Year: 1872

From the Sacramento Record


The speech made by Gratz Brown, the
Liberal Democratic candidate for the Vice
Presidency, at the Yale College commence
ment was of 50 singular a character as to
attract general attention. he confusion
or ideas, the eccentricity of language, the
evident muddle headedness of the address,
reused suspicion that the speaker must
have been at the time under other than
merely classic inspiration. he former
habits of Brown are known to have been
dissolute, but the fact that be was not long
ago hard drinker was passed over in view
of his repeated promise to reform. His
recent alleged illness in New York, said at
the tims to have been caused by surfeit
of soft-shell crabs, is now more than sus-
pected to have been the effects of de-
bauch, and his strange conduct at the Yale
commencement, referred to above, is shown
to have been caused by downright drunk
enuess The Clerk of the New Haven
House, where he was staying at the time,
has made statement under oath, from
which We extract the following:


Mr. Brown came to the New Haven
House late Wednesday night from his class
supper, and went te bed What time he
got up do OF know, but he went out,
h. Volo
cises. When he came back from there
before be went to the alumni dinner, he
went to his own room and sent down for
some brandy. | sent him up, before he
went away, three drinks OF brandy, for
which received pay He came back af-
ter dinner, and between that time and the
time when he made his speech he sent
down for three more glasses of brandy, and
l am not sure but more. know that l
sold him six drinks Of brandy, and think
that sold him eight; and he paid me for
them. When he came down to the office
before going to the boat, to pay his bill, l
saw that he was very drunk. He paid his
bill, however, and then turning to the port
er, said: "What in-has this man done ?"
(Here followed a conversation with the
porter, which was too vile and prof ne to
put in print, but which the clerk can swear
toy A reporter then stepl ed up to him,
and asked him to look over his notes of the
speech, and Brown replied 81 don't care
Cd d-n for any newspaper" and
other expressions of the same sort He
then started for the side door, where hack
was in waiting for him BE staggered as
he went along, but finally went away alone.
About fifteen minutes after Governor Eng
lisb came down stairs, and said: "Govern-
or, Mr.. Brown was rather tight, wasn't he ?"
eyes," replied the Gov ernor, "somewhat
set up" On being asked again what Mr.
Browns condition was, the reply was, "He
was boozy druuk."


This statement speaks for itself 1t is
scarcely necessary to point out that man
who has been nominated by one of the great
political parties for the second Office in the
Government, and who has not sufficient
self-respect or strength of mind to refrain
from disgracing himself by beastly intoxi
cation during his candidature, and at a
moment when he was about to appear in
public and address college of young men.
must be wholly unworthy the confidence
and the support of decent people. Those
who vote for Gratz Brown, knowing Tim to
be self-proclaimed drunkard, will incur a
very serious responsibility. To endorse
such man is to strike blow at the NOR
altv of the nation, and to tell the world
that an American candidate for the Vice
Presidency can roll through the streets and
make spectacle Of himself at public meet
ings without losing the respect and esteeu,
of large portion Of the American people.
1t would be national disgrace to elect this
profigate debauchee, aud We are sure that
there are thousands of Democrats who will
echo the sentiment of tn. Springfield Re-
publican Gan anti-Administration paper, J,
that Brown ought to withdraw from tick
ct which his name disgraces If, however,
the ticket can stand Brown, the people will
decide that they cannot stand the ticket.