New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-13

sheepshead, was gotten up IL honor OF the ia'e
Reform candidate for the Presidency we are leu
tothis conclusion by the fact that it was apparently
Tammany affair. and Tammany Hall basrecently ex-
pressed great interest in Mr. Tden in an address OF
the most touching obituary character Moreover
we have reason to believe that most of these gentle
men united with great cordaIity in the tribute paid
by an earnest Democrat to Mr.. Tilden more than
year ago. which pronounced him dam clam
There was some doubt at the time as to what pre-
cisely a "dam clam was 1t is probably safe 10
say now, in the light which this gathering throws
backward upon history, that the intention OF the
euloeist was to describe him as Nc
Combs Dam clam. Whether MeCombs
Dam soft clam, or a McCombs Dam hard
clam we will not venture to express an OPINION
IL is quite likely that his most intimate trlends
may differ on that question. Enough for the present
purpose that this noble array of statesmen-we
regret that The HOrd should call them pohtl-
eians had gathered at "Gabe Cases Hotel" tn
express over the dam clam garnlshed with trpe ana
sheepshead, their esteem and affection for the dam
clam garnished with Hendricks and bureau-to
do Justice to the one while doing honor to the
other.
There seems to have been what might be called
n crisis in this entertainment. "Gabe Case" dis
covered il. 1t is not stated at what precise time.
But il appears from our contemporaries report that
there was drinking gong On-thOugh we are sur
prised that 90 Gabe should nave permitted it-and
that Major Quincy made a speech and Captain
Rynders another; and that Baltimore man sang
" Ny Joanna lives in Harlem" while Hosea Is. Perkins
was making another speech Somewhere In the midst
of these confused festivities, between the clans and
the sheepshead, or possibly between the asparagus
and the tripe. party OF young politicians" were
discovered az a table with soup plates and spoons
hard at work. Discovered by "GaOe Case" who
may have been shocked at seeing anybody eating
soup at that stage Of the banquet. AT any rate he
shouted to them at in Mortified tone, Great
Heavens, men, what you eatlngP And
thcy-so innocent are young politicians" at
a clam-bake answered mildly, Soup" 1t
WIS then that "Gabs" snatched a plate and
shrieked Soup You're eating the sauce for
the clamsw The tableau must have been
fine. But here our contemporary has dropped
veil upon the picture. II is not unlikely that
these young men had consumed all The sauce
before they were discovered, and that in con-
sequence of the blunder some of the truest
friends Of political reform that ever signed
n payroll or disturbed primary were Obliged TO
eat their clans, both hard and soft without sauce.
Fancy the feelings Of such men as Major Quincy or
ex-Aldcrman Purr0y upon being told that they must
upon such an occasion take their clans dry because
some young politicians had mistaken the sauce for
SOUP.
The same thing was happening at Washington,
and almost at the same hour There, too, the deyo-
tees Of the dam clam had gathered for a bake.
They mad assembled their Spring chickens and
lame ducks their asparagus, trpe and sheepshead'
and the sauce for their dam clam was in the form OF
n bin for overhaulng, reviewing and ripping mp
generally the Presidential election. 1t was not
intended as a separate course, but only as a
sauce for serving up the dam clam with pres
entity But number Of Democrats in the Judiciary
Committee" young politicians" perhaps-turned
over the subject and said We don't much
for dam clans, any how. Let's call this the first
course for 1850, instead Of sauce for the
cold clans warmed over from 1876"
So they voted that they had no
right to review the Presidential election or attack
the Presidents title. The proposed bake was only
cold one warmed over at best, and this disappear
ance of the sauce VIII be fatal to it. IL Is true chat
tins was not so entirely accident that winch so
oyercane "Gabo Case" at McComDs Dam,
but the coincidence is none the less strik-
ing In both instances the politicians jumped
on to the sauce and called it SOUP leaving the
dam clam TO bc served dry. They might do that up
az "Gabe Cases" bat they never can make II go
with cold one warmed over Things are so badly
mixed on the Presidential question at Washington
tlat Young politicians will do well to inquire when
ANYTHING relating 10 Il is Serycdup to them: Is
tins a sauce OF a sOupP