New-York tribune., 1878-05-25
TILL r0LcE orr or KEYTrcKY.

THE JOICE OUT or hENItChf.
An extract from The LOuisrHe Courier
journal, published in yesterdays TRIBUNE,
would seem to indicate that Mr.. Henry Wat
tcrson, who runs that able and enterprlsine
! journal, is IN what may be called state OF
mind. Mr.. WattrrsOn has his periods of "sloshin
"round, " in which he never fails to interest and
amusc Il large and intelligent constituency
This time he seems to have it uncommon
bad. We have known him have blood into
''his eycn before we have heard. his ener-
gctc whoop; seen him in his paint, and
watched with pleasure and satisfaction his not
uugraceful figure as, all a-glitter with toma-
hawk and scalpng knife, beglrt with cutlass
and broad sword, and ingling from crown to
sole with implements of death he footed 1t
gayly in the war-dancc to the insplrltlng
strains of the tom-tom, the Bindling raptureS
OF the fuzzy-guzzy or the fiery stridulatons OF
the hew-gag. And we say with great de!lb-
Grafton and entire confidence, after a careful
and thorough survey of the whole field, that
no man now on the stage OF American politics
can do more with the stage properties OF the
English tongue which are used to represent
heavy weather at sea and carnage on the
strand than II. WattersOn, Of Kentucky. 1t was
little more than year ago that he took horn
we are not sure about this, it may have
been n trumpet--in Washington, and pointing
the flare of il toward the Blue Grass district,
sounded a call for 100 900 men to rise up i'm
mcdiatcly and march on Washington to the
rescue of Truth. Justice, Samuel j. 1llden,
the figure of Liberty on the Dome, David
Dudley Field and great catalogue of other
heathcn divinitics who seemed to him
TO be in peril. Kentucky heard the call.
but in that State politics are so mixed
with poker, that men said, III the strange tech
nicalities of that SINFUL game, that they had
never known Henry "call on so weak hand !;
"be usually raised on a blulf.' And so no
one stirred. Then somebody took him aside,
and said, Henry, let's not subyert the
" Government this time" and he nobly
answered, "Wcll, you're friend of mine,
"aud if You say so we'll let up on 1t
for the present" There spoke Coliolanus.
But the call for 100000 men was Il trumpet
blast which will not soon be forgotten. 1t
was so like him TO call for 100000 men.
Persons who know him intimately say he is
that kind of a man that they wouldn't have
been at all surprised if he had called for
100000.
And great many came. They went i'm
mcdIatcly to the Doorkccpcr of the House and
said. as there seemed to be a good deal of
anxiety about the safety of the Goddess of
Liberty OH the Dome, they would like to be
put in the most pcllous places around the
doors of the Capitol and on the pay rolls of
the House to defend the figure. To each one
was assigned an arm chair aud two-stOly spit
toOu, and they are there yet
But with all this apparent bloodthirstinoss,
Mr.. Wattterson is not bad man. He means
exceeding well. Being more Republican
than Democrat at heart, he finds it neces
sary occasionally TO get up a war dance to
prove his earnestness. 1t is sad to think that
me hasn't the entire confidence of some of the
most or least advanced Bourbons of
his party but it is true. AT one
time during the National Convention at st.
Lous, it was proposed to make him Per-
manent Chairman of the Convention, but
sundry BourbOns opposed it, and one of
them. whom we will call Sam -. said to
him a. Now look here, WattersOn, you've been
"Tcmporary Chairman, and made hit we
are willing you should, and we don't grum-
" lila at it but you mind one thng-if you
are Permanent Chairman we won't have
" John Jacobs up there alongside Of you
"to prompt you. Wen raise point
of order on him." Then said WattersOn ::
"J don't know whether I'm going TO be Per-
"manent Chairman or not, but III tell you
" one thing, Sam -; if / am, and you object to
nv having John Jacobs, or anybody elsc sit
" b, side me. III make a personal matter of it
and come down off the stage, and give you
"a double blank licking" And the impress
sion was quite general that he meant
it. But he didn't. Henry Watterson, like
Champ FcrgusOn's whiskey which had
lain six years under hedge and never paid
tax wouldn't hurt fly" It's his way
to be earnest and outspoken, because he knows
il impresses the Democratic party. He lights
nm the columns of Tie COurier-JOMnai in this
lurid way, not because he is n fire-bug HIM
self or has a saDguinary appetite, but because
his readers like 1t.
In the extract published yesterday, to which
reference has been made, he starts off with the
remark 1t is our purpose to sift the Florida
" and louisiana villainies to the bottom to
"bring the rascals to justice, to stake our
"all on that issue, and, il need be,
"to die in our tracks next time it, electing our
ticket, we do not seat it," 1t will be observed
that he starts warm. He says Mr.. Hayes must
take care of himself that he proposes to show
no mercy to the thieves and bulles," who
consider themselves safe behind the popular
desire for peace and quiet. And then this:
The mongrel horde OF plunderefs, which has for ten
years Mexcanized the Government viii nnd before they
are with it, that there limit set upon prosperous