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advice and interchange of views. The
young men of the party have been well
coined along with the sages The ZEAL the
enthusiasm, the activity of the young De-
mocracy in championing the cause of MIR.
Tilden have been due to the fact that he
has always had fondness for the company
OF earnest young men, all appreciation of
their services. and has as a rule selected
them as his co-laborers and assistants in his
public work.
1t has been rare indeed that the friendship
between Mr.. Tilden and his political asso.
clates has been interrupted. He had bee
forty years an active politician before he
was nominated for governor in 1874. He
did not seek the Office then, but yielded re-
luctantly to the universal demand for his
services to the state. There was no occa.
sion 1or rivalry between man who unself.
lshly labored for the party and state
and those were worthily ambitious of pub
lie honors.
THE GREATEST STATESMEN.
The three greatest of American statesmen
IN Mr. Tilden's judgment were Samuel
Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew
jackson. Their teachings, their achieve
mentS. their wisdom. and their administra-
tive genius were far above all the men who
have figured in American politics. Adams
and Jefferson were the great founders and
builders, and Jackson the great conserva-
| tor OF our free institutions. They were
men of the people. They championed the
cause OF the masses against the few They
believed in the capacity of the common
people, IN their patriotism, III their general
good sense.
Mr.. Tilden believed that the admlnistra-
tive system of the Federal government
needed comprehensive remodeling and refor-
nation. The evils of NAL administration
are difficult to eradicate when the system
OF transacting the public business is effete.
inadequate and not symmetrical. The busi-
ness OF every department of the govern.
ment mas outgroWn the methods originally
devised for conducting it. The accounting
system is imperfect, and the disbursement
of vast sums of money without the prous1
safeguards against peculation and fraud ia
all wrong. The true field for reform in
federal affairs in deyising and inauguratina
all administrative system which will be
commensurate with the vast affairs and the
lnnumeraDle details thereof of our govern
ment.
Jefferson, Mr.. Tilden believed, summed
up the requisite qualifications of the civil
employe and covered the whole field of civil
service reform in his letter to Elias Ship
man in reply to the remonstrances against
the removal of Elizur Goodrich from the
collectorship of New Haven and the ap-
pointment of Samuel Bishop thereto. In
tegrity, capacity, fidelity are the three
requisites demanded of federal officials.
Where the system of administration is radi-
cally defective and the methods bad the
reformation of the service will be mockery
until the system and methods themselves
are reformed.
Economic studies were favorites with Mr..
Tilden throughout his lite His powers of
analysis were very great. He loved details
and had the uncommon faculty of ditferen-
tiation, with the ability to combine and
group results and draw conclusions. His
statements were clear, concise, logical. He
was never diffuse in his reasoning, but
always cogent and pithy. His discussions
of economic questions are therefore models
of argument, unrivaled in style and purity
of English.
For five years, save at brief intervals.
Mr. Tilden was unable to speak above
whisper.
THE COURIER JOURNAL.