New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-18
NOT 4 HOPELESS CASE.

| II is painful to hear that the leaders OF L am
| many Hall who are in sweet accord as to so
MANY things. are ready to let blood over the
nomination for Mayor. They are agreed that
they must have all the offices, that the new
Election law is daisy that New-York is a
little Heaven below, that DR.. Parkhurst is a
| bad man. that the streets are as clean as
whistle. that the possibility of running the Ma
tional Government is perfectly delicious, that
it is desirable to drink more liquor on Sunday
than on any other day in the week, and that
they are the people. But when it comes to
| picking out a Mayor the harmony yanishes, and
the CLEAN of cold steel Eliminates the Wig
wan. The father of Miss Croker, it Is under
stood. has made up his mind that her godfather
must have a third term, whereas a number of
able patriots who have been toiling i'll the
back ground insist on coming to the front and
thus disturbing the imperial programme. They
say that every enemy of Tammany who has
given up the hopeless fight and come into the
camp of the faithful has been rewarded with
rich spoils which he had done nothing to win,
while they have been kept on short rations, or
no rations at ALL and otherwise contumellously
treated This base ingratitude has become in
tolerable, and they declare that they will
sheathe their daggers in the godiather's vitals
if he undertakes to run the gauntlet OF their
righteous indignation this year.
Under these circumstances, it would be in
teresting to know what Mayor Grant himself
is thinking of these days and especially whether
he is solcitous about his yitals. But, unfortu-
natey the authorities differ on this subject.
His secretary gets dispatch every day from
the West containing the laconc message, All
well' But perhaps, like the famous 90 All
right, De SANITY" of the first Atlantic cable,
this cheerful announcement precedes total col
lapse. Some color is given to this hypothesis
by an exclusive interview published in " The
York World on Monday. The Denver
correspondent of our agile contemporary, hay-
ing quoted the Mayors observations at consid-
cradle length, suddenly broke in upon the
thread of his discourse with this mysterious and
remarkable declaration: "The Mayor talked
with the greatest difficulty. At times his mind
appeared to be wandering and his thoughts
were across the plains. While speaking his
eyes would occasionally protrudc i'll an almost
alarming manner. Especially was this the
case when politics were mentioned" Certain
ly these are startling symptoms and yet We
prefer to hope that they are not as discouraging
As they appear to be. The same informant
gives us to understand that the Mayor has a
voracious appetite, which may sufficiently ac
count for the grOans which he is said To emit
at night; and as for the alarming protrIsiOn
OF his eyes that phenomenon is described aS
occurring AT times when his thoughts were
across the plains 1t is reasonable To suppose,
therefore, that the present physical condition
Of our Chief Magistrate is good, that he i en-
joying his travels very much on the whole,
and that he will return in the full possession
Of all his faculties. The di-qucting appear
ance which he occasionally presents Is due 10
a lively Imagination. When his thoughts get
away from him and start across the plains be-
naturally suffers. But it j. only a nunc pro
tune distress. lie thinks of the daggcrs in
Fourteenth-St., and his eyes protrude rs mat
ter of course. Whose wouldn't?
The community may reasSure itself. For
the time being the Mayor is all right, and if
his prophetic soul gets too troublesome, he !
can easily relieve himself by giving up all idea
of a third term. That would not only enable /
him to talk with less difficulty and keep his /
thoughts where they belong and prevent the |
alarming protruson of his eyes, but would also
restore harmony in Tammany Hall and lift the !
gloomy cloud which oyerhangs the metropolis |