New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-31


"halcyoD and vociferous proceeding" ana inc
"ferocious and atrocous" inventions SINK
away into ignominious obscurity. Thus we ind
him, in the midst of solemn legal argument
on the powers of railway corporations, remark
ing in his most stately manner that certain
charge against his clients is "hocculent
nebulous, gelatinous averment" Nothing Dut
extreme heat could have prompted an inspira-
ton like that We are told that at the time Mt.
Conking emitted this striking sentence his
linen had completely succumbed to the heat.
This is not surprising. No shirt collar ever
made could stand the friction Of such rhetoric.
A less tremendous person than Mr.. Conkllng
would have been differently affected by the
same temperature. He would have been de-
moralized, and woud have said simply: The
charge is too thin" We are unable to con-
ceive of Mr.. Conkling's giving utterance to so
common an expression. Heat does not allece
him in that way. 1t exaggerates INN rather I;
makes him moro tremendous than ever III
this were not so we might ask HIM now
"gelatinous averment" could at the same time
be " flocculentn and "nebulous," but under the
circumstances we do not venture the inquiry.
We presume he knew what he meant
Upon the Hon. Jakey Worth, of Brooklyn,
also statesman and Stalwart, the effect OF a
high temperature is directly opposite to that
produced upon his friend Mr.. COnkling. 1t
breaks his vocabulary all up. About the time
Mr. Conllling was astonishing the Court with
his floccuent argument, the accomplished Mr..
Worth started for Washington to secure Stall
wart restoration in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
There were several Republicans employ ed in
the Navy Yard who were not entirely harmo-
NOUS with the Hon. Jakey's views lie had
heard them spoken of as disaifected persons
who ought to go ont. He started for Wash
ingtOn to impress this view upon the Admins
tration. The heat was excessive during the
Journey but the Hon. Jakey did not know that
it had affected him seriously. lie appeared
in Washington somewhat unexpectedly, and
when asked what he was there for replied :
ave must get rid of them disinfectants in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard" A broad smile followed
the statesman everywhere he went proclaimlng
his GRAND, but he was not so very far out OF
the way. The heat had inspired him to say a
better thing than he meant. The antl-StalWarts
compose the disinfecting element of the Repuo-
| lcan party, and they are strong enough to save
it. The Hon. Jakey was merely trying to lmI-
tate Mr.. COnkling. In feeling about for large
word he got hold of the wrong one. That was
all We have sometimes thought that MI
| Conkling had made a similar mistake.
Another statesman who suffers more or less
| from the heat is that perpetual terror to the
British hon, the Hon. "Richelieu" Robinson.
He sat down to write letter to the Rhode
Island Land Leaeuers on one of the hottest
days of last week, and the consequence was
| that this intricate reference to Minister Lowell
got itself injected into the middle of the
| epistle: ellis ambition seems to be to debase
"hmself and dshOnor his country before a
"dcspotism unparalleled in the history of OPP
"pression, and within hearing of the groanS
"of American citizens now lying for weary
"months in British prisons, without any
"accusation of crime, and on the mere sus-
"pcion of brutal tyrants with whom he is ca
"rousing, and whose suspicious he is exciting
"against his own countrymen, he refuses to
"demand their right:.'' If that Is not hot
weather English and grammar then there is
| no such thing.