New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-16
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So many conspicuous people have been lied
about! During the last two years the number
of leading statesmen who have been cast away
on inhospitabc shores from this cause is al
most incalculable. They are strewn all along
the shore. And all of them have been lied
about. Two years ago procession passed
down the Capitol steps and scattered into the
surrounding country with their arms full oil
stationery and other plumber, and never re-
turned They went out of the Senate and out
of the House. Some were fearful, some were
indignant, and some were in the state of mind
described by the gentleman who was captured
by pirates in the Gulf, when he said they
stripped him and dashed him to the rigging
and fogged him on his bare back till he
was perfectly disgusted Bat they said
to the inquirng minds which met
them on the way with the sympathizing inter-
rogatory whats the matter ~" Oh nothing !;
"only been lied about" Some of them fretted
and vexed the columns of newspapers with
explanations how and to what extent they had
been lied about, and what made them think
so. Others made addresses to reception COM
mittees in which they stated distinctly and at
great length that they had been lied about,
and some we remember had banquetS at which
the local clergyman and the county poet wed
with each other at the conclusion of the feast
in mangling the language in which the lying
had been done. There was an epidemic of
being lied about. Among the victims, if we
rightly remember, there was some such person
as a Vice President.
And here the other day another procession
stepped down and out, in whose van there
might have been carried descriptive banner
inscribed, Lied About Mr.. Butler, return
ing to an admiring constituency, when asked
what brought him back, would doubtless
answer, "Lied Gbout." To the friendly De-
troit person, greeting Michigan's great War
Senator on his return to private life, and in
Quiring of him why he had not continued to
intimidate the British Lion in the Senate, the
gentle Zachari ah cOuldHgivesno other answer
than "Lied About" and LIED About" is
Carpenters response to Milwaukee's whats
/" the matter" Oh 1t was such an cpl
demc And it carried off so many! Done,
too, as all the Administration organs agreed,
by the Independent press. 1t was in view of
the fearful mortality in political circles
produced by being lied about by the
independent press that Congress enacted
a law to meet such cases; it was
known as the "Press Gag law" and some
how was not popular. Mr.. Butler also threw
himself into the breach, and upon frequent
occasions denounced the press as malicious,
mischievous, and false, and once he recognized
its superiority by characterizing it as a
"forty-jackass mud-throwing power" Not
withstanding all this the statesmen of the
period continues to complain of being lied
about, and every little while some new one
is doubled up with it, as with sudden cramp.
Dir. King of Minnesota has got it. A very
bad case He went to Canada by advice of
counsel when it first broke out, and the con-
sequence was it went very hard with him.
The Minnesota Legislature took hand in
discussing it, and William stood up and