New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-23

the convict released from prison O1ten Iail vi
help when they need 1t most. A system mas
been provided to aid the latter, and the former
is certainly not less deserving.
Edwin Booth telegraphs from Londoh
protest against the production OF the So
called Passion Play in the noble theatre
which bears his name. The protest no DOUBT
expresses the feeling of every self-respecting
member of the theatrical profession in this
matter. Ii 10 not likely that the managers
will cease 10 call it Booths Theatre while
producing there play which MIR. Booth de-
nounces. Years ago he attempted Tor less
welghty reasons, to compel the proprletOrs to
discontinue the use of his name, but the
courts upheld the propretors on the ground,
substantially, that the title was part of the
property. 1t may now occur to the projectors
of the Passion Play that Mr. Booths name is
also part of his property, and that 1T would
be fair to him while engaged in an enterprise
which he so seriously disapproves not to as
sociate his name with it.
The stick of the Greenback rocket is down
very near the ground III this State. -Four
years ago the party made a humble begin
ming with LOST votes for Peter Cooper Tor
President, but the year following cast 2O.2S2
votes for John j. JUNO for Secretary OF
State. The next year, 1878, when many wise
men doubted the practicability OF the ke-
sumption Act, and political rogues ma le II
their business to prophesy financial rum 10
the country, the Greenback party grew like
a gourd. In this State it gave Gideon d.
Tucker, its candidate for COmt of Appeals
Judge, 1913 votes. or over nine per cent
of the total vote, and in Pennsylvania 81,75S,
or more than eleven and one-haf per cent OF
the total vote. Ten months of the Resump-
ton Act sent the vote in NewYork, in the
election of 1879, down like the stick to
2O,2S6, or two per cent OF the whole vote,
and in Pennsylvania to 27,2O7. This year
General Weaver receives in New York 1888
votes which is barely one per cent OF the
largest vote ever cast in the State. In
another year or two the party ought to be
beyond the reach of decimals.
Mr.. Evarts, who was to have been the chief
speaker at the unveiling of the Hamilton
statue, was called back to Washington by
official duties, and thus Saturdays rain-storm
UeDIlNGU inc New lUIh punt vi an OiNt4Ni
which they would have been glad to preserve
among their local treasures. There was
no lack, however, Of distinguished speakers.
The Grafton of the Hon. Chauncey NJ. DeDew
took rank as the principal address of the day,
and showed not only rich knowledge of the
events of the era in which this first and
greatest of American statesmen moved,
but also subtle appreciation OF his
character. Ex-Governor Bullock of Massa-
chusetts, a namesake of Hamilton, and Ben
jamin Harris Brewster of Philadelphia. also
spoke. All of these addresses are reported III
our local columns, together with those OF John
C. Hamilton in giving and Mayor Cooper
in receiving the statue. The presence OF the
venerable son of Hamilton and the part he
took gave peculiar personal interest to
the proceedings which is seldom to be
found in such occasions. Presented under
such auspices as these, the statue
will always be pleasing memorial of
the great statesman whose dazzling political
genius will be the admiration of Ame1-
cans so long as America endures, and whose
memory will be especially dear to New
Workers, who proudly call him one of them
selves,