The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-22
"The Gentleman's Candidate"

From The ~ Y. World.
Just as the Tribune declares itself to be a
"gentlemans newspaper" Mr.. Richard II.
Dana, Jr., who is running, or, to speak more
exactly, who is "marking time" against Gene
raj Butler in the Essex district of Massachu-
setts. declares himself to be ''gentleman's
candidate" Mr.. Dana informs the public
that he is a gentleman "by lineage, by educa-
ton, and by position" and he evidently
thinks this good reason why the essex
district" which the Tribune pronounces "the
most pure blooded district in America, " should
send him to Congress- Now, we may frankly
admit that, if the Essex people really are
particular about having gentleman for their
representative, they must have small plea
sure in being represented by General Butler,
whose solitary merit in that respect is that,
so far as we know, he has never yet pre-.
tended to be gentleman. But are the pre-
tensions which Mr.. Dana does make any
better founded than the pretensions which
General Butler might make? A man, the
copy book tells us, is known by the company
he keeps. What sort OF company does this
model "gentleman" of the most "pure- blooded
district" appear inY AT a public meeting in
Boston, held the other night and held in
Faneuil Hall, Mr.. Dana presented himself to
the public in company with Major General
Judson Fitzpatrick. SIMPLY to associate with
a person like Major-General JudsOn Fitzpatrick
can hardly be a very agreeable thing for a
"model gentleman" But our "model gentle
man" was not content with associating with
Major General Judson Fitzpatrick. He listened
to that person approvingly while he maun-
dered through a speech low and scurrilous
even hey ond the average of his speeches, and
never manifested so much as a sign of disap-
proval when his 'colleagus," after tipsily
affirming that ''the Republicans would re-
write and doctor up the Constitution just 80
often as circumstances should render it neces-
sary," went en-, the reporter tells US, to
indulge
in an anecdoe about Mcclellan and the late
President, which WAS to the effect that during
the Peninsular campaign one of Mcclellan s
scouting parties captured two hundred new
nlilcb COWS from some Rebels. Little Mac look ed
over the Constitution, but found nothing ap-
plying to new milch cows. He then telegraphed
10 the President TO know what TO do. Before he
got reply an orderly told the General If the
cows were not MIXED they would spoil. He
then looked over the Constitution, but finding
nothing in 1t about milking new mich cows
struclions to which he replied as foliows:-
To George b. Mcclellan, Commander of the
Army of the Potomac
AS you seem to be the biggest calf In the
Amy, suggest that you suck them dry.
A. LINCOLN.
'This story" adds the ingenious reporter,
course, "produce laugh" from Mr.. Richard
II. Dana, Jr. ? If Mr.. Dana, dining with au
acquaintance, should see a vessel OF dishonor
set upon the table in the place of the soup
tureen, he would probably form pretty much
the same notion of his hosts breeding and
decency which impartial people now must form
of his own breeding and deeency when they
find him thus commencing "Major- General
Judson Fitzpatrick" to the admiration and the
confidence of the "most pure blooded district
in America"