Show TUB DEAD tTATtSM 1 When Samuel Jones Tildea ceased to br ntbe on Wednesday morning the soul of lone of the bel and grandest men ol the century took its flight America has produced many ieat men I of whom the is proud but this generation genera-tion has seen neoe greater than he who is today > mourned from one tide of the continent to the other nor is there one of whom the people are more proud whose name will be more honored hon-ored whose memory will be more revered He wes loved for bis noble impulses admired for his laudable ambition am-bition and applauded for his glorious deeds and now that he has closed along 1 a-long an active an eventful And a steadily progressive career without a1 t spot or stain bis countrymen will hold I i him in reverence through All time placing his name by the sideof those 4 t that are tody and will continue J t familiar to aL I The death of Tilden will recall to the minus of all the blackest the ugliest 11 t I page of American history o pat e f which ncord8 he brazEn the impudent 1 t I the wicked assumption of the political representatives of onehalf therepnblic I I and the craven cowardly contemptible f yielding of the representatives of tbe other half As one recalls the event J i of 18767 he is astonished at the desperate i des-perate effrontery of the Republican party in laying claim to the first office F of the nation thereby proclaimingn t revolution and demanding the real overthrow of the government but his astonishment is eminently greater and more overpowering when ie reflects that the Democrats admitted the j I i claim and submitted to the demand l de-mand It was a revolution and I t I 1 though bloodless ws as complete as I I 1 any revolution that ever occurred ei t any country the regularly chosengov j ernrnent was set aside and lor four i years the nation was in the hands of usurpers Only the wisdom and good fJI f sense of the people stimulated by the 1E recollections of the war fresh in their if r i minds saved the nation from civil j iJ strife that might have caued the war It of the rebellion to appear as child play by comparison In no other land lh under the sun could such a crime have il 3 been committed without being followed if t + I by a terrific flow of blood It may have been better that matters went asthey I did but that black page in ths history f of the republic can never be effaced Republicans will never get over feeling F f I tbat they stole tie Presidency and l Democrats wit never Lilly respect 1 themselves for cawardly submitting to d t the theft The use grand figure in these dark days wa Samuel J Tdden who i ri then showed hiro Jf the statesman t V the patriot the bran man that lie was He had been electe ioJthe chkoffice I i i in the naton and was prepared to i take the oath and enter upon the performance of his officialdatitg bat when the people through their representatives i repre-sentatives told him he f must not he acquiesced 1 ac-quiesced saying that as Samuel tT Til 1 j den the citizen he WAS not ambitious I i to be President and if the people were I i R r willing to submit to the robbery and I r declare themselves too craven to main lain theirrights he as a private citizen I could and would do nothing If there i had been any of the demagogue in him t J my unworthy ambition he would certainly l S cer-tainly havecceated trouble but he was the grand man the upright proud i t statesman through and through He I coold not feel that the cause was his I tFr but rather that it belonged to all the people He grieved for them y not for himself u the Presidency had f I no charms for him patriot and reformer a t re-former that he was and knowing the toil that was before an honest executive bent on the vigorous orous and faithful r pr I forraance of his duty to his country Every day since the great crime was i I committed the seal of condemnation I ir i is been put upon ir Today the chief I actor in the fraud which was made 1 triumphant for four years is living in i humiliating retirement ignored byhis I fellow conspirators and despised by the i people without regard to class or party t I while him through whom the nation of t wa wronged is lying at Graystone on ttl the Hudson the admired the revered i f i of the nation loved by all and honored i II i in name as no other man on the conti f I I neat were he to die tomorrow would rye loved and honored It is fhe simple l l troth and it sells a story which can be i r mid so tewly In no other way to say + t rs s that no living map would be so nni Tersally mourned as that glorious old I t it 1 palgot statesman and gentleman hf I Samuel J TUden whose seventytwo tl I t I I L years were brought toa close BO unuI piotedly yesterday morning J It may not be generally knownbtitis known to many that Mr Tilden was a brave and true friend to the oppressed people of Utah He knew of their persecutions per-secutions and was familiar with the many wrongs and outrages to which they were subjected and he was never afraid to denounce the wicked course that was being pursued the treatment of a question which reouired justice humanity intelligence and broad statesmanship states-manship He ever manifested a lively interest in the social political and industrial in-dustrial affairs of this Territory and was always pleased to convene with Utah people Nor isle generally known that Mr Tilden held a large financial interest is this Territory He was one of the heavii siu not the heaviestholders of Ctsh Southern railroad bonds t3odc < Torth of those securities having lone been in his possession It is probable that he also owned other local bonds and stocks as for many years he was an anxious enquirer 1Jt thesecuritica of this Territory i |