New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-15
EEEJING THE PULSE

f,shionoblc woman was once visited profess
sionalIy by q celebrated doctor who drank to OK
cess N fr,,Iucnt intervals. but generally retained
sense enough - recognize III" signs of his con
dition and 10 feel more or less ashamed ot MN
self ON the occasion referred To he endcavorcd
to take his patients pulse but his own 'ircuiia-
lion was so dlsorlcrcd that he couldn't tell whose
uulsationS he WAS counting so that finally ne
,Iroppcd her wrist ard muurnfully sohioq'l|'u'
Drunk again Il know it. doctor. slid IN"
lady bursting into tears, but Tor heaven
SAX. don't expose me- We are reminded
Of the old story hv the announcement "i
our usually wcllinformc1 contemporary. IN"
Now.York sun" that Senator Hi has re-
turned from the National Capital 10 New
York and has felt the pulse In every Demo
cratic centre in the state" Why the Senator
should have occupied his time in this way while
in Washington we have no means If knowing
nor ius, how he reached - far Perhaps having
ALREADY felt the pulse In every Democratic centre
I'm the State h. merely retired to Washington for
the purpns,. Of avoiding disturbance while he
made his diagnosis Rur never mind; the cX-
rl,nofion is II no importance anyway. rs the
fi., that's Interesting.
We desire 10 say before proceeding Ia consider
have no thought ~ implying that senator llill
ever. in any circumstances whatsoever, drinks
+. excess He never does; in fact ho never drinks
N all. Alphabetically speaking. We are sure maj
n never occurred to the Rev. DR.. Lansing or any
body Ok. t. suspect him. Indeed, som" persons
arr. base CROUCH 10 say that the mcan,si thing
about him is that he has no personal vices. We
onn,. the ancoIo;c ~ The doctor and the woman
A.. mi ffts
senator lin and the Democratic party have been
ON a prolonged drhauch: thr former in hS own
state the latter all over the country. There is
no doubt that the Democratic party Is In such Il
condition after this Orgy as To- make a detailed
and perfectly accurai" report 10y any competent
pby.lrau who had felt lis pulse extremely in
,cr.sting aud valuable But /; appears To Us tlllt
the senator j. not the man 10 do II. lie Sp'h'
ur,.ftv much all II last fill feeling III" Demo
cratic pulse in This state, AMI when he WASH
counting he was telling how II beat. lnk" iile
doctor ~ the story. he didn't realize The Sliua-
ton (which is The only defect in The analogy, ana
when the authentic count WAS mad" II was found
that the senator was n great many thousands OF
beats ont Of his reckoning. After that he Kept
unrommonly still. and II, ~ seems probable he
muitcrcl Drunk again to himself. he wasn't
overheard.
or course II may be- said that whereas Senator
Hill WAS in no condition 10 feel the Democratic
pulse last fall he is now politically cold sober
and possibly all the better qualified for such an
operation by reason Of his recent melancholy cX-
pcrlcncc But the trouble with periodical deblu-
chccs Is tliat YOU can't trust them. They 10 soon
or recover the full possession of their faculties
than they begin to feel as II il was ten thousand
wears since they sworc or and the first thing you
know they arr, in the condition of the doctor who
couldn't tell whose pulse he was trying 10 count
and the lady who didn't want 10 be exposed.
During a considerable part Of the time since the
9th Of last November senator Hin has unques-
tonably been In his right mind But where Is
he now? who knows? The very circumstance
that he has been lingering the Democratic wrist
| IS suggestive OF n relapse Moreover. even sup
posing that he is all right, what's the use: IL he
doesn't tell what he has discovered. nobody will
be the wiser for his Inspection; whereas II he
should show signs of candor and start To tell the
| truth. the Democratic party would eXcaim, For
heavens sake, don't expose me- And though
everybody knows what the main facts are. II
would be unprofcssional conduct on the part Of "A
| Democratic doctor 10 put them on record