Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10

and in an instant the convention was at the
white heat of enthusiasm. 1t was verita-
BILE stampede. There was no resisting this
tremendous demonstration, and when at
last it had quieted down it was found that
Mcclellan had been unanimously nomi-
mated for Governor of New Jersey. This
was the only political Office Mcclellan ever
held.
Some ten days after Mr.. Greeley, in .
half humorous announcement, made on the
morning after the election of 1872, said that
he had resumed the editorial control OF the
Tribune, there appeared in the New YORK
papers a report which startled the commun.
is It stated that MoraSs Greeley nss fTns
his mind had given way, there had peen
sort Of a paralysis of the brain, and he e1-
pired less than month after his defeat.
disappointment Did Not Kill Greeley.
His death was not due to disappointment.
He knew six weeks before the election that
the tide had set strongly against him, and
he looked forward with Joy which he could
scarcely restrain from showing to the day
when he should take up his pen as editor OF
the Tribune. Even before election ne made
arrangements to resume his post on the
morning after election dsy, and did SO, but
had lost its cunning and his intellect was
not within control. Greeley's death was due
to the exhaustion OF the campaign, followed
as it was by the tender nursing OF his wlfe,
who fell i'll and died a few weeks before
election day. Nightafter night Greeley sat
by her bedside, getting no sleep, while ne
spent the day in vigorous campaign WORK.
The strain was too great Insomnia selzed
him with ali its terrors. and IL seemed 20
those who knew him as il he, realizing that
he had dangerously strained his mental ana
physical powers, gave up at once wltnout
making a struggle for life !.
became evident that there would be ois-
pute over the result, Mr.. 1ilden entered the
National Committee room, betrayfng not q
sign of trepidation or anxiety, but, with an
smile as lie ever permitted himself to In
dulge in, he said: "fhis looks like pull up.
don't it," and that is the only comment OF a
personal nature whfch-he ever made respect
ing his defeat After that he always spoke
of it as an affair of the Democratic party
and not OF Samuel j. Tilden, and he dls.
cussed it with his friends exactly as II
Tilden was a third party. If lie had per
sonal disappointments.h he did not reveal
them: If he nourished any resentments, no
one knew it.
Gr,a. Versatility Of TiIden.
Nor was his mind so distracted that he
was unable to pay heed to other things, for
while the country was struggling with the
problem of the electoral commission and
hot headed men were talking of sending
army of 100000 men to Washington,
Tilden was engaged in one OF the most
colossal speculative deals which had oc-
Cured up to that time on Wall street. With
his then friend, Cyrus W. Field, aud some
others, be had got control of immense guam
titles of New York Elevated Railroad secur-
titles, and by shrewd manipulation: of the
market, the price was carried many points
troiled the stock, and Field has always
claimed that there was an understanding
between them that neither should sell with
out the consent OF the other.
While Field was in Europe Tilden unload
ed, making by the operation something like
s., 600 600. and then he sailed for Europe,
while Field returned to give vent to the
most violent language of denunciation at
what he called Tlden's treachery.
When Mr.. Tilden returned he said that he
simply forestalled Field, who,' he was as
sured, expected to unload without Tilden's
This operation was regarded
by business men as one of the best indica-
tions or Tfldens intellectual power, his sub.
tlety and his self-mastery. 1t was going on
while the country was hot over the dis
puted election, and was consummated only
4 few weeks after Mr.. Hayes took the Presi-
dental chair. Tilden then practically TO-
tired from professional life. -
Blaine as a Defeated Candidatet
Mr.. Blaine took the news of his defeat with
perfect composure. although some display
Of irritation would not have been surprising
n view of the fact that he was Informed by
men whom he couldtrust that he had 1ostNew
'Quare test His self-mastery was indica ted
~ the ease with which he took up the pen
of the historian. He had laid it down when
ne was nominated for the Presidency. The
pleted and published, but the second was
ret to appear He contracted with his pub.
fishers to finish it before March of the sue
ceeding year. whether he was elected Presi-
leat he was at WORK in his library, appa-
rently as fascinated in this historical en-
deavor as IL there had been no Interruption
and no canvass which had brought him
within 1000 votes of the Presidency.
When the work was completed Mr.. Blaine
began to turn over in his mind a project for
, new historical work, for it did not then
,eem likely to him that he would ever again |
return TO public lie. He had long desired |
10 spend year in travel in Europe with his |
amily, and the profits on his history we're |
70 great that he found himself not only with |
sufficient means to take the trip in luxury,
Dut also for the first time in his life a capi- |
;alist-not q great one, but still with large |
sums OF money to invest. 1t was his inteh-
,ut, being summoned to the Cabinet OF
President Harrison, he put the project aside.
In publishing circles in New York it is un-
that when he returns to Washing
here in the winter-he will begin to make
'esearch with view to writing political
history.
Grover Cleveland In Defeat.
Within a month after his defeat in 1888 |
President Cleveland had received PROPOSE |
ions from one of the greater law firms of |
lew York to enter into partnership with it. |
His relation to the firm was to be that of |
and he was notlong in making up |
As practicing lawyer at the New York |
,ar the e1-President has cut no figure what |
,ver. He appeared in one case before the |
supreme Court of the United States, and |
ome of his briefs have been submitted to /
he higher courts of New YORK. OF course, /
he amount of service he was engaged in as |
counsel for this firm does not appear, but |
lis time was not so greatly occupied as to |
make it impossible to accept appoint tments |
IS referee, and it is the; opinion of the bnr
lere that his most profitable employment
las been while serving in such capacity.
He did have some idea, it is thought, that
lis experience might be something like |
hat of Roscoe Conkling. who came to the
New York City bar without retainer, SO
riend's library, and who within six years
lad made nearly S7o0, 600 by his practice. |
Mr.. Cleveland, when he came to the New
fork bar, was just the age of Mr.. Conkling
When he opened an inconspicu0us office on |
Nassau street. He had the prestige OF tho !
and Conkling the prestige of an
,ther sort, handicapped with the humilia-
ion which he experienced IN resigning 1
rom the Senate and IN his failure to secure |
reelection. The difference between the |
wo men, however, lay in one fact: Conk-
ing buried all political ambition and sought |
vitn mighty earnestness for professional |
uccess, while Cleveland has permitted his |
professional aspirations to be distracted by
'olitical inclination and the desire for re-
nomination. e j. EDwARps
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