"What would you suggest ?" Mr.Barksdale said: "Would not the words 'We have received with the deepest sensibility Mr.Tilden's letter of withdrawal,' answer your purpose ?" "Certainly," said I, and the plank in the platform, as it was amended, was adopted unanimously.
Mr.Tilden did not die.

He outlived all his immediate rivals.

Four years later, in 1884, his party stood ready again to put him at its head.
In nominating Mr.Cleveland it thought it was accepting his dictation reenforced by the enormous majority--nearly 200,000--by which Mr.
Cleveland, as candidate for Governor, had carried New York in the preceding State election.

Yet, when the votes in the presidential election came to be counted, he carried it, if indeed he carried it at all, by less than 1,100 majority, the result hanging in the balance for nearly a week.
II In the convention of 1884, which met at Chicago, we had a veritable monkey-and-parrot time.

It was next after the schism in Congress between the Democratic factions led respectively by Carlisle and Randall, Carlisle having been chosen Speaker of the House over Randall.
Converse, of Ohio, appeared in the Platform Committee representing Randall, and Morrison, of Illinois, and myself, representing Carlisle.
I was bent upon making Morrison chairman of the committee.