New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-05
RUNNING EMPTYINGS.

The Rov is getting angry. That Is the way
with bovs when things do not 90 to suit them
Anger and spluttering may not be dlgnliled'
they may exhibit n shallowness of mind ana
lack of poise uniting one TO deal with great
matters but they are characteristic or the Do!.
Statesmen are not accustomed 10 lose their
temper and good politicians are far 100 wei
trained to turn their tongues loose NOBODY
ever heard Mr.. Gladstone whmper because his
opponents denounced his Home Rule measures
as dangerous TO the Empire. Nobody ever
heard Abraham Lincoln. with all his love OF
Joking all his faculty Of illuminating serious
question with a humorous illustration. depart
from the discussion of the serious question 10
indulge in cheap wit which had no bearing on
the subject.
or course the Boy is under great temptation
these DAYS He tried his hand at serious ar
gument in New-York. and everybody laughed
nj him. Even the people who went TO hear him
rs he talked his way West did not take him
seriously He was n phenomenon. and they
wanted 10 see him and be amused. 1t was
natural that he should play the clown to get
their plaudits rather than have them turn
away from his serious attempts. Then. too the
voters. where they have had a chance TO eX-
press an opinion as in Vermont, have been so
disappointing not to say discOureous. to the
Boy that it is enough to make him mad and
send him home declaring that the wise men
did not come from the East and appealing to
class and section to rise up and smte those
who had not accepted him. as well as his
money at his own valuation good deal or
smart claptrap was to be expected from the
Boy. but he outdid himself when he reached
South Bend Ind and made this free-silver ar
g,ment on the text of a printed paper contain
ing spaces to he filed in with pen:
find here little slip printed upon an appro-
pirate color-yellow. 1t says: Il, the under
signed, - in the employ Of - That is a
very appropriate blank. because the man VINO
issued this considered the employe blank. Il.
a blank in the employ Of the blank railroad COM
pany'-it ought to be biankety blank, blank,
blank-"hereby make application for member
ship in the Railway Mems Sound Money Club.
Did anything like this ever before come from
the lips of n Presidential candidate? 1t meant
nothing; II led to no argument 1t only made
way for a lot of abuse of rich men and the
false declaration that advocates of the gold
standard who were engaged in other kinds of
business than wage-carning did not dare to
say as these railroad men said that free coin
age of silver would be injurious to their per
sonal interest. The banker has time and
again declared that it would he injurious to
his personal interest. the merchant that it
would be to his the manufacturer that it would
be TO his. The Boy dragged In his blank
bufoonery to get the laugh of those who
came to see his circus. and then found an ex-
cuse for it by lacking on statements which are
not true: and he knows as well as anybody else
that business men all over the country are
aroused and frankly declaring that free silver
means their own personal ruin. The Boy has
got beyond the point Of argument. As he goes
West the tone Of his talk degcnerates The
South Bend nugget is fair specimen Of the
character OF his recent appeals for votes No
end man at the MINISTRIES could be more frankly
devoted TO tickling the galleries. The Boy
came East heraldcd as n statesman. He goes
West acting the clown.