Evening journal., 1890-04-22
DANAs MALICE Exposen.

oupercillious. wary and experienced
Dana has been caught in his own trap.
Ever since some little 81 light in 1882
the sun-which is Charles A. Dana-has
been nagging and bullying Cleveland. 1t
has attempted to goad hi n to betrsy him
self by burst of sxcusable indignation.
With the skillfui thrusts Of genius Of
poisoned, but courteous inveotive; with
the persistence of intellectual, perfectly
rational, and hence the most deadly hate.
this astute man and brilliant editor has
pursued Cleveland with the determine
tion of forcing him into dissdvanta-
geous position.
No man living has withstood such un-
avoidable, vicious and subtle personal
assaults. No man living conld have with
stood thea with more magnificent COM
posure, lnofe complete self-control. The
Sun has made occasion. when there was
none, to pierce this phenomenal com
posure OF self-respeeting, courageous
man. The Sun has used all the wily
arts Of the experienced newspaper man,
a wonderful knowledge Of human nature.
and vocabulary of stinging, vindlctive
virulence that has never been excelled
except by the Letters.of Junius, to goad
silent and practically helpless victim
into an imPrudsnt reply. Any reply
whatever 10 personal invective would
have bean as undignifed as it was insf.
fective. Though goadsd to a pitch of des.
peratioR that would have excited a less
self-contained man to murder, Mr.. Cleve-
land has maintained silence that is
magnificent, heroic.
But how about Dana9 He is brilliant
and erratic. His paper is the finest spsci.
men Of journalism in the United States.
Hence no matter how vicious the motive
Of attack, the attack itself is redeemed
from the vulgarity Of common scold by
lively and captivating fancy, clothed IN
cnasts and beautiful English, found no
where in the modern newspaper to such
a degree Of perfection as in the New
York suA. The Sun cannot be ignored.
But the astute editor has made a mis-
take. He thought that he had lsia
snares to which clumsy fly must be-
come victim sooner or later: he
thought that it would be impossible for
Mr.. Cleveland to avoid entanglement
consequently, when the web shook he
naturally thought the long-expected
victim was caught Then he hastily
forgot his culture, his skill, his prudence
and everything that was decent or manly
and descended to the coarse billingsgste
abuse of the loafer and the coward.
Mr. Dana fell into his own trap. He
expected Mr.. Cleveland TO stultify him
self by uttsring abuse, but the World
has betrayed the willy Sun, and the sun
has been caught. The Sun has shown
that its malice was 50 uncomfortable
that Dana could NOT take even ordinary
precautions to ascertain the correctness
Of suspicious interview printed BY its
hated rival.
Dana was so anxious to Jump on"
Cleveland that he has been betrayed into
display Of coarse and Nitless spleen by
stupid fake" OF its rival. The rival
too, which the Sun has heretofore treated
with contempt.
The World has denied the correctness
OF the interview, but the Sun has not
withdrawn the spithets founded on 3
ialsehood The Sun will not do Cleve
land the simple justice due from an
honorable enemy.
Dana is exposed as a malicious black
guard, Cleveland is revenged as tbs
disnihed and unscathed victim.