New-York tribune., 1885-09-18
I DISTRESSED ORGAN.

Tho Puritan has won, the weather is fine, the
city is looking its lUyelicst. IL is rumored that
coal is going to bc reasonably cheap next winter,
and yet The Erening Post is not happy. In
tact, il is ms unhappy as the poor unfortunate
galley-slaye mentioned by n former editor OF
Tie Post who had habit of going scourged
TO his masters dungeon The trouble with our
contrmporary is misplaced Confidence in the
first degree "a compound fracture of It's faith
i'm the Democrat it helped to make President.
Il has been cruelty deceived in its Civil Service
reform aspirations and, by the Continental Con
grcss it more than sus Jccts that the name of
the gay decever in Grover Cleveland People
having business with The Post these days will
sec the propriety in view of these painful cir
c,linstances of retaining from anything np-
preaching levty. Ring the bell softly, there's
| Grape on the door.
! 1t is the remoya of Captain Bacon and the
appointment of Mr.. Sterling in his place that
has made this awful sbipwreck of The Posts
peace aud joy. And il is simply hear -rendlng
TO hear il take on about it. 1t begins au agoniz-
ing wall in its issue Ui yesterday in this stilIas
| t6e-breeze- but dreadful as Ihe-s;Orm style:
The Administration Is, We believe, really abstaining
from my attempt Influence tue coming election Ia
this state We believe also that PRESIDENT Cleveland
will not matter how the election goes. frOw
the course he has marked ul for himself IN regard 10
| administrative reform. But the dOngs Ia the New YORK
| Custom House. which wo COmncntei yesterday. fol
lowing close on a visit Of Messrs Hedden and Bcate
| Washington. are making many people believe that
though tho President Is not interfering Ia the state
yass himself he Is allowing tue Custom House 10 bc used
by local politicians Whatever oKtont they Jcrm
necessary. We do ourselves believe that these
picis are we'll founded. We sill think that wncn the
Presidents attention Ia called 10 what Is going In the
Custom House he will take measures 10 chock It, In
fact he eau hardly avoid doing 80 without parting com
pany IN the very first year OF his Administration, vita
large body OF foremost and most faithful supporters
There is no mistakIng sucn language. An
| organ never talked like that of ITS own Ad.
mnistralion without first putting knife in its
boot and war paint Oh its corrugated brow.
The wall ~ a long one and as 1t proceeds The
Post gets mnddcr and madden. The Ominous
information i. conveyed that nobody viii ever
believe in the reformatOry zeal OF an Admins
"tratiun which allows tho Custom House To bo
sused for party purposes y; Mr.. Icddcn is de-
nOunced as "Ony q shabby Collector" the
readers of The Post being left to Apply whas
ever epithets they think betting To the Civil
Service reform professions OF The President who
appointed him. Mr.. Ccycland's next political
friend, his immediate representative in the
Cabinet, is spoken to in this blunt and drastic
mauner
IL Is no secret that the performance Is looked by
political here part of agreement bstwocn
Hubert O. Thompson aud Mciaug lin, tho BrooXlyn
toss We have been unable yet To learn what CON
strucon Secretary Manning puts ON IT, lie refused yes
terday all explanation To tue newspapers. But some
expan.tion 10 sOInsbody he will make. This Ia
hot matter which lac wrap himself Ia his dignity
and refuse questions.
1t is evident from TINS that The Post doesn'.
purpose to stand any foolmg from Mr. Min-
ning. Peacefully If it can, by mandlmus if it
must it will compel him to discourse on the
rare and radiant beauties of Civil Service re-
form in the concrete as exhibited in this latest
removal and this latest appointment Dis
missing the Secretary OF the Treasury thus con-
temptuousy our excited and distressed neigh
Dor returns to the Presdent-whO believes, as
we.all know, that public office is public trust
and rounds out paragraph with this burst:
public ought TO know b,fore tho election and Con-
gress ought TO know before meets, who tho real Colso
tor is and who owns Bcstte. II IL bs Mr. Hubert o.
Thompson the friends OF reform ought 10 know It, be-