New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-23

rhyming Oregon" with our son."
few days ago the editor of /" The Chicago
Tribune" dashed off little madrisal for his
newspaper, dedicated to that estimable Indiana
statesman, Walter O. Gresham. The madrigal
contained this stanza:
And from all tho other States,
Yea, frJm Maine to oregon,
Louder comes the peoples mandate
| Give us Gresham-he's our son
| BY adoption
| Now there are no politics in poetry, and for the
sake of the literary reputation of their beloved
city, the citizens Of Chicago, without regard to
! party lines, ought to rise as one mainland he q
man with a good for rhyme-and solemny
protest against Mr. Medilrs conduct. And the in
dignation meeting cannot be held too soon. This
is a Presidential year, and that sort of year
always inspires an unusually large number of
madrigals. Unless Mr.. Medill is made to under
| stand that in rhyming Oregon" with our son
he outraged the finer feelings of the community
and put back the hands on the dial of local
culture at least an hour and half, he is liable
to go on repeating the offence with ever retro
grading rhymes. The history Of literature in all
ages proves concusively that man who begins
by rhyming Oregon" with our SOM is certain
in the end to rhyme United States" with parlor
skates" manifest destiny" with "quinsy."
OF course the protest addressed to Mr.. Medill,
! il it is to accomplish its purpose, ought to be
framed more in sorrow than in anger. Still the
offence was such a grave one, that Chicago can
be expected to use pretty plain language to him.
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! Speaking Of Civil Service Reform, Secretary
Fairchi1d said in his Brooklyn speech that " the
members of this Administration are too much
! impressed with its value to the country and to
their party to entertain the idea of its abandon
ment or to concede that it can be failure"
How heartily the Brooklyn Democrats applauded
! this sentiment is not recorded 1t is supposed
! that their sleeves were not capacious enough to
contain their uproarious laughter when they
thought Of the Navy-Yard and the Custom-Housc.
few months ago IIarper's Weekly" asserted
that President Cleveland had I" done than
any other man in the country to arouse and in
T. rest the public mind in the question" Of Civil
Service Reform OF course, Mr.. Cleveland promised
TO do good deal more than to arouse and interest
the public mind but no impartial observer of the
situation fail to see that the chief interest
that has been aroused in the public mind lately
in connection with this matter has been as to how
far the President would forget his pledges and
turn the Civil Service back to where it was before
the Republicans put upon the statute-book the law
which made an end Of the spoils system. Even
his most ardent friends and supporters are forced
to admit that this is what has been and is being
done.
II NAV occur to Premier Mills. on mature
reflection, that when he tried to insert gag into
the mouth of Samuel j. Randall he merely sue
cceded in impartng q compound fracture to his
reputation for common sense.
In dispatch from Washington it is stated that
Ensign Charles Ii. Hewes of the Navy, who was
sent to the Glasgow University, Scotland, in Septem
Der, 1885, by Secretary Whitney, to take course in
marine architecture and naval construction, has
been ordered to spend some time in a famous
ship-building establishment in Scotland" This
is the establishment from which the Navy De-
partment obtained the plans for the twin-screw
armored cruiser for the prize Of $4,000" 1t
has been understood that the Naval Academy was
sufficient for the education of the younger Off
GERS but this is an admission that they must be
sent abroad to a foreign institution to perfect
themselves. Ensign Hewes is receiving $1,000
war from the Treasury as salary
Answering q correspondent, The Sum- of Sat-
urday made the painfully discouraging state
ment that Larry GodlIins alethometer now regis
tiers seven, with a downward tendency" 1t is
difficult to understand how it happens, in case the
Salvation Army is aware of this figure, that it
refrains from conducting an aggressive campaign
in the Second Ward.
That Thurman does not want the barreY
honor of the Vice-Presidency is not q fatal oB-
lection to the use of his name" So remarks Ihe
Chicago Tines in leader commanding the veyer-
an proprietor OF the red bandana for place utder
Cleveland on the Democratic National Ticket
What can the noble old Roman have done to/" The
Times" that it should want TO see him play fsecond
fiddle TO so crude statesman as the jpresent
occupant of the White HouseP Ii MYirtn T.
Upper should be proposed for poet laureate would
The Times think it was doing ROBBERY Browning
good turn to nominate him for vice-pWft laureate
The position Of Mr.. Mills in the fouse is Illus
trated by the experience of a foonf n young man,
which is recounted in detail by one of the London
journals lie had spent the eveni' bg at club ana
on returning at a late hour to ~ Is home in Eaton
Square found that the servants b. d left everything
unfastened but the door-chain ~ He attempted to
get through in the space allowe by the chain, but
his head stuck fast in the operating and was caught
there until the watchman vkent TO his aid and