The times., 1898-04-09

headed: The Senate's Disgrace. and
purports to be details Of the degrada-
tion OF Gallinger and Thurston." 1t
is worth preserving as a specimen of
the worst sort of yellow journalism, for
il is the yellowest thing that has been
seen in the pages of an American news
paper for some time. This is the way
in which the Rhode Island tool of the
Wall Street ring begins its arraign-
ment:
The speeches of Gallingcr and Thurston were
made IN discharge of compact whereby they
had agreed to become hucksters the floor OF the
Senate for sensational newspaper. distress
ing event, indeed, of the week has been the
appearance in the Senate of the three men who
recently made the trip 10 Cuba in the pay of that
sheet. They were hired for advertising purposes.
They and their two associates of the House
the only five men in the whole four hundred and
iorty-siX in Congress of whom the proprietor OF
that paper could make such ready tools 1t is
said that they signed a contract in which the
whole dlscrcditable purpose Of the expedition
written down in black and white There
is nothing in the character of these men to make
any of these current stories even improbable They
fully discharged their debt. Questionable things
have been done before the floor of the United
States Senate: but it remained for Galinger and
Thurston to abuse their privileges senators TO
spread upon the pages of the Congressional Rec
ord paid advertisement OF a paper which repre-
sents all that is most vicious in modern journal
ISM.
The yowls of frustrated conspira-
tors. and the impotent wrath of ras-
Gals who have been found out. are so
plainly evident in the lines of this
effusion that the real American is divid-
ed between a desire to get at the author
and cuff him and desire to laugh over
the discontinue of his boss OF course
it was not surprising that the gentle
men who are trying to run the affairs
of this country should have been made
uncomfortable by the speeches of Gal
linger and Thurston, and when any sort
of animal has been kicked, he is usu-
ally surprised and indignant enough to
make noise. Hence these walls.
But that is not all The writer of
! this article is apparently unable to con-
ceive of such thing as real emotion,
righteous Indignation, and genuine de-
votion to duty. He could not get up
any such feelings himself and he can
not see how anyone else can. So in
gall and bitterness. he perpetrates this:
But, although Gallingers exhibition was in all
Z
I that Herod. The latteT's wife died suddenly be-
fore the trip was over. Great sympathy
was felt for him, and everybody was willing
to draw veil the incident, in respect for his
bereavement. But he himself rudely tore it aside.
lie turned from his wife's grave to send tee-
gram 10 Washington announcing that he would
make a speech in the Senate he could
reach the Capitol. In the light OF what that
/ speech contained his telegram only be in
terpreed as an invitation TO the public to come
and me mourn The pathos of that speech,
III which he kept Juggling in references 10 his loss
and TO his grief; every circumstance, in short in
connection with its preparation and its delivery,
are referred by all but three four of his col
/ leagues furnishing sickenihg exhibition OF
/ poor taste.
| 1t is not necessary to say much about
! this outrageous attack on the motives
! of two patriotic Americans. They will
not, personally care any more about
/ it than they did for the opinion of Sen
! ator Hanna that they We're making
! fools of themselves. People of sense
and right feeling, in reading the words
above quoted, will probably feel sud-
den and unaccountable impulse to go
and find the author of the libel, and
/ kick him. But ii is not necessary, and
would not be possible, to do that. The
kick should be transferred 10 the power
/ which meanly, mendaciously and vi
ciously inspired the article. The col
leagues of Senator Gallinger and Sena-
tor Thurston will please attend to this.
And incidentally it may be suggested
that a paper of such general good sense
and influence as the Charleston News
and Courier ought TO stop quoting such
rubbish, and get into line on the Amer
lean side. South Carolina was not a
Tory State in '76, and there is no rea-
son why she should be one now.