New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-01
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felt he could not conscientiously vote Tor DIS
own reelection, and hence took up his residence
at Red Top to keep out OF the way OF temptahoh'
Mr.. Longfellow remarked in one of his poems'
king of old age, that
II IS not strength, but weakness; not desire
But IT'S surccase; not the nefce neat Oh hlo
Tho burning and consuming element,
But that Of ashes and Of cmbcrs spent,
In which some living sparks we stu discern
Enough to warm, but not enough 10 Durh'
The MASSAGE is RESPECTFULLY referred to the Demo-
cratic Marty in re Thurman. If old age is not
desire. but its surcease why shonld the Ola no
man. havc hankered after that nomination There
is no doubt that the line about ashes and emoers
spent fits the case exactly; but in regard to the
living sparks we must confess ourselves In some
doubt. The next line, however. tends 10 ciear up
the matter The poet declares THAI the living
sparks are only enough to warm, but hoo enough
to burn. That is doubtless the case. Id lhur-
mans case such feeble sparks as there are cic"riy
do not burn enough TO set the heart OF the Dciho-
cratic party on fire, although there Is desperate
pretence that the truth is the other way vi INC
whole, we may say that the poet had ID sorC oi
prophetic vision of the present situation Inc
part Mr.. Thurman ought to play is clear enough
but he viii insist making up IN anotnef
character.
Mr. Steve Brodic who endeavored few years
ago to climb to the shining pinnacle Oh lame
by jumping into the East River from the Brooklyn
Bridge has been trying new route to immortality.
lie was cncancd IN swimming the Hudson. his noble
ambition being to break the record. Steve has
not yet been fired from cannon. neither mas
he gone over Niagara in peach basket nor vauted
from balloon. Obviously there is great future
before him.
A writer in q Boston journal begins fnw lyrical
remarks thus:
Ny eyes arc heavy, but l cannot weep,
Ny heart Is weary, yet cannot Steep; . ,.
The south wind wOos Bic, but It's Dream Is PAIN
When shall laugh, rejoice and sing again'
This is to be regarded as the best Democratic
campaign song on the market It's unds-
guised frankness is its great merit The National
Democratic Committee ought to see to 1t that
il is set to music. The older the campaign grows
the greater will be the demand for it among Demo-
Gratis with "a realizing sense.
If Congress had not passed an emergency resoli-
ton on Friday providing to extend the appropri-
ations Of the fiscal year ending yesterday, for the
maintenance of the army and navy, those two
branches of the defensive service of the country
would have been subjected to the inconvenience
of lync upon credit until some other provision
was made Both of the regular appropriation DIS
are before the Senate committees and the Demo
cratic majority in the House, aided BY the Demo-
cratic newspapers, are trying to throw upon the
Republican Senate the onus of condemnation Tor
the delay in passing them. The fact Is that
Congress began its session on December g. 1887
and it was not until June 22 that the House
passed the Naval Appropriation bill which then
went to the Senate The responsibility for TINS
delay in the House rests entirely with Mr. HERBERT
the Democratic chairman of the Naval Committee
1t happens nearly every year that the Senate IS
compelled to pass important appropriation bilis
with insufficient time for their examination or
discussion, or else to subject the country TO
inconvenience and expense.