New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-06
CHAUyCEY BLACKS BUGLE BLAST

Harli Something is proceeding from the
mouth Of Chauncey Black that sounds very
much like a noise. Ii comes through horn, AZ
one end of which Chauncey stands looking
trihe dishevelled with cheeks considerably dis
tended, eyes sort of "buggin' out" and
swelled-up appearance generally. lie is evil
IDENTIFY full of it. II is the only thing man
can be full Of without increasing his weight
Chauncey is blowing it off. There's about
column Of it up to date and indications of over
flowing fountains of it in reserve 10 be put on
tap during the campaign. 1t is called " The
Great Campaign of 1892" and is the bugle
blast with which Chauncey "a the president
of the National Association of Democratic
Clubs proposes to rally the Democratic party
of the whole country for what he calls with
great freshness and force the impending con
hict.u As a bugc blast it is what might be
called "a oorker" one Of those way up
things that make the thoughtful patriot either
put his fingers in his ears or resort TO the bowl
Read with appropriate emphasis and accent and
proper amount of feeling, this address would
in many places of the line Of the railroad
thrill all hearts and perhaps call out the fire
department.
Chamcey Blacks view of the impending con-
iict is that unless the Democrats begin right
off 70 rise up and organize clubs and 80 cc-
brate in some appropriate manner the birthday
of Thomas Jefferson" there's a heap Of trouble
in store for this country and for mankind He
says if it were only a contest for Offices or for
the qualification of the personal ambition OF
individual leaders he and the association would
not feel so much worked up about il. But he
says it is n great deal more than that that
everybody knows from its history that the Re
publican party, if it should carry the cleo
ton. would break through the confines Of
the Federal charter on every side.' This is
not the place or the time" he says, "to de-
vclop in its tremendous proportions and with
its dreadful mcnaccs the Fcderalist- Republican
scheme of strong splendid, rotten government
resting upon corruption and force and employ
ing the power of taxation TO enSlaye the labor
ing masses in order to build up in luxury and
wealth the ruling classes The picture i
tremendous enough and dreadful enough, one
would suppose, without further developing
Persons who can read it without feeling an
irresistible impulse TO "celcbratc in some APP
propriate manner the birthday of Thomas
Jefferson are unworthy of citizenship and
ought TO move away.
There is reason to believe that the provoca-
ton for this ructation, the slow match that
touched off this explosion Of the parts Of
speech is the tariff. 1t is Chaunccy's idea that
the tariff is n tax that it has no relation what
ever to the public revenue, but is intended
simply to transfer untold millions from the
pockets of the many who have earned it 10 the
Golfers OF the few who are licensed to seize
it, And he sayS-Chaunccy Black says-that
d" if this can be done there is an end of liberty
our Federal Government is utterly pcrycItcd
it is not merely fraud but dcSpotism, and
there is nothing left worth a struggle" If the
Republican party should carry the next clcc-
ton, he says, it would grasp with one hand
the throat of constitutional liberty while with
the other it rifles the peoples pockets and trans
fers a vast aggregate Of awlcsS plumber to its
monopolist allies" This is the style of de-
scriptivc writing that breaks up sewing soci-
cites and sends shvcr through the male pop
ulation such as has not been experienced since
the draft of ls63. We begin to think that
Chauncey wrote 1.-THE Worlds double-lcadcd
articles last fail which made the taxpayers who
sleep in the City Hall Park take to drink
through fear of satraps."
"How," says Chauncey, shall this hdcous
disaster be averted?' TO which he answers
There is but one way under heaven" Notice
how much those two words "undcr heaven
add to the solcmnity of the occasion and the
impressiveness Of the answer. The buglc blast
never fats out" The "onc way under
heaven" as he points out, is for the people to
"organizo in their own defence" They must
organize clubs; for he says " the contest will
be largely confess of clubs" And, judging
from the way in which the preliminary contest
between Hill and Cleveland opens, we should
say this was true That is largely con-
test with clubs if not of them. The next step
after organizing clubs is to " celebrate in some
appropriate manner the birthday of Thomas