Show The Tribune and Its Wit That the Tribune is an excellent paper one of the best if not the very best between be-tween the Garden City and the Golden Gate the unprejudiced may admit With its bonanza Mackey its double team of editors schooled in their calling West and East both able and one both able and brilliant why should it not take high rank To be sure its manager has a difficult part to play in asserting and maintaining his Democracy and managing manag-ing a journal whose claim to independence independ-ence in politics can scarcely be allowed indeed whose Republican character a glance at its files will establish beyond question No one objects to this The weakness is in claiming to be otherwise It may not always have been exactly fair in its criticism criti-cism of the opposite party but that is pardonable in political warfare But while admitting the Tribunes talent I we are here to question and condemn its wit The refined and cultivated relish wit and will even tolerate its being a little pas comme ilfaut but vulgarity is not wit and we submit if the short editorial in this mornings Tti bune is not better suited to the columns of the Days Doings than a respectable re-spectable journal When we remember the tinge of many of the Tribunes leaders lead-ers indicating as they do a poetic vein in the writer with of course its ever accompanying ac-companying innate delicacy and refinement refine-ment we claim the right to be surprised Surprised that Mr Clevelands reverence rever-ence for the Bible which his good mother gave her boy when he went out into the world to fight his way and as the sequel shows win the foremost place known to mankind should be made the subject for attempted ridicule Surprised Sur-prised that it should be made a steppingstone stepping-stone for a questionable we will not say dirty allusion to the buried filth of the late campaign It may be wit it may be funny but we doubt if virtuous and lying ly-ing mothers or any true brave honorable honor-able aye chivalric man such as the possible pos-sible writer is known to be will think it so I |