New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-25
THE TWINS.
gains.


II was eminently proper that Mr.. Frederic Il.
Coulert should preside over the Democratic rally
at Cooper Union. at which Senator David Il. liiii
was the chief attraction and principal orator.
His political twin. Mr.. Ellery Anderson
had already had his innings ut Iamhah!
Hall on Il previous OCCASION when ne hau
solennzed all minds by the declaration
that though he thought he meant wei WIN
he was trying to be good and bring III the Ni'i
lennium by a short cut. through the eNter'niii'
ton OF Tammany as a political rorce' H. III"
since decided that there was no Use I'D u!lhS "
he real good and only succeeding in being nan
good. and had consequently given ii all up ana III
tended hereafter to be just as bad as ah!oou'
Mr. Anderson. as The Tribune has heretofore
remarked was not altogether happy IN his At
tempt to Justify his period of grace Tor 'lia' i
,hc sort Of thing Tammany will have none or
II beclouds Joy. binders hlarity ana generates
gloom The man who lapses from perlod oi
GRACE and returns to Tammany would better not
refer TO Il at all-least Of all, attempt to explain
or Justify f., The thing to do Is just 10 lapse
in q Let her 90, Gallagher" sort OF way, ana
strike East Fourteenth Street with song ana
dance and a Hi. Hi! Here we are again boys
That's the only way TO whoop 1t up ana Make
things lively and do a real service to the com
mon cause But Ellery, too, evidently fell Win
reluctance, landed with dull thud, felt out OF
Mace when he got there and looked at the conf
pany he was in and couldn't help saying So lie
needed stimulan,s TO quench remorse and brace
him up.
With Frederic his twin. ii was different
Frederic is more flexible and more versatile lie
can turn a shorter corner and he never suffers
remorse: for his memory never bothers him. lie,
too had been active, energetic and determined
in all the movements to down Tamnany; had
been Anti -rammany, Anti-Snap, County Dem
ocrat. State Democrat and the Lord knows
how many other kinds Of Democrat, and had
seemed at times TO be solely animated by an
overpowering. terrible and implacable purpose
10 wipe Tammany utterly out OF existence mat
is. one would have thought so to hear MIN talk
But Frederic's great forte is his heXibility.
wear or two ago, for instance, when DaVh Is.
Hill had used the machinery or the Democratic
party and the power which too-conhding peo-
pie had given him to overturn the expressed VIII
Of the people ard had so hagrantly violated
statute law and the decencies OF public life That
the better part Of his own party rose up III lndlg-
| nant protest against the scandal OF 1t, Frederic
was quite conspicuous among those VINO ue-
nounccd the Senator as guilty or the grossest
| outrages upon law and morals, and the most
shameful prostitution Of a public trust. But
while the air was full OF these indignant protesta-
| lions that queer polico-social institution, the
Manhattan Club, rendered Senator Hill pubic
dinner Frederic president Of the club but
| being absent from town had an excuse FOR not
| attending the dinner. Instead OF awaiting him.
self of it, he FASTENED home, presided at the din
| ner and in speech Of fusome eulogy did
homage to the guest Of the occasion for the very
| things which NJ had Joined with the better por-
| ton Of the party in denOuncing Frederic Is ex-
tremcy flexible.
| II was the most natural thing in the world that
! the managers Of the Cooper Union rally OF which
| Senator Hill was the chief orator and central
| figure should select Mr. Coudert TO preside. He
did IT well and gracefully as he always does.
| He is more suave than his twin, Mr.. Anderson,
| on such occasions and, while less effective per
hans than Grady in awakening the enthusiasm
| OF Democratic audience, is much more decent
! and proper He did not make the mistake OF
his twin in referring TO his period Of grace-if,
indeed that may be called period Of grace in
which he was sliding in and out from the unctu
BUSINESS Of goodness 10 the slpperiness Of sin.
He began with hippant, If not disrespectful,
| reference to the emblem Of the State Democ
racy, Of which he was so lately a member, the
proud and imperious rooster. From that he pro-
ceeded TO treat with irony and sarcasm the pre-
tensions Of some Democrats who assume 10 be
better than other Democrats meaning thereby
the very Democrats with whom he was so lately
associated-and TO denounce as "shams" all
Democrats who are not just as bad rs all other
Democrats and willing to own up to H. why
do we believe in the Democratic paryF said
he and without answering II directly continued:
1T is said II is u party for spells and plumber
II will admit tina, We are human. ] will admit
that there are men who care only for spoils and
''plunder But what Of thaty' Sure enough.
What Of that II 1t answers the question. "Why
do we believe in the Democratic party its
enough. II Is frank and there's no fooling away
time, as twin Ellery did, in justification OF previ-
Gus momentary misguided efforts to make 1t APP
pear that 1t Is NOT "a party for spells and plum
der" Both the twins seem now TO be fairly