New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-23
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY AUGUST %, 1878

sons have been nominated, and quite likely there
will be more of them, who are more or less
richly endowed with those natural gifts which
are deemed essential in a circus. Many OF
them have views of political questions, theo-
ries ABOUT government and finance and the
currency and political economy generally,
which, If they ever reach Congress and get the
eye of the Speaker and the ear of the cOun-
try, will furnish much entertainment. But OF
course it is idle to expect that even with these
attractions the next or any subsequent Con-
gress can rival the present as a circus. No
Congress can ever be half so funny as this.
The possibilities of comedy have been ex-
hausted.
We shall sorely miss some of these states
men who have failed of denomination. There's
Banning, who once trod the ways OF glory, or,
rather, bounded over them and sounded alt
the depths and shoals of honor he ia among
the fallen. And who can replace him Phil
lips of Kansas, who bad views on the currency
question funnier than anything ever said by
the end man of minstrel troupe, has Ike
wise gone down before the blast. And Bev-
erly Douglas, of Virginia, who furnished much
entertainment to the country in bis great act
of defying the press, returns not But time
would fail, as the apostle remarks, to tell Of
all who mInistered to the entertainment of the
country in debates and on committees, all
through the late session, who have been DIS
missed from the circus by the action of their
constituents, and whom after next March we
shall never again see Skipping around IN the
sawduSt Let them be included among those OF
whom the world was not worthy who had trial
of cruel mockings and scourgings, and who
marched about i'm sheen-skiHs and gOat-skins,
being destitute, afflicted, tormented. Then
there are thOse-alas how many-whO have
not yet passed the ordeal of the convention,
for whom the delegate is already sharpening
his scythe. Mr. Butler, it is understood, will
not wait to be cut down, but will mOdestly
withdraw from the Congressional arena In
order to be Governor of Massachusetts,. And
it Will be no easy matter to I'll his place in
the show; for within the past year or two, or
since he began taking serious view OF
things, and running investigations to find out,
and losing his temper, and getting beaten at
his own game of buster and bulldozing, he
has grown to be very amusing. But word
comes to as that Glover, of Missouri-Our own
dear, delightful GloveT-is iii danger. 1t Is
said, though we do not understand how such
n thing can be possible. that there is what the
reflective rural delegate calls ga feelin' agin
"him in the deestl4ct,' and it is by no means
certain that he will be returned.
Is it necessary to say to the readers of THE
tribune, who even though not having known
Glover have loved him. that his failure to Sc
cure denomination and reelection would be IA
calamity We do not need to recount what
that man has done, or undertaken to do, dur
ing the past year. Everybody knows all about
him. Everybody watched him with the most
intense and eager interest all last Winter and
Spring. IL is entirely safe to say that no man
in public or private life, in or out of any
kind of u show or circus ever came so near
tickling everybody to death as Glover did
during the last session. And to lose him.
we cannot bear the Thought. That would be
too, too much. For we may say without ex-
agceraton that Glover is boon. He
has been called by his Democratic as
sOciates in Congress a Darndldiot" We
DO not know what q "Darndidiot is,
but presume it is a title belonging TO
the higher degrees of Democracy, and.
consequently, complimentary. lt Is said
ulat the Bullcr-late POtter-COmmittee were
on the point of taking some action for which
their authority was doubtful, when one of
the members put n stop to it by remarking
chat if they did anything of the kind " that
"DarndIdlot Glover would he sure TO come
"nosing round and raise double blank row
"about it, under the impression that he'd DIS
covered some Republican deyiltry.' And
that shows that Glover is appreciated His
influence Is salutary. lie ought to be kept in
Congress permanently. And yet they say he
is in danger We viii not believe it.. Why, a
Democratic Congress without Glover in 1t
would be like a controversy over Mr.. Tilden's
conduct during the crisis without WattersOn.
And even il he comes back, it will he lone
some. The truth is, this Congress ought not to
be trusted to the tender mercles of conyen-
tons; it ought to be perpctuated just as 1t is.