New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-16
SOME COLOPADO CORRESPONDENTS.


We have reason 10 believe from the contents
of several communications lately received from
that State that the people of Colorado have
been dlligcnt readers of THE TRIBUNE for the
last two or three months. Candor cOmpels us
TO acknowledge that the general tenor OF most
Of them is not Indicative OF enthusiastic APP
proval Of the position this journal has taken
on the silver question. We rejoice, OF course,
that TIE TRIBUNE is read SO carefully and at
tentivelv BY 50 many citizens of Colorado
though our 10y is shaded somewhat by the
circumstance that they do not wholly approve
rs attitude on the question now pending IN
Congress They complain that We have treat
Cd the subject itself with nbccoming lcvlty
ard the statesmen who oppose the repeal OF
the Silver Purchase act with imcvercnce and
disrcspect. Some of them who have as they
saw. read TIE TRIBUNE for the last forty or
fifty wears arc very confident that II Mr.
Greeley were alive such things would not be
permitted. and express great regret that he Is
dead. II is perhaps proper f. say IN passing
that during the twenty wears in which HE
TRIBUNE has been under its present manage
mont it has rarely taken an active part IN
the discussion Of current topic without draw
ing out one or more letters from correspondents
who had read TIE TRIBUNE from ITS iir't
issue. and were very certain that Mr.. Greeley
if alive. would disaprroye It's course. Not
having any means OF aScertanng the TACT, our
habit has been not 10 take >,Ue upon It,.
One of these correspondents remarks with
sadness our tendency u ridiculc represent
alive men" and asks . i it the province OF
\ great Journal that has moulded more political
opnons than any other journal IN the world
IN eypoct its thousands of readers to be con-
WINGED that its arguments arc sound by rdlcule
&c rcnrcsentatiyc mcn?" Another bcgs lis to
"Ict up in poking finn at Our good Governor
Waite" who is a good man and making a
fairly good Governor" and us not at all
bcIigcrent unless he is crowded or inSultcd,"
when "hc is ready to wade in if the blood
reache, TO the horses brides" Another thinks
We have lowered the tonG of TIE TRIBUNE
by our treatment of the public men OF Colorado
He finds consolation for it, however. For he
saws: We know by your constant reference
"a our men and State that you feel their power
and are ondeavoring to vriggle from under the
crushing weight they arc pressing upon you and
those YOU cater to-" Can YOU not" he in
mires "cxprcss yourself in a more dignllicd
manner when reporting your opponcnts"' In
closing this writer says with eloqucncc 1T
seems anomalous that the successors OF Horace
Greeley should so vigorously oppose and en-
deavor u crush the interests of that portion of
our common country that the founder of TIE
TRIBUNE labored 80 vigorously to build up
and which are 50 closely identified with the
whole United States. But the infant the old
Philosopher nourished into being has become
a vigorous giant, dcies his older brothers and
sisters. and will ere long have controlling in
forest in the affairs Of the family"
These are specimens One is sadly sorrow
full another good naturcdly deprecatory, and
the third virtuously indignant and defiant
All of them agree in the opinion that we have
been disrespectful to Colorado and her public
men. and have even poked fun at her Governor
and at Senator Teller They complain that
we have not treated these eminent persons
seriously, but have held them up to ridiculc.
This makes it proper for us to say that no one
can be successfully held up to rdiculc who has
not done something to make himself ridiculous.
As matter of fact we might inquire what
newspaper in the whole country took Governor
Waite more seriously than did THE IEInI NJ
when he proclaimed his purpose to ride IN blood
TO the horses brides sooner than have the
Silver Purchase act repealed When other
newspapers were making fun Of him TIE
TRIBUNE treated him with the consideration
due the Governor of sovereign State. implorcd
him 10 reconsider his bloody determination
and tried TO win him out OF his desperate
mood What more could We have done? We
protested against the hasty general judgment
that he was wild, irresponsible ass, on the
ground that $4,000 American citizens could