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Show I How Tilden Resuscitated Dying Democratic Party I Soft Money Was Killing Ir in '76; He Fought It as He Fought Prohibition in '53 A Resume of Tilden's Career and His Tutelage by Van Buren I 1, In this the second instalment of former Governor Gljnttff political reminiscences Samuel 1 T$i-n ap rear as the hero of his -torv. with anecdotes of the great lawyer who was disappointed of the Presidency " ft dafne from h i beginning s 3 politic pupil of Martin Van Buren fnelnjing his "wet" st. . m M P'- hih'fon campaign of ttsi nd h " T markahle successes as Governor of tne Fmpire State j Rr MARTIN H GLYNN r I K TWAIN onr ld of proml-IV proml-IV A - . m.n in V A politic l like a hnUle Of per-fumery per-fumery In a glue shop 11 my moderate the tench hut doesn't destrnv it " Them word IV the snhlerf of thl sketch: th worfl" describe the ritf" of Samuel ' THdn. tilt reformer, the politician nrt the man For sixteen ink sftar Buehaimri left the While HOUOT ha DMBbcnitlC partv In the nation went ,1oi'n m defeat after defeat Never was lhT a thrill of urrM. never hope of vlnnrv Constant lv the rlrtUfl crew darker and heavier until l rCn tn lonw s if the ohl party of icfTeon and Jackson wouirt nu the Arabs of old I" to fold It lrt unH oultlv noV awa ro the. land of cream and -hadowa. R' 'n lR7fi the nM wa smashed Mif murkv charm wa broken A new s'ar arose an. I filled (A heavens with It Mghi and ever 1ne tho Democratic pnr'v has held It plHP In III flmim'fi And lh man "hn wmutM thl political miracle was Samuel T THden l"p io this time he had simply heer, n spoke In 'he Democratic wheel-henceforth wheel-henceforth until hi death he was th hub from which r.idla'ed the spn-r ro l"nnr. racy's rim Tilden the Thinking Mnchire And the man wtfn srmnehi this marvel "What mnnnn of man was ho" thai Is a natural nnetion Well nhv-lcallv he ir the last man In the world no wou'd r.l U fo do It -cmoilnn-allv nui io iat hn' nwntMl'v nature had erve1 him nut for the Inh mine wa a'wava selenitic nwVT rvootlr Hl mind waa aa RPCUrat a a crl in'rh nj carch Ins a an -rav an.1 a fnrr'e n a eralpel Mo n-a rh croaici thlnklnc ma chine of bl Mm Me put evervthlnc under the micro' or r of M raln lrtttd nothlnc to the wol o' hf henrl n "ho rlooi-'i" nf reaenn he invincible- r the reaMm" of emotion ,ovorto and puerile Mo nv-er enlnved por-snal no.ularltv he had too much lnderen. ono too linie iirvorvlenrv for that Of mtel'ooi ho !-- o o- ao per rert of 'fllDUl lo 'hjn 1 fior rout Flflv-flffv helweon lmnule and -eaon la the COmroMon of the ni.r-re noron aod the man who nvrlng far a W from a'lndard l not n' to n-arm ,vio nfrctiorn of hi fpllor 'honch ho mV command their admiration Pamuoi I T1In"i mf the original orig-inal leader In American not1tc with a "Incle trarU mlt"t ' to dM oo thine a' a time, the mo Imnortant thin" flrt. and Until ho had flilhert that "'1 tho n-ortd con'.l wqt and coot ! hoot fn r--on- r- I Ion he waa a foT In .ttnrW a Hon M ivaii a mlx- flire of lefTeron and Van RuretT tato-man tato-man and a Vvolltlrtnn- almo a pood an ea1T pfn won and noar1- a had an B orator a Van Huron Aa an exnoltor nr1 ernonnder thouch he ha not hn i-nne'1 'I'-rp tho da P H of Ronlamln Pmnklln and .Tohn Marshall. He could make law a tnferotlnc: n ntark-atone ntark-atone and Hcuro q alnnuenl a ctadtone H He n-a i-aln aa a rwacrwk aa vain aa B r"" Cflrll"l Ki'Of v imo C pt,tr once aald fonkllne would have d'ed for H Bride r. It not for hl he foet and Sum- nel 1 Tilden would tia-e dod frnoi nr 'o If If had not heon for hi nhwloal "wIttksI- p - kH wj ) mire nf 1 i Diaraerl UaW tlfinVP t htl nr or - oTorh o In hi i aaanoanoe m on hi frlor-ri, made m'- U taVe he had a Lad hah of ivlnj Bl "J fold voti o " an1 hi tr-a! of a mlnn'e 1 often rnt hlrn frUnd that took var B to win Pollflo lnlorofod him more hn H anvrh'n oo In the world ercopt hi health H T.Ike Thoma M rtonfon he would talk atw)Ot H hi health hv the hour: hut liritlk Ronton. 