New-York tribune., 1879-03-26
TIE ENCOURAGEMENT or MODERATION

TIE ENCO OURAGEMENT or MODERATION
The new society for the Encouragement of
Moderation starts in good time. A splendid
field for missionary work lies open to 1t in
Washington, where Bourbon and BuldOzer are
filling themselves every day with political
blue ruin and a still more tempting oppOr-
tunlty for the exercise of its charitable inilu-
ence is offered in Tammany Hall and the
State Capitol, where the revolt against the
Insatiate Ambition of One Man ia fast assum-
lug the characteristics of a raging madness.
Within two OF three days the friends and fol-
lowers of Mr.. John Kelly have been talking
with amazing wildness. They are going to
Oyerturn the city government. They are
gong to reform everybody out of Office ex-
ccpt Mr.. Kelly-by the usual device of a "new
charter "-and Mr.. Kelly is to be intIlsted
with the filing of all the vacancies thus
created They are going to impcach the
Governor. They are going TO have Spring
elections. They are going to march Mayor
Cooper right back to private life. They are
going to show the world that the lnsatiate
Ambition of One Man cannot bend the will of
10000 Democrats to his own selfish purposes.
These are the things that they sag they are
going to do. But, OF course, they are mis-
| taken. They will not do any of them. In a
| few months they will he on the most friendly
| terms with the persons they are now denOunc-
| ing as traitors. The Insatlate One will con-
! quer the sixty thousand, and the sky thou
sand will 20 mp to Gramercy Park some night
| with a band of music and invite him to make
| a speech. There is no use in their Disgusting
the unpleasant truth. They will have TO face
] a l,tn md fhaYn I.t
! them Join the Society for the Encouragement
! of Moderation, curb their temper and restrain
their tongue, and the day will come when
| they will thank us for our advice. They have
| already called the nsatiate One tricky treason
able and unserupulOus-which certainly are
not nice epithet5 TO be applied to a can
didat by his own party-and have resolved
in the most public and solemn manner that
| he is not the choice Of the Democratic organ
zatiOn, and is hateful TO the Democratic
voters. 1t will be q very SOrTy morning for
| them when they come to their senses after
| this night of quarrel. and abuse, and riot.
| The Society for the Encouragement of Mod
Grafton offers three kinds Of pledge, graduated
| according to the needs and strength of the
subscriber. We can hardly expect Tammany
to take the red pledge of total abstinence,
but the white pledge of "abstinence during
business hours" would probably meet its
necessities That would bind it to refrain
| from blackguarding its candidate in the for
nal proceedings of the Wigwam, and III pre-
! ambles and resolutions intended for the pub
lie eye. 1t would Oblige the Kelly wing to
refrain from futile and demoralHing attempts
at impeachment and revolution, but leave
them the largest liberty for the use Of bad
| language unollcially, and for damning the
Insatiate One to their hearts content in the
moments Of social relaxation which, We have
been informed, usually precede and follow
the business hours" at the Fourteenth-st.
temple. They could get great deal of COM
fort ont of indulgence taken in this way, and
it would not involve the painful consequences
which are sure to follow their present wild
immOdeTatIon of invective.