Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-10-08
THERADIUALC CANDIDATE FOH
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.

The Radicals ofNeW York seem
to have made alamentable mistake
in selecting General Woodford as
the candidate of the party for Gov
ernor Of New York. The N. Y.
Sun appears to be the most bit
ter and persistent Of his oppO-
nents, and openly charges him
with offences which should destroy
all confidence Of the honest masses
in his integrity. The Sun says
that Horace Greeley is so disgust
cd that he has left the State to
avoid taking any part in the can
vass. While it charges him also
with accepting brides. There are
two charges Of this character
brought against him to which he
does not deign to respond.
One Of these, 1t will be remem
bered, was that he received five
thousand dollars from the French
Cable Company for his aid, as
Lieutenant Governor, in securing
the passage of o charter granting
valuable privileges to the compa
ny in New York, but Of which it
never availed itself. This charge
was made by Mayor Hall of New
York, and the only response yet
made to it is by a Mr. Charles c.
Leigh, Of Brooklyn, who claims
to have been the person who pro-
cured the Legislation referred to,
and he declares that no money
was paid in procuring the charter.
The other, and graver charge,
that General WoodCord received a
bride of two thousand dollars for
permitting and procuring an I'M
LIBERALIZATION Of q vessel seized as
a SLAYER, has not as yet been re-
piled to in any form. At the close
of his speech, in Albany, MIR.
Woodford briefly alluded to the
subject, but dismissed IL with q
lofty assumption Of virtue which
was unsatisfactory if not sus
picious. He said he declined to
make any answer to such charges,
preferring to leave his good name
to the defence of his friends
Such talk sounds very finely, but
it is precisely such as every cul-
prit uses, and is pretty sure to
create an unpleasant suspicion in
the minds of honest and d~isinter-
ested hearers. ,
But Mr.. WoodfOrd went a step
further and made the following
formal and very strange PROPOSE
ton: "If John T. Hoffman,, upon
an examination Of these or any
charges against me, will consent
to father them himself, and will
meet me on this platform or any
other within this state during this
canvass, and present his aAego-
lions and prOoGS, l will demon
strate that the charges are false,
and that he is mistaken" When
we remember the serious nature
Of the charge made that it was
made not by Governor Hoffman,
but by a fellow Republican official
OF Mr.. Woodford's, and that it
was accompanied by the assertion
that the facts were matter of re-
cord, the above proposition strikes
us as being the most singular one
we remember to have encountered.
The Republican candidate for
Governor must be lacking in the
most ordinary appreciation Of the
p%roprieties of official or political
action to suppose that Governor
Hoffman would stoop from his
high position to become the public
prosecutor Of political opponent
that he would deliberately investi.
gate the truth of such n charge as
has been made against his antago.
mist, or that, having satisfied him
self that it was well founded, he
would assume the paternity of il
and personally arraign his anita.
gonist, as a criminal, upon a poll.
teal platform.
Under any circumstances, it il
derogatory to General Woodford's
intelligence and fitness for the
high position TO which he so vain.
.ly and egotistically aspires, Ia
have made so silently a PROPOSE.
ton ; but it is infinitely more SC