Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-05-31
RUTLAND HERALD.
TUESDAY, MAY %, 1866.
DisrePutabie Politics.

ts+Nhs VI Nhctiupuiuus polittCtouSi lHtIC
aas been nothing lower IN meanness
han the habit of manufacturing public
egs"i~a, Men make up their minds that
cerla " object must be attained at all
hsza, $, and the public sentiment is
not il accord With the predetermined
schemes it must be manufactured. If
the President, or some Senator or some
candidate for some public office stands
n the way of the prearranged plans,
they must be broken down-they must
be put out Of the way. II wouldn't do
70 assassinate, murder them outright
bat the easier method Of DESTROYING
their characters must be resorted to. II
they have not done or said anything that
IS actually damaging enough to do the
desired work, something must be trump
ed cp-manufactured-and people must
somehow be made to believe that they
nave done or said something that will
blast their characters. If the thing which
the political wire pullers want the people
70 believe is too palpably untrue to haz-
ard direct and manly assertion of its
existence, the common practice is to in
dulge IN insinuation. ut is asserted by
one who ought to know, "-"it is cur
rently reported, ia man occupying a
high and responsible position makes this
startling revelation, &C, are some OF
the numerous expressions employed
when il is desired to secure the popular
i..-w.ll against some one who stands in
the way. Perhaps there is no paper in
the country that has done so much of
this disreputable business as the Ne,c
YorF Tribune. 1t gives free and full
scope 30 its sensational correspondents.
Who does not remember its letters from
Philadelphia in 1856, during the Know
nothing national convention OF that
year 1t had an object to accomplish,
and when the delegates to the conven-
ton came home, they were almost unan-
lmous, 50 FAR as we saw and heard them,
in describing a large portion Of the Tri-
Dunes correspondence as pure fiction
as containing portrayals Of transactions
which mad no existence in the conven-
ZION. And as a more recent example Of
this dlsreputable style Of procedure, we
quote the following paragraph, tele-
graqhed by the Tribune's Washington
correspondent no longer ago, than last
Thursday
1t is asserted to-day by reliable men
that on Sunday night the President sent
for the Colorado Senators. They were
received by Mr.. Cooper, his private sec
rotary, and were sounded as to their DO
Htical views; and intimations made
that II they were prepared to support
the Presidents policy, he could arrange
to nave The bill signed. They declined
10 do 50, and were finally ushered into
the presence OF the President and the
Offer was made directly to them but
they were unwilling to abandon their
open.y .aVowed principles OF a lifetime,
and said that they preferred to let the
bill! oe vetoed. If this statement is not
correct, the Senators themselves should
deny :,
a ,eadlng daily Republican paper in
Massachusetts,, and by common consent
the &5.est Republican organ in that
gooa o. commonwealth. makes the fol.
lowing comment upon the above para
graph
The correspondent might as we'll have
reported that 1T is asserted to-day bv
reliable men that the Colorado Senators
visited the President and threatened to
shoot MIN dead on the spot if he did not
sign The Colorado bill, and then coollv
remarked, ''if this statement is not cor
rect the President should deny it, And
this = he Tribunes method Of invent
ing am circulating calumnies against
the PTe>den ."-SpymG6ela Republican.
The paper thus rebuking the Tribune
haS. nos supported the President in some
OF his late acts, but its editors are too
Intelligent and too manly to tolerate
such slsight- Of-hand performances--such
trifipg with public men and measures
in times like the present, when the perma-
nency o. the Union hangs on measures
that may now be adopted. Such things
may De tolerated by men of easy virtue,
as mere political tricks in ordinary polit-
ical times-but they are absolutely in
toleraole at this critical juncture of our
affairs. If the Tribune doesn't like Pres
ident johnson, if it doesn't approve of |
his policy, let it say so in an open, man |
~ way and give us the argument or
reason o. its dissent, and its opinions |
may al least be respected, if not alto
gether approved. |
The Tribune, by its editorials and cor
respondents, has very recently taken up
on itself to do a little engineering for
Vermont politics, and it now gravely as
suraes 20 tell the freemen OF this State
whom they ought,a whom they ought
not 10 support for Senators, next fall. 1t
gave rs little editorial advice in it's is
sue o. Friday, and graciously permits
its sensational Washington correspond
ent 70 utter the following: