Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-07
THE GROWL AND THE ECHO.

Poor, one-idead, splenetic Joe McCul
lagh, of the St. Louis Globe Democrat,
read an item going the rounds of the Re-
publican press to the effect that the
Navy Department could not obtain bids
for the new vessels ordered by Congress,
and that the Department and Secretary
Whitney were both boycotted This idea
originated in the fruitful mind of some |
WIde-awake newspaper man in Wash |
ington, whose daily and nightly task is
not alone to furnish legitimate news. but
to scoop" the other fellows, at all haz-
ards, and the idea of boycott on the
Navy Department was surely good one,
and is to the credit OF the man who wired
it, 1t tickled the prejudiced mind of
McCuliagh, and he wrote the following:
The Administration is beginning to reap
Ine fruits OF It's persecution of John Roach. S
bids were invited several weeks since for
the construction of several new ships of war.
and not one has yet been received owing TO v
1eellng on the part of all prominent shin b
builders that they can not expect lust and a
I4r treatment from the present head of the d
Navy Department. Such thing has never | n
ernment. '-0 WV o.
When the Globe Democrat duly arrived CO
IN the Office of the morning Republican al
organ in this city, the hilarious and roll ~ ~
licking tar who does the heavy naval di
business for that journal, saw the item m m
above, and shifting his tobacco ouid to tb
the larboard-starboard side of his head. is
ne dipped marline-spike in bucket of ca
tar, and eased-off his main-sheet as fol- tn
lows: VIC
Inc foregoing confirms the impression Jul
which the acts of Secretary whitney have ma
Justified from the frst.A LAT
This will be good news for Joe when he nv
reads 1t, as ordinarily he never expects ref
anyone to agree with him, and generally car car
quarrels when anyone does; but in the dea
case of Secretary Whitney it is LITTLE
different from all others. McCullagh has
generally been shrewd enough to turn >,
nlS spite on some public man, where
mere was something to be gained for the i'''
reputation of his paper as a watcbful 10
monitor in public affairs, but he found ieN
"hen he saddled himself with the Roach
IolPhln affair, that he had overshot the reIa
marx, and that he had barked ND the PRIV
'rong tree, hence his spiteful filings at Was Was
ne secretary of the Navy now. To dent
now that he has an echo in this wild 6ng 6n ,
estern country will please him. espec- dent
Wy as the echo is nodded to the exact tI 40 tt
coustlc power of his own growI tn Cabi
lie bright, active and searching minds 1t
'WeVer' OF the millions of Democrats the 9leG \
no placed Cleveland in office and to G
no weigh public matters on tboir sa1Iai. SINAI
erits, this cry of the political sorebeads for b
ii count as nothing against the facts 90 that at.
ey have been developed. 1t is useless said
d tlresome to recapitulate the facts in every
Dolphin controversy, and idle TO danv the b,s0C q
combat the foolish idea of boycott in How
department, but il is well worth tbo en6 eut1Gl e.
Ie ana space to hold up this confirmed the tw
growler and his mirthful and accurate Eve Every
10 so that he who runs NAV read Of in Wa
at trash the Republican party capital is fore he
nposed for the campaign of 'S6. It is sistapt @ pf
IN order to proclaim strike in the made {
~ lor pie, and so cinch Endicott and GoIona SIrT
'e Villas in the pillory by boycotting It is
na's' because he fired the poor postal 6nft 6nee OF
KS VINO sought to bulldoze him. the Pr
Treasul