Year: 1876

Tilden is Mr.. Manton Marble late edi-
tor of the World We have already in
dorsed the suggestion. AS Mr. Marble
is not quite as well known in the
interior of the State as he is in this city. and
as we have had good opportunities for watch
ing his career and observing his character, it
may not, perhaps, be out OF place to give the
democrats of the rural districts the impress
sions respecting him which have long been
fixed in the best social and political circles
of this metropolis


Mr.. Marble is still a young man, just
turned of forty, we believe, although gray
hairs and a slight tendency to badness
would seem to indicate ripper age. Sorrow
as well as thought has made its mark, for
the heavy hand Of domestic affliction has
been laid upon him, and it has seldom been
so true that death loves shining mark" as
in the bereavements which have fallen on
this gifted and accomplished man. But
severe intellectual labor alone might ac-
count for the early autumn, no man of our
time having piled greater weight OF liberal
studies upon the exacting duties Of labori-
Gus profession. Mr.. Marble has one of the
best equipped and most variously informed
minds in the country; and yet no man
is farther removed from the character
of recluse or a mere scholar. His
social talents are even more marked than his
intellectual capacity. In the earliest years
of his editorship of the World, before he had
yet made his mark as o man Of rare intellec-
tual endowments he captivated New York
society by the singular urbanity Of his man
ners and his unstudied capacity to
please. "a man born to be loved"
as Burke called Fox, is not neces-
sarily qualified for public life but
Mr.. Marble has been the delight of society
only in his hours of relaxation, the whole
vigor of his mind having been given to
serious studies and manly occupations. He
has made himself intimately acquainted
with the whole literature of political econ
omy; he has continued to pursue the philo-
sophical studies which were the chief
attraction Of his youth; he has
been wide reader of the most
solid authors in the higher walks of juris-
prudence, and has large acquaintance with
history and with elegant literature. If he
had any fault rs the editor of newspaper it
was in pitching his journal in too high
key for the mass of unscholarly readers
and addressing an audience too select to be
very large. But this defect as journalist
cleaned to virtues side" in qualifying him
for the part of a statesman.


The peculiar fitness of his nomination to

succeed Mr.. Tilden as the Governor of New
York lies in the fact that he has contributed
more than any other individual to Governor
Tilden's success. During the many years of
their intimate association he has influenced
him, Mr. Marbles strong convictions and un-
yielding tenacity on questions of principle
having operated as o wholesome corrective
to his friends extraordinary skill as politi-
cal manipulation. 1t is creditable to Mr.. Til
den that he appreciated the strong and firm
grasp of principles which was o matter Of
conscience with his friend; but it
was Mr.. Marbles mind rather than
Mr.. Tildens that found expression
in the bold and mastery democratic
platforms of the last three democratic
State Conventions, which were all of Mr..
Marbles composition, and which did SO
much to put Mr.. Tilden before the country
AS q stanch advocate of sound political
ideas Each of those State platforms would
have been a tame and trimming manifesto
on the ordinary common place pattern If
Mr.. Marbles devotion to principle and
energy Of conviction had not asserted their
claims to recognition. Some of the credit is
due to Governor Seymour, who happened to
be member of the Committee on Resolu-
tions when the most incisive of these plat
forms was offered, and whose quick percep-
ton Of its extraordinary merit and emphatic
Endorsement secured its adoption by the
committee. Mr.. Marble is also the
author of the platform Of the National
Convention at st. Louis, which has elected
30 much warm praise from the most distin-
guished men in the democratic party in
every part of the country. AS a piece of
composition it is more skilful than
any of the New York platforms
from the same source, the task of draw
ing up veritable hard money declaration
In SuCn II 10TH tuo paIty bCCtpJ
it having been SO much more difficult. Who
can have better claim to the confidence of
the democratic party than the man who has
80 long furnished it with ideas, and who has
been so successful in formulating sound
principles for its acceptance as to COM
mand the approval and praise of all
the best minds of the party? With
the single exception of Governor Tilden,
what democrat in tho United States has
rendered such valuable and universally ap-
proved services to the party rs our towns
man and late editorial confrere? We know
full we'll that he is too modest to found any
claim on such services, but We put it as