Show L SAMUK1 JONES TILUKX Amid the mourning million1 the result re-sult of a 1irelon dcscrvitiK Samuel Jones Tidens rail body will ho committed to the earth loduy The death of hoof man ho-of tho peoplo in the last leca1eo full of deaths llhistrlon1 men Imi left the void mnilo by his doalli nnd the impress on the nlliin of the people which ho was cniblod to mlke while living will ho eully inland in the coming striipplu for the mtccoion of Democratic Demo-cratic rule in America His was ft 1 mas i tel mlmt that calmly wc licd the wants of the times and ever consulted a clrict conformity to the fast de eloping new neods neil requirement of flue people nil to his deep pen 0 it ntrntion and imcrrini judgment aro to ho attributed mainly nil tho t successes that have cumiicd the efforts of the grand old party for the past few years In his own peiflon bo bee line a sacrifice on tliR nllnt of vtroni that I the people might benefit thereby and be brought In see the glaring erroi Into which they f were drifting and no cluplet that adorns his lulCuulOiy today is ImRhtcr than the great Rolfabnegation displayed during tho days when rampant treason to the peoplo ran riot in tbu Republican ranks and the boisted ropicsenUttvo power of our Government was dragged in tho dust by scheming politicians Samuel J Tddcn was great in law great in the counsels of the nation and great in his power for good over his fellow men but lie was imnieasureibly t greater than in all in file iofusil tu precipitate riot among the people when < their dearest right was tttolon by thoso who for twenty years had led then on to tlio verge of National ruin When time rg1 shall have segregated the errors of judgment judg-ment from the grand undertaking of bin T life and when the HUIIO hcilci Hhall hao stricken the violent rancor laised < ill the bosoms of his enemies tho dispassionate historian will write him down as u paragon among groat Amcri cans and a fitting model for the emulation emula-tion of rising generations It is a pitiable pitia-ble thing no soon after his death to read tho faint praise which damns crowding flue columns of Uopnbllcni journals each line breathing out to flue world l a challenge to ho writer to withhold calumny nnd where tho truth will not be written nt least give silence z The potty passion of the egotistical writer finds an apt object in the dead lion for i f tlio aim of his cnomouH darts but it is 0 pleasant to know and to feel that this great mass of tlio American peoplo whose political idol Tilden was arc intelligent enough l and manly enough to read between be-tween tho lines of such contemptible niattci the tiuo animus that actuates the writer When the extraordinary history of tho past fifty years small have boon written the men who are to follow in the steps of tho present generation will find no more honored name nor a memory more cherished and revered than that of Samuel Jones Tilden and his diiefeat glory will be his utter duvo tion to principle for the benefit of the masses of his countrymen What penn of praise cut into tho marble could be grander |