Thrity years of New York politics up-to-date .. . yusages, felt that they must condemn. Tilden was in somerespects a good pcjlitical manager, but his methods hadbeen peculiarly selfish, and while he was a good money-maker, a shrewd and sharp manipulator of railroad stocks,the interests of the Democratic party did not seem to havebeen benefited through his management. When electedGovernor of this State in 1874, a Democratic majority of50,397 votes was recorded in his favor; in 1875, the Demo-cratic majority in the State fell to 11,810; in 1876, theyear of his candidacy for President, with a can
Thrity years of New York politics up-to-date .. . yusages, felt that they must condemn. Tilden was in somerespects a good pcjlitical manager, but his methods hadbeen peculiarly selfish, and while he was a good money-maker, a shrewd and sharp manipulator of railroad stocks,the interests of the Democratic party did not seem to havebeen benefited through his management. When electedGovernor of this State in 1874, a Democratic majority of50,397 votes was recorded in his favor; in 1875, the Demo-cratic majority in the State fell to 11,810; in 1876, theyear of his candidacy for President, with a candidateagainst him comparatively unknown in this State, (Ruther-ford B. Hayes) his majority was only 26,668 ; the nextyear, 1877, the Democratic majority was only 11,264; in1878, the Republicans swamped the Democrats, getting amajority of 34,661; and in 1879, through Tildens deter-mination to renominate Governor Robinson, (which deter-mination was made more intense through his conflict w^ithKelly) the Republican nominee for Governor, Mr. Cornell,. (Kiiirawu from llari) Weekly. Uy |»lnn. CnpyMKlit, ;g, by llai|nr & UiotliiMB.;ISAMUKr, J. Tll-DKN. TllK BOSS PLAYINi; A HANI). tm was electetl hy 12,777 votes. So it w:is [)!;iiiil;,- evidiiit thatTildeii (whom many oUl-timc Democrats eoiidemued forwhat they called *his craven sid)missiou to the Kepidtlicansteal, in 1870) was not a man to excite enthusiasm and liadnone of the maii^netismre(|uircd torally around his standardthe constantly increasing army of young voters in the State— the number of young men annually reaching the votingage being estimated between forty and fifty tliousand. It was well-known that there would be quite a number ofanti-Tilden delegates in the B,oeteSfer State Convention,(and I may here state that John 0. Jacobs, of Brook-lyn, was also the presiding officer of this State Conven-tion) ; and it was perhaps the hope that there might beanother bolt, and thus an accession to his camp, that
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