Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-06
woRCEsTER .
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER G, 1871.
WHATS said OFT.


The New York World is painfully disap-
pointed in the presidents message. 1t told be-
forehand what this document would contain,
but its clairvoyant was controlled by an evil
spirit that could not tell the truth. Not find
ing what it expected, the World makes the best
attack on the message it can devise under the
circumstances 1t describes it as IAN election
eering document" and proposes to thrust
straight at its jugular vein;" and so the docu.
ments jugular vein" is subjected to a fierce on
slaught, But the dagger is dull, and bends like
pewter sword. The ''iugular vein" dcfes it,
The Worlds bad tempered criticism amounts to
no more than this; The president is an Gig
noramus," because he thinks the method OF
settling the Alabama question furnishes an eX-
ample in diplomacy which The civilized world
may safely follow; the president is noodle
as well as a charlatan and a demagogue," be
cause he recommends legislation against the
holding of slaves in Cuba by American citizens;
what the president says Of Mormon polygamy is
Sheer demagogism;' the presidents recon-
mendation to reduce taxes is ill-timed, although
good enough, perhaps in itself And having
made all these tremendous thrusts al the "jugu-
lar vein" the World subsidies, adding in an ont
of breath sort of way: "There is little else in
the message which calls for particular remark,
but "the president cannot write tolerablc En-
glish,"
The New York Tribune dislikes Gen. Grant.
In fact, its feelings towards him seem to us to
furnish another case of disliking Dr.. Fell. But
the Tribune likes this message, on the whole,
finding in it "much more 70 approve than to
disapproye," and believes it twill be favorably
regarded by large majority of the American
people" 1t is particularly pleased with that part
of it over which the World angry mutters
''noodle"l Referring to the expressions con-
corning slavery in Cuba and Brazil, it rejoices
over "the fact that the president thus noby en-
bodies and enunciates the better impulses Of
our people," The Tribune judges correctly, we
think,) 'that our relations with Spain
are more critical than the presidents guarded
language would Indicate" 1t criucises very
justly, the suggestions concerning postal affairs
and the postal telegraph notion, which come,
of course, from the postmaster general. The
post Office department should be made self-sup-
porting, and the postal telegraph project should
not now be entertained for moment, III con-
gress or anywhere else If adopted it would
bother the whole business of telegraphic COM
municaton, and at the same time, be a constant
and most intolerabe robber of the treasury,
The Tribune promises, hereafter, "plain stric-
lures on civil service reform"
These papers represent the opposition to Gen
Grant, both without and within the republican
party. The New York Herald being in a cheer
full mood when il took the message in hand,
speaks of it in this strain: 1t is an UMPIRE
tending, matter-of-fact state paper, which chal-
lenges the general appreciation of the country,
both in respect TO the acts of the
administration and in the measures Of
legislation recommended to congress-" Most
Of the democratic papers, like the World, are at
a loss what to say OF it, and use great many
words to say nothing. Our neighbor, the Bos-
ton Post, is conspicuous among these bothered
oracles, and squirms painfully because it can see
nothing to attack. 1t comes finally to this very
edifyng conclusion: "The message is as full
of recommendations and congratulations as
pudding ever was of plums" Well, We think
the president can bear this, and even add 10 tn,
congratulations another which shall express
satisfaction at having so completely confoundet
his democratic opponents