New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-24
THE NEW LITERATI.

1t NAV be remembered that the far-reaching,
egardless-of-expense enterprise OF the yellow
journals brought into the newspaper field during
the last Presidential campaign some OF the most
gifted fiction writer's and exuberant word-paint'
ers that ever played with human emotions or
made readers hair stand on end Some or
them accompanied the late Mr.. Bryan on his
travels and wrote thrilling descriptions OF him
by the column; depicting him In vivid coors, IN
all bis attitudes; his uprisings and his down
sittings; the stateness Of his movements, the
power of his ructatiOns and his impressiveness
in repose. Others threw grandloquent mud IN
large quantities, day after day, at Mark Hanna.
But for their treless endeavors Mr.. Bryan would
never have been elected President and Mark
Hanna would never have been relegated to ig-
nominious obscurity. In the end, to be sure,
Bryan was not elected, nor was Hanna swept
out into the limbo. But during the campaign
one was elected and the other dismissed IN dis
grace from the arena Of discussion with great
regularity every day. With the closing of the
campaign the fiction writers and word-palnters
who had been shedding ink glory and mud on It's
varied aspects disappeared They are supposed
10 have gone off somewhere to drown their re-
morse and spend what Mr.. Bryan described at
New-Haven as ill-gotten gains
Other fiction writers and word-painters sue
ceeded them, however and these have been de-
voting their double-leaded and scare-headed en-
ergies for several weeks past TO ameliorating the
condition Of mankind-that being their mission
in the worldly working up war In the
prosecution of this commendabe enterprise the
senior yellow, with characteristic selfsacriice,
has flung correspondent In between two con-
tending armies in Cuba, and upon his being ar
rested by the military authorities on one side
for no offence whatever except that he bore
commission as aide-de-camp on the other. calls
aloud for war and den0unces the lnc0mprehen-
sibe indifference" Of our Government in not
sending the Navy down there to rescue the CORE
spondent. Meantime the younger yellow not to
be outdone in enterprise in this direction, has
interviewed Senator Sherman without that
gentleman's knowledge and compelled him, as
the Premier Of the incoming Administration, to
declare war against Spain for the murder OF
American citizens. 1t has also with unsparing
energy drawn out from Consul-General Fitzhugh
Lee demand for warshps, which he says he
never made and his resignatlon-w which he says
he has never wrltten-because his demand was
refused Incidentally 1t has printed in fac
smile cablegram from the King Of Greece
relative TO the war In Crete, which any one ut all
acquainted with the Kings handwriting would
at once recognize as genuine, and which 1t has
CONSIDERABLY translated into modern Greek for
the benefit Of those Of its readers who under
stand that language better than English. This
keeps the mind Of the reader fixed on topics.
But all former enterprises of the yellows pale
into nsignifcance In comparison with what both
are doing at this very moment in connection
with the vastly more important war impending
In Nevada, in which Messrs. COrbett and Fiz-
simmons intend to settle the mOmentOus ques-
ton. who's who!' In view of the Importance
of the occasion, and the absorbing interest In 1t
Of the patrons Of the yellows, the younger yell
low has copyrighted and copperfastened by con-
tract everything that the two heroes, the umpire
and bottle-hoders have to say or write about
the preparations for the battle and the combat
itself. But the senior yellow was not to be out
done Ia enterprise BY a stroke OF genius pecul-
iarly its own it has secured the services OF that
massive wielder Of picturesque and slnewy Eng
lish, Mr.. John l.. Sullivan, to furnish for It's
columns exclusively full and accurate as well
as profoundly scientific account of the entire
war. The announcement Of the engagement has
ELECTED expressions Of rapturous enthusiasm
from some OF the most widely known persons in
the whole world Bob" Gray for instance,
says: Its great idea" BILLY" BOardman
says: at would be appreciated everywhere"
"Pottsy' Grubbs says: 1T would he right up
Ito the notch, and just what would be looked
for" and major" Hughes, In a burst Of en-.