The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-28
Wind-Pudding IN New. York.

wednesday night, In New, York, the west
ern cave Of the winds was opened, and blew
upon the Radicals OF that city for many
hours. Attorney General TAFT was intro
duced to che people assembled at what
is called tsfCooper Union" and deluged his
Radical listeners with twelve mortal columns
OF aspeech. he proved more clearly than
previously his character as bitter and ny
pocritical partisan, combining In his speech
the most disreputablc features OF the
" bloody-shirt crusade with that deceltful
defamation which some dishonest buttimid
Radicals consider more effective than the
angry invectiye Of the ssbloody shirt" He
is as bad as any OF them. The office Of At
torney-G eneral Of the United States is dis
graced by pettifogging lawyer and scurvy
partisan. One great card with him is the
same which he played with much adroit-
ness against the venerable ALLEN when can
didate for Governor in Ohio: the attempt to
prove the old gentleman and the Demo-
cratic party in alliance with the Catholic
Church. So TAPT is certainly no improve
ment on WILLIAMS, but is man OF less in
tellect and equal malignity. He showed no
respect for the office he held, in which he is
national officer; but hesitatcd not to
asperse the people Of the South with the
meanest SANDERS that the yiiest Of Radicals
and scalawags have invented. Taft is an
other of "the improbable public servants y
that are doomed to infamy howsoever the
presidential election may so.
TWAS fearful night for New York Radi'
Gals, for after, the twelve mortal columns
OF TAFT's budget, Marshal MURAT HAL
STEAD charged down upon them with nine
serted columns Of such misrepresenta-
ton as has been kept in running stream
through the Marshaps Commercial, Of Gin
cinnati. This speech had been prepared
and printed before the gallant Marsha
reached New York, and he was kind enough
to send the speech SO printed to all the
editors OF the daily papers; hence the edi'
tor OF the World said, "Mr. HALsTEAD>s
Grafton is before, us-we might say al
around us now" The World describes the
orators embarrassment when he found TIL
pgS's letter ahead Of him. He had to make
, some changes in his line OF argument, ano
he found when he got to the platform thai
j. his woes were not ended. Dir. TAFT was
r ahead OF him. The World has this rae!
!. touch at what followed: ....a
Mr.. Taft is IN old man lowered with al
: the proliXity OF age. lie does not know
anything Of law, and-which was worse
for MI. Halstead--he does not know when
to stop. Hour after hour slipped away MIR
Halstead heard the people come out OF the
theatres; then the rattle and Jingle OF the
ears ceased; over the city brOoded the 81.
lence OF night, to be unbroken till the milk.
man ushers in the iocund day. But still
Mr.. Taft maundered Oh Unfortunately, a<
il he had forgotten bis way to
the peroration. When he did finish, Nlr
Halstead might have said to him, aS
Ben. Butler did to Dir. Poland, ~ agreed
to divide time with you, but you want to
divide eternity" Mr.. Halstead, therefore,
could only deliver about ten per cent. OF
his speech, and, pointing to his proof-slips,
remark, as the lazy girl did of her prayers
which were pasted on the bed-post, "Them's
my sentiments" lie sat down with all his
. speech in him. Dante, as Tennyson re-
minds lis, has most truly and pathetically
| said that sorrows crown Of sorrows is re-
, membering the speech we couldn't make.
In this strait we must be kind to ouredl-
torial brother.