The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-09
Five Minutes with a Doughnut.

We find in the greasiest Of newspapers,
the Times Heraldof Chicago. the interesting
statement that in the matter Of the Speak
ership 1.-THE West triumphs despite The
NEW YORK SUN"
Likewise the frantic asseveratlon that
THE Sun has been matchmaking" along
with the Hon. THOMAS c. PLAT and the
Hon. MATTHEW S. QUAY and other Eastern
devils to put up very pretty little Job
on the Republican party for the election
OF a Platt decoy" to succeed Mr.. REED.
Likewise the Irrelevant but equally re-
spectacle assertion that THE Sun hates the
West, and particularly Chicago and the
Chicago newspapers and bakeshops because
the Columbian Fair OF 1893 was so illus
trious success and that "there are ten
thousand good Americans east OF Buffalo
to-day who curse The Sun for misleading
them into not seeing the greatest interna-
tional exposition Of their generation"
And. likewise, tho proud boast that the
| conspiracy OF Plat, Quay and THE Sun
to revenge themselves on the West for the
Chicago Fair by defeating Gen. HENDERSON
and electing Speaker who should wear
the collar Of THOMAS C. PLArr," was OK
posed and thwarted by none other than the
doughnut itself:
They had received advanced notice OF the retire.
ment of Speaker RLEp and had all tho wires laid for
tho election Of Plat decoy to fill his roony shoes
with truly Eastern contempt for tho great section
Of the Union west Of the Alleghanies Senator PLArT
| and TIE NEW YoRK sCS neglected to take Western
CongressmSn into their calculations. They thought
they had only to name SHERMAN Of Utica, tie PIATrs
tag to his collar and tho ajority OF Congressman
would fallinto line like sheep behind bell wether
1t was cut and dried game Senator PLAT was
intent playing with the aid his friend MATTHEW
s. QUAY. Neither they nor THE SUN took any ccount
that the West held the balance OF power In any eau
Gus OF Republican Congressman until 1t was brought
| to their attention by tho TmsSHerdId. which de-
clRred that the time was ripe for tho election of a
| Western man as Speaker"
How shall we deal with an indictment so
| multifarious and particular?
| Perhaps the shortest way ia TO recall to
the mind OF our fat-fried contemporary the
circumstance that less than ten days ago
it was shouting for HOPKINS and hurting at
HENDERSON insinuations that he, too. was
matchmaking along with PLATT and QUAY
and THE Sun in the interest OF SHERMAN.
as Congressman HENDERSON merely a
stalking horse ?" demanded the doughnut
| ana IL lhen pToceeueu 10 warn MIN IN Inch
long headlines that he was suspected by
the friends of HOPKINS OF figuring in q
shameful and possibly corrupt deal for the
betrayal Of the West"
THE West" then meant HOPKINS, in the
vocabulary OF the Chicago Times Herald,
and HENDERSON was either the tool or the
agent and fellow-conspirator of PLAT,
QUAY and The Sun" Behold the damning
evidence, as set forth in the Times Herald
OF May 80:
People who credit the story do not 90 so far. in
the absence NJ corroLerGv, JacI As to accuse tho Du
| buque Congressman OF being a volunteer stalking
horse but take the view that his personal mbitior
and his popularity have been seized AZ convenient
weapons for use in tho sherman interest. Congress
man J. W BARcocK 10 given the credit for managing
this deal He 10 the man. not COOPER. who had the
Wisconsin delegation dragooned into declaring fol
| aLSDERsoE. The influence OF the Wisconsin stat,