New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-24
PTSE Up WILLIAM ETERETT

RISE UP UILLTAM ETERETT
DR. William Everett Representative In Con-
Crcss from the Quincy District or MasSa'hu-
sctts, Please rise Ara you having rs good
time as YOU expected when you entered upon
thc career Of statesman? We recall the tliil''
only n few years ago. when you were III 'hc
habit Of attending the public dinners when III
BOSTON are held 10 DO the chief inStrumehtal'y
hv which great reforms are effected, ana allor
coffee was served and cigars lighted set'lh8
the table in n roar by your caustc cri'l'lsi'S
~ the shortcomings Of the party when hau
administered the Government nearly coh'hn'
orsly for thirty years When IN that MOOD you
provoked unusual hilariy among IN" REFORM
crs If memory serves. on one occasion 20"
droppcd into verso, and 10 the mimic Ell
tcrtalnmcnt of IN uncommonly in'eH'''u'i
tablet full made "Ihc MuCwump Bra lHlno'-
tai When moro seriously disposed you SCI
forth I'm eloquent detail the reforms mar W'ul"
b Initiated and carried through when Inc eyes
Of the American people should be opened 10 'ne
wrongs and expressions they had suh'r'l ~
tho hands Of wicked and corrupt KepuoIl''hN,
and thr honest. intelligent, incorruptini' h"'
potrloiic Democratic party should come '"''
mower. You seemed very much In earnest Ap'"'
II. Doctor You kept growing hotter ana n''-
fer over the slow progress OF enlightenment
through Mugwump methods. uniil hhaiY !"
vour Impotence YOU emerged from the chrySaHS
state 81 the Mugwump and pumped down INTO
| the Democratic party full lcdgcd and huiiering.
/ You were accompanied, II We rightly r'h''"'
! bor hy President Eliot, of Harvard, George
| rrcl Williams. sherman Iioar and some o'h'r
literary fcllcr,": AND rs You grouped your
sclvcs around rlc massive proportions OF Grover
! Cleveland IN the attitude 81 worship mon san
| .~rre best thinkers Il Massachusetts have De-
r..ac suddenly dcyor'."
Then George Fred and sherman Hcnr went
IN Congress once II was thought 10 be me
dawn ~ now era For n little while they
we're very clipper about H. Then the dawn
Stoned dawnlng and FOG set In sherman lloar
went and George Fred got dsgustcd. BY the
way Doctor what has become 81 George freh
| and sherman IIoort We haven't heard from
thcm latcly. Has anything happened 10 them /!
IN ,h. Greatness of tho triumph II Reform by
,ho c,.,,ion ~ Grover Cleveland and Demo
c-,,i. r.ncrrss thcy were lost sight 81. But
Won came later. You went 10 congress JUST
| ,,tor t,c horns had ncgun 10 blow for the NIL
l.nnium Nj ia. reforms had been assured
bnt y,ur friends rcjoic'l iha You were 10 De
! in Congress to l,nl-a hclplng hand in putting
,hcm I'm pracilcal operation. They said You
uoull create a sensation II you ever got loose
an Tho floor Of Tho House on any OF IN" great
/ reforms 10 which You had devoted your''H.
/ Some ~ them said you were a perfect cyclone
when Won got fairly under way. AMI N'pup-
| ucon Congrcssincn had fair warning To look out
and not get In front ~ you. II pains us 10
say Doctor for although We have heretofore
been called To account by our serious con-
Temporary. The NcwYork sun" for not treat
ing YOU with the reverence ana respect '"''
propcrlv attach 10 so eminent scholar we
have always held You IN high regard rs an
interesting factor In current ppliucS II p'l"S
us 10 say that YOU have disappointed your
friends You have rot been cycIonir nj All
Hardly windy. indeed. In fact, you nave p'eh
loss entertaining In Congress than YOU used 10
be nj the dinners Of the Reform CllD III DOS
ton What IS tho matter with you. Doctor?
Doesn't craftsmanship agree with yon' Arc
Won dlsappointcd I'm the Democratic party? or
Io Won find It Harder 10 work out reforms In
WASHINGTON than 10 SGT them going with your
mouth NJ Boston dinner table!
Wcrc Won disappointed 10 find after all your
tall; about honest money and against silver In
aotlon that tho majority OF your party In Con
Of the Silver Purchase law could not be ear
rcd except by Republican votes? Did the dis
,rihutlon Of offices rs rewards for political actv
itv hv YOUR fellow Rcformcr Josiah Quincy
dcnress volr spirits? Do You like the Income
fax os a reform measure? What do yon thnR
Of the muddle they are making In the Senate
over tie tariff? Does II strike you. in view OIL
the action Of tic House and the inaction of the
Senate md the probable form in which tho
Tariff bill will finally emerge, that you and
your Mugwump companions were altogether
wise In trusting the promise OF the Democratic
Marty 10 make an end of the fraud and robbery
Of Protection and enact n tariff for revenue
onIvP And. Doctor between us. and TO so nc
further what do you think about the attitude
Of your fellow Democrats In Congress on tho
Reform of the Civil Service, which You have
alwovs considered as the apple or your eye
How did your friend Caruth. Of Kentucky
. nlcase YOU when on Tuesday he declared thai
. r. the spolls system Is a relic Of barbarlsm hi
wanted barbarism instead OF civil Service Ike
form? Was his statement that Civil Service
Reform don't go down with the boys in Ken
, tucly: when we win we expect something.
| quite I'm line with what you used to warm nj
the Boston Rcformers with? And what do yol
, think of the vote by which your party in Con
, gress proposes to cripple the Civil Service Com
mission by killing the appropriation for It?
, Between us, Doctor, how do you like 1t as fa
, as you have got?
In giving his approval to the Five-Cent Fare