1 he did not hare hi aervanf ruh him down o-v aiwr-lnc with a hore hrnh Mo did. however take rverv patent modlrlno h- ever heard ahont o- roAd hont Tn fact he wa H like the hvporhondrlar In .lemrpe K .Ter. omea "Three ten In the Roa t " Ho fhonrSf 1 he had everv Itl in e.athoT'-ar'hv evorv dl. H eaae In noaolorv ft ' !7Mt.l fron everv B CCT-nnlaif erroot -hnitomalr1 Wnoe" rvraholT admlro.t paniio' 1 Til-ton tf everhodv reaperted him hut noSrvtv loved H htm and he paid the world In kind, for T B douht If he ever deeply loved anv one except w; hla mother, whom he aoemod fo adoro And V jrt despite theae non -ma enet I- ounlltle no HI pottlcat leader In the hltorv of the cointrv HHH With the aole exception of Andrew Jajdnan HHI ever had a stronger hold uP'n the mcmhera H of his party. The wav thl "human Iceberc" HH Meed the nemoorxtlo heart of tho nation U HHH one of the ord.-r of American pollfica HHI tn hi cue the Iwv wa father of the man HHHJ While Tilden wa a s o mrater. a more atrlp- HL ling In hla teens. United Slate .'Senator Tal- madse. who had left the Democratic part HHH to aupport Seward for Governor airalnat HH Mar-v. went down to Chatham to make a HH tpeoch. Ht flared Marcy within an Inch of HHH his Ufa and nailed Van Ruren' hide on a H ham door. When T!madce had finished, to H tho amazement of the crowd, young Tilden J c'.imbed upon the platform and wiped lha H fleer with the I'nlted States Senator. When he finished Tilden waa cheered and Talmadge HHH wa hooted. On that day bejran hn political H career, on that day Martin Van Burrn be- i pan to hand down to Tilden politlc-al power, lust n.a Andrew .J.a-kon htd formerly handed It down to Martin Van Rurcn. s a man ho waa neariy a rood n modol as he waa hon a hov Me did not have a ranee sods, he did not fall So keep holy the Babbit h day, ho 04 nut kill, he did not tool he did not hear false wltne acaln' Ms tielehhor he d!d not covet hla neijh-hir neijh-hir house nor hi neichhor'a wife, nor hla mj-n er'nnt. nor hi maid servant nor hi K-s. nor his ass In short 'Sam" Tilden wn too dam cood to he popular hijr non too coed to heoome the Democratic MP ' Ms dav Mo wa called a POIII prom HMr. " nni "i nmprnmlrr' he wa when comprn-m'slnc comprn-m'slnc could he honest and honorahlo and he nf-er mlitook self-roncelt and ohstlnacy ff.r onrlenco and wisdom As a hov ho was a political pipll of Martin Vn rinrrn He used to walk from New Leharon tn Klnderhook. a distance of twen-IV twen-IV -five miles, to cot his early politlca' lesson!- Mo ahsorhofi some of hi traits and rhnrarterllp from Van Ruren. lust a Mill a I orhofi some of hla methods and Cleveland Cleve-land aome of his pollrle from Tilden Me alwnvs had n penchant for prln'er'a Ink He hoiier n half Interest in a Ww Vork newspaper to have somothlnc to aav In the polk camnaicn hut when the campaten wis over ho cae h Interest In the paper to .tohn . 0ulllvan Some people anv Tlldi n was ajllnKy hut I can't And anv evl -rtence of It I nroe with Judce Martin Or.aver who s-,j, (hat "Tilden eave awav more moftev and m:de less fuss ahoot it thnn anv o'hor man in the Sla'e" When rriv a VOIina mn to ease hts mother' m!nd he assume,) family ohllsatlon which Binntinted to more than he could earn In I wanly vors Mf W n crreai InWVer Mo ouchf to have her. Me atnd.e.i under Vin Piren Ed-mur'l Ed-mur'l and Kent Two Famoua Law Case. Two law rj helper) make him In l.; he aoi Mr rince from helne ro!.ed of hla eii-rt'cn n f omn'rollor of 'ow Vorl CltV l.irrsolf M-ourh ho eonld not a-o from Klne rohherl of the rre1denrv In l7f. It nom noeer 'hat his r-aroer star'orl w'lS a rontslofl etertlon rao for another nan n t'tch he won snrl onde.l with an election f.l" for himself which he lnf Plan was called "Hid Skinflint " rer-.ue he aoulrt nm rv fraudulent hills to poll tfr'nn nd enti t ract or. 7M law onr n-a a luckv thlnr for Tl'-dn Tl'-dn It cave him rhe ""cent" that nfter-nore" nfter-nore" ennh'od htm to overthrow the TWPCd tine: In 'he Tweed dlsr-lostjre It w'll he rrmimhrrert he tflrtlpd the eonptrv Tweed held etc-toon ifT-rer' nfr).