New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-14
q THE POSTp AND TIE NEW- ORLEANS E1-
POSITION

II Is not generally known that our neighbor The
Post IL of the generous contributors to the New
Orleans Exposition. THE TRIBUNE fails to see eye
to eye always with The Post In politics, but OF
course that does not prevent from heartily COM
mendng the patriotic spirit 1t has shown in connec-
ton with this commendable Southern enterprise.
And since deicacy may debar The Post from calling
attention to it's exhibit,'be ours the grateful
task of supplying the deficiency.
Mr. Emerson has well said the only gifts part OF
tbysef" Acting in coDsonance with this PROPOSE
ton, our contemporaries it is rumored-has for
warded to New Orleans, on ice in a glass case ex-
press charges paid. choice specimen of its Blain-
esque Infallibility. The value to the Exposition of
this weirdy attractive exhibit it would be difficult
to overestimate. 1t is so seldom that people are
afforded an opportunity of inspecting frst-class
article of newspaper Infallibility that the simple
announcement of what The Post has done is we'll
calculated to name the curiosity of all those who
like that sort of thing, and cause them forthwith to
purchase excursion tickets for New-Orleans. In
order to whet the appetite of such of these who may
not appreciate they ought the treat in store for
them, perhaps a word from Ills would be acceptable
in regard to this Bainesque lnfalublty exhibit.
Said the boy to his schoolmate who questioned the
truth of one of his statements It's so because
mother says it's so and if 1t isn't so, if mother
!
absolute sort No sooner had the canvass for the
Republican Presidential nomination began, athan
The Post reached for Mr. Baines scalp to the tune,
ITS so because The Post says it's So and even II it
isn't So il The Post SAYS it's so, It's So The serious
consequence was that by the end of April The POST
overwhelmingly defeated Mr. Blaine's chances for
the nomination. with several States and Territory
or two yet to be heard from On the 18th Of April,
it remarked We await the assembling the Con-
yention with serene confidence that he Blanel will
come much less near nomination than he did IN
1880" On the 18th, growing still more emphatic,
it announced that there can be no doubt that the
Blaine boom has touched its highest point for this
year. and whatever danger there may have been of
its success in the National Convention has passed
away" On the Goth its conviction was that Z" the
[Blanel boom evidently Is in bad way Then,
May 3D. as if to make assurance dOubly sure, it re-
marked that the impossibility of nominating him
[Blanel is anirersaliy recognized now" Proceeding
in the strain it wrote on the 18th that " tho
simple facts of the matter, which are plain enough
for all men to see are that both Blaine and Arthur
are hopeessly short Of a majority and that the
nomination of either is very improbable" And so
on the Goth its readers were Informed that his
lBaine'sl boom had been ruined by oyer-zeaL" On
the 9th, its solemn verdict was that the Blaine
workers show the most distress. Their boom has
Convention A little later it evolved out of its
InfaliDity the number Of delegates that would be
found voting for Blaine in the Convention, thus ex-
posing his pitifu weakness. He didn't have the
ghost OF a show in that body, and The Post was so
dead certain of the fact that it did not hesitate to
apologize to the ghost.
This is the engaging specimen of iInfallibility that
has been forwarded to the New Orleans Exposition.
The name of tho Chicago undertaken who en-
balmed it is withheld but 1t is whispered that he
had tough job. And now word of caution. 1t
must not be understood, because The Post has
parted with this specimen, that it is out Of Blain
esque Infallibility. BY no means. To match its
Infallbhty touching Mr.. Blane's nomination it is
now exhibiting its Infallibillty touching his cleo
tion Already it has got him beaten out of his boots
and the campaign is young yet 1t probably will
be as late as the end of the month before 1t soemny
assures its readers that 1t Is universally recOg-
nized" that he cannot succeed When the votes are
counted In November 1t will discover that he has
been elected. Then 1t can send second specimen
of its Infallibility to the New Orleans Exposition