Show I XOT OURS 1 The Tribune of this morning has an i article on Englands Navy and Ours It would have been a more correct caption to have had the latter part of it Not Ours Is it quite accurate and wholly just to fl say that the Democracy have fought every effort to restore the navy ever since the war But pray what have been the r = j efforts to restore the navy 1 Is Mr Robe j son the great champion of restoratives for the navy or is Mr Chandler to be termed I the Duillius of the American navy Were not the plans for the Chicago drawn under un-der Republican supervision and is not that wonderful boat to lick all creation i crea-tion Then look at the bottoms of these to be famous boats the plans for which were only partially comprehended by dull Democracy which plans were that drawings J draw-ings would be made oft the Treasury Then Mr Whitney has been so bold j and innovating as to forbid the cruising of the navy in the far off waters of New I Jersey and Newport News for the benefit bene-fit of the health of supernumerous and i tired Republican officials Of course it was under the Republicans that the American navy cleared the Mediterranean of Algerine pirates and Coopers history of the American navy is but the story of a romancer And then it was the Democrats who went to Newport News with the Tallapoosa and negotiated the famous ButlerBlaine I treaty from whose failure the country is I now suffering such terrible things things I j that were foretold long ago The Tribune forgets in its enumeration of naval powers to mention Chili as one and the brilliant manner in which Mr Elaine settled the differences between that country and Peru By the way was it Blaine or Cal deron that Chili led captive after the Peruvian usurpation had been recognized j at Washington Both have passed from I sight and we cannot distinguish between them J |