The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-01

The Herald, Intervening Comptroller
GREEN regarding the nomination OF Gov.
TILDEN, preached the delicate and inter-
esting question OF the bachelor estate Of
our Uncle SAMUEL, and asked how that
would affect the canvass among the ladies.
The bachelor Comptroller thus replied;
81 don't feel A. liberty 20 answer nat, nor am com.
peent to do 80, being IN the same boat myself Per
w secure i9r a inc sSPg95s CI msy enEes
chance TO marry Presiien OF the United states
There is truth in this, vet we wish our
Uncle SAMUEL was married. No one needs
helpmate more than IA statesman who
is running for President. He may be,
as Uncle SAMUEL is II man of unusual in
tellectual force aud profound student OF
political economy, deeply versed in law
aud finance; yet If he is a bachelor, there
is a void in his life, and sad incomplete
ness mars the symmetry OF his exist
ence. The fair sex wonder how he
could so long have resisted the
charms before which other men have
bowed ia delighted submission. They
rightly feel sorry for him. an d lament that
he has not the solace of feminine COM
partnership and the sustaining help dur
ing a trying political campaign of de-
voted wife, ready to share his labors and
proud to witness ms trlumphs.
But, as Comptroller GREEN remarks,
and as Senator THURMAN also suggested
at the reception to Mr.. TILDES at the Man
haitian CLUB after his election as Governor,
there will cluster about our Uncle SAMUEL
the tender regards of widows aud maidens
generally. Senator THURMAN had in
xrfH f.le az
trcsscd over the lonely condition of
our Uncle SAMUEL and indeed much agi-
lated in mind on account OF It. She Is
probably The REPRESENTATIVE OF mauy thou
sands of ladies devoted to the nut" - re-
form and to Uncle SAMUEL as its great ex-
ponent. Perhaps, after the manner Of the
gentle sex, they feol even tend erer toward
him because Of his unsolaced life, and will
wish TO aid in making him President IN
order that he shall receive some compen-
sation for the dreariness OF his UNIV elded
existence. Besides the thought may occur
TO some that our Uncle SAMUEL, when he
establishes himself in the White House,
Will at once feel the need Of taking to him
self wife to share his honors AMI RESPONSE
| bilties. Therefore, they VIII enter into the
| canvass in his behalf with affectonate
ardor; for who knows who tho happy
woman Will be?
Our last Democratic President, oddly
enough, was a bachelor also. JAMES BIZ
| CHANAN, after reverse OF the heart es-
| chewed matrmony and led the sad life OF a
bachelor But he had, as presiding lady of
the White House, the lovely, stately, accom-
plshed, and charming HARRIET LANE, his
niece, who held there a gentle and winning
| state and graced the White House us it
has never since been gIaced. She was in
| truth beautiful woman, and with her nice
| tact and amiable manners threw about the
Presidential mansion happy charm in the
| troublOus days when intestine war was
brewing, and mems angry passions were
at the hottest The memory of the graces
OF this lovely woman Is one Of the happiest
| of those gloomy days at Washington.
We trust, however, that our Uncle
SAMUEL will enter the White House with
II bride on his arm. How happy the CO.
incidence of his triumphal election az our
reform President, aud his simultaneous
induction into the joys of wedlock Then
his individual gain would be not less than
| that OF ms rejoicing country, emanopated
! through him from the thraldom of an
odious political system
But, after all, if our Uncle SAMuEL's head
is sound, and his political principles unas-
sailable, as indeed they are, we can endure,
| If he can, the aching void at his bachelor
heart. II he has no wife and thus misses
the sweetest soaoes of life, he yet is
welded TO the cause OF Reform, which is