Arizona republican., 1916-11-15
whose estate the Tilden monument
Was Not a Rhetorician

| was erected.
 Was Not a Rhetorcian
 "A casual glance at the contents of these volumes" says the editor and publisher in his preface, will inform the reader that MT. Tilden was noS literary man in the professional ac- equation of that term. He has never written to impress people with the excellence of his writing. nor spoken to impress them with the excellence of his speech. Like Jefferson, like Palmerston like Cavour. like Bis marck. he has used his pen and his tongue as instruments with which i to persuade and convince, rather than to show how persuasivelv and con Vincingly he could use them Though Possessing a marvellous faculty for literary expression, he has employed that faculty as q means. but never as
 an end. Through life he dealt mainly with living and pressing questions. seldom occupying himself with aca- demic and speculative problems or 1 doubtful disputations Whenever he
 has taken down his gun from the wall it has net been for parade. nor t) fire at a mark"
 Nevertheless. Mr. Tildens writings and public documents did possess a
 very ligh degree of literary excellence and were regarded in their day as political masterpieces es'-which seems
 10 be the usual word for a production that sounds good
 Away back in the Modification days
 we find Tilden. closely watching tie evolution of the Constitutional ques-
 tions involved in the Jackson Cal- houn controversy over the right oF lstates to nGllify federal legislation i that such states did not deem in con forInity with their interpretation of the principles upon which the union Was formed. Tilden, although then only IS years of age and still a stu dent in college published several articles in defense of Jackson that Iattracted widespread attention. He
 was also, at that early date, advo- eating "a tariff for revenue only. or, as he expressed it. "a gradual re- duction of the protection to our man. ufacturers until 1t can fairly be con
 sidered as incidental"
 Was a Man of Decided Views From that day down 10 the time of Grover Cleveland. who was Tilden's cfoice for the democratic nomination for president after he himself had de- clined renominatiou. there was hardly a single question of national coneen upon which he did not ex- press hiS views and make his in- fuehce felt.
 He opposed tho American sys- tenn of Henry Clay as "Gnconsti- tutional and sectional"
 He backed uD the Iolicv of lack
 son with regard 10 the United States bank
 He deferded Van Buren on the charge of suaTerVienCy To ;he slave holders. lie was one of the first to |. b, system. so as 70 enable independenj free napks to become established.
 and 1c fbught for the divorcement of 1 banks from state operation He was one Of the first to insist 1 upon the supervisory control of the leg
 islature over corporations of it's own l croHt ton.
 { He was one of the leaders on the | denocratic side c, the Free Soil movement of lS4S. md wrote the pro- 1 test of the democracy New Yorl- against making The naticGa lization oi : siaverv' lest of party feaiiy 1 He was for sound currency" in 1874. when nat a single state convep- | tion If either Dartv had the hardihood 1 to make a stand on the questien | , He was onnpsed to sDmptuarv tenn i pcr2nce legislation. on the individual | freedom theorv-but that was away | back there in '7E. Tout ccla has been
 changed considerably since then.
 Exposed the Tweed Rino
 TilGen most notable achievement