The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-27

doctor is rendered back to his dispensatory.
He resumes the pestle and the mute mortar
again resounds, and rhubarb and aloe and
gamboge, in concourse more or less fortui-
tous, assemble in pills or float in fluids till
commerce dispenses them throughout the
habitatons of men, This employment is not
so exciting nor quite so ornamental as that
of making speeches in Congress and sitting
wearily on committees, but it is far more
useful to the human race. Did the doctors
ambition cloud his perception of the conse-
quences of thus LAYING aside the apron of the
apothecary for the toga of the legislator? Did
he adequately comprehend the constipation
which would ensue the epigastric qualms
the mesenteric agues, the lumbar pangs, the
COLES, which would set mankind bowling,
throughout the globe? Probably not. He
must have deemed the thirty years wherein
he had enforced the brisk purgation of the
peoples regulatory discipline which would
last them over one session of Congress at
least 1t is proper, however, to assure him
that even SO brief an absence from his usual
function might have been attended with con-
sequences of a costive character; which he
would deplore, and for which his services TO
the State, however eminent, would be an in
adequate recompense.
It is due, however, to the truth of history
to state that the nominating convention did
not reject the doctor because it was unwilling
to withdraw him from his professional pur-
suits. The constituency demurred. They
were willing to take the doctors pills and
wear his plasters and peruse his cogent and
unanswerable almanac. But they didn't want
him to cobble their laws. A pamphlet has
been sent to us which reviews, with tempe
rance of phrase but severity of implication,
the doctors character, and estimates the
validity of his pretensions From it we
gather that he is not gun of great dimen-
sions. He would not go off in Congress with
a very loud report. The reviewer says that
his faults are ''the petty meannesses of petty
nature, and that they ''create only derision
and disgust" Although he is enormously
rich, he has done nothing with his money
more public spirited or benevolent than to
| invest it in the best securities he could find.
| He has endowed no school, no hospital, no
| charity of any kind; no scholarship in college
or academy. no benefaction to church or
| library, attests his regard for learning or his
devotion to religion. Like necessity, he is
reputed to know no law, and the reviewer
adds, with ominous reserve, that ''the parti-
cular discussion of his character could not
fail to be disagreeable,' and he therefore
foregoes it.
But darker and more specific insinuation
about the doctor was bruited abroad, and, if
we may employ SO rude phrase, it cooked
his goose effectually. We don't want to in
jure the sale of his chologogues and anthel-
mintics, and we repeat the imputation with
pain; but the truth must be told The
doctor was accused of being a chief proprie-
tor of the principal radical newspaper pub
lished in this city, and of being, of course,
morally responsible for the injurious and
dangerous inculcations of that journal
What there is in the conduct of the Iai6uR c
which makes it so Objectionable to Massa-
chusetts Republicans we don't know. 1t
merely rehearses the same foolish argu-
ments and reiterates the same arid for.
mulas which they employ upon the stump
and exploit in lectures and air in Con
gress and Legislature; but the action OF
the convention, in thus contemptuously re-
jecting its chief proprietor, is conclusive OF
the estimation in which it is held. AS soor
as they found that the doctor was stock
holder Of the tulrnip and strawberry organ
and the friend of Greeley, they threw hin
over at once; and it was proposed to incorpo
rate with the platform clause warning Re
publicans in good standing from taking an.
more of his pills. We are sorry for the doc
tor and think he ought to sell out his news
paper stock and pioUsly endeavor to recove
his medical standing. His political hope
are, of course, finally quenched. Nothing
therefore, remains to him except to infus
more drastic elements into his medicines AM
more benevolence into his private life. s.
shall he recover the goodwill of his fellow
citizens and patients and the appreciation O
his own conscience, and finally leave no pre-
scription or recipe which, dying, he woul
wish to blot.