New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-24

Yesterdays TRIBUNE whose chairman has issued
circular to the rank and file of the party calling on
them to subscribe TO the fund for meeting campaign
expenses and asserting that no other contributions
needed in an honest campaign, was the state
Committee Of Connecticut IL might have been IN
ferred by some that the reference was to the New
York Slate Committee Dear no. They're not 30
fresh as that. IL takes Connecticut Democrat to
stand up and tell wholly unnecessary and gratul-
tons lie that dcceives nobody and openly thrust his
tongue in his cheek while he is doing it.
Will any Democrat of prominence connected with
the great uprising against Tammany two years ago
have the goodness to rise in his place and inform
the pull what he meant by it
If determination to be pleased has anything TO
do with it, Mrs. Langtry is sure to like America
She carried herself gracefully yesterday through
the somewhat trying ordeal which now awaits
every distinguished traveller who arrives at
Quarantine, and related her plans Ler hopes and
fears to those who gathered around her with an
artlcssnes5 that approaches art. The actress will
certainly not fail for lack of tact.
An enthusiastic admirer OF Mr. Thomas NJ.
Waller the Democratic candidate for Governor OF
Connecticut writes to a Democratic newspaper in
that State gorgeous description of the scene in the
Connecticut Legislature when Mr.. Waller, who is
lovingly called "Tom," replied to ex-senator
Eaton on the bill to bridge the Connecticut River
According to this authority Mr.. Waller began as
follows:
My very learned and esteemed friend from Hartford
q gentleman In whose judgment have the utmost CON
hdence and whose ability have great admiration for
has presented the of the people he represents and
no who has present and heard the gentemans
argument cannot admire the candor OF his argument
and erseness his logic and at the time not won
der at the array Of statistics that he has been able to
present
If Mr. Waller wraaked murder on the mother
tongue at that rate, no wonder the Legislature
passed the Till rather than have him make another
speech.
1t is understood in medium circles nsPhladelphia
that If the late William Penn who landed on the
pleasant shores OF Chester" two hundred years ago.
were still in the flesh, he would send the following
postal card to the bi-centennial celebration;
PENNsILyANIA, October %, 1882.
TO ,rhoB Il may concern Had it occurred to me, 200
years ago, when took of my coat aud set to work
founding this state, that 200 years afterwards re
mOrsecss machine would stand between majority OF
the people of PENNSYLVANIA and the realization of their
wishes would quietly have resumed my coat, declining
embark in that branch Of business. do not direct
these few BiCentennia remarks anyone IN particular
But the shoe any gentleman, know Of no reason
why he should not don it. Thine, W. PENN
Why don't the Administration Committee put
somebody on the stump to speak for their ticket
Can't they find anybody willing TO say a good word
for it Their failure to make anything like a cam
paign is very remarkable. Nothing Of the kind has
ever been witnessed in this State before. As the
case stands to-day, every prominent Republican
speaker in the country is unwilling to put himself
publicly on the side of the Administration party
Even Judge Folger himself takes refuge in letter,
and shrlnks from facing his fellow-citlzens on the
stump. This is very queer state OF affairs.
"RIchelieu" Robinson has been reDominated for
Congress- and it behOoyes the British lion to he on
The lookout for his safety. Robinson is pledged, If
he gets back to Congress, to wing the British lions
nock ard he has pledged himself to an idiotic
act heretofore that he has not tried to perform lie
said in speech accepting the denomination, that
he took it rs an announcement to go on In the
course he had pursued and it he reelected we
have no doubt ne will be little more absurd than
ever next winter He remarked to the convention |
that his district embraced the wealth and culture
and the labor and the toll of the city OF Brooklyn
above all others =" it contained the Navy Yard the
ferries the churches and Greenwood Cemetery, in
which the men who have made history repOse IN
silence" Robinson has not made much history, but
we have an abiding hope that the voters Of his dis
trict are convinced that the time has arrived for
him to repose in silence in the seeluslOn of pri
yate life.
General Butler says the political pendulum swings
every two years. and that this feet Is responsible
for the upheavals of this year. He thinks it may
come back from the Democratic side again by
1851, and cheat that party of its Presidential
hopes. This Is very likely to be the case and We
SUPPOSE that when il gets back there 1t will find the
General in position as a Republican. He has swung
as frequently and regularly the pendulum has,
and has made about as much by the operation. He
is much like the pendulum in that he can do little
but swing lie swings regularly for otre but is not
able to stop IN 1t.
1t is announced with more or less authority by
the Administration journals that Secretary Folger
will resign his SecreIaryshIp If he is elected Gov
ernoG We have always understood as much
and vet when We ventured to congratulate his
party because of his determination not TO resign If
lie were defeated, We instantly accused of all
sorts of tIatorOus designs upon the Administration
ticket It's cold world.
Spanish mackerel and bluefsh they were going to
catch should be divided In the course of the dis
pute they capsized the boat and lost the sucker.
Moral: You can't discount big catch OF Spanish
muckerel Oh the strength of one sucker
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