The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-28
NG ADELPHIA WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28 1868

absolute success of Flspdoodle. But that
Flapdoodle can easily hummox the Tri
bune is clear. That newspaper, originally
started in the name of several noble prin-
ciples naturally entitled to the honors
of small caps and double-leaded BREWER, long
since became the uniragrant convenience of
a joint-stook association of adventurers The
earnest enthusiasts who of old made its
columns as a daily cracking of thorns under
a pot, the hollow checked, fre-eyed reformsrs
who never brushed their hair or went back
on revolution, the disciples of Fourier, of
Wendell Phillips, and of Graham, the men
who hated with an equal hate roast beef and
revealed religion-these have long since
shufiied off this mortal coil, or been pushed
from their stools by Wall street brokers'
Albany lobbyists and Pennsylvania politi-
clans. No one person in the Tribune own
ing stock enough to control and give purpose
to its policy, and no one of its writers having
force enongh of brain or will to impress him
self upon its columns, the paper, like
hackney y-coach, has been at the beck Of who
ever happened to want lift, and like the pig
which bolted in Smithfeld, has perpetually
"gone up all manner of streets ~ II has
advocated secession" as as inalienable right
of the South, and 'coercion" as an imperative
duty of the North; it has denounced Abraham
Lincoln as a time-server and canonized him
as a martyr; it has abused the New York city
''riug' and glorifed Oison Blunt. If it can
be said for some years past to have consist
emily represented anything whatever, it is the
consistent inconsistency of II. g., who, having
got himself kicked out of the Union League
Club for bailing Jefferson Davis out of prison,
forthwith got himself let in again at the SER
wants gate by trying to push Ben Wade into
the Presidency.
This sort of thing it was clear could not 90
on forever without 'riling" the lion of radi-
calsm. 1t was the more aggravating that the
guilty perpetrators began to wash their
| faces occasionally, to wear cotton gloves on
Sunday, to drink lager-beer, to haunt the
theatres, and generally to indicate ahankering
| after the del ghts of life. What Hume said of
the ancient Puritans, and Macaulay stole from
Hume to say it over again no better, is true of
the modern radicals also. Praise God Bare
| bones and his synagogue esteemed bear batting
heathenish and inhuman, not because it gave
| pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure
to the spectators. The Spencers, the Sheridan
Shocks, the Fentons, and other such severe
moraists OF the radical party, began to loathe
| the Tribune as well as distrust it when they
| found H. G. revelling in the dance and slip
| ping anacreontic personals into the Herald,
and trolling madrigals to the gay guitar under
the windows of Lexington avenue, and desert
| ing the mush-bowls OF Chappaqua for the
wine-bins of the Maison Dol6e, the bean pots
of the Loyal League for the Apician board of
seductive COpperheads in Twenty-third street.
The climax was capped when the Tribune
turned its back upon General Butler as a
vulgar fellow of mean extraction, and ap-
plauded the nomination of gentleman of
ancient family" "born gentleman" a
gentleman by blood, and breeding, and asso-
Citations, and position" to represent in his
stead the "most pure-bloodsd district in
America" Then Spencer arose and swore
and Sheridan shook the bag in which he puts
all the internal revenue he can get and Fen
ton flung himself in an agony upon his mat
tress. The hour of FlapdOoile had struck
That greasy but gifted man is equal to his
opportunity. He has turned somersault
from twilight into dawn He was an EUening
Radical while Fl. G. and his scribbing sateI-
lites were blinking their glasses together over
Windust's groanng tables. He will be a
! lfOrnin0 Radical while they yawning away
the coma of the misspent night upon silken
cushions. Let him have fair field, Tor he
asks no favors, and we prophesy that the
wings of Victory will flap and the doodle OF
Victory crow from his columns.