New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-03
TIE NEW TORTURE.

Mr. William Collins Whitney. You have re-
turned to us opportunely The Tribune welcomes
YOU most cordially. Not on account or any great
political emergency that You alone are competent
to meet: not because you can redeem Mt. '''''
lands Administrations Is too late for that-Dy
taking place in his Cabinet: nor because IL is OF
the highest Importance TO anybody in particular
that YOU should undertake the regeneration OF
Tammany Hall, or announce your views on the
silver question Some things In this country are
beyond the reach Of stimulants or the power or
incantations: what they need Is dlsnfeciants.
Onitc high on the list the Cleveland Admins
traton and Tammany Hall. With no desire 10
nag your memory with reluctant "reminiscences
we embrace the present opportunity To REMIND
YOU that You We're the chief instrument in Inc
hands Of what Mrs. Darlington called IAN I'M
scrIIpulous Providence" TO bring about Tho nomi-
nation Of Mr. Cleveland for President We do
not recall this circumstance To your mind with
any political purpose or with the least desire TO
harrow ND your feelings We shall not ask YOU
10 contemplate the consequences OF what you did;
but only 10 remember how you did II. The ablest
Democratic newspaper in the country has always
insisted that Mr. Cleveland owed his nomination
10 the industry aud intelligence with which. in
that weather beaten and siorm-tossed convention
nj Chicago. Won exercised the function II Fool
Killer" There is reason 10 suspect from recent
utteranccs ~ the same newspaper that IN It's
later Judgment YOU would have done n better
thing for the country had YOU killed either fewer
fools before the nomination or more afterward.
BIT we forbcar TO dwell upon that painful view
You are again wanted. William. rs Fool
Killer. Not by the Democratic Party. but by
n. in, I, 10 La, al Ia
local transportation facilities upon the corpora
ton Of which You arc one of the largest stock
holders and believed 10 be one Of the most lnfiuen
tial officers a few days before your arrival. by
order of some one who + much more your leGiti-
mate and proper game than any OF the snap
pcrs" or ntiSnappers" who fell under your
bosom at Chicago the conductors OF your open
cars ON the Sixihavc and other lines We're armed
| with double barrcllcd whistles. the raspng. ex-
cruciating. and profanity provoking power of
which Is far In excess Of that Of the small boys
Grccrackcr the young womans piano practice,
| the parrots cry. the shrickng pcroraiion of a
| nominating speech. and the unearthly yowl OF III"
midnight eat all put together and boiled down
into a single instrument Of torture with TWO par
rcls. Under instructions from somcbody-wc ask
Won. William 10 find ont who, and. having found,
| TO perform the Chicago act on him-ihe conduct
ors blow this car-plcrcng and hair-raislng nui-
sancc once whenever the car stops and twice 10
start It ahead again The purpose Of substlu'-
! ing this double. barrelled instrument OF tortur"
for the tinkling inoffensve bell no one seems 10
know Some Of the conductors look bored when
asked about II, and make no answer; the more
| civil and polite say with a smile that they don't
know who ordered IL or what for; but all unite
with the public IL pronouncing II a useless and
| silly evaporation.
| william, Do you want TO be President or Inc
| United States: or course you do. Everybody
does except two or three persons whom 'haun-
ccy brought together casually at his home the
other night. and II has been surmised that not all
| Of them would resist severe pressure Wen,
| William, The Tribune desires TO say To You in the
most friendly way yet with frmn'ss, that you
cannot have it's support for that high office so
long as YOU permit the corporation controlled by
YOU to Cypress and madden a suffering commll-
nifty by this cacophonons stridnlation II does
| not make SO much difference whether In the mat
| ter Of mctallism you mono or hi; but II makes
| an awful lot Of difference whether you permit or
SUPPRESS the double barreled whistle. We do not
know who Is responsible for Its introduction but
whoever he is, William, he is your proper game.
| Go for him.