The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-28
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THE TRIBUNE ROLLING IN THE
GUTTER.

THE TRIBUNE ROLLING IN THE
GUTTER.
From the NJ y. Times.
The course of the Tribune during the last
few days must have astonshed those who have
not recognized in Nh. Horace Greeley the
great original of Pecksniff. His life is an
''organzed hypocrisy For years he has
been pretending that he never sought Office,
and never desired it. Yet for years he
schemed and plotted for it, and then poured
forth bitter lamentation concerning the in
gratitude of the political associates with whom
he had acted. More recently he has been dis
covered engaged in one of the most unscru-
pulous and protiigate conspiracies of which
political annals bear record, with the object
of winning the Governorship at the next
election. This time he did not associate
himself with such men as Governor Sew
ard, but he went over to the enemies of his
party, and basely offered himself to them
for sale. The Council of Sachems of the
Tammsny Society declared, in a formal report
at their recent meeting, that John Morrissey
promised him the Democratic vote in his con-
test for the Governorship if he would lend
his paper to specific purpose for which they
wanted it. The report of the interview be-
tween Morrissey and Greeley was published
in the Sun and although Mr.. Greeley denied
the accuracy Of some portions of it. yet the
reporter completely upset his denials, and
after that Mr.. Greeley was silent-because
he is prudent man, like his dear friend
Major de Boots.
So much for his political honesty. He has
now either by his own act, or by that of still
baser instruments, dragged Journalism
through an abyss of filth never before seen
in this country. On st. Patrick's day he
made Pecksnifian speech about the use of
personalities in the press. He pretended to
deplore these personalities and earnestly
begged his hearers not to encourage them.
The journal at which his remarks seemed to
be aimed is at least free from the guilt of the
Tribune The tribune lends its columns to
every slanderer, in the hope of concealing
the irreparable mischief which it has sus-
tained in consequence of recent revelations
The "warblers" have brought it to grief
and now it hopes to silence the just voice of
criticism by devices which the riff raft of the
streets would deem too foul to use.
That the philosopher of the Tribune is in
the habit of cursing like drab is notorious
but he must be taught not to curse in
print. On Tuesday he allowed some miserable
devotee of the rockingham sect to put for
ward scurrilous statement to the effect that
we had misrepresented their high priest, and
then refused to do him justice. The follow
ing correspondence will be sufficient reply
to this falsehood- .....
"Dear Sir:-Will you do me justice by furnishing
the name OF the correspondent who ascribed to me
the atrocious sentiments on which you commented
this morningf Yours very tr9lyA t!9 4 Froruvou,n
'No. so West Thirty,sixth street April 10, 1870"
"THE TIMES OFFICE, April 90
'The Editor Of the Times begs to inform Mr.
rockingham, in reply to his note Of the 10th, that
his Sundays discourse, as furnished by one OF the
regular reporters OF the Times and published in its
columns on Monday morning"
n,,rr haI 60, >f
his account, and after that we heard nothing
more from Mr.. rockingham. But meddle-
some busybody, named Oliver johnson, who
is always fuming round newspaper offices,
brought us long and impudent letter on the
subject, which we declined to publish. We
would have published any statement from
Mr.. rockingham, but we were not bound to
publish Mr.. Oliver Johnson's outburst of vul-
garlty and insolence He carried it to the
great dirt heap of which the Tribune is the
proprietor, and shot his rubbish there-and
good radiance of it. .' ..". ..3
But the Tribune adds to this persons
TRADE a statement which deserves some notice
from us, little as we are disposed to follow it
into the mire where it has been groveling for
days past 1t refers to Governor Raymond,
whom it abused persistently, wantonly and
Indignantly for upward of five and twenty
years. 1t poured out every variety of it's vile
sniffian wall over his name only in the spirit
of cowardly defamer. 1t then adds that
''our circulation has steadily declined" Our
reply to this is short and simple-the Tribune
''lies deliberately, willfully, wickedly, with
naked intent to defame and malign. 1t knows
that its lie is utterly without excuse or plausi-
bility." Now, this is not the sort of Ian
guage for which we have any partiality, but
we copy it from the Tribune, where it ap-
pears with other 'impotent" buffoonery and
rufianism peculiar to venal journalists and
moral Pecksniffs. AS for the Tribune itself,
the description of it given by its own friends
is it's most fatal accuser. 1t is mean, SIAN
derous, and dishonest sheet, and it has
probably done more to degrade morals and
journalism than any paper which was moi
liable to be instantly suppressed by the
police.
THE PLEBISCITE.