New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-12

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90 "a oy,ent IN rive Mr. Larry Godkin's frlends
1891 Co., ssr;ons anxiety. We have no desire to
.I.- .to roIe of alarmst but any one who has read
- m Eveoi,c POST during the last few days
80. hove beep convinced that It's chltor mas
ell, hscone n monomaniac upon the sup)ect Oh
r,s n Plaine and we can see now that ne mas
soon tor manv months insane about The TRIBUNE
Ono NJ the first distressing signs OF loss OF insn'
balance ,s n epecies of frenzied concentration upon
norti.rIar subjects-an inability to divert inc
mind into other channels For a long c'ine p" '"
i, has been almost impossible for Mr. Larry oouT'"
n talk about anything but Blaine anu mr. "ip-
uNE. The paragraph may begin WIN oN'"'''
notifies or the glacial theory but IL Is pfeo% sur
to end with Blaine IL it does not emu WIN II q
Tn1nUNE. and il Is practically certain 10 e"u WIN
THE tribune il it docs not end with bialhc, anu
re violate no confidence in saying that ME- lA'i,S
Godl,in has repeatedly tncd to Jump ouV Vi Vno
r,;ndopvs NJ his editorial page and has only oeen
o.,no;nod br the friendly violence of his assocl-
altos ANYBODY with three cents IN his pocNr'
ND Witness one of these narrowing incidents
almost any day in the week
VIZ have watched anxiously for signs OF I'M
movement in his condition, but circumstance
which have lust come to our knowledge make IL
soor imnerative that his friends should take some
action with view to his having that repose ana
sooInsioo and medical treatment without which
10 %, bord,v hone 70 recover. Some days ago
Mr.. G.. NJ. Field, of No. 10 Broadway wrote 70
- Tho POST describing himself, apparently in the
hone Of prop,tiating Mr. Larry Godkin, as an old
| fashioned Democrat He protested against Inc
Posts garbling of the Republican tarih plank'
which IL printed daily, by inserting in brackets IN
the middle of sentence, the words lhat ls'
! free wbiskey.' lie closed with these worus
When Democrats and so-called Democratic jour
nails resort to lying because the truth Is lnsuhceh'
for their purposes, then propose 70 reure WIN
my following to a purer atmosphere dho "o0''
surroundings, This language was severe, but nc
| more so than Mr.. GodlIn has repeatedly had occh-
sion 70 hear in the course of his professional HE
Mr. Field received his letter back with this ex
traordnary comment written at the bottom
If you go, a person with SO Ht'le colH'o" S'"''
| Is no loJs TO any party
The handwriting, there Is reason TO beneve' l.
that of Mr. Larry GodlIin but it exhibits in its Ill
| formed and nervous character the signs oil the DC
plorablc mental condition we have long suspected
Mr. Field, not knowing tho true explanation wroo'
Indignantly to the editor You never doubted
nv knowledge OF the use Of brackets AS az
Endorsement by subordinate on the back OF inc
letter suggested" and the manner in which you
employ them in your quotation from the hcpup
lcan platform Is sufficient evidence of your con
| ceit in their use to deceive the Ignorant and dls
suade them from reading the platform for them
selves This is what constitutes the lie whlci
you seem to delight in reiterating, and which may
sooner or later choke you He also informed Mr
Godlyin that he need not take the trouble TO re
turn the second letter. But it came back promptly
with this amazing sentence indcrsed in the SAM
hand as before
BECOME and mind your own business
We have the originals of these papers. which W
shall always regard with mournful interest N
one, we take it, but the Editor Of The Post
would ever make such replies to letters ad
dressed to him; and Mr.. Larry Godldn, who I
naturally as suavc he is wise and good woul'
not do it il he In normal condition. In
extravagant Feasibility Of these comments, tnel
utter disregard OF all the ordinary forms " nlna
intercourse and their impractical character lore
even q friendly observer to the conclusion that
general mental alteration has fairly set In In
case is not necessarily hopeless, but prompt actlo
Is needed We see encouraging symptom
however Mr.. Larry Godkn has stopped the dali
publication of the tariff plank in the form com
| planned OF