New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-25
SYIYESTER PENNOYER.

A temporary-would that it were permanent
-subsidence of Sylvester PennOyer brings to
weary world sensation OF relief. BY an in
scrut,ble Providence and POpulist upheaval
sylvester few years ago became Governor of
OREGON. Since then he has been frequently in
er,Ition. The general effect upon the public
mind has been to revive the memory of that
ncaccful primeval time described by Bryant in
"TbanatopsS,' when the Oregon rolled and
:" heard no sound save his own dashings" and
70 excite an unu,terabe longing for its return.
Sylycsters latest rgurgtatiOns have been upon
the subject of the Chinese Exclusion act, and
the failure of the Administration to enforce it.
For the almond eyed Monaghan is as offensive
TO Sylvester as a gold bug or monopO-
list" and as there are many of them in the
realm which rcj0ices in his rule, he believes
it to be the duty of the Federal Government
TO drop everything else and drive them out.
When few weeks ago Secretary Gresham
courtcously informed him that the President
unprecedented there might be disturbances when
the act went into effect and expressed the hope
that Sylvester would take measures TO pre-
serve the peace the latter broke out with
red hot reply telling the President to mind his
own business TO let the public know that he
was bigger man than Old'' Cleveland and
had the courage of his convictions he gave
ont the reply to the newspapers. X seemed to
reflect the Popnlist idea of the amenities OF
public life and the prophecies of official inter
course. The popular jury Immediately rem
dclcd verdict without leaving their seats that
Sylvester was a iamboyant blackg guard.
Last week he broke out again with roar
inc demand that Congress should make it MS
first business when it comes together to I'M
peach The President for nullifyng Il law of
the land. Unless this is done, he says, there's
an end OF free institutions and human liberty
a dcsp0ti>m of the ranl,cS, sJrt will be e>tab-
lishcd, with Gar lcigning over lis as Pre|-
dent who will make and nmake laws at his
own sweet WILL and there will be a state Of
thing, which can only be described in the
forccful vcInacular of the disappointed can
ddae for Il Georgia po>toflice Is hcltopay."
In view Of the fact that Sylvester and his
party contributed more largely than even the
MugWump Contingent u Mr.. ClcvclandS elec-
ton. the demand for his Impeachment before
he has been three month, in Office would seem
to indicate that disappointment in the Prcs-
dent pervadc> all classes ard all the factions
that supported him 50 harmonionsy last fall.
None OF them except Sylvester, however has
gone 50 far 10 - demand his impeachment.
Nor is it likely that Congress will make it its
first cuisines, 10 respond 10 Sylvcstcrs passion
ate appeal. Not even if he keeps it up all
summer. and keeps all the wires that lsdlatc
from Oregon hot with his sulphurous outgiv
ngs This he is liable II d.. For he seems
10 break ont in an interview every time he
SECS Chinamla. lie i, Ike the Yellowstone
gcy>oi> that anyb0d, can start INTO >poutng
by dropping a bar of soap into them. lie has
been quiet now for two or three days. but no
one knows how long it will last. lie may
break ont at any moment with threats 10 upset
the foundations Of the Government and rip the
whole Republic straight across from Puget
Sound 10 Chc>apcakc Bay, if he i, not per-
mirtcI Ia have hi, way about the Cinnamon.
sylvester easily takes the cake Also the
blue ribbon The populi>t craze has heaved
up some remarkable specimens between South
Carolina and Oregon, but Sylvester seems to
be the mos: iricsc,nt as in the whole outfit
Not unlikely some traveller from the Orient
crossing the Pacific this summer may dcScly
when far from land two glowing peaks upon
the low horizon should he innOcerty in
quirr Are those SUBMITS Mount Hood and
Mount Rainicr?r the wcll-infcrmcd mariner
will bri>ky answer: Bless you, no; them's
the tops of sylvester PcnnoycrS ears