New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-24
THE BLOODTHIRSTY WAITE.

Governor David II. Waite, of Colorado ).
Obge us by descending once more from the
perch. If neither the Red-lleaded Rooster
Bclfo,d. nor the cantankerolIS confscatOr, the
Rev. Reed. is within call to be set over our
National liberties" in your absence, you can
easily button door over them with one OF
those fierce. namboyant oaths with which You
light I'D the peaks of your conversation and
warn foreign navics off the Colorado coasts.
THE TRIBUNE learns, Governor with pro-
found sorrow that, so far from being pacated
or Modified into the mood of compromise and
Cancellation. YOU have been growinG-if we may
be permitted figure of speech derived from
the perfect fit of Judge Bclfords vocabulary
TO the color Of his haired -hcadedcr AID more
red headed every day since YOU flung aloft
your horny hand and called for blood 10 the
brides. We have heretofore endcavorcd 10
>aturale the massive pulp which You carry
under your hat to keep your mouth in motion
with "A conception of the impression YOU have
made upon the civilized world that the prn-
cipaiitics and powers and all the kings and
omporo,s and princes and potcntates who have
been concerned in the vast conspiracy and
gigantic crmc-as YOU and Mrs. Lease and
several other statcsladicS fifty describe it
against ~ - silver. have put padlocks on
their Notifications and sent their armies into
the interior, out Of danger; and that pretty
much everywhere pretty much everything has
been discImbobolated'- Use favOrite
phrase Of the late Daniel Pratt, a forcrunncr
Of YOURS who for many years candidate
for President of the United Statcs-and upset.
We had supposed that when YOU came TO
realize the devastating effect upon both hem-
spheres Of the first discharge Of that large and
powerful organ with which You maStcate your
yctuals and churn human speech into wild and
empe,tuous foam YOU would he willing to give
ear to the plant of your fcllow-men, and let
up a little on the bride deep demand for blood.
With inexpressblc sorrow VIC have learned
that YOU continue in the determination origi-
nally announced, and that you cannot be pre-
vailed upon to modify il to the extent OF the
first red corpuscle. 1t was reported here few
days ago that You were coming East. Arc you
aware of the effect that simple announcement
had upon the citizens OF this town? That Mr..
Croker and Mayor Gilroy began Immediately
TO consider measures for establishing quar-
antne at Harlem River and on all the ferries,
and that many earnest patriots who voted for
Grover Cleveland from sheer love of country
without expectation of reward expressed will
ingncss to lay aside their sclrIples and serve
as quarantine officers mt the ruling salaries?
And do you know that the company which has
a monopoly of sprinkling our streets began to
sell of their horses and carts because, as they
reasoned, with blood flowing bride deep all
over the island there would be no use in
shrinking the streets? Probably you have not
heard of these things A great many people
have not. Were they generally known they
would only increase the prevailing terror, and
many persons would be driven to drink. Such
things have to be kept back when a community
is terror stricken. Only few years ago, when
there was a plague of grasshoppers in your
vicinity, which began to spread East with such
volume and rapdity that no ono knew how
soon they would be marching down Broadway
at company front, spreading devastation, cut
rates and low rents as they proceeded, prob
ably the only thing that prevented the depop-
ulation of this island was the rcsolute way in
which some of our pubc-spirited citizens said
that there was no more harm in grasshOpper
than in a Mugwump; that he was not car
niyorous, but just made himself fearful by
kicking himself superior, that he was chiefly
alarming in the air, and was not nearly so
numerous ~ he appeared. 1t was in the nature
of preyarication, of course, but it warded off a
panic.
You have been reported, Governor, as saving
within the last few days something like this
"Oh, damn the people in the East. We want
TO scare them to DEATH" Now, Governor, we
desire to repeat to you in the interests of the
human race that you seem to and to all
right minded men to be carrying it too far
We don't like to be damned and we are pretty
nearly scared to death now. Why not let ND
little We still cling around your knees.
by the way, Mr.. Andrews, who is president of
Brown University and has risen lately into
quite sllyrockcty prominence which seems to
have affected his head, has been saying within
few days that the last is taking you too
seriously, that you are not really Of any con
sequence but that the situation in Colorado
is so dreadful on account OF the world not
being willing to pay 81 80 an ounce for silver
that it is not strange the citizens OF that
State should rise up and threaten through their
hats to burst up the universe. President An
drews is young and fresh, and has become to,,
suddenly great. The East, as You well know
is not making any mistake in taking you seri.