Year: 1874




We will not conceal our conviction that IN
democratic State Convention has perpetrate
ah enormous mistake in nominating Mr.. I'll
oeh as Its candidate for Governor If Mr..
Iliden could be elected he would, no doubt,
make very fair Governor; but he is the
weakest candidate the democratic party could
nave presented for the suffrages of the people.
what has Mr.. Tilden ever done to secure the
confidence OF the people? He has been promi-
nent IN the democratic councils for thirty
years, and nobody can point to any act of his
while acting inside the party organization
that aroused the enthusiasm of the party. He
moved IN the ruts of ordinary party routine
until 1871, when, at a late STAGE he joined
the retormers against the Tammany Ring.
Ills disinterestedness in that movement is open
to serious question. He is vain and ambitious
man. He had been eclipsed by the favorites
OF the Ring. Nothing could have been more
humiliating to an old stager like Mr. Tilden
than to see men like Mr. Hoffman, whom he re-
garded as upstarts, advanced to party honors
while he was neglected. He hated Tammany
because it ignored his claims to political pro-
motion; but he courted and fattered its chiefs
until he saw chance of dispossessing and
humiliating the rivals who had mortified his
vanity by keeping him in the background.
In the winter before the Tammany explosion
Mr.. Tilden used to call on Governor Hoffman
at Albany, and after deferring to the Tam
many Governor in the most suave manner
he would linger and shake hands with him
three or four times before taking leave. Mr.
Tllden knew then as well as he knew after
ward that the Tammany organization was a
sink of rottenness and corruption, but he en-
We'd and courted it so long as he thought it
had honors and offices in its disposal, and
turned against it at last only when he saw it was
doomed to inevitable destruction.


Such man, whatever his character in other
respects, was not proper person to nomi-
nate against so popular and magnetic can
didate as Governor Dix The course of the
veteran chieftain has been such as to make
him many new friends, while he retained
most of his old ones. He has not offended
his party nor embittered his political ene-
miles, In many respects he has shown
himself non-partisan, and has always dared
to do right, even in the face of
party. His denomination cannot fail to be
Unanimous, and it was plain from the be-
ginning that his support in the canvass would
be enthusiastic unless the Democratic Con-
vention named candidate sufficiently power
fui and popular to prove counter attraction
In the nomination of Tilden the opposition
hoe foi1 70 do Ia
not SO widely and generally esteemed, and
not so skilful in political tactics even
as his opponent He is pitted against
the strongest man in the State, while
he is the weakest man in his party. He can
count upon nothing except well drilled party
support, and We are not sure that be can fully
count upon this. If the republican forces
were weak he might win but he could never
hope to be Governor unless he was carried in
on the high tide of party success. He is not
man to make his party successful In
word, he is not an available candidate, and that,
too, at time when availability was the
essential element in the contest It NAV be
easy to understand who and what forced bis
nomination, but it is difficult to comprehend
why mere motives Of success should not have
counterbalanced these influences. Certainly
the Convention did not believe SO thoroughly
in his fitness as to forego all considerations of
availability. His nomination was an unfor.
tunate selection, but it was made with deter
mination and without haste, and there can be
no excuses upon any ground except that of
laundering.


No man ever nominated for Governor of
this State had so sure prospect Of an igno-
minious defeat. MIR. Tilden cannot poll the
full vote Of his own party; much less can he
draw of any votes from the republicans. In
the western part Of the State democratic votes
for Governor will be traded off against votes
for members Of Assembly The democracy
despairing of the Governor, will try to secure
the Senatorial election in the Legislature, and
they will feel that they sacrifice nothing by
exchanging votes for a gubernatorial candi-
date who cannot possibly be elected against
votes for the Assembly which may assure the
chance of democratic Senator. Mr. Tilden
will be one of the worst beaten candidates
that ever ran for the Governorship of this
State


The NEWPORT CHILD MYSTERY sud-
den disappearance of the little white girl.
whose presence among the Indians upon the
beach at Newport had attracted so much
attention from the visitors there is explained
in our correspondence from that place pub
lished this morning, and sensation thereby
spoiled respectable citizen, it seems, be-
came attached to the child, and, determined
to rescue her from her unfortunate position.
took her to his home and made proper provis-
ion for her. In this he is naturally sustained
by the sentiment Of the community.