New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-28

eonc other man. He knows them all to O'
| friends who would stand by him so long Us
he coud draw n cork or check, or there
was . sbot III the locker That genial Demo
Graf. ex- Mayor Lewis, had told him that his
nomination bad been brought about Dy
his friends who wanted to do sohcii'i"E
for tie State and the Nation, ana
informed him that the men he saw arol"o
him were 1.-THE Old Guard of 81, winch
fought that grelt big first fight for De-
"mocracy in the Northern States. and ne
might have added 1.-The Old Guard IS al
ways dry, but never surrenders." with these
surroundings and in such presence, there are
statesmen vino would have dampencd the en-
thu iasm Of the audience and kept TWO
hundred as good Democrats as ever mica a
tumbler "spttng cotton" while they eX-
patiatcd on the dangers of Capitalization ana
military rule and the bayonct at the pohs.
Mr.. English is obviously not that kihd OF
statesman. He took III the situation at Il
glance. All around him were men VINO nave
been battling for the Federal Constitution at
The expense OF their own for many years, ana
whose ardent desire it now Is to get mo
some post of danger in a custom house OF posi-
office. He knew he could tell them things
about the Constitution they never dreamed o.
but he wouldn't. He simply recognized them
as friends, and snorting the battle cry of
Democracy, Oh the man who WONT
stand by his friends" waved them toward
the Mumm's Extra Dry.
Ii has been minated that the language
IL ed was unnecessarily vigorous considering
the campaign is 80 young, and that church gong
Democrat, NAV be shocked at the candidate :
indugenc in words which are to say The least,
secular 10 Til, il may be replied, that with
the exception PERHAPS of Colonel Danlei =
CARPENTER, of Ncw-Ilayen, there were no
hab,tual church goers in the company, and
even he does not object to having Il Demo-
cratic orator in Il great emergency use lin-
culge the haudiest to the occasion. The CX-
pre, ION in tie month Of Il Republican candidate
would lose Inn thous nds Of votes, as much
pcrnars because Of thc sentiment itself as III
the language in winch il was clothed. Bat
then Republicans are in the habit Of expect
ing perhaps too much + ON public men. DEM
ocrats are not 20 cYacting. They only ask Il
man to stand by his friends. The sentiment
and the form Of IL were both Democratic.
fond Democrats present on this occasion; that
Ex-Governor Hubbard was not there to add
the slycry flow of his eloqdrnce to the warm
welcome of ox-MayOr Lewis. and that Sen
ator Eaton was not on hand to greet " the
- foremost Democrat in TIE state : and base
minds have whispered the suspicion that It
was only when Mr. English, in the midst of
hi, remarks about the news that "c2me flash
ing over the wires. noticed the absence of the
Hartford d -leg4tes, that he burst forth with
the ELOQUENT objurgation, "D----n the man who
"won't stand Ly his friends We are frank
10 say we do not credit the suspicion. Nor
do we believe that thought Of the campaign
of 1876, when he contributed $4,000 to the
election of Il Democratic Legislature which
calmly oustcd him from the Senate and put
William II. Barnum in his pace, entered his
mind for SINGLE moment.
We do not believe he meant to damn any
body IN specific, personal sense. 1t WAS a
KIND Of general "D--n," intended rather 10
cover points of doctrine than to "cuss =
infinitely and in detail. lie meant to sum up
the doctrines and beliefs of the party
in sentence, and to make it en-
phalic. That was all. That was what
the Democratic party Of the North said
when their friends at the South wanted to
extend slavery, " D----n n man who won'i
"stand by his friends and they dld it.
when the South rcbclled Northern Democrats
said, oh a man who won't stand by his
friends and they stood by them, opposing
the war and all measures for carrying
il on They have been standing by them
ever since. They are friends standing by
Zach other. and each standing by the creed
embodied in the speech OF this d" foremost
Democrat" III Connecticut: ON the man
'who won, ,tand by his friends.' And ii
means the same hing the country over
yictuals for the hungry and drink for the dry