Show THE GROWL AND THE ECHO Poor oneidead splenetic Joe ArcCul e lagh of the St Louis GlobeDemocrat I read an item going the rounds of the Republican Re-publican press to the effect that the Navy Department could not obtain bids I for the new vessels ordered by Congress and that the Department and Secretary i Whitney were both boycotted This idea originated in the fruitful mind of some wideawake newspaper man in Washington Wash-ington whose daily and nightly task is not alone to furnish legitimate news but to scoop the other fellows at all hazards I haz-ards and the idea of a boycott on the Navy Department was surely a good one and is i to the credit of the man who wired it It tickled the prejudiced mind of McCullagh and he wrote the following The Administration is beginning to reap the fruits of its persecution of John Roach T > J = ujus were inyicea several weeks since for t the construction of several new ships of war and not one has yet been received owing to a feeling on the part of all prominent ship i builders that they can not expect just and fair treatment from the present head of the Navy Department Such a thing has never happened before in the history of the Gov ernment When the GlobeDetnocrat duly arrived in the office of the morning Republican organ in this city the hilarious and rollicking I t rol-licking tar who does the heavy naval L business for that journal saw the item y above and shifting his tobacco quid to ti the larboardstarboard side of his head he dipped a marlinespike in a bucket of tar and easedoff his mainsheet as fol lows The foregoing confirms the impression which the acts of Secretary Whitney have justified from the firstt This will be good news for Joe when he reads it as ordinarily he never expects anyone to agree with him and generally quarrels when anyone does but in the case ot Secretary Whitney it is a little different from all others McCullagh has generally been shrewd enough to turn his spite on some public man where there was something to be gained for the reputation of his paper as a watchful monitor in public affairs but he found when he saddled himself with the Roach Dolphin affair that he had overshot the mark and that he had barked up the wrong tree hence his spiteful flings at the Secretary of the Navy now To know that he has an echo in this wild western country will please him espec ially as the echo is molded to the exact 4t acoustic t power of his own growl To LIIB orient active and searching minds however of the millions of Democrats who placed Cleveland in office and I who weigh public matters on their merits this cry of the political soreheads I will count as nothing against the facts as they have J been developed It is useless and tiresome to recapitulate the facts in the Dolphin controversy and idle to deny t or combat the foolish idea of a boycott in 1 the Department but it is well worth the I I lilt anu space to hold up this confirmed old growler and his mirthful and accurate echo so that he who runs may read of what trash the Republican party capital is I composed for the campaign of 86 It is now in order to proclaim a strike in the army for pie and i an so cinch Endicott and lj place Vilas in the pillory by boycotting the mails because he I fired the poor postal clerks who sought to bulldoze him |