-e When Tilden f:'rfert hi ftffht on Tweed one one aked the ho what Tilden wanted and Twoed replied re-plied "Ti'iJrn wqnl to drive me out of tv Mitos M- want to stop the plrklner. e.arw out the ho s nd run ih co ornment oi the ottv -, if t wa a h'nnked 1tto eo'in-trv eo'in-trv siooo un In Vow (.ohinnn Mo nant tn 'tint tho hayloft anrl r'lorso preac down to the eltv and oruh nut the machine M-wj.rts M-wj.rts to pot a "rowd of enntlns IfPi'l llier tn tho I fjldRl nee who wll) f;.lk nhoul the con'rlfrpal force nf tto covernniont and rut down the faT tew hoow a llvtnc rate pd then when he has eot everything fixed to suit Mm Sam Tilden wants to ro to the rnid State Senate" Tweorf -, nhr In alt -heoe 'hinira hut one Tl'rln did not want to ro to the Senate Sen-ate Ti'ron ahnwed that Tweoii held elch-teen elch-teen dlfTerr-nl ofMce and that directly or In-dlrectlv In-dlrectlv Twee and his cane had mllkeJ the Otv of Vew Tork out of n.arlv C.r . ftnn OftO One plasterer rocolvorl li.OOO.AAO for month' work, ano'lier UJfl for twa dfly- work a carpenter tasrolyed t"".fi fiOO toi rnur atekfr work, and two Ver-non ro-cn ro-cn or Jr,n nno to nay for a carriage o attend at-tend a funeral Tilden made that funeral turn out o he the funeral of Rosa Tweed and his rliz Another luckv Law raae for Tilden -vas the Rurdei) will cao tf roads like one of Raizac'a novels Rurdei) waa a wealthy dontlst Me had heon on frterd'v terms with Mrs funnlrcham a dahlnc hurom widow of pood ooqi noltlon hut i-ncertnln Income. At RnrdeMs funeral Mr Cunnlncham an-nouncod an-nouncod he was hi widow Ml relative denied this Th accused her of Rurdell'a murder Pr' (hi she wa tried and nC-oulfted nC-oulfted Then he clalmi-d Rurdell'a pron-crtv pron-crtv Tilden onpoed her c'alma. The trial wa he aonaatlon of the hour ! rivalled ihe rhadhourre rae of Enelnnd The eves c.f the country were upon It. A minister woro he performed the marrlace ervl-o wlfnesso 'oflfled hov aw him do It THden prn ed Mrs r-unnlr?zham a per-1urer per-1urer the w1tnese conspirator and the minister a dupe He proved that Mr Cunnlncham Cun-nlncham had auhsfltuted 1n the marrlare ceremonv a dnmmv drcsei and hewhl. kered like Rurdell Mrs. Punnlnaham lot tW properfr- Tilden ealned a national reputation rep-utation Thl ease helped him aa much aa the WM'e murder ra he1ps1 Wehsfer It la astonishing how many notahle political careers have heen helped alone hv aensa-tlonal aensa-tlonal murder ea Tilden was a tnrtiaan and a rank partisan. Ra did not helleve In Mucwiimns He did not like ieople who ou)d not 1oln anv partv hecaus.a ;hey fnuad somcthlnr to find fault with In all parties He thouehf uch men were like the lord In Shakespeare's rdav who went Into hatlle arlth a hottle of sTnell-Inc sTnell-Inc fcalta at his nose end who would have heen a soldier If If were not for the run. He could he aa silent aa an owl or aa talkative talka-tive a a parrot. Rut there were two fhlrur" h- never aikerl aout. He never talked ahouf his love affairs and he never talked aheiut eellalon Me never had anv lot affairs af-fairs to talk ahout and none too much re-llrlon re-llrlon to mention. Such la a "pastel" a the French would nay. of the man who cave the Democratic partv a second birth. The dramatic differences between President Polk on one 1d. and Tilden and Van Ruren. on the olher. Illustrate Tilden" lndependenca. Van Ruren wa a candidate for PraaMant In the convention of 1S44 The rhirrpini of slavery wer acalnat him Thev Jockeyed Van Buren out of the nomination and named Polk. To prove their loyalty to the party Tilden and Van Buren Induced Silas Wright to rclcn from the fnlted State Senaleand run for Cov et nor of New Vork. They elected Wrlehf and saved Polk's neck, for without Now Vork Polk would have heon do. featcd. Polk rewarded Von Buren by tr Inc 10 ruin him politically. Me .attempted to wean Ti'den away from Van Ruren hv ofTer-Inc ofTer-Inc Tilden the pnlfon of naval officer of New Vork THden had spent nearly all th mofioy he had to help elect Polk. Poor thOUJth he was he refused the Job. Neither i'.00fi nor 0n nno would have Induced Til-dor, Til-dor, in desert hi old friend and preceptor M rti. Van Ruren. And then in rnpe and dl-Kiist. Tilden eot out of politics and never rv In fhem fcalu for over ten voar" And now we fake up a phase of Mr THden TH-den career whlcn sounds somewhat like the new- of the day 'Prohibit Ion" was an Isstia awnv ha.