The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1880-05-21
THE TWO RoBINSoNS.
How the Soul OF Horace Greeley Was
vexsd by the Confoudnins OF Their
- rsohailty.
Corr. Sacramento Union.

Corr. Sacramento Union.
The annoyance caused by the sameness
or sltnllanty OF names was lsigsly shared
by ths late Horace Greeley in respect to
two politicians named Robinson, If re-
msmber Alright. They were both from York
State, both members OF Congress-one q
Republican from the Buffalo district, the
other 4 Denocrat from the Brooklyn dis
friut. They were Frequently confounded
by ths public and press. Even the Tribune,
which chen had night editor but slightly
aeanaiated with politics. interminglsd them
frequently. This provoked the wrath and
l.disgust OF the chief, who believed every
| Journalist net possessed Of every political
| fact Included in the history of the country
for 4 least forty years to be totally dis
qualified for bis position. Again aud again
shd night editor presented the NJ. C.'s in
islixhffnl bewilderment. He would have
the Republican voting for Democratic
measure, and The Democrat making Re-
publican speech, not once only, but repeat
C8AJ Ah t0ItY hO AatSiy w hdk6 %
mess Of the Washington dispatches, so far
rs the Robinsons we're concerned. The eff
feet Of these continued bluuders on Gree
ley's mind may he imagined by those who
knew him, though they Can scarcely be
conceived By the person unacqusinted with
him. They worried him exceedingly; to
use his pet expression, they crucified him,
and tis said that they aroused him at
times to degree of mild, perhaps jastifia-
bile, profanity. He undertook to instruct
the o5tuse night editor in the respective
politics of the Robinsons, and frequently
thought he had been successful in impart-
ing ray to the Arctic night of his mind.
He would say to somebody in the Office,
"Wel, guess I've made see at last
that no sane man can be a sincere Repub-
lican and violent Democrat at the same
time. hope he has got it through his
thick skull that there may be two distinct
Robinsons in the United States," and when
he hsd begun to congratulate himself on
his conquest OF dense ignorance, he would
again SEQ 10 bis cherished paper the Rep.
Robinson voting among the ayes on
strictly Democratic vote, aud the Demo
cratic Robinson Offering a thoroughly Re-
publican resolution. Then Mr.. Greeley
woald groan /; declare that if he had hair
enough TO pull, he would tear it out; and
tell the managing editor they must get rid
OF that illustrious nincompoop; that idiots
might answer on the staff generally, but
that to keep so iHcurable an idiot for q
night editor was ruinous. And then, in
the native kindness OF his heart, he wo' Id
refrain from discharging the man, know
ing that he would find it hard to get an
Other situation. One morning Greeley, who
had been off lecturing somewhere, return
ed 10 town, aud, unable to buy tribune
on the cars, got another paper and discov-
cred that the Democratic Robinson was
dead.
II am glad of that" he said to an ac-
quaintance beside him, ''that fool of night
editor can't get the two Robinsons mixed
up any more. 1t was absolutely necessa-
r, for my peace and for the existence Of
the Tribune that one of these men should
diey -Aad Id = little rather it would be the
Democrat"
Very soon he found copy of his paper
and opened it TO read the obituary of the
Democrat. Fancy his dismay and dis ,ress
when he read there the obi.uary of the
living Republican, written by order of that
illustrous nincompoop and idiot-chief, as
Fl. g. put it of the New York Tribune.
He gnoaned more deeply than ever. but was
silent. Words were powsrless.