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Show Judging from the tone held by the thick aad thin republican journals, their conductors regarded Tilden as the strongest among the candidates for president. The St. JLouia Globs-Democrat, Globs-Democrat, on the day before the convention, con-vention, published and repeated several times the anti-war resolution adopted by the democratic national convention of 1874, the authorship of which has been falsely attributed to Tilden, who really opposed the resolution resolu-tion in committee. Their evident design was to kill oB Tilden and thus demoralize the party. The scheme did not work as well as the Blaine-butchering Blaine-butchering programme did at Cin-cinatti. Cin-cinatti. Ihe democracy were too well united to suffer their opponents to run the St. Louis convention, although al-though the former virtually forced the republican giant (Blaine) off the track. |