New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-20
4 UORD NORE 10 GOTERNOR TlTTE.

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4 UORD MORE 10 GOTERNOR UWTE.
By the way, Governor Davis II. Waite, OF
| Colorado DO You know that all mankind
the whole civilized WorId-thinks it is having
| fun with YOU? Many newspapers are treating
you and your general proposition to soak the
| universe in blood up to the horses brides
with unbecoming lcvity. You understand as
well aS we do that If the civilized world plays
YOU for a sucker" Us the phrase goes, the
civilized world is making the mistake OF ITS
life We have before us a Denver newspaper
containing a pictorial representation oil YOU rs
Don Quixoic. Many persons connected with
Colorado industrial enterprises have taken
pains to say in interviews which have been
published that YOU are of 10 conScqucncc-that
YOU are political accident, and all that sort
Of thing. They are evidently trying To throw
YOU off. They cannot do it. No man who has
received $4,000 votes for Governor, and has
been elected Governor OF "a sovereign state by
the same influences which made Grover Clcvc-
land President of the United States, can he
dismissed by the people who thrust him into
prominence and made him great as person
of no significance The TRIBUNE recognizes
YOU Is IL STATESMAN WI IHil''i'h -''' '''N'
YOU commit yourself to the proposition that
silver is worth II 20 an ounce, and that you
will ride in blood 10 the horses brides to bring
il to that price. THE TRIBUNE does not hest
tate to say that pretty much all business should
stop until some satisfactory arrangement Is
made with yOu
The civilized world however, seems disposed
not TO take You seriously. Ever since the day
when YOU started in on blood the civilized
world has been saying To itself: "Why
should This man charge us with Il conspiracy
and crime because values have fallen off over
a thousand millions? What earthly interest
could We have in reducing the value of our
own property t. the extent of over thousand
millions just 10 make silver mining unproht-
ablc?" The civilized world has been turning
over this proposition in its mind ever since You
issued your threat to have blood up to the
brides, and it has, as ii seems to us, reached
a sort of unanimous conclusion that you are "A
somewhat casual and accidental. but an alto
gcthcr permanent and irrccaimablc ass And
the civilized world Is talking about YOU in that
way. The civilized world has that disagree
able way of talking about people who set
themselves up in minority against it. 1t is
not to be denied. of course, that according to
all the processes of logic known to human eX
pcrlcncc. you are an ass But "A few of us who
have studied politics know that in times like
these logic is no more to be depended on than
any ordinary slcight of hand. We have seen
everything in the way of logic, or intellectual
processes: all the deductions of reason and
the lessons of experience put to flight by pop
And va Ep,,, tbat 4
sent something The 30, 900 voters who made
You Governor of Colorado intended something
when they put YOU where You are. We know |
that they meant somcthine-that your promo
ton to the great place You are lillng with so
much activity and push and bounce and cncr- |
ycsccncc and bloody -mindcdncsS had to their |
minds great significance. And we do not pro-
pose 10 bclittlc it ourselves or permit our |
fcllow-mon 30 diminish its importance.
You are Il Governor. \ Governor Of a
sovereign stat. You are part. and very |
large and consequential part. OF the whole
scheme of government that was naugurated
last November, when the people of this country
by IA grand uprising said they were dissatisfied
with all that had been done in the last thirty
Two years and wanted something different. The
u
up rs an accident or an incident OF anything
Else except Il part and Il very great and i'm
Doitant part, Of a political uphcayal. These
Gentlemen. who have pr.Gtcd by the help YOU
md yours gave them in the general uptunng
If last year. cannot di>m;s, you by say Ing that
,ou are any blatant idiot or any wild ass of
he desert You are representative large,
Wild, unique. You continue, now that You are
n responsible place. the advocacy of the
views which all the people who brought into
power the party now III control of the Gov
eminent either actively or quietly avowed be-
ore the election. You are not by any means
he wild ass of the desert. You are the gen
.raI average of the people now in control
and as such, we still cling around Your knees
md beg that you will let up on your demand
or bood t. the brides.