Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-05-24
RUTLAND HERALD.
TUESDAY, MAY %, 1866.
Disreputabie Politics.

han the habit of manufacturing puJlH
o3mea. Men make up their minds that
certS n object must be attained at all
hszs, $, and the public sentiment is
not H. 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 pat out of the way. It 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
S actually damaging enough to do the
desired work, something must be trump
ed lp-manufactured-and people must
somehow be made to believe that they
have done or said something that will
blast their characters. If the thing which
The political wire-pullers want the people
TO believe is too palpably untrue to haz-
ard direct and manly assertion of its
existence, the common practice is to in
du!ge IN insinuation. ut is asserted by
one who ought to know, lit is cur
rently reported, ia man occupying 4
high and responsible position makes this
startling revelation" &C., are some OF
the numerous expressions employed
when i. is desired to secure the popular
..-wlll against some one who stands in
the way. Perhaps there is no paper in
the country that has done so much of
this lisreputable business as the Netc
IIoys Tribune. 1t gives free and full
scope 10 its sensational correspondents.
Who does not remember its letters from
Philadelphia in 1856, during the Know
nothing national convention OF that
year 2 1t had an object to accomplish,
and when the delegates to the conven-
ton came home, they were almost unan-
imous, so 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-
ton. And as more recent example of
this alsreputabe style OF procedure, we
quote the following paragraph tele-
graphed by the Tribunes Washington
correspondent no longer ago, than last
Thursday;
III 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 po-
litical views; and intimations made
that !. they were prepared to support
the Presidents policy, he could arrange
to have the bill signed. They declined
TO 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
opsnly.ayowed principles Of lifetime,
and said that they preferred to let the
bill oe vetoed. If this statement is not
correct, The Senators themselves should
deny :
a fading daily Republican paper in
Massachusetts, and by common consent
the a3.est Republican organ in that
good Oh commonwealth, makes the fol-
lowing comment upon the above para
grapa
The correspondent might as well have
reported that lit is asserted to-day by
reliable men that the Colorado Senators
visited the President and threatened to
shoot him dead on the spot if he did not
sign The Colorado bill, and then coolly
remarked, IF this statement is not cor
rect me President Should deny it, And
this Is he Tribune's method Of invent
ING an circulating calumnies against
the Pres dent "-SprmQfeM Republican.
TIE paper thus rebuking the Tribune
mas NOT supported the President in some
OF his late acts, but its editors are too
intelligent and too manly to tolerate !
such sleight-of-hand performances-such |
triflipg with public men and measures |
in times like the present, when the perma. !
nency Of 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. II the Tribune doesn't like Pres
ident johnson, if it doesn't approve of
his policy, let it say so in an open, man.
ly way, and give US the argument or
reason 81 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 little engineering for
Vermont politics, and it now gravely as
sun1es 20 tell the freemen Of this State
whom they ought and whom they ought
not to support for Senators, next fall. 1t
gave rs little editorial advice in its is
sue Of Friday, and graciously permits
its sensational Washington correspond
ent TO utter the following: