New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-05-27
BEAUTIFUL TALK.

What a difference there is to be sure between
the talk of n PARTY III power and the tax of a
party out of power; between the way party
talks before election and the way it acts after
ward. No matter what party it is, the same
peculiarty is noticeable. Standing outside and
looking wis;fully in from the point of view of
aminorty, they talk like saints. Let them inside
and give them power, they act like Satan. Adj
versity and defeat have a charming effect upon
them Christening and soothing influence which
nothing else can produce. Success initiates
them, makes them skittSh, balky, and UNI
ruly. When We contrast their behavior
under these opposite conditions; consider
how n majority wakes fat and kicks,
and minority folds its pretty white hands
and is sanctimonious how the ins show their
heels and the outs the whites of their eyes /;
how much prettier, III short, any party be-
HAYES out Of power than in, we could almost
wish that both were in perpetual minority,
to encourage us with their stubborn virtue,
uplift us with the largcness of their intcli
gence, inspire us with the unselfsbness of their
PATRIOTISM and make ia constantly happy by
their pleasing behavior and winning ways.
But they are so forgetful when they get lifted
things, and make so much trouble and dis
turbance. "You have no idea" said a man
who was settling up his brothers estate.
"what trouble have had with this business.
Sometimes | am almost sorry my brother
died" The honest voter very often has
something the same feeling when he observes
the action Of the party he has assisted to
power. He is almost sorry. Not quite. For
he looks at the other side and takes little
comfort in the thought that it might have
been worse. It's the poets feeling of sad
mess" that resembles sorrow only AZ the
"mist resembles the RAIN Then too there is
always tins refreshment and sOlace, that he
can turn from what the party in power is doing
to what the party out of power is saying.
Better STILL it IS sometimes his privilege to
turn from what a party is doing in State
where it is in power to what the same party is
saying in another State where it is worrying
along in minority.
Here now is a case in point IL any honest
Democrat is disguised with the manner in
which his party in Congress swept out every
Republican they found in Office whom they
could reach and grabbed madly for tho spoils
of Office, he may turn from that exhibition
and give his mind to a calm and comforting
perlisal of the proceedings Of the Michigan
Democratic Convention on Thursday. The
Democrats Of that State not being dominant
or in any danger of it, solcmnly "rcpudate
"the idea that there can be any spoIls Of
coffee for victOrs in an honest administration
"of government" That covers the ground
If there should be Democratic President
next year, not a Michigan man would ask for
an Office No, not a man. If any Democrat
has felt scandalized by the recent auction in
Connecticut, he has only to turn to the
refreshing utterance of his party in
Michigan, " ere they say with that high
regard for political morality which is only
found III IA minority, that the use Of money
" to influence elections is deinoralizing to the
people and corrupting to the persons making
"such use, leading directly to corrupt and
illegal reimbursement from the public treas
curry for the sums thus expended for the
"party and any candidate who will seek by
the use of m ney to influence nominations or
elections is unworthy of support" Could
anything be more beautiful than that 7 Or If
any Democrat ia frettcd because his party in
Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut bowed
down to caucus rule aud sent COckrell, Wal
lace, Eaton, and Barnum to the Senate let
him read further what the party says in Mich
igan where it has no chance to elect Senators :
That while political parties are necessary
"agencies in administering the Government.