New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-24
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But those who have been behind the the Third
Avenue Railroad that there anything SO ucra
sv ,s sy p Indydna believe Mr. Weed owns 10000 IT,
and George Law the greater part of all the rest
THE TRIBUsE has been filled, for several days, with
deliberately prepared matter connected with the
Litteiohn libel suit designed, evidently less Tor tue
Court than for the public Though in no way party
10 the suit The TRIBUNE and its counsel seek 10 I'M
pugn the senior editor Of this journal The paragraph
quoted lie a specimen. UPon i,s justice ana ialf-
ness the public, with the facts, can decide.
The imputation is that We obtained city railroad
stock corruptly." The fact is, that we purchased
Second Third and Sxth-Avenue Railroad sto. at the
Brokers Board, where il is openjo all We paid,
seven or eight years ago. ~ per cent for 100 shares OF
Third-Avenue Railroad stock, which soon fell TO "A.
Ii carried, two three yeaTs without dIyldends,
until the board oIganlzed with better prospects,
and then we purchased more so H. In small lots, for
TO- So 60 and 20 per cent Under the auspices OF MI.
Darling its present efficient super nendent, the road
has become alike useful 10 the puolic and remunerave
to stockholders. In like manner purchased stock
in the Second and Sixth-Avenue roads. Every share
OF city railroad stock that we hold or ever held, was
purchased and paid for Others purchase II, In the
open market.
do not Inow SLIt became Of hi. stock VIM L. Hall is one Of
natures nobiemen he didn't know that his IN this
father OF the lobby 70 him snd aid You see
ySSI maze T. IN N, H we ,s s TS1 know ,ss.e
thing these hipss eost Is valuable Mr. Hall"
s MS m 10 a i a f6Ssa OF h under the r
him $4,000 Mr.. Hall declined"
We will not affect to misunderstood this imputation,
Offensive and indecent as IL miy be. We admit that
Mr. Hall 8 name was placed, without his knowledge,
in railroad bill. We recognize him as gentleman
of truth and honor. Aud such he Ia incapable OF
uterbg nntruths Ii is mo-, true that we ever sad 10
Mr. Hall In that connection, " we want little
money!" IL il not true that we " offered Mr. Hall
5000 for bis rights under the act" These are false
hoods of THE TRIBUNE, scattered malcio lsly broad
cast among it's hundred thousand readers We have
asked Mr. Hall on other occasions, and for other pur
poses, for little money" but he never declined
or hesitated
They have been trying from year year get these mi
r bills through In S9 they succeeded In the House and ost
10 the senae BY only And when 1889
,TnS In" ne. ,Ss va. RspSsun WI en- Elected
Those gentlemen Of the lobby dseovered that there was one go
on. poticiS. thought polite. and party to be
syahonds lille over The bead o. some hshsr PnPs They
stber o. the lobby they sid We propose now that the
C., the whole fluid tina, cleo, President"
Obnoxious the admission is to n inst sense Of
right and TO better condition OF political ethics we
stand 20 far inpeacbed." We would have preferred
not 10 disclose 10 public view the financial history Of
30 ica life, nor should Tux TRIBUNE have constrained
such disclosures. Public men know much Of what the
" rect OF mankind are ignorant. We suppose IT il
generally understood tina. party organizations cost
money and that Presidential elections especially are
expensive Painful AZ the confession u.s. bound
in truth and from knowledge, to say that James Blu
chanan was elected President, and this great and then
Messrs. Wendell Forney, and Belmont raised $4,000
more money 70 be expended in Pennsylvania thsn VIM.
A. Hail. Truman Smith, and the writer OF this article
could procure for be object. While millions of
freemen exert their influence and their from
patriotic Influences results too often controlled by
less ereditsbe means, Nor are the pnpatriQtic found
alone among the ignorant and base. The wealthy and
exalted are quite as ready the low aud abect TO pol
Lutte the elective franchise.
has been duty and task for nearly forty years
10 raise money for elections. During than half
that time we did 30 in consultation and cooperation
with Mr. Greeley. Believing that railroads were es-
sentL to the City of New. York and that Legislative
grants for them would be obtained conceived and
attempted TO carry ont the idea Of making those grants
available politically. We did so with Mr. Greeey's
know ledge, and he did not then the enormity Of
the oiiense. We ayowed this purpose TO leading po-
litical friends Among others 10 Mr.. George Opdyke,
with the remark that while the avowal was not for
the public we bad no desire 10 conceal it from
ciates. IL 40 happened that the ayowal appeared in
the next mornings Herald!
But if we have sinned in this way, Mr.. Greeley
ought not 10 cast the first stone" lie has not al
ways been fastidous in the of money at elections,
or In Legislation. lie knows how much it cost-and
ont of whose pockets the money came-to elect a
Speaker 10 Congress lie knows how he expected TO
be reimbursed lie knows for what purpose 81 900
heck was handed TO him. And he knows-as we
Ielieye-that while in this latter particular he was
pplameless easy 1t is TO mysify and malign-how
witty falsehood travels and how tardly truth fol-