The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-16
Ben Wade and Old Thnd Stevens,

These two distinguished men seem to be in
volved in some trouble with the newspaper
correspondents. The one has made the letter
Of q correspondent Of the HERALD the text of a
spec h in Congress, and the other has united
with his fri ends in trying to white down to
the little point Of nothing certain statements in
letter from q correspondent of the Times
Ben Wade limited himself at first to disclaim-
ing The differences which had been drawn from
speech made by him at Lawrence, Kansas,
under the influence Of the electric atmosphere
of the West, or under other equally inspiring
Influences. But he has since complmented
Western editor who said that he could not have
used the language attributed to him. by de-
claring that he was quite sure he had not used
it, and the editor had ''caught toe spirit" Of his
speech mucl better than those who had heard
it. Moreover, the correspondent Of another
Western paper, Mr.. Smith (Which, to be sure,
is no name at ally, testifes that he was standing
W thin a few feet Of Mr. Wade and "heard
every word" but heard "nothing of the kind"
alleged, and saw nothing like il in the notes
which the Times correspondent showed him the
next day. Unfortunately, however, this Mr..
Smiths report OF the speech contained sab
samtiaily the san.ss account as that OF the
Times correspondent, although Iess detailed
and full Mr. SMITH reported that Mr.. Wade
'enterel a protest against the present method
of dividing property between the lab ring
man and the capitalists, saying that the-ter-
ribfe evil must be rcmedied. The capisalist
destroyed both the mind and the health Of the
laborers under TIE present system, and c revo-
luton must take place soon iEsfavor Of the
lassorers. They ought not to stand it, and he
thought they would not" According to the
editor Of the paper in which This report ap-
pearei, the reporter declares this TO have beer
exactly what Iir. Wade said. Ev N those friend
Of Mr.. Wade who have been most soloitous to
explain away his speech admit that be ADJ %
Gated q mos equitable divisio a.by law Of the
avails and profits Of labor. Now, the only law
which is esitimately concerned in tbs ma ttel
is the law Il trade, viii III is Wholly indepeD den
in its action of alb the fine-spun theories Of rad
ical relor fers o6whatever school.
Old Thad is altogether a different MAJ from
Ben Wa e, and, naturally enough, Tei ITS his
case WI Al the HERALD correspondent in az
denie, nothing Of a general or Of per sonal
nature in the letter Of our correspondents
lie simply nsmates that certain II rsonal
statements might "a well have been omitted
anil perhaps ne is right; for everybody knew
we'll enough already what he thought OF hi
colleagues. He is brave cid man, whe ha
| never mirced matters ia expressing his opinion
| of them. bit of a wag withal, he may no
have been sorry of the opportunity TO Civ,
more point and Importance by his Congres
siUlai speech TO what our correspondent ha
faithfully recorded
| We cannot hesitate as to which Of the tw
men--Old Thad or Ben Wade should be pu
on tie same ticket with Grant. We know Away
whore to find Old Thad. As for Ben Wade
we must excuse him from coming forward c
q candidate for the Vice Presidency He
q sort of bushwhacker and fights too sh,
Moreover, what can be expected from one VII
confcsses that he worships Greeley as the wise:
of men? We ask Mr.. Wade himself, in the lar
guage Of in. johnson, "What must that ma
! be whose god is o monkey"