Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-14
Na,1raster fr,tellgenrer.
THURSDAY EVENING. July IA, 1881.
The Comet Lunatic.

AHC NVuACl AuuOIuCs
The comet or the hot weather is hav-
ing a very deleterious effect upon the
usually sensible editor of the Philadel-
phia Telegraph, which is worthy OF great
respect for its customary good judgment
and honest expression. In copying our
comments upon the Garfield literature
it tprefaces them with the very silly words
of criticism that we reprint elsewhere,
and omits from its republication phrase
which it declares altogether unfit
for publication" Unfortunately for the
Ieleyroyh's condemnation of us for con-
demning the official White House bullet
ins upon the presidents condition, the
Objectionable words which it finds
in our article is one for which those
bulletins are responsible, and the one,
morever, by which we were especially
moved to denOunce them. We felt, as
the Telegraph does, that it was very un-
necessary and improper for the presi-
dents doctors to telegraph all over the
world the exact style of his ejecta. We
apprehend that the Telegraph editor has
not been reading these bulletins very
attentively, and that he therefore lays
himself open to the charge of being but
little interested in the physical state of
the distinguished patient whom he would
have US believe he is 50 extremely sOlic-
itous about us to be eager to ravenOusly
devOur every scrap Of information of any
kind which comes to him from the sick
chamber. More than once the doctors
bulletins have contained the statement
which the fastidiOus editor of the Tcle-
graph finds absolutely unfit for publica
ton" and We agree with him and advise
him to keep his eye more closely hereaf-
ter on the bulletins, and to order his
asterisks to be ready for use in their
publication. We are not sure but that
the editor of the Telegraph may advan-
tageously continue his practice of OBJ
tanning information of the doctors bull
letins from the editorial columns of the
INTELLIGENCER, rather than from the
bulletins themselves, as they are SO Of
fensive to people of his and our fastidious
taste We do not at all object to wading
through the ccSS-pOOlS in the course of
our duty, for his beneGt and that of our
other attentive readers. Still, when we
have done him this favor and saved him
this assOilment, it is trifle disgusting to
be charged with being the original con-
cOctors of phrases " absolutely unfit for
publication" and which we only publish
because of our duty to give the official
statements of the presidents state.
And we would kindly say to the very
nice editor of the Tc!cyaph that if lie
will content himself with carefully con-
STRUNG the lines of our editorials, and
will prudently refrain from trying to
read between them, he may perhaps save
his imagination the sad necessity of find
ing an offense which does not appear
and is not there /; and which it will ma
turally he Il great relief to his sensitive
nerves not to encounter even i'm thought
The INTELLIGENCER has a habit of
expressing its opinions rs it forms them,
and We are always ready to accept the
responsibility for them. We believed,
and still believe, just what we said about
the Garfield literature, and i'm our judg-
ment We said it in very proper way.
Those who think otherwise are entitled
to their judgment, but from the warm
commentator we have received for the
manner and the matter of our utterance,
we have good cause to think that we
acceptably recorded a very popular senti-
ment.