The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-27
THURSDAY, MAY 81, 1859.
THE p1Ur AND THE GOVERNOR.'


post. has at last achieved something worthy of
its ambition, has given startling proof of pos
sessinp an amount of penetration for which, we
fear none of its warmest admirers have hereto
fore given it credit. 1t prints this morning
galloping leader, with the remarkably antitheti-
cal caption of "The Ring and the Governor, in
the course of which it rides rough-shod over
Colonel Alexander X. Mcclure, THE EVENING
TELEaRAPH, the anti-Geary ring, the bandits
and mercenaries of the political world, and the
very head and front of all offending since
the world began-the Devil himself. The
Chevalier Mcclure is the first victim that is
made to bite the dust, but the same tilt which
fells him unhorses ourselves. At this mishap
we cannot complain. If people will persist in
keeping bad company, they must not rcpne
when the whole crew comes to grief. Yet the
Post evidently enter aims kindly feeling to-
wards u.s. separate and apart from all our aflilia-
tions; for in denouncing the dastardly conspi-
racy between the Chevalier, the anti-Geary ring,
the political bandits and mercenaries and the
Evil One, as above enumerated, it applies to us
the term respectable" in expressing its regret
at discovering us in the centre of the ill-condi-
toned group
But to the point. The Post says:-'Wc are
told-on good authority, too-that Mr.. Mcclure
this clipping of the military buttons from the
CheYalier's coat is "the most unkindest cut of
all"-'that Mr.. Mcclure is the author of those
very savage attacks on Governor Geary which
appeared in THE EVENING TELEGRAPH" Now,
in common with the cashiered Chevalier, we had
hoped that the Post would not be able to pene-
trate so far to creep through all the barriers
which we had erected about our sanctum, and
trine with the secrets of our editorial heart. As
an additional security against such successful
scrutiny, when the Chevalier made his famous
pilgrimage to the national capital, just previous
to the Inauguration of President Grant, in the
interest of his exiled friend Ex-Governor Curtin,
we secured his services at an enormous expense,
to write two or three articles abusive of himself
and his mission in the roundest terms. In pen
ming these articles, the Chevalier gave abundant
proof of his admirable command of savage
ness, which accounts for the savage manner
in which he recently assailed tle Governor
in these columns, and which, we submit
to the Post people, is in the nature of cumulative
evidence towards fastening upon him the author
ship of 'the very savage attacks" in question
AS we have said, we had hoped that these pre-
liminary assaults upon himself would suffice to
pull the wool over the eyes of the world in
general and of the Post in particular But, mas
much as the Post has succeeded in penetrating
the affectaton of secrecy, we are minded to fol-
low its example in an assumption of good nature,
by exposing to the public the ingenious manner
in which the Chevaler attempted to cover up his
tracks.
After demolishing Mcclure, the Post rushes in
full tilt at the whole demoralized ring of which
he was the manipulator. "The members of the
ring, says the Post, denounced him Governor
Geary) because they could not use him, and this
city was the headquarters of all the malcOntents,
adventurers, and political bandits who sought
the Governors overthrow" These disreputabe
characters sought, but failed to find candidate.
''All the men whom they approached turned
cOldly away" Failing in this direction they
next turned their attention in another direction,
and "set to work TO make a Ring convention"
trusting to 'luck or the Devil" for candidate.
They circulated stories, invented falsehoods,
used arguments, captured THE EVENING TELE-
GRAPH-and behold their discontinue! "Tbe
entire city delegation is a unit for has (GedryS)
renomination!" But the crowning iniquity of
the conspiracy of which THE EVENING TELE-
GRAPH has become the tool, is the attempt of the
discounted political mercenaries" to flank and
capture the Governor, now that his nomination
and election are ensured, and then to appOrtion
out among themselves all the fat things in the
''Only original" supporters of Governor Geary,
who swear by the Post and read THE TELEGRAPH
occasionally only, simply because it is respecta-
BILE" and does not take Colonel Mcclure into full
and regular pay.
Now, iTnprinlis, we excuse both the zeal and
the exuberance of our morning contemporary
The editor of the Post over his own signature
has confessed that he was indebted to Governor
Geary's Attorney-General for material assistance
in time of pressing need. How could we expect
him, under these circumstances, to sit quietly
by while conspiracy for the overthrow of the
Governor and his accommodating Attorney
General was being organized under his very
nose? The editor of the Morning Post is
human, good-natured, conscientious, and, shall
we not add, grateful?
Moreover, he occasionally stumbles upon the
truth in this matter, and when he announces
the discovery of an anti -Geary ring, with Colone
Mcclure at his head, and Mann, Curtin, anC
others of that ilk in the ranks we fear that hi
has so stumbled But he goes far astray wher
he pricks up his ears to listen to our words a
coming from the mOuth-piece of this particula
ring. We think that our columns have con
tanned, from time to time, abundant proof tina
we have quite as little regard for the McClur
ring as for the Geary ring, that we Will oppos
the nomination of General Harry White or an.
other of McClures retainers with quite as muc
earnestness as we have opposed and still oppos
the denomination of Governor Geary.
Finally, when the Post asserts that ''the en-
tire city delegation is unit for Gearys renom
nation" we do not deny the incontestabe fac
but we do make bold to declare that this faC
does not signify that the people of this city dt