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Show NEWSPAPERS both east and west speak of the coming presidential election, without counting S. J. Tilden as a candidate. This omission is made on the ground that he has retired from the contest in favor of Sam. Randall, Speaker of the House. If Tilden has in reality retired, we retract everything good we ever said or thought of him; and, in addition call him "Coward." The detestation in which R. B. Hayes is held by the people who know that he was never elected president, will be nothing compared to the contempt many Democrats and Republicans will feel for Samuel L. Tilden, if he voluntarily forsakes the contest. |