Show PURE NONSENSE i I A Tribunes special this morning tells I the story of a Raleigh N C editor who has spoken ill of General Grant since his death The dispatch which is a N Y Posts Washington special says that there has been but one newspaper in the whole South so far as known which has not spoken in terms of respect of Grant This was the Raleigh paper and the special says that a gentleman gentle-man who reached here from North Carolina tells a curious story about tile writer and his tragical t end The dispatch then goes on to tell how the ink upon the paper which contained the article was carcely dry and the edition oft the of-t paper had not been delivered at the postoflice when the editor who wrote J the article fell dead No one will want j m to see any illnatured articles written upon up-on General Grant and however much people may differ in their estimate of his great qualities he is dear to the American people and his memory they will ever revere but it is doubtful whether any man or woman of commonsense common-sense in the United States will believe I such stuff ns is reported in this special The editor in question may have dropped dead as reported but to infer that it was the act of God is puerile Very frequently I q f L editors in the South drop dead after writing writ-ing an article but when the cause of their death is i traced up it generally found to have been sIiotgu intlme hands of some one whonPthearticle offended This story about the Raleigh editor is of the same kind as the ones circulated that were so industriously about the eagle and yellow dog at the time Garfield was nominated To say that such things arc a judgment of God is pure nonsense and as Beecher says about the decaying vegetables in the cellar cel-lar and the deaths which result from such decay people call filth and natural causes the judgment of God So it is with the Raleigh editor A pout mortem examination ex-amination would no doubt reveal the true cause a cause in operation long before be-fore General Grant died or tie Raleigh editor wrote his article It is possible that the editor dropped dead in response to a prayer by Parson Newman I |