St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-05
THE CENTAUR ORGAN.

The Minneapolis Tribune handles its
New York namesake without gloves for
the latter's naITow-guage policy of contin-
ually Haunting the bloody shirt in the face
of the administration. The policy of the
New York Tribune in this respect is in
sharp contrast with the sentiments uttered
by Gen. MCCLELLAN in his Grafton at
Antetam. And when one recalls the fact
that MCCLELLAN was a gallant soldier
who won the field at Antietam, and thus
struck the rebellion the first serious blow it
had received, and then remembers that the
editor of the New York Tribune contributed
no personal aid toward crushing the REBEL
ION, but kept his carcass encased i'll bomb
proof apartments far enough away from
the scene OF war to avoid even the smell of
glmpowder the contrast between the dyna-
mite editor and the ex-Union soldier grows
sharper. 1t is a remarkable fact that those
persons who are now most active in trying to
keep alive the bitter memories of the war
are those who failed to participate
in the struggle. The Minneapolis Tribune
is better Republican paper than the New
York journal, and as the chief exponent of
Republicanism in the Northwest it does it
self credit in administering to the New
York Tribune the singing rebuke contained
in its editorial columns yesterday morning.
The war is over, the Union is restored, the
sectional enmitieS of a quarter of a century
ago no longer burn i'll the hearts Of this gen
Grafton. Whether we ere Republicans or
Democrats we are American citizens pos
sessing a common birthright and with
united effort are working out that great des-
tiny which awaits the American Union pre-
served in its justice and in its equality. At
such time as this when a pure and lofty
love Of country is in anxious demand. when
our nation is moving forward in the grand
sphere which the fathers marked out for it,
seeking the perpetuation of liberty regulated
by law, there is no room for the Seditious
citizen or the seditious newspaper. Instead
of seeking to continue unlSind relations
between the different sections, and to fos-
ter jealousy and vindictive rivalry between
kindred blood, the New York Tribune
would better meet the requirements of the
times if it would be content that peace and
fraternal affection should come back to us
and remain an undisturbed inheritance to
/ the descendants of those who laid the found
ations of this Union in love with one an
other. We are told that the ancient god
Ixion, in seeking the embraces of Juno
embraced cloud. and from this unnatural
embrace the CentauIs sprang in their mall
ice and deformity. We see something SIM
liar in the ''narrow-g gauge policy" of the
New York Tribune, which continues to
faIunt the bloody shirt twenty years after
the rebellion has been crushed, as "a SYM
Dol of narrow-mindedness and prejudice
We commend the patriotic sentiment of our
Minneapolis neighbor when it says:
Tho present administration may be Demo-
craiic, but, unless the country has rcceGed q
quarter of ii century, the Democratic Office
holders can hardly be called rebels. The
Tribune is hurting itself by its narrow-gauge
policy more than it hurts the administration,
an the Lconeraags it launches every day,
ucco:apaMiod b. war-cries. are returning
with increased velocity. IF the Tribune is to
retain IFS position. somebody must call its at
tention to g live issue, for people are tired OF
having the memories and emotions of twenty
five years ago constantly recalled.