The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-07-16

thing the senior had done. The
latter then wrote to Greeley in this
fashion: ,
Ii you were to live fifty years and do
nothing but good all the time, you could
hardly atone for the mischief you have |
done by that article on Brenton. The
stupid old Ounce had killed himself, and
| had decently buried him, whereas now
the "purifying carcass" was dug up to
be glorified as saint and do infinite
damage.
The next time the Tribune clicked
over the milk" Greeley wrote to Dana
in this bitter vein:
Now [ write once more to entreat that
I may be allowed to conduct the Tribune
with reference to the mile wide that
stretches either way from Pennsylvania
avenue. 1t is but small space and you
have all the world beside. l can not
stay here unless this request be complied
with.
He was left to do as he wished for
a few days, but new grievance
brought from Greeley this singing
bit of pique:
The Internal picayune spirit in which
it (the Tribune) is published has broken |
my heart. No Jew ever managed |
pawnbroker's shop in a baser, mar
rover, more short-sighted spirit than the |
Tribune is managed. The Tribune |
is doomed to be second-rate paper, and |
am tired.
It speaks we'll for Mr.. Dana that
even at this late day he consents to
the publication of these criticisms
upon his management. But he knew
that Greeley had the heart of great
journalist, that he wanted to make
the Tribune a monument to cleanli-
ness and the truth, and he has there
fore overlooked the testiness of the
splendid old man, who wrote Dana
as follows:
DANA: I shall have to quit here or
die, unless you stop attacking people
here without consulting me. You have
paragraph utterly untrue) from a
. Boston paper stating that Pennington
was in Boston closeted with Governor
Gardner, which was interpreted here as
an attack on P Then comes one from
an Ohio paper, CHASING Ball with Moore
and Scott Harrison as opposing Banks,
> long after Ball had come back to Banks:
And now comes an awful attack on old
Brenton, who has been voting steadily
for Banks and the plurality rule for at
least two weeks past-certainly since the
S second nominating caucus. This article
2 will be handed around and read by every
;. shaky man on our side before tomorrow
noon, as an evidence of malignity against
every one who ever opposed Banks, and
an earnest of what they will all get as
S soon as Banks is elected. 1t will hurt us
|. all dreadfully. Do send some one here
and kill me if you cannot stop this, for !
can bear it no longer. My life is tor
ture to me. II. G.
Later still he wrote to Dana:
If cannot be trusted here, call the
owners together and have me discharged
|, And again, when most important
article of his had been crowded out
t. to give place to a long-winded essay
on the possibility of sustaining q
/. frst-class opera house in New York
| DANA. w udL WOuIu IL Cost u
burn the opera house? If the price il
reasonable, have it done and send thu
bill to me. | see (the SATURDAY
, papers only got through last night tina
| YOU have crowded out what little / die
send to make room for Fry's eleven col
: umns of arguments as to the feasibility
of sustaining the opera in New York
they would only play his compositions
1 don't believe 800 people who take thu
Tribune care one chew of tobacco abou
: the matter. ] am sorry we can't discuss
such a message somehow in the week o
% its issue.
- began this letter to apologize for tax
ing up three or four columns with con
troversy with Dick Thompson, which
shall send you to-day, probably, b,
~ Adams Express. Considering, however
these nineteen columns of Coroner Fry
1t inquest on the putrefying opera, won
h apologize. This controversy concern
not Dick Thompson only, but the who'll
L breed of Wing doughfaces, and the room
S, is we'll spent. You must give it soon
10 on the outside, of course. Yours, sore
~ headedly, HORACE GREELY.
Il There were brighter letters, how
u ever For instance, he said to hi
co-labOrer:
30 have labored many years to give tn
ar Tribune a reputation for caDdor ant
l. generosity toward unpopular creeds AM
races. -. Let us try to cultivate
II generous spirit in all things.
lie Having had the assistance of
man he despised, the great journals
r, thus unbosomed himself to Dana.
or may be as great rascal as he i
;e represented; if so, begin to see tht
- utility of rascals in the general econom,
10 of things.
u His contempt for small men wa.
l. intense:
v AS to-, let his name be mentioned
n as seldom as possible, and then witt
suppressed loathing. The little wretch
;, is more malignant and indetatigable thar
IL anybody in the House.
r His caution, his deep reading o.
:, men, his adroitness are clearly shown
II in these extracts:
e want you to caution your folks not t.
i Shit out" at everything and everybody
here, but consider our position. We
o must have friends, not only in one party
It but in all parties, or we can learn moth