Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-17
HYDE.
How It Was Taken of the 'POssum-
Editorial Equanimity, and
What NeXts

4 c1rrespOndent of the Kansas Cit
Tg-qeg. wrftIug from St. Louis, SAYS b,
g5iE Mr.. HYDE, editor Of the Republican
while Ehe election returns were coming
In. rHst consolation for the lacerateC
trraeievits a1sOm must be sought from
some other source than the election re-
turns. thst gentleman Hyde pilOted me
.na place where g real article of import
-. .gt- JQqcie was dispensed, and
r-HIr respondent sat down with the
auth0r Of tie passive policy, TO pour q
Eaa-ilu 10 the memory of the departed
rPa--um. ] may here be permitted tO
say tuaL while il is impossible not t.
ike HYDE, under whatever circum-
stances you happen TO meet him, you
never reach the smisbility, the sparkling
-acu nature. the charming bon hOBl1e
aud the bubbling milk of human kind
hess there is in him, until you see him
and commune with him under the
shadow Of q great adversely.
said be: / have worked on this
movement now for more than two
vears-harder work and more thankless
rhan has been done by any other man
believe; 7 have tried to steer this move
n-ur without compass or chart OF
experience or precedent, between the
Sg-iia Of pig-headed BOurbOnism on
ole hand, and the Charybdis Of over
anxious Liberal politicians on the other,
but il j. all up now.
There We're two grand mistakes made,
7lld they were fatal. IN the first place,
ha calling Of the Cincinnati Convention
ia Nav was a blunder. A force was at
waTk IN the Republican party that
should have gone into the Philadelphia
convention and dated its revolt from
there. Ii was a cancer eating into the
eiJsl- Of the Republican party, and the
a-emature bolt Of Cincinnau-made be-
lore there was anything 10 bolt for or
Irom-eEcised the cancer and left the
ulrt~ in wonderfully good health. 1t
should have been suffered to work long
Grand more fatally undermine the con-
s.irGtiol ard strength Of the party.
"Tuen. WREN this blunder had been
made, the Democracy complemented it
uy the Endorsement at Baltimore; a
movement which completed what the
premature incinnati arrangement had
te.ff uudOue Of the rehabilitation of the
Republican party
THAT accomplished the rest was a
fls -e matter Of dollars and cents, and
tbe SIX millions the partizans Of Grant
have invested in his reelection show
who had the money to spend and the
viii % use it.'
Thi-, presume, is the longest speech
Lao, ever made an mis- life, and his audience,
though small, was select and apprecis-
tive. One thing is certain: While Hyde
has failed 10 realize a success in his
efforts 20 lead the politics Of the nation,
aud while his passive policy has been
.uaglpd and butchered by those who
came in at the eleventh hour and as
stunned its direct0rship, he made it serve
10 elevate tie ReIlib'ican 10 a promi-
Renee la national affairs it never had
before, and he has brought himself TO a
distinction that could scarcely find a
broader pair Of shoulders to rest on or
Ih.t could wear it with more grace.
About midnight we sought the Repub-
Eeaa editorial rooms 6gain; but there
ua- no consolation. The reported Grant
mai1rilies had become 50 mOnotonous
that they ceased 10 excite even disgust.
HYDE betOGk himself 10 al armchair
and silence. Dan GrissOm paced the
floor and smoked at a cigar, which he
u-rv0usly cnewed up at one end faster
thau it burned up at the other. Garrett
aeriuuied away at his desk, and the only
audible sound in the room was the click
INK of Days scissors as he arranged the
obnoxious sheets OF telegraph returns,
viii an occasional expletive from some
reporter who got his local returns mixed
up.
By and by q Carondelet politician
dropped la aud asked Hyde how New
York bad gone.
The author Of Passiveism responded
that he did not know that New York
lad gone anywhere, he thought 1t re-
-uaIued where il always was.
@ $50, no, % persisted the man from Ca
rJndeIet, I mean, how has the vote
gone ia New York;"
Hyde gave il as his impression that
toe vote bad gone into the baliOt-bOx.
. H-il' rejoined the man from the
smoky suhurE " I mean what Is the
news from New AOrk@'
HYDE said -Gat the authorities had ar
tel Woodruff and Colonel Clafiin, and
ta8l the epizO0tic was abating.
'- D-u il all, yelled the perspiring
1l.-lituent u Standard, q" you know
VIVA. / meau-h0w has the election
gone in New NOrk2"
HYDE remarked that the afternoon
di-uatche5 said that the election had
ps---I of very quietly.
At ,His juncture the gentleman from
The district that Colonel GrOsvenOT will
Dot represent i1 the Fnrty-third Con-
gress betook himself 10 cher quarters,
-amarking a. he went 500. vague Oh
,-gFv8ti0n, the puTpOrt OF VII ch escaped
vOGT correspondent