-k In ts:1 and New Vork was a drv State for a whll. even before Ihe present pres-ent Sahara spell. Tn 1R53 the I.edslature paed a prohibition law. Gov. Sevmour vetoeri ,-,nrj the welkin ran with innuendoes in-nuendoes and Insinuation. On MSB Tilden ran for Attornev-fJenera) of the State The "Know-Nothings" a.sked T'l.ln how he felt on their propaennda By si estopping, hy coulvooaf ins hv double mennlne word ho ceiilri have won their support hut thl he refused to in Me denounced the "Know-Nothlncs" "Know-Nothlncs" and all tltelr works In mnnlv and rear imdlnp erms. When Tilden had thus lamhasted 'the "Knnw-Nothlnc" the 'Prnhlhlllonlsts" took him on. Theft demanded ro know whether ho wa a "drv'- or a "wet" He lolri them he wa a "wet." and he told them so In no uncertain terms Noodle In aav he lost the election He could have won It by "puscx f online " Tilden' defence nf hi stand on prohibition prohibi-tion was hned on constii ntlnnal cr.aunds It law confess, dnea not sound much like the law Uld down hv the United States Supreme Court the other day; but Its lan-ruaTe lan-ruaTe Is such I suspect, aa mlcht make William H Anderon ich and William Jen-n.nrs Jen-n.nrs Rrvan crv The next (jubernatorlal o'ocMon was fought out on lh nrohlhltlon liie Sevmour wa hea'fen and Mvron f'ark went in a a "I'rohlbltlon" fjovornor The I.ecNI.a'ure o-i-sed i dra,' law It was enforced In' ahout the wav the present national prnt-;t.!fon law la enforced And then the Court of Appea' upheld Tilden' contention and pronounced fv law unconstitutional uncon-stitutional Tilden as Cavernor In '74 THden became Clnveonor Mlw ad-n'lnlstraflon ad-n'lnlstraflon was one success after another an-other It was then 'hat he made his famous fa-mous flcht nsalnsf the "Canal Pine" and in his flehf i,.r .orvej him welt in an Incident Inci-dent of his career many vjua before Twenty vears heforo ho was elected a member mem-ber of tho Legislature wanted 'o co or the lurtlclarv Committee Oov Wrlcht tnslstod that THden ca on the remmlttee of rinance and r"anal and on this -ommittee he fl-t commenced tc cathor up the threads of Ihe rone with nliirh. a Qovpfnor '1P hi r-o.i tho memivers of the cnnnl ring H-aw well he cleaned up the canal rlnc I shown hv a onotntion from the Rochester Chronicle, a Republican newspaper- "f.ov Tilden welch about '30 pounds, hut the canal ring entertains the vtow of him that the hov did of the mule 'How much doe he wwhtbt replied the hov 'Well 1 onlv welgherl one of hlr lerfs and I calculated that It welshed about ?oon nonnds ' " Thl flcht wared hot and fnr'aus. Tilden threw himself Into It heart and soul. From Its strain and excitement there is no doubt. I think, that ho uuffered ome sort of a light npopte'-'io Bfrtur which annoyed him for a while hut did not Ineanaolta'o mm t fo -eat hi enem'c cjiroad 'he torv 'rat he had a clot on the h-in. that he was coin? CTR XV that he had a stroke of paralv-sls. paralv-sls. that he had softentne of the cerohral flue. that he had lost his power of decision de-cision and haf he went to hrd drunk verv night. THden took the-e lie and misrepresentations misrepre-sentations with surprising good nature and In a locose spirit wrote .lohn Kellv that "under u-h a mountain of He there usually I a grain of truth " Amone other things he did what ome Other flovernnr of New York will have to do In the near fi ture He rut down the expenses ex-penses of ihe data about f.O per cent, and that Is what should be done now nd