The herald., 1893-11-26
A MAN OR A MONKEY.

A great deal has been heard of the
Four Hundred of New York. and also of
Ward McAllister, their leader. These
Goldfish aristocrats are principally made
up of the descendants of soap-fat boil
ers, mechanics, saloon-keepers and
tobacconists. Sometimes some English
nobleman buys the privilege of making
some female American of this parvenu
guild even more wretched and despicable
than himself. Such as they are, the
cansille, made more ridiculous by
wealth, are presided over by Ward Nc
Allister, who is probably the most
preposterous ass that ever figured since
the world began. The antics of the
vulgar nOuyedu richie count for very
little in this world of ours; they come
and 90, and even the whole four hun
dred amount to very little more than a
heavy consignment of pork; but Ward
McAllister, from having been jackass
toad eater, has become monumental
liar, and it is in this respect that we de-
sire to give him the little Importance
which his lie. and not his personality,
seems to call for.
The New York World is in the habit
of exploiting all sorts of zsnies. giving
their lucu brations place ip its columns.
The other day, in its Sunday issue, it
favored Ward McAllister to the extent
OF good deal OF twaddle; and, except
for his unconscionable lying, we should
pass the toad-eater and his twaddle
without mention. Hear him:
"Politics, l have often heard it said,"
says McAllister, kept men poor. John
Ivan Buren, told me that mission
''abroad, that he was most anxious to
"secure fer himself. had been given to
third party on his paying $40 600 for it,"
To understand the dimensions of this
conscienceless whopper the fact ought
to be borne in mind that the last public
appearance ever made by John Van
Buren, was in speech in the city OF
New York, in 1865, on the occasion OF
Mr.. Lincoln's second campaign. He
died very shortly thereafter. In that
speech John Van Buren,, who was the
darling of all classes and all parties of New
Workers, said that he supposed it would
be admitted that, with his associations,
he could have filed any Office that he
might have thought it worth his while to
aspire to, but that he had made it the
infexible rule OF his life never to seek
or to accept any office. Twenty-six
years after Mr.. Van Buren, died this
toad-eating beast parades lying conf
dencs of "Prince john" who would not
have allowed his boot-black to have had
any sort of intercourse with McAllister.
McAllister's atrocious lie is accentu-
ated by the statement that somebody,
according to John Van Buren, paid
$40, 900 for some foreign mission. Bear
ing in mind the fact that John Van
Buren, died certainly not later than 1867.
there were no half dozen American min
letters abroad combined who could, if
they would, have paid such sum for a
diplomatic position. Up till that time
all who filed such posts were distin-
guiehed men, and few of them were
wealthy. The lying story of this monkey
OF man, McAllister, 10 confuted by the
record of distinction, OF poverty and en-
;nence of most of the men who filed diplo-
matte positions at the time when he
drsgs tbs honored name of John Van
Buren, from the tomb to sustain his cpl
Gene ideas and averments.
This eccentric beast, not content with