The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-12-01
(Letter 10 the New York Siar.)

(I.et.er 70 the New York Siar.)
WASHINGTON, November 24.-The Sc
cret of the hostility which certain alleged
Democratic newspapers betray toward
the administration, which is daily be-
coming more bitter in tone, has never yet
been made public. Your correspondent
happens to have pretty thorough and au-
thentic information on the subject, and
viii give it as a contribution to history
The hostility Of Mr. Dana is of early
date. When Mr.. Cleveland was elected
Governor Of New York, Mr.. Dana made
an urgent request that he appoint Mr..
Franklin Bartlett On his staff as Judge
Advocate General. Shortly after this
request was made. and when Mr.. Dana
was thinking his friend would certainly
get the appointment Mr.. Chas. McCune,
late proprietor Of the Buffalo Courier,
happened to be at the Manhattan Club
reception to the Governor elect. Under
the exuberance Of the wine and the occa-
sion, McCune chatfed young Bartlett
about his expectations. E'You will not
get that appointment, " said he ''There
IS man who is more influential with the
administration than Dana It is Henry
Ward Beecher, and he is backing Hora-
ito G. King" King was appointed and
Dana at once commenced war.
Soon after this, however, Mr.. Cleve-
land conceived the idea of having Sc
lect dinner party at Albany, and con-
cluded he would invite Mr.. Dana. He
accordingly commissioned Mr.. Manning
to approach Dana on the subject, which
was done, and the editor of the Sun said
he would 60. Mr.. Manning then told
! him that the Governor would fix date
and send him an invitation. Time passed
on, the date was not fixed, the invitation
was not sent, and that particular dinner
was never given; hence these tears.
Pultzer's grievances are also of
purely personal nature. He went to
! Washington after the Inauguration with
his family, notified members OF the Cahi-
net that he was there, and expected both
the Cabinet officers and the ladies of their
households to call on him and his, which
they did not do. Pulitzer was also some
what disappointed at his reception at the
White House. He had to wait his turn,
like other mortals who had made much
better records in the army and out CT it.
The fact that he had been deserter did
not help him.
Then the Indianapolis Sentinel man,
who is now so hot in the collar, was an
applicant for office, which he did not get;
and the same is true of the Alexandria
editor, from whose obscure newspaper
the World and Sun quote with so much
satisfaction, though it is doubtful if
either Dana or Pulitzer knew his name
or the name OF his paper before It COM
menccd to attack the President.
The Courier-J Journals hostility can
also be traced tc personal grievances.
Watterson had done much loose talk
during the campaign, never missed an
opportunity to depreciate Mr. Cleveland,
and, there is much evidence to show,
privately preferred the election of Blaine,
though Haldernan would not allow him
to destroy the paper by betraying this
preference in its editorial columns. After
Cleveland was elected and inaugl1rated,
Watterson was exceedingly anxious to
make peace with the new and unexpected
powers in Washington. He accordingly
wrote to lis friends in different portions
of the country who were also friends OF
the President, and through them secured
something of favorable reception. He
got sop in the way Of getting friend
or two appointed to Office, and be wrote
letters to the Courier-J ournal eXaltlng
the new President, endorsing his civil
service views and, indeed, all other views
which the President was supposed to
hold, and was almost Extensively ELUSIVE
and gushing in his admiration Of Mr..
Cleveland, Miss Cleveland, the Cabinet
and everything connected with the ad-
ministration.
But when it came to securing the I'M
portant appointments Ii Kentucky, the
gallant Harry got left. They were made
without reference to Henry's wishes.
Still there was no open breach, as the
postmaster at Louisville had not been
appointed, aid on that position Halder-
man, the proprietor OF the Courier
Journal, had fixed his fancy. He wanted
the position filed by some henchman OF
his own. the subordinate places crowded
with his INDECENT kin, and the institution
itself converted into machine for the
furtherance OF purely personal and selfish
ends. This plan was defeated by the
appointment OF Mrs. Thompson.
The war is therefore inaugurated by
Haldeman, and Watterson must be the
figure-head in the fight. To reflect Hal
deman's hate and to further his ven
ceance. he has been compelled to go back
on his record and the record of the paper
in favor OF the civil service law, and to
recall all the gush he so lavishly bestowed
upon the victims Of his newborn attach
ments.
It will be seen that the change in the
tone of these papers springs from no de-
mand of public sentiment, out from the
personal piques and disappointments OF
those who control them. There is not
one Of the editors in question who could
not have been conciliated rwhose active
support could not have been secured had
the President been disposed to subordi-
nate his sense OF duty to the qualification
of their wishes. Their hostility, under
the circumstances, is an honor to him,
and will be so regarded by the masses of
his countrymen. He simply preferred
their hostility to the forfeit OF his pledges
to his party and the people. He has lost
their friendship, but he has Iretained his
own sclf-respcct, the dignity OF his Office
and the confidence Of the public.
Painting the Tow.h Red.