Show WHAT TILDES WOULD HAVEDON E PERHAPS The loss of the presidency in 1877 was in nowise the fault of Mr Tilden As a candidate he had done more than commonly falls to the lot of a 1 candidate He had vindicated all that had been promised in his name and had won his party its firfit national triumph in twenty years ItS It-S not the business of candidates lo count the votes cast for them to SOlD up the returns to declare the result of the elections and to seat themselves them-selves in office With respect to presidential elections these peat electoral duties are lodged with Con greef Nevertheless Mr Tilden prepared pre-pared a pan of procedure sustained by conttitutional precedents which was submitted t > the House by the chairman of the judiciary committee Proctor Knott who made a very able speech upon it i Mr Tilden contributed contri-buted to this plan a magazine or material to support a peace i constitutional con-stitutional battle in toe House and ho held himself ready to carry out at the risk of his life whatever resolution reso-lution his party friends in Congress should come Ic Mr Tildens plan Mr Kuotts report was eel aside in favor of the Electoral Tribunal I bill hatched in the secrecy of a commit eeroom and precipitated upon Congress and rushed through the two Houses as ii it were an egg in danger of rotting by exposure to the ar This took the whole case out of Mr Tildena hands and those who thus betrayed him have ever since and are now doing their best to defame and degiade him Louisville Courier Journal |