Big Bill of the court

Usage examples of tilden.

As Conkling said, any hope of a third term for Grant has been butchered by the Belknap affair, and the prospects of Conkling or whomever the Republicans choose to run against Tilden will hardly be enhanced by these revelations.

Tilden will make a great noise about corruption in Washington, and I must say after Babcock, Schenck, and Belknap, all three so fast in a row, he’ll be able to make some good points.

In the half-light of a single kerosene lamp, Tilden looked to be all grey like a corpse.

Although the editors knew that the popular vote at the South had gone for Tilden and the paper had already grudgingly conceded him New York State, they preferred to act as if the Democratic majorities in Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina had already been reversed by the Republican Returning Boards.

Tilden responded by asking Hewitt to resign as Democratic national chairman, which he has done.

Colonel Pelton wants me to join the Tilden “Speakers Bureau” and exhort the public in the small towns of the republic.

Tilden’s brother-in-law Colonel Pelton officially runs both, but Bigelow assures me that the actual administration of the entire campaign is the work of Tilden himself.

Homer Tilden led the two policemen to the elevator and up to the twenty-first floor where the young woman sat on the window ledge, of her own office, feet dangling, looking down curiously at the crowd gathering.