The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1877-07-19
What Killed Horace Erccjcy.

! What Killed Horace Greeicy.
! The New York Sun declares that il
was the rejection of an article correcting
an editorial in the Tribune that caused
or fastened the death of Mr.. Greeley.
The objectionable article which Mr.. Gree
/ ley wished to correct, was headed
Crumbs Of Comfort" which was as
! follows:
"There has been no time until now
within the last twelve years when the
/ Tribune was not supposed to keep, for
the benefit of the idle and incapable, a
sort OF Federal employment agency, es-
tabllShcd TO get places under govern.
ment for those who were indisposed to
work for their living Any man who
had ever voted the Republican ticket be-
lieved that it was the duty and the priv
iiege of the editor OF this paper TO get
him place in the Custom House. Ev-
cry red-nosed politician who had cheat
ed at the caucus and fought at the polls
looked to the editor OF the Tribune to
secure his appointment as gauger, or AS
army chaplain, or as Minister to France.
y
alter the battle was over for q recon.
meDdation as Secretary of tho Treasury,
or the loan Of half dollar. If one of
our party had an interest pending AT
Washington, the editor of the Tribune
was te!egraphed in frantic haste to come
10 the capital to save this bill, crush that
one, promote one object, or stop nnoth.
er. lie was 10 be every body's friend,
with nothing 10 do but take care Cs 9th
or peoples business, sign papers, write
letters, and ask iavors for them. and 10
get no thanks for i either Foar.fifths
of these people were sent away without
what they wanted only to become
straightway abusive enemies. 1t was
the worry of life to try and crafty one
demand IN q dozen for the other fifth.
The man with two wooden legs con-
graduated himself that he could never
be troubled with cold feet. 1t is source
Of profound satisfaction to us that Office
seekers Will keep aioof from a defeated
who has not influence enough
at Washington or Albany to get u sweep
or appointed under the Sergcant-at-arms.
Or a deputy sub-assiStant temporary |.
Jerk INTO the paste-pot section Of the
At last we shall he LET
alone to mind our own affairs, and man
'ge our own newspaper, without being
'ailed aside every hour to help lazy PEG. ,
Die whom we don't know, and TO spend ,
'ur strength in efforts that only benefit b.,
'eople who don't deserve assistance. ,
1t last we shall keep our office clear of )
'iatherskites and political beggars, and !
% about our daily work with the salts :,
action ct knowing that not the most ;;
OF place-huntcrs will suspect
5 having any credit with the appointing !
over. That is one of the results of
tuesdays election, for which We own
urscivo5 profoundly grateful"
The sun says: =
The original manuscript of Mr.. Greelev's :
orroction, which was intended by him
set him right with his friends and the
Ord, has fallen into our hands. This
corning, for the first time-a!ter he has
cen sleeping in his grave nearly FIVE
ears-it sees the light. Ii is in Mr. 7
reeley's own familiar and almost lIleg. '
lie hand. So much of melancholy in.
rests attaches to The document that we
I've bad fac smile Of it made, which
print IN another part Of to-day's Sun. ar
le text is as follows:
"By some unaccountable fatality. an Il
tclc entitled Crumbs Of Comfort"
opt into our last, unseen by the editor.
lichdoes him the grossest wrong. II is =
&c that ofice-seekcrs used to poster him IL
r recommendation when bis friends
ntrolied the Custom House. though the =
ed-noSea variety was seldom found
loHg them; ii Is not true that he ever
eyed summons to Washington in or.
that he might there promote or OBJ
Sc Legislation in favor OF this or that
ivate scheme. In short, the article is
nonstrons fable, based on some other
Perence than that OF any editor Of this
rnal"
The sun thinks that the rejection of
5 parae- aph showed Mr Greeley that
had not Only lost the Presidency. bar
ceased to control the Tribrnc. aud -
I the pain and Modification resulted Id
his death.