New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-12
7BE COMING DEMOCRAT.

IL is uOM ycdi Si"N" 90" SNi"S'N
seeker after truth, discovering Orator Brooke
of the-we really forget which-wing OF the
City Democracy standing in brown study by
the dry fountain in the City Hall Park, seized
his cumbrous ear aud whispered into 1t the IN
quiry who at that moment stood the best
chance for the Democratic nomination tor Goy-
ernor. II was at q time when the country was
inst recovering from the great thrill of excite
ment into which it had been thrown by the
spectacle of the young, gifted and dashlng
Perry Belmont confronting with drawn pen
holder the baleful bloody minded Blame. The
distinguished orator thus appealed to, without
lifting himself as is his wont upon his spangled
wings and crcling in bewlldering flight around
the arid basin, took the truth seeker by the
button and began to gurgle in his lowest and
most impressive notes his views of the political
situation. We do not need to reOite again the
Grafton that was then and there delivered. 1t
was printed in full in the journal with which
the truth-seeker was connected, and we have
no doubt so mispunctuated and mangled as to
plunge the orator next morning into the depths
of momentary despair. One thing, however,
was made by II most transcendentally clear.
That was that, taking everything by and large
and all together, the coming man In the DEM
ocratic party was Perry Belmont. The coming
man Immediately for Governor. Subsequently
and only a little more remotely for greater
things. for whatever in fact might turn up.
Even as reported il was an imprisoned adj
dress as actually delivered it must have been
well, good deal more than that.
For long time afteIward many of us who
believe lust as firmly that the low deep tones of
Orator Brooke belong infallibly to prophecy as
we do that the shril falsetto of Edgar Apgar
belongs to victory, felt sure that whatever else
might happen, Perry Belmont wodld be the
Democratic nominee for Governor. We forget
Mt this moment--and we confess with shame
that circumstance of such Importance has
ESCAPED our memory-precisely how or why it
was that Perry Belmont was not nominated and
Grover Cleveland was. A vague impression
baunts us, though, that Perry withdrew. Not
from any lack of votes, for without referring to
the record we think it may be safely stated that
there were several delegates to the convention
who were willingto vote for him upon his COM
pllance with conditions which to II man OF his
available means we're simple and easy-but
because he desired even above his own success
that there should be harmony in the party. AT
apy rate he was not nominated. Ina: is
matter of history. We assume that no a1ida-
Wits are required as TO circumstance so gen.
orally admitted. There may have been more
or less wondering about his sudden disappear
ance. but we are confident that the main cause
of it was. as has been stated, his oyerpowering,
his nsatiatc appetite for harmony. Secondary
10 this, we have reason to believe, was the con-
alteration that he could afford to wait and
that there was something great deal better
than Gubernatoriai honOrs in store for him If
he could only restrain for the moment his polo
righteousness and his holder ambition.
We were not far wrong. Perry, as 1t now
appears, has his eye on seat in the United
States Senate. Secure of seat III Congress
for the next two years, he patiently bides his
time to be called up higher ut the expiration of
his term. 1t seems now to he an open secret
that at the dinner that was to have been given
him recently at Babylon-but which urfortu-
nately fell through on account of some local
misunderstanding as to who should pay for
the dinner and how much-he was to deliver
a speech on the tariff OF some other stirring
question, which would have put him at once at
the head of the list of Democratic statesmen
and given him long start of all opponents for
the Senatorship. 1t may be that Perry's OPP
ponents are chuckling over the idea that the
failure of this dinner will be fatal to Perry's
political aspirations. Shey reckon without
their host. The rising young statesman who
pointed pen-holder at Blaine and drove him
out of politics into writing history is not so
easily put down. The dinner may not come
off. In the present state of feeling at Babylon
il does not seem probable that it will. But the
speech will Failing an outlet on Long Island
it will find vent in Congress. And when it
comes let other aspirants stand back 1t will
be clincher. OF this we are confident. From
the moment that Congress opens we shall DO
looking for it-unless, indeed, it shall be de-
livered at some opportune dinner party before
that time. Whenever 1t Is delivered it puts
Perry in the forefront of American statesmen.
And we hazard little In saying that 1t will give
him q asure thing" for tho Democratic nom