The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-04
THE DEMOCRATIC INDICTMENTS OF
THE PRESIDENT.
From the N. Y. Times.

From the NJ Y Times.
The Mayor and Corporation Council, as
sisted by some half dozen of the Tammany
Sachems, and oficered by Gen. VIM. M.
Tweed, called their friends together last even
ing to denounce the President for going to
Long Branch and his Secretary of State for
going home, Sin holiday contempt" of the
sufferings of American citizens in trouble
through excess Of zeal for Cuban and Irish
independence.
Sympathy for ourfellow-creatures in trouble
is always a noble emotion, and we are glad
while we sorrow that our city is ruled by
Mayor who takes other peoples sorrows so
much to heart. Dean Swift used to say that
he never knew any one who could not bear
the misfortunes of another like Christian;
but it is hardly too much to say, after reading
their call and the resolutions adopted at their
meeting that it is Just as much as ever the
Mayor, General Tweed and their friends can
do to bear the misfortunes of the Cuban and
Irish patriots in the way which the Irish Dean
thought so easy How or why they would
have felt any better about it, if the President
and his Secretary had not gone to Long
Branch or elsewhere, and why they would
have suffered less if the President and his ad-
| visers had suffered more, though implied, is
not explained.
We would be the last to discourage the
sympathetic impulses of the gentlemen who
take such gloomy views of the shortcomings
of the Government at Washington; at the
same time we cannot refrain from remarking
that in the whole length and breadth of their
speeches and resolutions there is no evidence
whatever that either the President or his
Secretary are neglecting their duty towards
our citizens either in Ireland or Cuba.
Our police jurisdiction does not extend
to either of these turbulent islands; if they
did, our Mayor would send the Superinten-
dent of Police directly to the seat of all
the difficulty and have the wrong righted
and the crooked made straight Unhappilv,
or happily, the President cannot deal thus
summarily with outrages occurring under
foreign flags Facts duly authenticated must
first be procured, representations must then
be made, counter representations must then
he heard; sometimes deliberation must fol-
Iowa great deal should precede a resort to
the summary measures which the Mayor and
MS friends give us to understand would be
employed If the Democratic party were so
fortunate as to be in power 1t is when the
organs of that party make such declarations
that we feel most entirely reconciled to the
result OF the last Presidential election and its
exclusion from controlling influence in the
Government.
, We think the Mayor and his friends have
mistaken the character of the President in
cnalSlhg nm with indifference to the fate of
, ms countrymen abroad. He won his fame
, and finally the Presidency by the ability he
! displayed in Furnishing the enemies of his
countrymen, and in the absence of any
nights other than such as are in our posses.
sion, we would recommend our Democratic
Iilehus 10 act upon the presumption that the
PRESIDENT Will treat the enemies of Americans
; hereafter substantially as he has done hereto
h fore.
= ! This is no more than justice to him, and i
u Is the sort OF justice which the Mayor will ex
u pect when he or his friend the Governor re
. celVes the Just rewards of patient waiting, an,
q are, IN their tlUp, assailed unjustly by need