New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-10
pPODUCTIVE VACCINATIONS.

Will not our Democratic flends ever get
tired of this terrible strain on their inventive
genius? The labor of concocting new ana
sensational tictions every day must In time De
irving even TO the most stalwart imagination.
One good story in month Is as much as some
trained novelistS can manage. A brilliant I'M
truth every week is more than enough for the
most fertile and facile romancer But the
Imagination of Democratic journalists seems 10
he absolutely tireless and boundeSSly pro-
ductve.
One day they had MIR. Blaine scheming all
over the country for a nomination, with such
skill and daring and power that President Har-
rison was on the point of inviting him out OF
the Cabinet. Mr. Blaine was not invited to
90, and did not but the next day his mlnd was
absolutely wrecked, and he was incapable OF
consecutive thought. Now this was sllillclent-
" startling transition. 1t required more Gar
ing than even Mr.. Blaine ever possessed to sup
nose that the dear public would read these two
consecutive yarns on two successive days ana
nav any attention to both If he was mental
wreck, how could he scheme and plot anu
manoeuyre with such marvellous adroitness'
But it seems to be the theory OF the Democrduo
romancer that the public does mob want truth'
nor even the faintest semblance OF truth, IN lts
newspaper pabulum, and longs only Tor some
fresh and startling scandal about MI blnhe
That the millions of American citizens are not
quite monomaniacS in their hatred OF the Secre-
tarv of State never occurs to Democratic CRITICS.
The next day there was horrible case OF
nenotism The wife of some relative OF the
President actually obtained pension. 1t must
have boen fraud, and carried through only by
the utmost exertion of Executive power by the
President himself This lovely romance in
Guided columns about the previous rejection OF
the claim. the efforts of General Harrison and
of Senator Harrison to cram it through re-
uctant Pensions Bureau, and the overmaster-
ing edict of the President about it, and closed
with the gentle and gentlemanly suggestion
that he might moro protitably have supported
his relative himself. When the facts came
out that the application had never been In any
way aided by General Harrison, or by Senator
Harrison. or by President Harrison, but had
been made in the usual way, exactly as the
widow of any old soldier might have made APP
plication. and been passed upon by the proper
officers without word of influence from any
body. and settled before the President knew
anything about it, so far as can now be DIS
covered the Democratic romancer never paused,
but Instantly started new yarn.
Secretary Noble was virtually out OF the
Cabinet. He had quarrelled with the Presl-
dent, or the President had snubbed him, or
something else anyhow, he was on the point
of retiring in disgust lie did not retire.
lpon inquiry it appeared he knew nothing about
any intention to retire, nor did the President
ha Neither
the parties to this desperate quarrel had the
slightest idea that they had been quarreIllng'
But was it possible that Democratic news
paper could lie2 Perish the thought; the SEQ
rotary will have to get out in some way, either
| because of health or because OF more attractive
| business opportunities, or the newspapers may
| be suspected Of unveracity.
Postmaster General Wanamaker was another
| object of Democratic scrutiny and scandal. he
| had actually allowed his wifes account In
| bank to be overdrawn, and had borrowed
| great deal of money from bank which failed,
| and had sustained relations OF most wlckedly
| suspicious intimacy with "a bank president whose
| behavior had been dreadful, ana it must have
been at his personal instance that the bank
was not moro quickly placed in the hands OF a
receiver. A most fascinating and luscious ro-
nance this, until the facts came out. The ex-
aminer was cruel enough to state that Re had
never BEEN advised or influenced by any Official
about the business but had acted as he thought
wisest for the public interest, and just as he
had acted in many other cases with success
| The Postmaster General gave most exhaustive
and clear testimony showing all the relations
of his firm, OF himself as an individual, and OF
his wife, with the bank in question, and not
even partisan malice can discover a trace OF
wrong in it. But what does that matter?
new yarn will appear to-moTow-unless the
overtaxed Imagination of Democratic fabrcator'
gives out, and they become mental wrecks. In
everything but the connection OF new untruths
any one of them could even now swap minds
with the mentally wrecked Secretary OF State
and give million to boot, and get rich by the
exchange.