In the presence of such a record it was ludicrous to deny that Tilden, although resembling a reformer, was simply an adroit politician, who had cultivated some queer political associates and had countenanced some very shady transactions.
Alexander critiques Tilden's political character, suggesting he was more of a skilled politician than a true reformer.
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It cared nothing for the Democratic party except as it contributed to its selfish ends.
Indeed, he went a step farther in the way of irreconciliation, preferring Hoffman and Tammany, he said, to "the reckless, red-radicalism which rules the present Congress....
I discerned also unmistakable evidences of stern integrity, earnest patriotism, and unswerving fidelity.
He set the custom of dictating bills in chancery to an amanuensis, doing it with such accuracy that a word had seldom to be changed.
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