New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-13
pApE NLNCOMPOOP-


Has the crank been put back again upon the
old editorial mill which used to be ground IN the
Tiden Nncompoop Bureau There are signs
that it has. Feariully and wonderfully maze
Tiden eulogics are appearing in the rural DEM
ocratic press which bear the earmarks OF gem
JUS nothing less than metropolitan In dlmen-
sions. No mere rural journalist could nave
written, for example, an article on MI Illden
which has been precipitated upon the Democ-
rncv OF Missouri through the columns OF me
SedaIia Ba-oo. We will endeavor to give some
of the gems from this masterpiece. but to do 1t
Justice it ought to DO copied in full. III
opens with the now familiar and uncontro-
yerted assertion that Mr. Tiden has renewed
his voutl and then settles down to business with
an earnestness and rapiditY which fairly make
the readers head swim. Tho news of his revival,
we are told, will be unwclcome to n large num-
her of Mr.. Tildens enemies, "carping, invidi-
Gus critics, and great multitude of politi-
ciansn who rejoice when giant Is hamstrung,"
and whose most delightful occupation is " to
watch q great mind struggling in the dark
ness of n paralytic stroke" or "a great nature
brought suddenly low by a visitation OF the
Almighty Himself"
II Will be seen that the gifted writer, whoever
he is throws his feelings INTO his composition
With one glitteriDg eye fixed upon Hendricks
Of Indiana, and another upon John Kelly, he
proceeds: "Many and many are the so-caled
/" political leaders who have wanted the grasses
a to grow over Tilden's grave, grow lush and
frank, these half dozen years and more That
Is much more serious than we had supposed the
case TO be. That there have been for sew
eral years large number OF Democratic
statesmen who have been somewhat impatient
To attend Mr. Tidens funeral is well under
stood fact, but we did not suppose they would
carry it 30 far as to be particular about the
kind of grass which shoad grow over his grave.
The Ba=oo writer is IL Democrat. however, and
he appears to know what he is talking about.
Why? ~ lie asks abruptly after making the
grass revelation. Because Tiden was colos-
. sal. He stood as IA pillar of granite amid
makeshifts, pliable caucuses, obsequious con-
ventions, and whole generation OF shams and
subterfuges. He never made terms with his
| @conscience.n Nor with anybody else If we re-
member rightly. The usual formula for reply
to all applications for terms was "lll see
You later The presentations of Mr. Tildcn as
| colossal and as u "granite column" are
new. and show what rest and & nourishing diet
will do for even Nincompoop writer.
Having shown what his party wishes to do for
him, the writer passes logically AMI naturally to
contemplate what Mr.. Tilden has done for the
| party. And here we are confronted once moro
with the fine old figure of the Democracy rs IL
ship. This gives The BaSoo genius ample room
for display of his powers and the exhibition
is stupendous When Tilden took the party 5
helm in 1876 tho old Democratic ship was
well-nigh stranded. The ropes, the sails, and
the rigging were gone. All the pirates and
"wreckers of the great political deep were
swarming to its attack. The ravenous breakers
we're here, and the Unsuitable lec-shore was
"yonder What was left OF the crew was mu-
tlnous and ill-equipped. Overhead tho sky
was all leaden and chill" There Is more OF
the picture but we have given enough to show
that the ship was in bad way. zone day
| tbore was n roar of cannon and the noise OF n
amiehty multitude cheering. Tildcn had
anchored the craft broadside on, while q
single glance revealed the fact that what be-
| fore had been worm eaten, ramshacklcd and
storm-twsted, was as slightly craft as ever
carried an adnirars pennant into the thick OF
Aboukr Bay or Trafalgar That is the most
remarkable canDOn-shot III history. 1t not only
saved the ship, but reiuvenated it at the same
time. No wonder the multitude standing
we presume, on the "insatiablc lee-shore,
cheered The astonishing spectacle of colos-
sal granite column, declining IN urgent invi-
tation to crawl into grave with lush and
rank grass oyering, suddenly appearing upon
| the deck of worm eaten craft which was over
run with pirates and ravenous breakers, and by
the simple process of firing cannon making
the vessel not only safe but as good rs new
was good deal OF n show.
Great as the performance was, The Bdsoo de-
scripton of it Is greater.stll. "The Democracy
ahad found leader who knew how to raise the
"dead TO make slightly with flesh hdeoui
skeleton; to give back yigor to the shrunker
"limbs to give back courage to the Tutoring
"heart to wake the stagnant air OF perpetual
soyerthrow with some Titanic bugle calls; t.
snake the glad blood leap and thrill as though
"another Jackson had come to resurrect hi
"veterans. We pause here. There ia more
of the article. hut we have followed the write