New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-03

Why should the Democratic Convention "oriy
itself about platform? Let it instruct the Conl-
mittee on Resolutions to follow Mr.. Hevemhu D
example in his last message, and confine lts OUT
givings TO the single subject OF the tarih' IL
one subject was enough for the Democratic
Presidents message, isn't one plank suihcieh'
for the Democratic rarty's PLATFORM
a C. Myers. a colonel in the Army Of the United
States before the war; an avowed traitor before
the secession of either his native adopted State,
and before the inauguration Of Lincoln; Quarter
master General of the Confederate Army; an I'M
reconstructed rebel until after the passage OF the
Mexican Pensions Act last year, and now bene-
fciary of the Government he tried to destroy-thls
is the man in obedience to whose insolent demand
that his pension certificate should be dated back
more than a year before his disabilities were re-
moved Commissioner Black has set aside the Law,
his own previous decision and the deliberate YER
dict of the Board of Pension Appeals. The story
is told in full in our Washington dispatches on an
other page. The Physical Wreck" will doubt
less see to it that copy of to-day's TRIBUNE Is
placed in the hands Of every delegate at ST. Louis
1t ought to be worth good many votes to " the
soldiers candidate" for the Vice-Presdency.
writer for an English periodical furnishes
Notes from Prosperous Agricultural Country
He had to go abroad in order to collect those
Notes." England under free-trade has become
one Of the least prosperous Of agricultural coun-
tries This is a fact which American farmers
should keep steadily in mind during the next
six months.
Mr. Grant Allen contributes to The Fortnightly
Review" most entertaining and appreciative artl-
Gle on the Concord haunts of Emerson, Hawthorne
and Thoreau. His enthusiasm is not hampercd by
English prejudices and associations, and he
pays glowing tribute to the village as
the most interesting in the world although it is in
a country which impressed Mr.. Arnold as perhaps
the least interesting. Mr. Allen describes Frenchs
statue of the Minute Man the most thoroughly
satisfactory specimen Of native art TO be seen III
America, expectancy and alertness making up " the
very keynotes of the composition which deserves
TO be looked at from every point of view and bears
that crucial test Of plastic art from all sides
eouallyo While the rhetoric of this tribute is
somewhat confused, his sincerity and heartness
are not to be questioned. Mr.. Allen speaks most
afTectionately and intelligently of ThOreau yet
considers himself at liberty to take the part Of
candid friend and analyze his character and mo-
tives with merciless severity Even when he
was looking closest at nature" he remarks the
Concord transcendentalist never for a moment
forgot that Henry ID. Thoreau, of Massachusetts,
was the person who looking at her. Ihe
candid friend is perhaps rather more offensive IN
literature than he is in politics. Admirers OF
Thoreau and lovers of the New-England centre OF
light and leading" will forgive Mr.. Allen, how
ever his stark naked candor out of consideration
for the warmth and enthusiasm with which he
describes Concord and its manifold associations.