New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-18
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p,rty ascepdaucy and favor. Il Las enjoJ the
"planSer" Of the State Printing fox moe tssn
bali Of the last forty years. LIS cou aus have been
part, filed. for two-th RI. OF ts entire existence
with Feder. State, erd othe leg Advertisements
inserted "By Authority" Tte5 are noE so flcd,
BY virtue Of 81 appointment as State Paper,
bestowed on il b. the present St.te officers, in
virtue of their mutual triumph in 1857. Not usrely
these wiling State officers, but wiling and uuwlliug
surrorstes and lawyers throughout the STATE. are
compelled to publish md pay for advertisements 10
TIL. Argus, whose editors have thus direct, psps
bic, pecuuiary interest in keeping their party 10
power. They have beside we understand, large job
Office, or are interested 10 one, 10 which many
Thousands of dollars are annually msde Oh the print
ing of the Central Railroads. rich and po Serful
corporation which The Argus steadily uphods in
all things. Such is the position, such are the an.
tecedents, of the journal which ventures TO talk
Of Others as L" shreking for Freedom" While they
mean pluDder."
THE TRIBUNE has ksd different fortune, dif-
ferent history. Unlike The Argus, it has never
been, nor sought to be, the Stale Paper" uor to
publish the Federal laws, &c, "By Authority"
1t keeps no jobofice nor are its prOprietors inter-
ested il any. Not more than one per cent. of lts
income has been derived from legal or Official sd
yertisipg, whereof quite as much has been sent US
by political opponents as by political friends. We
thank ne tber of them; for We never sought their
patronage and presume it was sent Us not to favor
nor propitiate us, but to subserye the public inter
ests committed to their charge. No man ever
heard Of bill being before Congress "for the
which either would be pecuniariy benefited; and
We have no reason to believe that d Republican
victory in our State this Fall would benefit US in
any way. Yet The Albany Argus talks of Plun
der" to The TRIBUNE
We make no pretensions to disinterestedness
We work hard in our business, and live fairly By it.
We are very glad to receive subscriptions or ad-
vertisements, but would prefer to forego either
rather than accept them from persons who sent
them to patrOnze US, without expecting to receive
their moneys worth. We shall certainly not de-
cline any patronage OF favor at the hands OF our
political friends until they shall have rendered 1t.
But We can do satisfactory business without po-
lticI patronage or official favor of any kind; and
if any is to be bestowed charity, We desire that
it be sent elsewhere. We may have had political
adversares so reckless as seriously to assert or
insinuate that We have received or sought Whist
might properly be termed "Plunder;" but though
there may have been knaves among those adverse
lies knavsh enough to assert this, there never
was a fool foolish enough to believe 1t.
4 a iact oh
do not intend to recur to, because We see that the
re pluuderers of our sorey abused State are try
ing to escape conviction by the old dodge Of crying
Stop thief" The horrible cost of our Canals, aud
other extravsgant expenditures of the last few
years are sought to be turned against the Republi-
can party in the pending State contest. Never was
any partisan trick more preposterous than this. Five
years ago, on the formal organization Of the Repub
icsn party, the People saw fit TO elect American
State Officers in spite Of our utmost exertlons, and
commit the Canals, the Treasury, &c, &c, into
their keeping. We believe they therein made a
great mistake and squsndered away hundreds Q!
thousands of the public mOney-but there is no
help for it now. Two years ater-lS57-they saw
fit TO elect Democratic" State Officers to replace
the "AmeIican" We believe this was another
sore mistake-tbat if Robert DennistOn had been
then chosen Controller and George Gedies State
Engineer the Canals would have been finished ere
this, at less cost than has been incurred in not
finishing them. The Sham Democracy of our day
are making money out of the nefficency and prodl-
gaty of their own State Ofiicers-frst by distrib-
ut1g the spoils Of the Treasury among their canal
cormoraDts, and then b. clamoring at that very
a. Plumber" as somehow attributable to the Rspub
leans 1t is bold game, but it won't win this time
see if it does
This very Summer, the Canal Auditor and Re-
publican minority ID the Canal Board devised the
mean. of dispensing with regiment OF useless
Canal functonaries but the Democratic msjority
of tina. Board replaced them in spite of the Auditors
that they were useless and the
votes of the Republican minority in the Board; and
now those functionaries electioneering for the
Democratic ticket to keep their useless places,
while their "Plunder is being charged to the &C.
count Of Black Republican extravaganza" Isn't
that cool
Last Winter, there were Republicans in the Leg
slstnre who earnestly and steadily exerted them
selves to retrench the Public Expenditures. Mr.
+. A. Conklpg of this City was conspicuous IN
this good work We believe he saved the Treas
ury not less than $1,000 900 by his resolute efforts
The Governor and Lieutenant Governor zealoGsly
seconded those efforts, so far they h,d consttu-
tional power. But the Democratic members, with
scarcely an individual exception, resisted him,
fought him, bafled him, in nearly or quite every
effort he made TO save the public money. lie
theieupon charged them with seeking to swell the
State expenditures in order to give color to cry