New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-13
LOOKING AFTEE HIS CLOTHfN


at is not true that | left the banquet hall
in a disgruntl,d ndition and did not return
as Ia, been Published | left my seat tempo
larily to look after my clothes IN The cloak
room" Thus Speaker Crisp in Correction oil
tho story which was generally circulated on
Sunday that he left the Reform Club dinner
IN saturday night in huff at not having been
called upon to deliver the speech which he had
prepared and given to the Associated Press.
We accept the explanation and correction
And now the question naturally arises why nj
that particular time when the feast OF reason
was at its height and the flow OF soul was
slopping over every one OF the twclvc-dOlaf
plates in way tat even Roswell floWcr
could not successfully down-Why at such q
moment did it occur t. Speaker Crisp that he
had better be looking after his clothes 1t
does not appear that his speech was in his
" clothes: even if it was. the time had passed
for Ifs being called for and he must have
known that he would have 10 use for 1t that
night. What was it that 50 sudd'nly inspired
him with the thought that this was an occa-
sion and place when and where 1t behooyed
n prudent man to drop everything else and give
his whole mind t. looking after his clothes?
PERHAPS il was not q sudden inspiration. 1t
NAV be that as he sat and listened - the clo-
quent speeches OF the Rcformcr> the conNIc-
ton gradually grew upon him that 1t was the
sort OF company in which very few things were
safe. Perhaps he recalled the wise words OF
Emerson: Beware when the Almighty lets
loose a thinker on thu planet. Then all talng'
are at risk There he was in the midst OF
some of the greatest and best thinkers ever lct
loose upon the planet. 1t is Not impossible
that tho startling truth grew on him gradually
as the exercises preceded and tho great
thoughts went humming through the smoke
like bursting bombs, that the thinkers were all
loose and everything was at IiSk. What won
der then that of sudden he plunged wildly
toward the cloak-rJcm t. " lock after his
clothes?
And vet there was nothing in the speeches
if he accepted them as a sincere expression oi
the sentiments of the Reform Club. and the
honest opinions of the great UNDERWRITING
that need awaken any anxiety concerning his
clothes On the contrary they were pcryadcd
by high moral tone, a strenuous assertion oil
holy and upright purposes and kind of gush-
ing goodness. that if taken AZ their face valnc
would have passed anywhere aS good for at
least one entire suit of clothes without tho
voucher OF even La; check. 1t would be in
tcrcsting to know by what intellectual proc
csses Mr. Crisp reached the conclusion that
the best thing he could do under all the circuIn-
stances was TO look after his clothes Mr.
Elcry Anderson hal told in beautiful language
how honc.t the Reform Club was and how 1t
was giving this dinner at the low price OF 7l2
q plate 10 Mr.. Cleveland because he WINS 50
aggressivcly and Extensively and magn.iiccnily
honest: Mr.. Cleveland had cOnSecIa'cd himself
anew t, being honest; Mr.. Schurz had enlarged
uron the Circumstance that the nomination and
election Of Mr. Cleveland were due 10 the
effort, OF the honest mon he was addressing ;
Roger O. Mills had adjurcd his hearers 70
continue to be honest; cX-C0vcrnor Campbell
had said with deep feeling let MS be honest {;
Congrt ssman "TOmr johnson had talked about
the paramount necessity of being honest, and
ex-Gov"rnor Stone Senator Carlisle Congress
man Breckenridge and ex-Congrcs.man Collins
had talked and talked and talked with the
crcatc.t luency about the honesty of the DEM
ocratic PARTY in general and the Reform Club
in particular, and how beautiful and comfort
able and in the end profitable it would be il
they could only keep homestead right i'll tho
midst of it Mr.. Crisp suddenly bethought him.
self that he had better be looking after his
clothes. so thinking. he fled inconinently 10
the cloak room. With such speed and pre-
cpitancy that men said he was disgrntled
about something.
Thank goodness, it is not so. Speaker Crisp
is still harmonious with the party, and with
the Reform Club and with Mr.. l.. Ellery An
dorson, and all hands will work together to be
honest themselves and keep the party honest.
And when he started out 10 look after his
clothes it was not by any means because the
distinguished Anderson had studonsly ignored
him-not at al-it was simply because be sud-
deny realized that the thinkers were loose and
all things were at risk. That being the case
and he not having any public duties on hand
il was only natural that he should go and look
after his clothes.