New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-26

80 1unny, ana tne RfhNiV WIN ""iNA
the masqueraders play their pranks so
much funnier, that the effect Ia absolutely
side splitting. And yet we aver that for roar
ing farce Glover can give them oil points
and be an easy first. For he not
only rocked the country till tho con-
tinent fairly shook its sides and bumped
| itself with laughter uncontrolled, but he fairly
broke down his felOw-actors, and set the
stage a-rOaring with his wondrOus evolutlons
and sublime imperturbabllity. And so we en-
jOyed him. We sincerely regretted his
failure of denomination. We have missed
him all through the present session.
Occasionally we have heard, IN a casual
and incidental way, that he still peryaded the
scenes of his former tTiumphs, and there were
rumors that he had large masses of unpub-
lisbed manuscript, the accumulations OF his
inyestigatorial career, which he desired to
huIl INTO print at Government expense, as a
legacy to pOsterity.
Once or twice in this relation he has cleaned
for an instant npon the surface of discussion,
like the lifeless menhaden bobbing belly up on
the returning tide, but without exciting either
grief at his taking of, or mirth at his re-
appearance. 1t now appears that, not"lth-
standing the infrequency of public notices
of his presence at Washington, he has all the
time infested the Capital and constantly de-
manded that the accumulatiOns of his career,
which he retained in his own possession and
would not risk out of his sight, should be
wreaked upon print and flung abroad upon the
public. Hence has sprung up the lmpresSlon'
which has gradually deepened into conviction,
that-nOt like the veteran but more Ike the
clown lingering on the stage after the
farce is off and the tragedy Is set-he
lags superfluous. The heavy tragedans III
the House who have done with the
farce of Investigations, and are mounting
now about "bayonets" and tyranny and
free elections" are impatient of him. He
protests and expOstulates, and they irrever-
emily say "Shool" at him. II he is to be
believed-and far be it from us to
doubt him--he has upon his person
documents of the most explosive character.
He desires to put them under the Republican
party i'm the shape of a printed pamphlet.
His Democratic friends have apparently
no doubt as to the explosive char
acter Of his documents, but they DO have
doubts about his ability to give them
the right direction. In view of his liability
to put his explosives under the wrong party,
they withhold the authority. So he and his
party are at odds on the question of printing
what he calls his report, and he has rushed
violently into print with the charge that his
Democratic friends are trying TO suppress HIM.
Mr.. Singleton OF Mississippi, Chairman OF the
Printing Committee, denies it, and says Clio
yer is lunatic.
With this quarrel we have no concern. But
we do desire TO say that Glover IL, in our opin-
ion, the most amusing Democratic Statesman
of the period, and that the country misses him
sorely in this crisis. If Mr.. Singleton is serious
in his imputatiOn of insanity, let MS have
at once commission de lHattco iaRtireado,
and settle the question. That inquiry would
be much more interesting, and fully as leglti-
mate, as those the ex-COnfederates have
been demanding concerning the Fort
Pillow massacre and other events of the
war; And if he isn't crazy, let us have
the report utilized some how as an explosive.
If there's dynamite in it, how would it do to
put it in Mr.. Cox's seat some time when he Is
getting ready to sit down harda