National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-02-17
The "Tribune's" Mania.

The New York Tribune has the rabies
over the harmless memento which Mr..
Filley, of Missouri, devised for the Grant
delegates at Chicago in 1880. The de-
irium which seizes Whitelaw Reid and
his associate ninnies when the 1906"
are alluded to is like the effect of water
or dog afflicted with hydrophobia, We
are sorry to see these evidences of de-
mentia in the Tribune Office. If White
law Reid had any sense his wild screams
about Grant, Conkling, and the Stall
warts might be taken as an indication
that these forces were about to take the
Government captive but as he and his
fellow-screamers are merely cranks
driven mad by too much Cursing of Grant
we merely conclude that the present
frantic bowling is like that of lunatiC
when addressed upon the subject by
which he lost his wits.
General Grant is quiet citizen, resid
ing in New York. He is an American
and free His privileges as citizen have
never been abridged, because he has
never committed crime. He has not
been forgiven by the Bourbons of the
Democratic party for the services he
rendered his country during the ciyi
war. He has not been forgiven by his
slanderers of 1879 who joined the Bour.
bons to defeat his reelection rs President
and whose hostility greatly increased his
popularity and his votes. He has not
been forgiven by Whitelaw Reid for re.
ftlsing the overtures of that worthy to es.
tablish friendly relations with him since
General Gariied's death, the reason as
signed for the refusal being Us we learn
(though not from General Grant, that he
could not have any relations with man
who had tried to have him assassinated.
Those who desired to do SO voted for
General Grant at Chicago-the number
being 500. 1t was a proper and Lawful
thing to do. Whenever and wherever
they meet they have right to allude tC
their action on that occasion. And then
too, the zanies of the New York Iribun'
have perfect legal right to make fools o.
themselves about it.
Mr. Conkling is an ex-senator from til,
State of New York, engaged in the prac
tice of the law in the city of New York
He also has all his privileges as a citizel
unimpaired by the sentence of any cour
for crime. He refused TO sit in the Sen
ate under well-known circumstances, a.
he had a right to do, and he was defeated
for reelection by a Legislature cover
whelmingly Conkling" because the Ad
ministration meant business" So sale
the notwithstanding Reid in his midnigh
order to President Garfield. Mr.. Conk
ling understands very well that, as yer,
good and peaceful men may be 2iciously
barked at by very ordinary dogs, so mel
like him must not expect to be eXemp
from the assaults of mean people likt
those who throw slops at him from thC
Tribune Office
The Stalwarts, for whom the 7rjbuR
gang has so much scurrility every day
are necessarily objects of hatred to the
unmanly. They have never betrayed
friends nor fawned upon enemies, They
claim no credit for this, and assert nc
rights they do not concede TO others
They are proud of General Grant anC
Mr. Conkling as friends, Americans, Re
publicans, and stalwarts They stand b!
the President because they believe he j
trying TO do right, and they put no pric
upon their support.
The Tribune is enraged because tn
President gives il no cause for criticism
II sneers at him, but finds no place il
his armor against which to aim tn
barbed arrows Of It's malice. Itattacks hi
dearest friends for acts which he share
with them and meanly and falsely seek
to represent him as making, within tn
party, tests which he despises, Its RAJ
cor and malignity toward him are S
well known that it can do him no harr
so long as it does not praise him. Tn
Tribune was never 50 curnsh-never s
debased in tone as now.