New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-19

..,,,.o,d.rod In tho minds Of the uncharitable
by the announcement exclusively maoe 'h '"e
columns Of THE Sun !" some weeks ago, ti'''
Mr.. Platt had received check ior @io'""o ~
10 used in some way in the prosecution OF his
Anti-McKinley crusade.
Now it does not seem to us a grateiui return
for this considerable and kindly treatment ioi
.'rhe SUM- to say, as it did on thursday, ,ii'i'
during this preliminary canvass Inc lrio"i,'
"has been steered so wildly, or pushed so recN-
",ess,v mr. misled so maliciously, that 1t has
scot itself into n position which disgusts the
.go,d standard Republicans of this city we
do NOT ncrmit ourselves to doubt for n moment
the sincerity Of our angry contemporary ao-
vocacy of the gold standard NOTWITHSTANDING
it's support few years ago OF GreenpacN CHI
didate for President on a Greenback piatIorih'
and Notwithstanding the bewderlng JuxtapoS'
ton of these unfriendly remarks with doupie-
loaded article on the same page contras'lhs
Grover Cleveland, who certainly favors goa
standard, with Senator Daniel, or virginia.
who as certainly favOrs free silver cohhge-
for he says so on the same page-whlch declares
that "thc name of Cleveland will he the lasting
svponvme for shame" while that Of John w.
Daniel will be held in lasting honor" These
things ore a trihc confusing, but we do not
douht TINT orr contemporary Is authorized TO
sxnress the disgust Of 1.-THE godstandard Re-
nuhlicans Of this city," all Of whom are AT pres
ent in Mr. Platts room ut ST. Louis In the
same article "The Sun" speaks Of The Tribune
as "Mr Milholland's newspaper III IL. OF
course. n:isinformed Before making such IL
statement It should have taken pains to verify
II. MS The Tribune certainly would any casual
rumor that Mr. Plat had purchased control or
the columns Of THE SUM- from its publisher
Mr. I.affan before making 1t public. We can
not but regret that our lively and Interesting
contemporary has had it's general sweetness
disturbed by the events Of the week mt 81.
Louis
Our other Plat contemporary, "Ine EVeiihs
Eczema" treats us with more apparent KIND
moss but none the less with the subtlety OF
satire and sardonic humor. the crushing rorce
Of which we have 80 often experienced that we
have come to count that day lost when we do
not derive from 1t some useful lesson and whole
some discipline The Eczema says:
The reason why little Tommy OF The Tribune
insists upon II that the tariff IL just now the
principal thing and the currency Only sec
ondary matter. is simply that he understands
the tariff and does not understand the currency.
His pepa has explained 10 him that tarii
means that when you make a yard % cloth. and
cell It for Il dollar. the Government gives you
any reward. lnls S'ffNs t'
Tommy very nice. FOR this is the way MS own
Industries have been rewarded at home. " men
he made something his papa or mamma aI"ayS
gave him n quarter for being so ingenious fut
currency is a different matter and ms papa mas
always refused to explain II 10 him. telling MN
80 walt TIL he was older" that even many
grown people were puzzled by II. ana that al
his age he could not be expected TO UNDER
stand II.
We do not observe that this requires any
comment We are not ut all 'toppy about the
things we think We know, ard We always mean
10 accept with becoming humility the rebukeS
of our elders We could have wished that The
Eczema" had RETAINED from calling US little
Tommy" but in tn" midst of our humiliation
We cannot help admitting that THE Eczema
has treated us with more kindness than We
could expect from It's biting wit and crushing
irony.
The Tribune meanwhile bowling It's head IN
humility TO these unkind blows. begs TO express
the hope. now that the Convention is over and
Plat Is on his way home in n thoughtful mood.
that everybod will presently regain his ania-
bllity and all Of us win De happy.