The bee., 1882-12-30
CAUGHT MAPPING.

Mr.. L. Thomas Fortune. editor of the
New York Globe, has been most respect
fully referred t) his own files 10y Mr..
Milton NJ. Holland. and how he will
account for the qualification so clearly
manifest in his own paper remains to
he seen. But however he gets out let
him not plead his very profound igno-
rance as any excuse for his unqualified
misrepresentation. That he is truly
ignorant of our District affairs we will
agree, but must maintain that it can
not be offered in extenuation 10y man
Of such unlimited pretensions.
When Mr.. Fortune saw fit TO enter
the field of journalism we were glad,
for we thought his aim was to make
an honest living in decent way.
When he assumed the role of an indie
pendent and got politically too moral
to longer associate with his black
brethren in the Republican party, we
were satisfied douhly; first, because we
recognize the right of every man to
change his political opinions and tone
his morals up or down to any standard
of civil service reform he may see fit:
/ second, because we knew he would not
he able TO carry half a dozen black
] -gafn In L
land of Promise with him. When it
! appeared he sold ont to the Democratic
party, body and soul, we still had some
respect for him. But when he forsook
the last yestigc of noble manhood and
degenerated into an unpaid mouthpiece
/ and messenger TO carry out the crratic
and envi0us conceptions of a few COM
mon society negroes we deSpiScd him.
We eoppoSe any man who. at the bidding
of another, gets down and barkS at gen
tlemen passing along and up the re-
spectacle avenues of life-any man who
for no reason undertakes to belittle the
respected citizens of community
The e1itOr of the Globe has evidently
been barking up the wrong tree, and
brought down more than he can get
away with, for Mr.. Holland, in his let
ter. has certainly pulled the editors
long hair very hard. Truly Mr.. For
tune must have lost his files and is de
pending upon the yarns his Washing
ton correspondent spins about the Cap
ital and its people; and if that be the
case he had better stop it Immediately
and come nearer TO the scene of action
himself whenever he wants to write of
Washington and its affairs, for Mr.
Reuben Smith knows little of what is
really going on in this city.
In his last issue the editor of the
Globe says he much prefers that Mr.
Holland should have gotten some friend
to write for him. We have only this |
to say in regard to that: That if he !
much preferred that Holland had got
ten somebody to write before, he will |
cciy much lament that Mr.. Holland |
does his oiOR writing this time AS to |
who the editor of the Globe would or |
would not appoint if he had power, it |
is not worth thinking about, it is alto
gether too far-fetched. The colored !
people here were entirely satisfied with
Mr.. Hollands ability and his candidacy,
and supported him to man and would
do it again. And even if there were
any question of Mr. HIS ability, who is
to sit in judgment on it, the editor of
the Globe, or the citizens of Washing
ton and the President?
Now since it has come 10 this we
ask in all candor what does this editor
of the Globe know about "eminent and
conspicuous services and the executive
ability" of any MANI What oppor-
tunity has he had to learn anything
about men, things or measures. Why,
his very age would preclude his know
ing anything much, to say nothing of
his unconquerable dullness. If the
editor of the Globe will confine him.
self to trying to clean up things little
in the narrow limits of New York city,
he will find he will have more than he
can do without coming down this way
TO clean off our snow.