National Republican., 1884-01-22
A Man OF scventy-Throe.

A Man OF scvonty-Throe.
The Post, with its optimistic tendencies and
eminent faculty of seeing immense good in
diminutive trines, endeavors to console the
present managers Of tho democratic party for
their disgust at the speech of Senator Payne
at Columbus, by announcing that before he
con take his seat he will he 10 years old.
Were there no presidential election to come
Off before that time the glow from that Gu
cumber might be a little warming to some of
the democrats out in the cold accustomed to
no other kind of heat but as il is with the
election right at the fore, the age of the sem
ator is not factor of any account. Mr..
Payne is young enough to SEQ that his party
is in very bad hands Even the wool
staple, he says, is in danger of
Severe aud injurious attack" By
! whom? BY the managers under lead of
Carlisle and Morrison. lie says: "The man
who would place wool and other dutiable
| articles on tho free list, and resort TO direct
taxes for revenue, and thereby destroy these
homo industries and dismiss this army of
labor and drive them TO idleness and want, is
not a wise ard bene1cent friend of the
people, Then he goes on to say that there
is broad line of demarcation distinctly
| separating British and American interests,
and standing or falling, he will "stand or
| fall on the American side of that line" This
means business, and is such q direct blow at
the crew who stand on the British side
of the line that thoy cannot misunder-
stand it and they do not. The first symp-
tom of their comprehending it is seen
in the prompt discovery and announcement
| by the organ that Mr.. Payne has arrived at
an age of great respectabilty, thus evincing
the felicity they enjoy at the thought of soon
getting rid of q democrat who squarely stands
on the American side Of the limo that divides
our interests from the British. While they
thus under5 tand Mr.. Payne, they are COM
forted by the reflection that he speaks the
voice of Ohio, old as he is (; and this compels
them to a consideration of the question
whether the forty.eight northern votes re-
quired to elect the democratic candidate can
be had without Ohio, New York, Connec-
ticut, and New Jersey; because the influence
which will lose them Ohio will also surely lose
them the three latter. Mr.. Payne has forced
| that exact issue, and is not going to back
down.
| Could We have had our personal preferences
| in the matter we should have boon glad had
Mr.. Payne kept quiet for few days. We
fear that his utterances have lost us the
| pleasure Of reading the speech Mr.. Carlisle
had prepared to deliver at Philadelphia on
Saturday night. The fidelity Of that states
man to his old platform of a tariff for revenue
only must have impelled him to prepare
very lucid speech supporting the pr inciple
and in aid of AIorrison's bill,
and his failure TO deliver it
shows that something had transpred.
Yes, something had, A man 10 years old,
and to be 70 in less that two years, had
spoken. The problem presented by this
venerable citizen was one demanding more
than one or two days consideration, and so q
dinner which was intended to be hilarious
was eaten in magnificent silence, leaving it
to be inferred that the turkey eaten was also
of such venerable age that utterance became
impossible unless the attempt at mastication
was yielded, We're the purpose of the dinner
simply or mainly to feed the hungry, cold
lunch sent on from Philadelphia would
have answered the purpose and
at the samo time would have
expressed all the joy felt by the democrats of
that goodly city at the election of Mr.. Carlisle
to the speakership, and that it was not sent
Mr. Carlisle the speech he had prepared as a
keynote to the coming campaign.
We are also afraid that Payne's speech has
interSered with prompt presentation of
Morrison's bill. This bill, as a work of po-
litical art, has been grandly horaded as tho
product Of a great combination OF wisdom,
and as an expression of a determination of
the majority not to let things alone. The
people were getting anxious to see it. The
opportunity to present high art in politics
has not been given to tho democrats for many
years, and impatience to see the picture has
become almost imperative. Morrison has felt
it, and his friends have given out that the
piece was ready for exhibition. 1t is pity
that ono man, and he AZ years old, should
delay the unveilins. 1t is a.great pity that
superannuated man should furnish the
artists with more food for thought than they
could derive from dinner by Philadelphia
caterer. But so it is, and now we iAust wait
until the old mans speech has been digested
|
Silent Carlisle.
It has been said that Mr., Carlisle's silence
at Philadelphia was duo to politeness-
it would not have been in good taste to have
presented his anti.tariff views TO II tarf
community which had invited him to dine
The difficulty in tho way of accepting this
view is that Mr., Carlisle belongs to a schoo