New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-27
GLE Is TIE WHOLE STORY.

The Tribune has no disposition 10 interfere
with the business of any of its contemporaries;
least Of ali with the large and far-reaching en-
terprises of that peculiarly veraclous publica-
ton THE Ncw-York Sun" But n reasonable
regard for the public health compels Us to call
attention 10 the fact that the omission Of that
newspaper to continue the revelations 1t prom
ised in its Mondays issue concerning the gil
gantic conspiracy Of John L. Mllholland ID. O.
Mills and The Tribune crowd against the Fed
eral Treasury and confiding public has left
It's readers with an unsatisfed yearning which
Is liable unless something sensational is speed
ily administered. TO drive them to intellectual
collapse and possibly suicide. The two columns
devoted to that diabolcal conspiracy in Mon
DAYS issue have not been surpassed in thrill
and gurgle and gooseflesh by anything that has
appeared in The Sun" since Quigg In the name
Of 1.-THE Republican campaigners" used to make
It's pages glitter and sputer and sizzle with his
redhot rhetoric. his glowing prophecies and his
impassioned objurga tons. The sensation 1t pro-
duced was simply ndescriba BILE. 1t rolled out
of the office-doors and across the sidewalk,
sometimes extending as far as the City Hall
Park newsboy who read 1t wept cOpously
over the disclosure OF modern deCeneracy. and
n gentleman from the east end of Long Island
gave him nickel. supposing him to be the
same boy who Is always weeping because he
expects to get whipped when he goes home for
not selling all his papers. Grown men read
with profound emotion how Mlholland and
Mills and The Tribune crowd had laid a tube
from the Postoffice to Forty -second-st.. and
not only wanted to make the Government pay
for shooting the mails through It. but
actually bribing Senators. members Of Con-
gress and Cabinet officers 10 get an appropria
ton for It. Many people said "Oh my" One
man ventured TO inquire in THE Sun" office If
it was thought that the tubular mailing would
interfere with THE Suns" matchmaking. He
was told that II was an honest exposure. and
no Iaffan matter
One Of the most hair-ifting features Of this
recital was the statement that Mllholland had
not only been inviting members Of Congress to
dine with him in Washington. but that he had
attempted to br!be them by sending shares in
the stock OF his maishootlng concern 10 their
wives And "The Sun" added. In a manner
that could hardly have been more awe-inspirng
had it been accompanied by a full-length pict
ure Of Quigg with his index finger outstretched
and loaded 1.-The Sun ia Informed OF the
names OF the men who have attended Milhol
will be printed 1t is not necessary to 90 to
"extremes Just at the moment" This con
tanned the promise of future disclosures Like
the ITO be continued in our next" 1t has no
doubt served to keep up THE Suns" circulation
for the last two days. 1t may also be said right
here that the devilsh malignlty of Milholand
was further shown by his not waiting for THE
Sun" 80 60 10 extremes in a future issue
He Immediately went there himself. and pub
lisLcd the names That's Milhollands sense Of
humor. Some people utterly unable TO
have fun without interfering with the legit-
mate business OF somebody else He also
showed his inability 10 take a Joke himself by
Immediately beginning libel suit against "The
SUM- for 100000 damages This simply
monstrous. The Sun has been scattering
libcs right and left with perfect looseness for
wears bnt none OF them ever damaged anybody
10 the extent Of 100 cents much less 100000
The worst effect of this action. however. is that
It seems to have made the stockholders thought
full and through them affected the spirits OF the
editor in charge. He seems less gay. And that
Quecrs the readers OF the paper and hurts the
circulation
But we started TO say that the readers Of
"The SUM-" who were promised the additional
sensation Of seeing the names Of the Congress
men who have been brbed in print together
with the names Of the Congressmens wives
who have had Milhollands stock sent 10 them
and have Indignantly returned it. have been
disappointed and that they really have claim
TO a continuation Of the story. They are sim
ply gasplng for H. Some Of them-not many
perhaps. but some-have actually taken it all
for corn" and want more Of il. They are en-
titled TO It. And call upon "'Thc Sun 10
carry out It's threat. 10 hold up the brihed Con
gressmen to public execration and glorify AT the
same time the irrcproachable and immaculate
congressman who compelled their wives to re-
turn the stock which the conscenceless Mhol-
land had sent them. Let us have the whole
story.
But what disappointment i would be If it
should turn out that the whole thing hinges on
what Plat told newspaper reporter n few
days ago--to Wit. that John Milhoand had
got to do one thing or the other either get out
"of politics or out Of business: and he could
take his choice"-and that Plat sent Qulgg to
THE sun with this rigmarole as the first step
in carrying ont his threat. II may he So But
how libel suits do follow Quicg. And they
don't cost him cent
CAUSE or SNAIL FAILERES N 1897