The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-03
WN WITH BELMONT !

DOWN WITH BELMONT!
''BRICK' PoMEBoY ''is tired of this thing"
by which he intends to signify that it is time
to replace August Belmost, as the head of the
National Democratic Committee and ostensi-
BILE leader of the unterrifed, by man who
stands squarely on the reputation platform.
and is not burdened with the ominous pres
tige of three successive national defeats.
Belmont is as wealthy as Packer, but
although Packers money is thought to be
just the thing in Pennsylvania to ensure sue
cess, Belmonts is not so available, doubtless
because, not being candidate for Office. he
does not open his purse-strings for the bere-
fit of the common cause Then. again, Bel
mont is full-blooded aristocrat, and does
not affiliate with the rank and file of the
party, as the illustrious red-hot ''Brick' de-
lights to do. In truth the masses of the
Democracy seem to think that Belmont looks
down upon them with that supreme and in
effable contempt which characterizes the
Camden ring-masters who ''regard the masses
of the people as Asses, ready saddled
and bridled, with their ''willing backs bent in
order that any demagogue may ride forward
into power" If Belmont had ridden the
Democratic animal into power, and given him
a chance to nibble at the corn slowed in the
public crib, all his high-fying and aristocratic
notions would have been overlooked. But
| the reverse has proved to be the case, and in
| the Presidential races of 1860, 1864, and 1868,
| the animal which Belmont bestrode came in
several lengths behind, which only serves
to aggravate the original offense Hence on
all sides we hear the cry of ''Down with Bel
mont" And down he will probably go. If
he don't. disaster is the only thing in store for
| Democracy. eff. >" says the red-hot Pomeroy
''you have such a man as Belmont at its head,
in 1872 you will not have corporals guard
Of Democrats in the strongest Democratic
ward of the city of New York.
| 7HEBYRON NSCANDAL IN ENGLAND.
CABLE telegram from London announces
that the solicitors of Lady Byron's family
have indorsed the views we expressed yester-
day, that Harriet Beecher Stoves recent pub
lication ''was gross breach of trust and con-
fidence, inconsistent with Mrs. Stoves re-
commendation to Lady Byron, ''violation
of the express terms of her will, and mot a
complete or authentic statement, inasmuch
as it 'does not involve any direct evil
dence. This is equivalent to a declaration
that the American authoress has botched q
very bad business, and foisted story which
she should never have told at all upon the
public, without adducing 'the proofs which
might have invested it with an air of plausi
bility. 1t appears from the statement of the
solicitors that Lady Byron really believed hel
husband to have been guilty of the offenst
with which Mrs. Stowe charges him
but the world is left in a,
great doubt as ever as tC
the suficiency of the suppressed testimony
Until that is submitted, the indictment mus
remain as at present, not proven. If Lady
Byron is an entirely credible witness. hel
husband, while insane, did an insane thing
and if her Judgment in regard to his sanity il
to be overruled, it is not just to accept he
opinion about the imputed crime, unless it is
sustained by indisputable proof,
THE CAFE MAY FRE.-The New Yorl
Herald gives the great seaside contiagratior
= the honor of an editorial notice, in the course
of which it presents some very novel views
a upon the subject The Herald thinks i
)" doubtful if the destruction of the hotels is
Q loss to the proprietors, for the reason tina
:" ''the tide of fashion which centres at Phila
: delphia Quakers and all, has been diverted
e from Cape May to Long Branch by the supe
s rior attractions of the gay world from New
/ York. Many years ago" continues tn
= Herald, "Cape May, of all our seaside places
e was the fashion, but its glory has departed
k This editorial effusion is about on a par witt
" the special correspondence printed in tn
i Herald some months ago, to the effect tina
:. Cape May had for years dragged out a sort o
d dead-alive existence, and was just then ahou
l. taking grand progressive stride, in conse
d quence of heavy investments by New Yor
y capitalists. There is fully as much truth il
N the latter statement as in the former and at
a solutely none in either. The season whic