Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-25
GETTING BACK HARD.

GETTING BACK HARD.
The New York Journal, which mere
tofore has refrained from responding to
the attentions of its loving contempor-
aries the Sun and the Press, has now
torn loose in a three-page editorial de-
nouncing the New York Sun and its ed
6tor, Mr.. Paul Dana, in unmeasured
terms and showing up some OF the
Suns own attacks upon Presidents OF
the United States, including Mr.. Nc
Kinley, himself in a manner that re-
veals the false pretenses of that organ
81 plutocracy most fully.
Of President Grant the Sun said:
He has forfeited the right to be so re-
garded las President of all the people,,
and has proven himself to be man of
tastes so low and associates so mean and
scanda1ous, that gentlemen may avoid
his society; but he is our first President
who has brought discredit on the office.
The Sun bounded President Grant
and maligned him after he was dead
The Sun used to keep the picture OF
President Hayes standing in its col
umns with the word fraud" printed
across the forehead.
We all remember the Suns beastly
personal attacks upon President Cleve-
land, whom it daily pictured as a
ciownish knaye
The Sun sIandered President Harri-
son with almost equal vieiousness.
The Sun villifed President Garfield
in still worse fashion and it is from
such attacks that Guiteau drew his in
spiration to murder The Sun declared
editoriaily that President Garfield was
twice corrupted by brides for his leg
islative influence; both times lied about
it afterward; both times clinched the
falsehood with perjury" And on the
very day the President was assassinat-
ed, July 2, 1881, the Sun printed the
following rufianly attack upon him:
Thomas c. Plat declines to be any
longer candidate for United States SEN
ator. What this means IS left mainly to
conjecture. At the same time the circum-
stance that just prior TO Mr.. Platt's decli-
nation a scandalous report had been put
in circulation In reference to that gentle
mans having been in the room OF some
strange woman will be coupled in the pub
lie mind with his deelination
The whole subject is sickening-nau-
seating to the last degree. But If the
Legislature of New York is sunk so low
we cannot help it. The business of pub
lie journal is to discuss public affairs, and
IL the administration party has seen fit
to mount a ladder to observe scenes in
private apartments at a hotel it Is our
imperative. though distasteful. task. to
comment on such conduct. All that was
done in overlooking the doors of rooms
was done in the interest of James A. Gar
field and is to be regarded in the same
light as if done by Mr.. Garfield himself
TO use Dhraseology hardly excusable
under ordinary circumstances but abso-
iutely demanded now, it would seem that
James A. Garfield had not read the Holy
Scripture in vain, and to use an express
sion we like not even in quotation marks,
ne put up a job on Platt TO see whether
he was d second Joseph or not. Suppose
he was not, what then? Is he the only
man of that class in Washington? Plat
evidently and unfortunately is very
weak man. He ran like a rabbit as soon
a. he was struck Poor. premature fright
ened creature. good-by. But. oh. great,
grand. free American people Have you
national administration which depends
for its existence or its strength on what
spy-a white or black negro-can discov-
er in looking over a transom light into
the room Of a lodger at a hotel?
Disgusting. Nasty pit of loath-
someness. Albany, Albany, Let the
Legislature adjourn. 1t cannot adjourn
a house Of prostitution in Albany for the
purpose of degrading every political oppo-
nent frequenting 1t, as TO do what his
foremost friends have Just attempted
Think of George Washington trying to in
yeigle a candidate for the United States
Senate into room with a woman not his
wife in order to destroy him, No, you
cannot think Of it. Then you cannot cou-
pie the first President with the last in the
same thought"
And last, but not least among the
Suns offenses was its vile abuse Of the
very man over whose grave it TOW
weeps hypocritical tears-William Nc
Kinley. OF the late President the Sun
said:
There is a most disquietlng runor that
the Honorable William Mckinley wears
rubbers SO as to avoid compromising his
feet
III anything prevent cowardice' g,
st. Louis. II viii be the COWARD Nc.
kINLEY's collapse and rejection there -
The Sun is the paper that called Nc
Kinley "the candidate with two faces.
and said:
The business world. together with tn,
uaass Of sober. self respecting Americans