New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-17
Dead Again!

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: What are you trying to do with the
good old" Tribune anyhow? The tone OF
the disgusting editorials which you nave
been inhicting on your readers since the cleo
ton. and to some extent before that time
would lead TO the suspicion that you are
working up" to the formation OF new
party TO be composed of the disgruntled OF
all shades Of political belief. How would
Popu-D Demo -Progress-ocialist do for name
It would be interesting to know who is
writing these editorials, so astonishing 70
anv one who is acquainted with the past hon
orable history of the paper. Why doesn't
he come out in the open, instead of stabbng
in the dark, and sign his contemplate at
tacks. so we can Judge how much Importance
should be attributed to his "know it ALL
criticisms and forebodings? And so the Re-
publican party is dead again! Especially IN
the East Reminds me Of Mark Twain 5
remarks upon reading his own obituary, while
he was still living: Interesting if true, but
very much exaggerated" This is the third
or fourth time during my recollection that
the said party has been most emphatically
declared dead, but always previously by the
Democrats, who hoped they were telling the
truth; so it is somewhat of surprise to find
The Tribune, which we always supposed had
some principles which II would stick to
through thick and thin, assisting at the OBJ
sequies The record of the Republican party
at the recent election, especially in the
East, shows it to be a very lively corpse, in
deed, and if there is any place where it is
dead, it must be in the West.
will admit it seems to have been some
what drowsy there, which makes your in
vtaton to come East to perform a wake or
resurrection act on US perfectly ridiculous.
And then that great personal Endorsement
of Mr. Wilson must have required some
strange mental contortions before you evolved
it. and it is finely punctured by Mr.. Jennings,
of Philadelphia, in your issue of to-day.
What is the use Of publishing the fulsome
communications of praise from Wilson ad-
mirers? OF course, they approve, but you
get only protests from Republicans.
You make US tired with your horror strick-
en- fulminations against the capitalists and
business men Of the East, whom you brand
as "reactionaries," a word which seems to
conjure up all sorts of political enormities
in your mind; and with your frenzied appeals
to the only righteous West, the land Of min
ing fakes, crooked land deals, bogus oil prop
ositions, ETC., ad nauseam, to come to the
rescue.
II you believe what you say, this wicked
East is no place for you. "Go West, young
man, 60 Westl"
Mr.. Hughes made an honest, straightfor-
ward, manly campaign and deserved to win.
Apparently you regret that his sincerity
would not permit him to say what he did not
mean, nor promise what he knew could not
be performed. His opponent was willing to
change his principles whenever expedient to
get votes, and SO fooled enough of the un-
thinking in the far distant parts of the coun-
try, where he Is not well known, TO carry
him through. He could not fool the people
Of New Jersey. They know him.
J. II. MOVES.
A subscriber Of moro than forty years
standing.
Orange, New Jersey, Nov. IA, 1916.