Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1902 — Tilden’s Campaign Method. [ARTICLE]

Tilden’s Campaign Method.

It was Mr. Tilden’s faith in the power of the people to form a correct judgment on any question submitted to them that led to bls final triumph. “I have spent over >2,000 for postage in this campaign,” he said to a young man after 1874. “Do you mean to say that you sent out 06,000 letters?” asked his astonished visitor. “That’s about the number,” answered Mr. Tilden. “But where did you get their names?" “My long connection with the Democratic State Committee had familiarized me with the chairmen of the County Committee in almost every county in New York. To him I therefore sent for a list Of names of men la every village in his county.” “And did you send printed letters to them?” “Better than that," Mr. Tilden said, while his gray eyes twinkled: “I sent each of my correspondents a lithographed fac-slmlle of my own handwriting.” “And how did it work?" “Splendidly,” he answered, In conclusion, says the Utica Observer. “After I was elected and had gone to Albany occasionally I’d have a call from a citizen who would , introduce himself to me by means of one of my letters to him, and who would say: ‘I didn’t think you knew me, Mr. Tilden, until I got this.’ ’’