Evening star., 1895-05-11
CLEVELAND AND TILDEN.
appointment of Daniel Manning Due
to the Sage of Greystone.

appointment of Daniel Manning Due
to the Sage of Greystone.
From Bigelows Life Of Samuel J. Tilden.
1t was while living at Greystone that his
denomination for the presidency was urged.
Mr.. Bigelow wisely discouraged his ac-
ceptance of 1T:
Il had been trying to assist him one day,
early in the spring of 1880, in one of his
veXatious litigations. / observed that he
did not seem to have the full command Of
his resources. At last he arose from hiS
seat, and with an air of encouragement OF
his face, as well as in the tone of his voice.
said: Let us go and take a ride AS we
rode up the avenue and after a protracted
silence he spoke of the decline of force and
Intellectual endurance, of which he had
Just experienced such unequivocal evidence
and then added in rather querulous tone.
as II responding to some unweicome press
ure from without If 1 am no longer fit to
prepare case for trial. am not fit to be
President of the United States
He then turned and looked at me as If /
was his prosecutor and he expected me to
tell him what 1 had to say in my defense.
Governor, l replied i ami the last person
in the world 20 urge you to run for the
presidency. No one has right to ask you
to accept such a burden at the risk of
your life, and there is no use in trying to
disguise the fact that there is nothing
which would more imperil your health than
the inevitable excitement of a canvass for
the presidency and the first six months SER
vice to which an election would expose
you"
From that day forth he seemed to have
satisfied himself that he did not wish to be
candidate for the presidency.
One day early in June. 1854, Mr.. Bigelow
says that the late Daniel Manning called
upon him and asked him to accompany him
to Greystone:
After briefly referring to the political
situation, he said that on the Sunday
rlyn hA had 11sad
laid the whole case before him, pressed
upon his attention the necessity of doing
something at once to prevent the friends
of Mr.. Tilden getting heedlessly pledged to
other candidates as their second choice, a
danger which was imminent so long as a
hope of Mr.. Tilden's yielding to the wishes
Of the party was INDUCED, and. finally, that
the only way of defeating such scheme
was for Mr. Tilden to signify, before the
election of any more delegates, most of
whom We're to be chosen within the next
eight or ten days, that he would not be
candidate.
MIR. Manning then went on to say that
| Gov. Cleveland promptly expressed the de-
| sire that Mr. Manning would go down to
| Greystone, represent the situation to Mr..
| Tiiden and consider himself authorized to
| give Mr.. Tilden any assurances he required
| in regard to the naming of Mr.. Cleveland's 5
cabinet should he be elected, and in regard
| to the conduct of his administration upon
| the lines of reform which had been traced
| by Mr.. Tilden during and since his election
as governor Mr Manning SAID MS ODySct
| in coming to me was to ask me to accom-
paEy him to Greystone and assist him in
| persuading Mr.. Tilden-if persuasion should
| be necessary-to no longer delay formal
| announcement of mis- intentions already
| well known to Mr.. Manning and myself
| not to accept denomination.
| I'm point of fact" adds Mr. Bigelow, Mr..
| Tilden was not consulted about his cabinet
| by President Cleveland until nearly or quite
| every place but one had been filled, when
| his advice about Secretary of the Treas
| ury was invited. He recommended Mr..
| Daniel Manning of New York. Mr.. Man.
| ming was reluctantly appointed to that po-
| sition, but never welcomed to it nor in it.
| whether Mr.. Cleveland underrated the
| value of Mr.. Tilden's judgment or over
rated his own, it is quite certain that Mr..
| Manning did neither, for he appears to
| have rarely, If ever. taken any important
step while he continued in the cabinet with
| out trying to secure Mr.. Tilden's approval
of it.
1T had by this time become manifest to
| Mr. Tilden not only that ne was not a
persona grata to the President, which he
mere than suspected before, but that 1t
was anything but a recommendation in the
| Presidents eyes to be friend of his"