herein. Ill me say. lav the secret of Tl'den' w-onderful career "he saved the people'" monev" and heforo lonr that will be the secret of the ascend tcv nf some future Tilden who will eschew "circus stunts" In the political arena and get the Common- , wealth down to an cqultohle basis of public economic Then, as now public expenditures had leaped bevond all bounds of reason From 1S.f lo 17A State expenditures had Increased In-creased sevenfold, national expenditures tenfold while the population had not even 'doubled On top of this Ihe scandals roh-t-erles and Jobberies of the Grant Administration Adminis-tration had mad? the nation slrh for a "Reformer" "Re-former" such as Tilden had proved Mmef In New Vork. Such a reformer was neoded to clean out the Aui;e,m stables at Washington. Wash-ington. Then, loo the country was staggering stagger-ing from the effects of the panic of 171 The panic of IS37 defeated Van Buren and burled the Democratic party: the panic of 171 helped elect TIMen and resurrect the remocratlc party. I believe that the panic Of "73 with the failure of Jay Cooke, ao closely Identified with various Government transactions had a lot to do In changing more than a million vote which transformed trans-formed the Republican majority of 700.00" In 187: to a Democratic majority of 330.000 In 174. It was In the Republican Convention of I87 that Inecrso!) made his "Plumed Knlarht Speech." The echoea of Its chl.clled aentences. Its sculptured phrase. It nllltera-t-a and Ita assonance mingled with the new that Plalne had been stricken aer1ouly III He Vralked to church on Sun? morning morn-ing under a we!tertna un and u(Trrel a unntroke If Blaine had ridden to church that Sunday momlna; Instead of walking In all probability he would have been President. Presi-dent. Hi enemies whlpered tht h hd suffered a stroWw and won delegatea away fri.ro him. Had he been nominated th S v M U E l I i 9, chances 'are thai he would hae been elected, as he was hundreds of thousand of votes stronger than Maxes. The Democratic convention met at St Lmils TiMen ra.lkad away with the nnrtil-ration nnrtil-ration As usual he had taken care of the smallest detalln There wa even a man from New Vork city, afterward a prominent .ilTl-clal. .ilTl-clal. a personal friend of mine, row dead only a tew e;irs who was the official hrt-wor or Tlldea enthusiasm When he wanted cheers' tumult and noise for THden he pulled out of hi pocket a big red bandanna handkerchief- when he warfed silence he nulled oir a white one. The white handkerchief handker-chief stayed ir his pocket most of the time Jusi a fr-w month before in the New Vork State Convention THden had forced a declaration dec-laration In favor of "bard money " He compelled com-pelled the National Convention to declare for "hard monev" despite the fact that Thomas Fw.rg of Ohio put up a roulng flcht for "sofi money." This ivaa a nervy 'Mog for Tilde-, to do osrieclallv when he was vnlne io no ihe candidate 'Soft money" was might v popular In some parts o' -he country; more ponular In 1 S Tt than "Iree "liver" was In lSOfi No man In th country dl.' as much a THden to kill forever for-ever :he "soft money" delusion Thr RepilhllCAn tried to conduct Ihlscam-paln Ihlscam-paln on clvi; war issues Thev waved the "Rhody Shirt." Rut It had lot Its charm THden made the campaign nf '76. the first Providential ctortlnn lnco the firing on Fort cMrnter 'hat --, enndurtet on non-war Issues Is-sues The Ifonuhllcans cTonended largely i on n-onoy Mavea w-ote Rlnlne to wave the -R'ondv Phlrt." RllpatrirAx ".ail that money wa needed to do the trick In Indiana nd t.owelt. who favored Haves, said- "The w r.rt element In the Repuhllcan narfv has got hold of the canvas and evervt r-.Ing pos-ible pos-ible Is dene tr tr up the old pat-lons of tho war" Rut It couldn't he done. Tllden's great puhllc record created now l-ttoo d helood him all over tho roitntrv o did the "Tweed Ring" and the "Canal Ring" "Hard Money" helped him In Ihe P-iSl. HI. great letter whHe Governor again! "Wasteful Federal Fxrwnd'toros" hlred him In 'ho West- his attack on Gen Phil Sheridan for his high handed tactics In Louisiana helperi him In the South and his tand on the civil war aided blm hetowr Mason and Dixon's line while It did not seetn to Injure him In the North. It was rr.mpnlgn of songs and torchlight parades. H:1 V.'