New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-12
TIMETABLE VIVACITY.

We waited with some natural curiosity Tor
the Te Deum which we knew would be played
upon the Presidents organ, with all the stops
out and all the pedals in full activity In honor
of the late elections; but we were not prepared
to find this superannuated old sheet, with SUI
pernatural freshness, preluding its hymn with
nine lines from Childe HarOlds Pilgrimage
Musical disciplinarians might object to jugs on
an organ but an elatiOn like that of The Ma
tonaI Intelligencer is not to be restrained
by the laws of science. 1t seems, we
confess, little inhuman to lnvesti-
gate critically the krationale of this mag
nifcent jocundty. The happiness OF a
turnkey may be stimulated by causes which
hardly affect the feelings of human beings OF
a higher grade and we are the more certain
of this, because when we come to inquire what
there u.s. for instance, in the Massachusetts,
election which should rejoice the soul OF the
organ, as an organ, we find ourselves per-
picked in the extreme. Gov. Bullock the
Radical candidate for Governor, is reelected by
a majority of over 10000. Young Mr.. Adams,
the .Johnsonian candidate for Governor Is
elected to the House of Representatives OF the
State There is no pretense that there ls not
large majority of Republicans returned to both
branches of the Legislature In view of this
result, The IntelIigencer cries out that Radical
ism is near its end. However this may be, 1t Is
clear enough that Johnson party in Massa-
chusetts is nowhere near its beginning. What
pray, has the question of Rum or No Rum in
Massachusetts, to do with my Policy" in
Washington II has nothing to do, we may
canters. They will be filled and they will
be emptied without the slightest ref
erence to Massachusetts, laws. SO Tar
as there is any expression OF opinion
in regard to his administration in this
State, it is most emphatically against
him. HIS man is decidedly defeated the
other man is just as decidedly elected; and II
the President anticipates any aid OF comfort,
or expression of appreciation from the Leglsa-
ture just chosen, he may make up ms mind TO
be frightfully disappointed. His happiness,
therefore, however great, can hardly be con-
sidered as rational. This IL consideration
which continually suggests itself as we run the
eve over The Intelligencers exuberant para
graphs Ii claims the credit of victories which
bear no relation whatever to the Ad-
ministration. Even here in NewYork, it
would be difficult to find single DEM
ocrat who would allow that, in contending
for success, lac has been working for the Presi-
dent When A. J. rushes in, unlimited and un-
welcome, 20 participate in the Democratic fes-
t'vities, nobody bids him welcome-nObody
takes him cordially 10y the hand and says:
This ia all your doing, dear Andy" Nobody
whispers that he must be the Democratic can
didate for the Presidency; nobody cares straw
either for his happiness or his misery. He
will find ere long that the strength of the
party to whose skirts, with pitiable, uptuned
face lac is clinging, is simply his own weakness.
The greater its majOrities, the less likely Is he
to receive its support. The more independent
it may be, the more likely it is TO look upon
him with good -natured contempt. In an emer-
gency it might need him. in prosperity it will
regard him simply IA a botheratiOn and nui-
sance He may think differently now, but time
viii show that we are right. IL is very easy
for the organ to say that the Democratic ma
jority il wondrous strong,'
"Yet lovely In It's strength, as in tho light
OF a dark eye in woman
II that OZARK eye" shall be found amorously
ogling the beloved Andy in 1868, it will be
because the brains above il have become pitt
fully softened.