The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-08-12
SAMUEL j, TILDEN DEAD.
End of q Lille Full of Honor and
USoi.IIn
Dem 0cTscy's HdOi ana Beloved
OF Gne FeOpse Gone 10 ssIs HscsI.


New YOK&, aug. 4.-Samuel J. Til
den died at GreystOne, on the Hudson
River, at s > a. m. The ,e pre- sent at
his deaf 4 were Docto SinenGs and
Swift, and Il : niece, NJ =, Gouid. The
heart TO act, superipduced by an acute
attack OF diarrhea and nausea. He
had been quite sick for three days, and
the weakness was the result of pc
culiar trouble, which, in a great de.
gree, helped the final dissolution.
Paralysis and bodily infirmities in
cidental to old age. had reduced Mr..
Tilden to a mere skeleton. and his last
days were marked by extreme feeble
ness. The routine of daily life. for a
year past, at his beautiful residence on
the Hudson, was about as follows:
He usually awoke in the morning
at about 4: 80 O'Clock. An electric
bell at the head of his bed summoned
his valet, who gave him his medicine,
which he took as regularly as he did
his food. Afterwards he would lie
until, l,about o'clock seemingly doing
though when his valet, thinking HIM
asleep, approached the bed he found
his bright eyes open and watching
him. If he felt well he was assisted
down to a s o'clock breakfast, which
usually consisted of milk and some
rich broth. Owing to paralysis Mr.,
Tilden was unable to close his lips,
and his mouth was constantly open.
His right hand, from the same cause
was entirely useless, trembling all the
| time. He had not even the power to
raise it to his mouth. His left hand
wa5 but slightly affected by the stroke
of paralysis, and he had the partial
use of it. In eating he used his left
hand ~ hold up his lower jaw. His
faithiu! companion, Miss Anna Gould
who is the sister of the wife of Henry
Tilden, placed to Ia 5 mouth every par
ticit. of food he ate. She generally put
it ia his mouth with a spoon, and he
was able 10 swallow it by raising his
lower Jaw with his lett hand and put
ting his head back. While at break
fast the morning papers were read tC
him and notes made by his secretarie:
at his direction, of any important
point or movement in the politica
world. Litter breakfast he went int
his office on the right side of the hal
where he saw the different employs
of the place and heard their respective
reports.
The illustrious Samuel J. Tilden wa
born at New Lebanon, Columbia Co.
N. Y. in the year 1914, the year whicl
ruined the great Napoleon. Mr.. Til
den had long line of ancestry, one @
them, Nathaniel Tilden, having beel
mayor of the city of Kent, England
r in 1923. Governor Tilden's father wa
e farmer and merchant of New Lebs
non, was q man of notable judgmen
3 and practical sense and the accepte
e oracle of the county on matters G
public concern, while his opinion wa
! 80 largely sought and justly valued b
all his neighbors, but by none NOR
than the late President Van Burer
who, till his death, was one of Fathe
Tilden's most cherished intimate an
personal friends. Young Tilden Ell
D tered college in his eighteenth yea
d and in the fall of 1882 his first prom
nent public labor was done. Samut
j. J. Tilden won his highest hOnOrs as
q reformer by hurting from power tn
# infamous Tweed ring that had curse
the Empire State for years and plune
ed the metropolis into the abyss of a
most overwhelming debt and corruI
ton.
Mr.. Tilden having made himsel
prominent in the work of reform, ws
subsequently rendered the nominatio
for Governor, which he accepted, an
was triumphantly elected over Ger
John A. Dix by rousing majority
{ Then he commenced systematic wal
e FIRE on the canal jobbers. The result
II of his investigation arrested complete
ly the list of fraudulent expenditure
on the canals. But the highest proc
J. of his patriotism was given during th
y bitter presidential contest of lS7t
}. Nominated in ST. Louis in June, b
made one of the most brilliant polit
j. cal campaigns upon record. Whe
V satisfied of his election, when assure
that he was to be counted out, whe
certain that any overt act of his wOul
8 result in civil war between the tw
s great parties, he modestly refraine
$ and thereby was elevated by all tru
l patriots to the highest pinnacle of love
Mr. Tilden's love of country was agai
n displayed at the opening of this sessio
e of Congress, when he advocated tn
n most liberal appropriation for putin
Il our navy in formidable condition an
] | fortifying our seacos It cities. Nj
s liiden had attained the patriarchs
! age OF Y years. He was five feet te
/ inches in height, spare in figure, of
r neryous temperament and chestnu
e hair silvered by age, and his eys5 wer
b blue. Singularly as it may appear, h
never married. He was a man of in
domitable force of character, yet gen
tie in his disposition. He had tn
most admirable control of his temper
to the extent that even the expression
of countenanee in moments of tris
was sphynx like. His private char
acter was spotless. d. In every position
in life, in the family circle, in tn
arena of politics. among his neighbors
to his friends, to strangers, profession
ally, he was ever the model citizen.
DOdged.
The following resolutions were in
troduced in the late Republican Con
+. ventiOn of this county:
l. ResoIUed That we favor the loca
option feature of the Dow law, ant
. earnestly recommend that it be 81
. amended as to extend it's provisions