New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-06
4 TaUlf4NY HOLIDAY.

Tammany lad celebration on the Fourth.
A mose amusing comedy we do not remember.
The sachems, braves, and warriors were IN full
feather, and blazing with paint. Mr.. Verplanck
wore the plumes that futtered over his brow
when he danced in the "Pig-Pen" fifty years
ago. Mr. Verpanck is, perhaps, the oldest
member of the Democratic party now living.
and rs things go he promises to be the last to
live like Godfrey Dale in the comedy, after all
his friends have gone. We had our Mayor,
who is kept in Tammany because he is tremen-.
dously respectable. Dir. Hoffman il said to be the
most respectable Democrat in the United States
very Turvcydrop in deportmen. There was
the frisky Mr. Cox. who left Ohio because of
her constantly increasing RepU5lEan majorities.
IL Mr. Verplanck is the oldest. and Mr.. Hoff-
man the most respectable, Mr.. Cox is the most
eloquent Democrat living. We ae not unmind-
full of Jack Rogers, whose dOquence is SO
Ciceronian. But Cox has q freshness, viyac-
ity, q capacity for bounce that Rogers never
possessed. Then came Oakley Hall, who has
become the Jester of TammanY, with cap and
bells, who vaults about with astonishing
agility, and repeats extracts from Joe Mill
Ter. There was harmless innocent named
"Mr. De Witt Van Buren,, assocnte editor OF
"He World" who read poem. We remem-
Der Upper in his last days, but upper cannot
compare with this editorial rhyner We are
glad TO know that the audienc, responded to
=" the principles it contained" for the true
Democrat would not give fig fer poetry with
out principles There were several letters read
from Andrew Johnson, Sam. Shan, Nj. Blalr,
and w. II. Seward. A corner-stne was laid.
Mr.. Verplanck made an interesting address.
1t was photographed, personal, historical,
gossipy archaeological, and as interesting as
a rummage among bundle of cd newspapers.
Evidently, Mr.. Verplanck knows what to say,
and when to say it. He was in the presence of
the Tammary Society, the orator Of the day,
charged to hy all that was high and noble
about the society. Yet he found nothing more
interesting tlan the war of 1912. We should
infer from MI Verplanck that there had been
no war since sic; that the country has always
been at peace that rebellion had never con-
trolled the SOth. Mr.. Verplanck has evidently
forgotten all bOut our Rebellion, or, perhaps,
he too well remembers il, and finds nothing
to be said in favor of Tammany Hall. Tam
many is old and lusty. She boasts of
her traditions, her history, the great
men who nave sat In her councils.
Cert ainly{in time when the nation was men
aced with destruction we should expect signal
services from Tammany, and an orator with
the grace and culture of Mr.. Verplanck would
have dwelt log and proudly upon the glori-
GUS record of her braves hundred battle
fields would haze seen the old Saints standard
A hundred hOsitals would have been bright
ened and cheerd by the bounty of Tammany,
and our public men would have been comforted
by her loyal lords. What an Grafton Mr..
Yerplanck mighlhave made had Tammany Hall
been true TO the country during the war-had
the history been anything but timidity, apathy,
supineness. Whit q sorry sight it is TO see
this venerable ortor ashamed to think OF any
war since 1912, md compelled to speak only
the merest chat and gossip about men long
since dead and fGgotten.
Mr.. Hoffman my look wise and dignified.
Mr.. Cox may shou. Mr.. Hall may caper nimbly
over his sawdust and jingle his bells. Nay,
more, the innoeelt Mr.. Van Buren, may sing
his forlorn rhymes All this may be tolerated on
Independence da.; but how much noblor 1t
would look ii Tanmany had any record. We
sympathize with hr. Verplanck. Orators have
had difficult tasks assigned them in this age OF
talk But we remember no orator called upon
to celebrate n NATIONAL anniversary who was
ashamed to speak OF the greatest and most
fiercey contested lattles In our history.
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King William Of Prlssia's photographs sell in Paris
for one cent, and Blsnrcks for four cents
A son Of Hiram Rwers has executed bust OF