New-York tribune., 1878-06-05
HE CANNOT TELL 4 LIE.

II was only word, but the word, swift and
powerful, of tho Red-Headed Avcnger,
who III November, 1876, made President,
aud in June, 1873, proposes to mmake
him, and to blow into inGnitesimal trituratlons
of smithereens the regulations Of the members
of his Cabinet and the prominent men
who surround him. lie was in the presence
of the committee and under the eye Of the
public. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
as born to rule the storm; creature OF
heroic blood, n proud though childlike
form. He had held the country in his hand
for eighteen months, sternly and ylrtuously
refusing to swap it of for the Consulate
at Funchal, but ready to consider almost
any other "consulship in a warm climate"
and looking favorably upon the vacancy at
Tien Tsin. Wearied and worn out with dis
appointments and delays, he was now about to
relax his grasp and let everything go back to
chaos. Several sagacious and prOyldent
statesmen Of the Congressional majority sat
sadly round, ready to catch 1t as it
fell. Standing there before the coun-
try and the committee, with mems
"conscia reci emblazoned all over his noble
brow, he seemed like belated torch that had
come over from a Tilden and Reform process
sion of the campaign of 1876. Many
members of the committee contemplated him
with feelings of awe. They had never
sat in front Of any one who contained,
and contained with such calmness, so great an
amount and such infinite variety of startling
information. Everybody knew he was full
of it, but there were persons who under
took to belittle the Importance of it and
TO impair confidence in his statement,
by setting forth that it was for the
most part STALE and that the story he was
about TO tell was contradicted by statements
which he had previously sworn to. 1t took
but a word to answer such cavillers. They
asked him his calling. To the amazement
of his friends and the CONSERVATION of
his critics and detractOrs, he sm0te his
breast with conscious dignity, ana cast
ing upon the committee such glance
of pride as that with which Clan Alpine's
chief swept Benledi's living side, he fixed his
eve and auburn brow full on Mcmahon and
replied "Night Editor of The Philadelphia
4" North american"
Night Editorl At the word, doubt fed and
detraction skunk away. There was pause IN
the committee. Mr.. Butler looked curiOusly
at the witness, as one VINO discovers suddenly
the object of long years of ardent search. The
whisper ran through the crowd of cor
respondents in attendance, " He's o Night
editor" Then silence fell, till some one
said "That ends it. No man can
"stand against Night Editor" AS for
the White House and the Treasury Depart
ment words fail to describe the effect of this
announcement there. The President said at
once, "This is too, too much !" and Sec
retary Sherman Gasped, Is itpossibleY : Have
81 Night Editor on my track 7 Farewell
" then the four per cents, and the four and
"half per cents, and the syndicate, and tranquil
"mind, and resumption, and the rude threats Of
"Bland and Voorhees,, and oil that sort of thing.
"The Secretary's occupations gone. SO he's
"Night Editor, is help Upon the country the
effect was electrical. The Democratic press in
the rural districts burst into headlines with