Show A CRITIC CRITICIZED It is usual for the Tribune In its editorial columns to descant on the literary style of Grover Cleveland whenever he sends a message to Congress Con-gress This time his address is critl sized as follows It will be read generally by the masses of people west of the Alleghe nles with what would be termed disappointment dis-appointment except that had the instrument in-strument been any different it would then have been a disappointment The same turgid and stilted style of phraseology phrase-ology which has distinguished all his State papers is present in this The paper which makes that criticism criti-cism Is more frequently given to turgid tur-gid and stilted utterances and obscure complicated and ungrammatical sentences sen-tences than any other Important daily In the west Here are a few samples from the same editorial page of the same issue in which appears that criticism criti-cism of Cleveland He is prone to absorb nothing from his surroundings Prone to absorb nothing is splendid splen-did literary style is it not Here is another specimen He expresses a desire to cooperate with any plan which promises financial relief for the country but we have not much faith in his execution The President does not talk about cooperating with a plan his style is not so turgid as that He expresses expres-ses his desire to cooperate with Congress Con-gress In perfecting any other measure than that which he proposes fqj thorough thor-ough and practical financial relief That Is altogether different As to the Tribunes faith in the Presidents execution exe-cution there is this to say While the enmity and malevolence of that paper pa-per might suggest the execution of Grover Cleveland the execution of the writer of such execrable English in a criticism of the Presidents style would be vastly more appropriate Here Is another quotation from the same editorial columns Quoting from a speech by Charles A Dana of the New York Sun the Tribune editor makes this lucid comment We believe the old man meant that There is only one amendment that ought to be made and that is unless the leader of that people happened to be a man against whom TMr Dana had a prejudice and in that case he would see no good in the cause and would want to see a people enslaved that would lean upon such a leader And the writer of that hodgepodge complains of Clevelands style as turgid tur-gid But we will clip one more of his own peculiar sentences But without discussing that at all things being equal the brain that is the best developed Is the brain that is above the most patriotic heart and our belief is that a man who goes every day to the depths fighting with mans forces against natures force resting the treasure from the depths standing off the gnomes the darkness the flood and from the depths wresting wrest-ing triumph after triumph the effect at last is to enlighten a mans intellect intel-lect to keep his brain alert and his heart warm The writer guilty of that gross violation viola-tion of the rules of syntax and of common sense las been uttering daily bits of falsehood and nonsense about Democratic opposition to high schools If such a piece of composition composi-tion as the last we have quoted were to pass muster in any common district school to say nothing of a high school it ought to lead to the principals official offi-cial execution Reference to these choice bits of Tribune literary style would not have been made but for the attempted criticism criti-cism of the Presidents phraseology It suggests two trite sayings both applicable applic-able to the Tribunes position With 1 what judgment ye judge ye shaH be l judged and People who live in I I glass houses should not throw stones |