.ar Rerorrl n A H .' T n n o t- Durlng tho campaign Mr Tilden was viciously attacked hv the Republicans on two rvo.pfa his war record and how bo made hi rronev It u true that heforo Fort Sumter was fired upon THden was not In favor of the civil war HI stand was somewhat stml.ar to that of Daniel Webster. He oh-ler oh-ler ted lo the word. He thought the problem CeVlo bo better solved hv the forces of na-irr na-irr the natural evolution of economic pros sure and the certalntv that no moral wrong crulr; long survive The !sjne of events has proved that THden was wrong: hut he was ro more wrong than Stanton, who said the war would be over .In thirty davs; ro more wrong than Greeley. who rroci.ilmod "If the wavward sisters depart In peace." No matter what he mav have thought before the war. Tilden 'ip-P0Tlad 'ip-P0Tlad President Lincoln as oon the war s'arted1 and he declared "I will go as far fo su'taln Abraham Lincoln as I would to us-la'n us-la'n Andrew lackson In his efforts to preserve pre-serve the I'nlon Those w ho attack Tl!en's war rrA for-ret for-ret that when In his campaign gnlnt Pass Van BuVen declared for "free aoll freo speech, free labor and free men THden supported him: that when In that samo campaign Van Ruren aa'd "Congress has no more right fo make a king than to make a slave" Tilden supported him When M0 Clellap ran against Lincoln for President Ti'den urged McClellan to repudiate the "non-prosecution war plank" of the Democratic Demo-cratic platform. During the war he was often called Into consultation by Lincoln's advler- When Tilden fun for Pre!e't threo members of Lincoln's Cabinet wero ol.'ve. and two of them supported Tilden. That shows how Lincoln' close friends felt about Tllden'a stand during; the war No one need ever doubt Tllden's love of country or hla loyalty to the fits. He came of a stock who had proclaimed their patriot-lm patriot-lm before the Declaration of Independence wa adopted Weeks before that historic document was proclaimed Tllden's forebear, their relatives and their neighbors. In the little town of New Lebanon, had adopted a ret of resolutions which declared "the Ameilcan Colonies should he Independent of Great Britain." Where hla ancestors mood In 1776. Tilden stood In I860, for his country. flrt lat and all the time! The attack on "how he made his money" was unfnlr. Tilden made his money as a lawsTor and he saved 't. And. furthermore he knew how to Invest It H knew when" and "what" to buy and "when" and "how" to sell After the Government n lor.'ed Its Irredeemable currency Tllcen a i lames C. Carter: "Ruv all you can now invest nil the money you have and all the monev you can borrow." That's what Tilden did and thut's ho- he made a lor of money. When the war wns over he s.ald "Sell." Ha sold and made more money. Tilden never liked the word '"speculation." I suppose ha would like lo have had auch dealings oaPed "Investments." Mo r.ever fort:nve l.lenL-Gov l.lenL-Gov Dorrhelmer heeause he snld "Tilden made his monev In speculation." Rut no matter what he called It. THden did go n Ihe market In his enrlv days, hut he never went in In a llshonorahle wav The campaign of s'f, wa a hard one on Ti'den. hnf one incident afforded him no end ni amusement Some Inker sent a story broadraai thf Ti'den had a barrel of monev and was ioriklns tor a wife." And then from the North and South, the East and West, from city, farm nr.d mart came sweet scented billet deux to 'this crusty old lachelor. W'ien (he rei:rns for the campaign of 176 wort 'n Tlidrn had won the popular vote and electoral vote, but he djd not get the Presidency, it was