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

Poor, one-idead, splenetic Joe Mc-Cul-
lagh, of the St. Louis Giobe-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 a 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
McCullagh, and he wrote the following:
The Administration is beginning to reap
the fruits of its persecution of John Roach.
Bids were invited several weeks since for
the construction of several new ships of war,
and not one has yet been received owing to
a feeling on the part of all prominent ship
builders that they can not expect just and
fair treatment from the present head of the
Navy Department. Such thing has never
happened before in the history of the Gov
ernment.
When the Globe Democrat duly arrived
in the Office Of the morning Republican
organ in this city, the hilarious and roll
licking tar who does the heavy naval
business for that journal, saw the item
above, and shifting his tobacco quid to
the larboard starboard side of his head,
he dipped marline-spike in a bucket of
tar, and eased-of his main-sheet as fol-
lows:
The foregoing confirms the impression
which the acts of Secretary Whitney have
justified from the frst.N
This will be good news for Joe when he
reads it, as ordinarily he never expects
anyone to agree with him, and generally
qnarrels when anyone does; but in the
case OF Secretary Whitney it is little
different from all Others McCulagh has
generally been shrewd enough to turn
his spite ON some public man, where
there was something to be gained for the
reputation of his paper as watchful
monitor in public affairs, but he found
when he saddled himself with the Roach
Dolphin affair, that he had overshot the
mark, and that he had barked up the
wrong tree, hence his spiteful filings at
the Secretary of the Navy now To
know that he has an echo in this wild
western country will please him, espec-
tally as the echo is nodded to the exact
acoustic power OF his own growl To
the bright, active and searching minds,
however, of the millions of Democrats
who placed Cleveland in office, and
who weigh public matters on their
merits, this cry of the political soreheads
will count as nothing against the facts as
they have been developed. 1t is useless
and tiresome to recapitulate the facts in
the Dolphin controversy, and idle to deny
or combat the foolish idea of a boycott in
the Department, but il is well worth the |
time and space to hold up this confirmed |
old growler and his mirthful and accurate
echo, so that he who runs may read of |
what trash the Republican party capital is
composed for the campaign of So 1t is
now in order to proclaim strike in the
army for pie, and so cinch Endicott, and
place Villas in the pillory by boycotting
the mails, because he fired the poor postal
clerks who sought to buldoze him.