New-York tribune., 1878-04-16
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attends that mans fshing just beats every
thing. TO he sure. he has caught nothing yet
that he has been fishing for, but the number
Of Democrats whose trowsers have suffered
whenever he has ierked on his line and shouted
- Got a bitem passes computation. 1t was 0hiy
| n few davs agO that we were called upon 10
| describe the effect of one Of his nervous Ell
| forts upou the bounding Banning, whom he
had successfully impaled on an ordinary sucker
boo, and irrIled off the dock INTO the stream, IN
! stead of ont of the water and on the dock. III
was upOn that occasion that Banning ex-
nrcssed. with a good deal of splutter and drip
ming of dirty water, the decided opinion that
! Glover's fishing was doing the party no good,
but. on the contrary, making a great deal OF
trouble. The effect of these repeated alarms
upon the Democratic mind was such-as
pointed ont at the time-that some OF the
most influential Democrats were demanding
that Glover be called Off or that his hook be
taken away from him, or something be done
10 put an end to his wild and devastating
career. Things had come to such pass that
leading Democrats took themselves by the
seat of the trowsers and scattered in every
direction as soon as Gloyer's stentorian voice
was heard crying "Got bite"
But Glover has kept on fishing. And now he
has pulled again. Nothing, of course. that he
is fshin, for: but more of 1.-THE boys" Immedi-
ately after Banning delivered himself of his
crude but earnest protests and went OFF to dry
himself. the experts baited Glover's hook,
and the old man gave the pole flourish and
the hook and line a long, free swing. "Another
n - l.e, tla hnpI- touched
water, and began to pull i'll ncryously. And
this time he has the whole crowd OF
Democrats who went down to Louisiana last
wear to investigate the election frauds.
They took So, 900 out of the contln-
gent fund to pay the expenses of their
search for fraud. and can only ac-
count for $4,000 of il. The conundrum
Glover has struck relates to the other
$4,000. IL has not been accounted for, and
nobody knows what became of it. Glover
doesn't want to know; nor does the Demo-
cratic majority in the House. They all say 1t
was another dreadful blundcr 10 fish mp such
an unfortunate question. They are not Look
ing for that sort of thing, and they haven't
the slightest curiosity about it. Meantime
Glover's experts and clerks and witnesses are
all stepping round uEeasily, and protesting
that they did not mean to catch any
such fish that it is all pure accids mt,
! and that if this blunder is overlooked they
will never do it again. Glover, however,
! keeps at work, and the whole party is kept
dodging. The only consolation that remains
is that he has not done tenth part the mis-
chief he might, if he had had all the ma
! chlnery given him that he asked for at the
beginning of the session. If that man had
been allowed full swing at the start there
wouldn't have been enough left of the Demo-
! cratic party by this time to make Preslden-
tial ticket.
! Glover has been likened to a nervous fisher
man catching his hook into the trOwsers of
the BOYS on the dock. He might also be
! likened to a careless man on tenDin alley
who invariably knocks down the boy on the
alley without ever hitting pin. Or to man
with q ladder on his shoulder i'll Demo-
cratic procession who turns round so fire.
ouently and so suddenly that the average
| Democrat refuses to travel within half block
of him. Or to n man in charge of the Roman
candles and sky rockets in the same pro-
cession who has dropped fire into the basket
and set the whole stock fzzing and banging
| hOTl2OntaIlJ through tho hic, piC"Nii'S UP 'io
celebration and setting everybody by the ears.
Indeed, there is almost no end to the sugges-
tions and comparisons of the noble Glover's
career He is by all odds the most gifted inves-
tieator of this or any other era. No fisherman
ever caught so many things he wasn't fish
ing for and didn't want, or failed so COM
pletely to get even good square nibble from
| the fish he was after. And this Congress Will
have to be known as his and the Doorkeep-
er's. The next time he cries out " Got bite !"
we expect to see Congress break up as though
n torpedo had dropped in the House.