robbery, barefaced robbery, and one of the murkiest blotches on American history Dos pern does conceived th" plot, brigands executed It. but Tilden hint' It wa nat altogether blameless Me heltr.ted when he rhould have struck with a hand of Iron He kept silent when he should have spoken out fearlessly n Henry V alterson .:d. He fumbled with legal technicalities tech-nicalities while his enemies built for him a gunpowder plot. If he had struck at Ihe election ring at WMnlOaton wltn the ame force that he had mahed the Tvaed ring and killed the cnnal ring. Tilden would have been President Vears after J.ime.s G Rtalno himself admitted this, and Rlalne ought to I have known. A feast killed Alexander, a -'. kA.. . r. t A " - : i I thwarted Burgovne and n foolish tel.-sram kept Tilden oUt of the Presidential chair. Or the mnrn'ng after election nearlv every big newpapcr In the country proclaimed pro-claimed Tl'den's vlcfnrv. One of tho New Vork r!:v pepari stated, hosvever. the ejection ejec-tion was In doubt. Hardly was Its Issue on the streets than Into Its office came a telegram tele-gram from I'nlted State Senator Birnum. financial head nf the Democratic National Committee, asking this unfriendly newspaper newspa-per whs Information it had about Oregon. Florida. Louisiana and South Carolina Why Barnufn ever should have senr this kind of a telegram to an editor of an unfriendly newspaper surpasses understanding The editor of tho paper argued If Rarnum. a leading member of Tllden's campaign committee com-mittee wa )n d uht the Republicans had a thousand times more reason to be In doubt, ond forthwith he published an extra In which he claimed the election of Haves. Thus started n wild fire that burned up Tllden's Tll-den's chance Then fh.tndter ont Ms famous te'egram "Claim everything." and the Republican coyer stonped chimin eyervthine until thev put Hayes n the White Hocse While Tilden faltered the Democratic members of "ongress seemed to become panic stricken The Democratic member of the House wore afraid the presiding nfflcer of the Srna'e would block the dec'jratloo of Tllden's election elec-tion The Dnvacratlc fSena'ors seamed 'o think that President Grant would ue the army and prx to nut Hayea in hut I can't And anv lustlflc.at'on for tjch a fe'ar. Then th electoral commission was created creat-ed THden opposed If and never null forgave for-gave Havard Thurm.n and Hewitt for favoring It Rayard was determined to create cre-ate the commission, nothing eould sway him Thurman and Hewitt supported him and created th cnmmlsalon u. Tilden wanted 1he House to count lh vote on con!ltn-llonal con!ltn-llonal rrounda or !o elect him aa John Qulncy Adams had been elected Rut Ihe Democrata fnll-awej Ravard and voted for the electoral commission the majority of the Republicans In Both houses cleverly voted against It. and o the Democrat were hound fo accept Ita decision no maffer what if mtht he Then came tr holt tht hlr-ered hlr-ered rv-mocra rv'i hope. J jdje Davis was elected L'nited Stites Senator and realjned from the commlaalon. And. calamity upon mlforfune Roacoe Conkllnc commenced fo wabbte and ftnal'r desertod At the cutset ('onkl'ni wa 'n favor of Tilden. But when needed he was absent from hj pomt. AU aorts of :orlra. all aorta of explanation ea,i .. en giver for Conkllng mysierlou ' 'SaBf conduct '"it r me of them expUln. aBu The sessions of tho commission form on of the most romantic Incidents fn American hlatOTJ and when the vote trU taken Tilden W lost by one vote. Fourteen was the fatal Hf nuniivr for Rlsmarck thirteen was the lucky HA numt.. i of Wondrow Wilson and the num- Wm M her one was the bane of Samuel J. Tilden a r lift lie lacked one disputed electoral vot H . to make him President. The electoral com- mlaUjon bjr a malorlty of one vote decided iaH dim Ho I . vva defeated for Ihe Presidency by on electoral vote The Supreme Court by a rnajority of one vote declared Invalid fha prov ision of his will providing; for the die- t