The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-05
49,. 1szz..EEs.
THE DEAD CRAFTSMAN.

br athe OF Wednesday morning, the
soul OF one OF the best and grandest
men OF the century took its fight.
America has produced many great men,
of whom she is proud. but this genera
ton has seen none greater than be
who Is to-day mOurned from one eide
OF the continent TO the other; nor is
there one Of WHOM the people are more
proud, whose name will be more hon
ored, whose memory will be more
revered. He was loved for his noble
impulses, admired for his laudabie am
bition, and applauded for his glorious
deeds; and nov that he has closed a
long, an active, an eTentful and q
steadily progressive career, without a
spot or stain, his countrymen will hold
him in reverence through al time,
placing his name by the side of those
that are to-dsy and will continue
familiar to al. o-4t..r-,
The death OF Tilden will recall 10 the
MINIS of all the blacklist, the ugliest'
page If American history-as page
which recordsEhe brazen, the iupudent
the wicked assumption of the political
Representatives Of one half the Cepublic,
and the craven, cowardIy, contemplate
yielding of the representatives of the
other half. AS one recalls the events
OF 1867, he is astonished at the des-
perste efroHtery of the Republican
party in laying claim 20 the first Office
of The nation, thereby preclaiming a
revolution and demanding the real
overthrow OF the government; bat his
astonishment is eminenIly greater and
more overPoWering when he reflects
that the Democrats admitted the
claim and submitted 70 the de-
mand. IL Uss a revolution, and
though bloodess, wEs as complete as
any revolution that ever occurred in
any country; the regularly chosen gov
eminent was set aside, and for four
years the nation was in the hands Of
usurpers. Only the wisdom and good
sense Of the people, stimulated by the
recollections of the war fresh in their |
minds, saved the nation from civil
strife that might have caused the war /
Of the rebellion 10 appear as childs
play by comparison. In no other land |
under the sun could such a crime have
been committed without being followed
b. q terrific flow Of blood. Il may have
been better that matters went as they |
dId, but that black page in tbs history
Of the republic can never be effaced. /
Republicans Will never get over feeling /
that they stole tie Presidency, aud 1
Democrats wii never fully respect /
themselves fos e0Eardly submitting to
the theft. The one grand figure in these
dark days was Samuel J. -Tildeu, who
then showed himself the statesman.
the patriot. the brsse man that he was.
He had been elected to the chief of6oe
in the nation, and was prepared to
lake the Oath and enter upon the
performance of his official duties; but
when the people, through their repre-
sentstives told him he must not he ac
saying that as Samuel J. Til
den, the citizen, he was not ambitious
10 be President, and if the people were
willing 10 submit TO the robbery. and
declare themselves too craven 10 main
tain their rights, he as = private citizen
could and would do nothing. II there
had been any Of the demsgogue in him.
eny unworthy ambition, he would Ger
tainly have created trouble; but he wa
The grand man. the upright, proud
through and through. He
could not feel that the cause WAS his,
but rather that it belonged to all the
people. he grieved for them.
loI for himself, as the Presidency had i
40 charms for him. patriot and re-
ormer that he vas and knowing the !
oil that was before an honest executive
bent on the vigorous and faithful ps--l
ormance of his duty to his country
Every day SINCE the great crime WAS /,
the seal of condemnation ;
IS been put upon IT. To-day the chief .
.ctOr in the fraud which was msoe
for four years is living in :
lumilisting retirement, ignored by his :
elbow conspirarors and despised by the
'eeple without regard to class or party :
Ehile him through whom the nation ;
va wronged is lying st Graystone on
he Hudson, the admired, the reyered :
4 the nation, loved by all and hopored
name as no other man on the CONT :
isnt, were he to die tomorrow. won,d :
& loved and hoDored. It is she simpIe
ruth, and it sells a story which can he .
Did so tersiy in no other way to saw :,
hat no living man would be so uni. A
ersally mourned As that glorious old :,
Atuot' statesman aud gentleman. n
anuei ]. Tilden, whose sevehty-two Il