed on their
banners, it would be easy to snatch victory
from the jaws of defeat. Unless this policy
were adopted it was further suggested there
would be no occasion to have a National
Convention at all. There was no division in
the party as to the question whether MIR. Ill.
den was the choice of the people in 1876, and
if the question could be tried over again there
could be no doubt what the verdict would be.
1t remained with Mr.. Tilden, therefore, to say
whether he sacrificed his personal wishes for
the benefit of the party and the country.
This view of the situation is said to have been
very ably presented, and that it set the old
gentleman to thinking. What the result OF
his meditations was has not been made public,
but inasmuch as there does not appear to have
been any further iteration of his intention to
Il nanoncrofc and Re-
publicans alike have arrived with singular
unanmity at the conclusion that if only in
order to save the party, the venerable states
man, with little more judicious solicitation
from other state delegations, will reconsider
his position-a frame of mind which the pres
-ence of Ex-Governor Hendricks, of Indiana,
as if by happy coincidence, will help to for
tify.
There has never been doubt in our
mind about Mr.. Tilden's true position
He has never sought the place, and does
not desire it, but if put in nomination he
will serve. Any other conclusion must be
based upon either physical inability or
lack of patriotism, which latter idea is not
for a moment to be entertained. His phys
zeal condition has been greatly misrepre-
scented, both by Republicans and the friends
of Democratic aspirants to the presidency,
both of whom fear him. If nominated he
will be the next President, and his nomi-
nation will harmonic all differences in the
Democratic party. These differences are
greatly exaggerated, as in the case above
quoted in the correspondence of the Ledger
The earnestness of the appeal to Mr.. Tilden
in this case caused the parties making it to
overdraw the picture. There are shades of
difference in all parties; but in the Demo-
cratic party, at the present time, there is
nothing to prevent them from presenting
a solid front to the foe. That they will
do, whether Mr.. Tilden serves or not, but
with him as our standard bearer the victory
will be assured.