New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-13
WET BLANKET F0R. TIE ENGLISH

WET BLANKET FOR. TIE ENGLISH
REPUBLIC.
The English Republic Chat is to bc) Is SUI
fering apparently from the want OF the SincWS
of war. 1t is unfortunate that the very best
cause often depends for success upon so gross
a means as money and while we are not sure
that the London Republic, of which Mr.. Odger
i, tbe nursing mother, is one Of the very DeS',
we are very sure that it is without that hearty
sort of popular sympathy which is necessary
to enable it to pay its little bills.
From The Pan Mall gazette we clip the fol-
lowing account OF what occurred at recent
meeting of the founders Of the Republic OF
Albion.
aft IA time / think" said Mr.. Osborne "'o speak out
about matters wben have the printer coming here cry
int In the room for 81 owing for printing, and all
other coming here with Tin for sI due him Tor getting
up the late Hyde Park demonstration and people coming
here telling us they Will write to the newspapers
and expose If they do not get their money There II
the bnl-stlcker in the room now why don't You pay
himW
Mr. Odgcr who. IT will be- remembered,
lately made the startling disclosure to the cor
respondent of a Newly ork journal that he had
all the machinery for the Republic of Albion
set up in the next room, and that he had only
Victoria would be dethroned, and the Prince of
Wales ana all the other members of the Royal
Family sent 10 Jericho, evidently possesses in An
exaggerated degree the high qualities of soul
that characterized the late Mr.. Mantllin, Tor
he replied to this reference to such small peer
of life as ca and bill-stckeTs' demands In the
following words of whitening contempt;
CT object" he sald to these constantlyrcpeated ct
tacks on workingmen that here, and these III
situations against tho Hberality OF tho Democrats
generally, and these frequent lamentations about ther
SHORTCOMINGS IT Is not the first time you have done this,
and now tell yOu Osborne-mind give fair you notice
that If you do 1t again. will move your election
from this room; aye than thatil move that you pe
elected from every Democratic association in London
| Whereat the other creator of the new ma
ton replied to his noble commander by such
Parthan shafts as "Who are your WHO 3
"Odger, / wOnder?n And 50 the moldlng oil
England's destiny went on. This meeting OF
| the great iconOclast Odger with his Republic
making Sonfreres was held in an obscure
| London tavern. and tho proceedings closed,
we learn, with a rattle for blanket the pro-
ceeds to be devoted to the establishment and
subsequent maintenance of the new Republic
| after the dethrOnement of the Queen We
approve of Republics on general principles,
and are therefore gratied to learn that the
blanket rattle was a success, but we regret to
add that neither the printer nor bill-stcker got
| any portion of the proceeds. Doubtless, to
the patriotic soul, however, sweet and proper
it is for ones country even to stick bills,
| without hope Of beer or butter in return.
But, seriously, we have all heard good
deal recently about the strength OF Odgers
Republican movement, bringing the mass OF
discontinued intelligent wOrkingmen into CO.
operation with those in q higher rank, and
from incessant cable dispatches were led to
infer that it was entitled to a fair share OF
respect. Yet We are forced to suspect that
the cost Of these dispatches would carry on
or auench the whole affair. so far as Odgers
band is concerned, if GA sufic, d to inaugurate
the much-talked of Hyde Park demonstration.
Mr.. Odger and his fellow Cromwells and
Hampdens, squabblng in an ordinary tavern,
ought to go to Sim Tappertit and his band Of
"Noble Prentice Knights" for hints of how to
set the stage with dignity for their tragedy.
A damp cellar, crossed bones, oaths taken on
| tubs of blood skulls with candle-ends in them,
would be far better calculated to intame the
zeal Of the conspirator and strike terror into
the souls Of the Queen and House of Lords
than blanket rafles or unpaid bll-stickers
|
OUR CITY And HER COMMERCE..