dilution of some six millions of his estate iLK and that decision was affirmed by th Court of Appeala by one majority 'hat court LaaaaaV subsequently refused to open the question by one K fr,e man. Gov. Wells of Tyvilslana. finally Vl turned the scales rtgalnsl Tilden and tf vou WgV would kr .w what kind of a creature this H k man Wells waa listen to the words of that re- LaW liable bistort an, James Ford Rhodes Rhodes B says: "As a matter of fact Well and his H satellites In secret conclnve etermlned th Presldencj of the United Stat bul bsfwa returning the vote of Ioulslana for Ilavs mLLm. I here la th.t won offereti to gm Kl e I; t,i Til ler, for tw o hundn d thousand LM . dollar." I Of And Sheridan wrofo fo President Grant um'm - '-rc.-g Wei's -nHn subterfuge and po'lt- chicanery" and asor'od ''Ho has not K a friend who la an honest man." F Tllden's popularity was never greater V than on the day when the Fleet oral Com- K mission voted him out of the Presidency. The lower hla enemies puttied him down I ha I ; higher he aroe In public estimation Hal bbLbbU he died when the Electoral Commission de- Bl dared against him the halo of a political HH martvr would now surround his brow. KH ila tha admission that the I pher lo'eprams" inlured 'is fame, but lus- H V t'-edemnds the statement that for thee he ft N wa hlome. Col. Pelton. a nephew of Tlltfen'e. with Bl more r.eal thrrn discretion pnd half crazed LPsU Rlth the excitement of the contest a Hl cullty of Ihe cipher telegrams. Tilden knew LHaL aothlnj; shout them until (hey were pub- LLUS ichod peitnn ihntmhi -v-.... kiMuit k aaaaaa showed hlmaetf ntnrhrth, B . To ludge Tilden hv bis showlns; the wit- aaaaa 1 no., stand wou'd be unfair. He was old. H fired feeMe half paralvzed. deaf and L we.. of v ol. o 'hal ho hardlv could bo beard. J and Tom Peo.i wa decidedly unfair In hla crn examination of the "Old Roman." If THden wanted to buy the Presidency H there was'nothlng to tcp him. II needed fH Mo had 'he moner HpS would never have missed it Rs did not et tb.at one state. becaue he would not buy It. Haves needed three Stales. They vers H ad for sale. Haves got the three States. H and every nn wno heiaed him get fhem re- H celved hmors or preferment and a few of H them Ived In luxury. Thee are the facta H Draw voir own Inferen-e! And o the tale LBI I' I t lan was elected President, but political aVIe marplot snatched th crown out of th eaHr hand of Justice just a ah was "about to LpsK- place on hla brow. Hp THden was ro-rd cf the Presidency In LbbK 171 and vet in is f the Democrat offered WWmmC ta nominal him a second time. And while PaaaaKS te mortal bested him by latfa nd Hl telearaph la accept that nonlnatsaa the n-. publicans did not d" whisper the nam nf H Ri 'horfc-d n Hnrr. . r Ib'o candidate LVb Tt o .onch of the 'teal o wa too tron fl t for that And asaln In 1414. while th R. bLVB ptlbUraos denied Grant a third nomination. K th Democrats for a third time offered to BPaHS n. mleate Sam-iel J Tilden. And when Til bH dea d'ed fn itt John G Whtttler wrote: H' One rrnro. (t ill llKlh 4rSh. LBl The naUe ps'it-ran npeMl wMa; -a "fBj Orwe moro rt-,m re- n irri sallh BaBBBBBBBsl ntaa d) lh m ' BBBBBBBBrI la ttmnA iih iotni haat lll a nstrf " m raro.., FasaaaaaaBu it Lre Ms alvaaaaaaV' Tilden Is dead, hut thank to him tho bIHH Democratic party cam out ef the grave and alvaaaBai walka among men He sleep among th Bi a-her h was abc. jt thirty miles sway from the crave of Martin K Van Buren Thev wer together In life. LHI they are ro far ararr In death Thea two aaaaaaaKJ are the fathers of the Demo racr of to- ggaaamtr lachaon ta I .'hor of the Democracy of the oiden days And H aome day th cttlse-n of this country who E Wi"" the perpetuation of all that la aaaaaaaaaaanl het in American history will make political V.1 ihe himrt nd the crave of LHk Huron In New Tork lust ae tar have mad potiu-a) shrine out of th V laait and crsre of Jrffaraon la VI rein la H f Jackson la Tennea. fl f |