New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-01
,,r mIrRrHY DISMISSED.


m,Lo # with his withdrawal, to-day, from
No h;cb Office from which our exposures havo
o;ootoJ him. he may also find his proper place
in thc estimate Of all good citizens and honest
mon From this ungratcful task VIC would
gladly have spared ourselves. But the Presi-
dcnt we helped elect and whose Administra-
ton we earnestly seek all proper opportunity
to support, has left us no choice. He vol
untccrs personal Endorsement of the
man whom the evidence seems to lis to
prove unfit for any Office of honor or
trust. and declares that time will convince
90 just public of his entire innocence of the
charges brought against him." If that opinion
be correct. we have done the grossest injustice
to worthy man, and it is oar instant duty to
rctract all we have said, ana make tho most
generous rcparatiOn in our power. III 1t he
not correct, it is no less clearly due to our
selves, and to that great constituency in every
State and Territory of this Union, which we
have only gained and can only retain by vim
dicating the implicit trust rcposcd in our fair.
dealing, tina; we should make Thu, too clear for
doubt.
We charged that Mr.. Murphy had not been
true to Republican principles. having be-
trayed US in tho Legislature, when he voted
in support of Andrew johnson and of the
Tammany schcmcs,-in the Republican Organ-
cations of this city, which he dsOrganized
and turned to the support Of our encElcs,-
at the polls when he voted for John I. lloff-
man. Mr.. Murphy has signed many cards i'll
explanation of our exposures, but ne has not
venturcd to deny one of these statements.
We have produced ample proof Of them; but
nobody ever doubted them they are as
clearly accepted facts in the political history
Of New-lolk as the downfall of the Tammany
President to sign letter declaring MIR. Muir
phys entire innocence o. the charges brought
against him
We charged that, for oil this, Mr.. Murphy
was not without his reward; that he got the
patronage of the rcorganizcd Tax Commission,
was made Commissioner in tho infamous
broadway widening job, and further. like
Nathaniel Sands, member of the School
Board. Mr.. Murphy has signed many cards
in explanation of our exposures, but he has
not venturcd to deny one of these notorious
facts Yet INSCRIPTIONS men have led the
President to sign letter declaring Mr.. Muir
phys entire innocence OF the charges brought
against him.
We charged that Mr.. Murphy received yet
more substantial reward, i'll large admission
to the Infamous real estate speculatiOns of
Tweed, Connolly g. Co. Mr.. Murphy's cards
make many efforts to explain this fact, never
once to deny it. TO this day and hour he re-
mains partner of the broken thief in Lud-
lowest Jail, and OF the bailcd thief who still
maintains his defiant front in the Department
of Public Works; he has been busily
making joint sales with them of large
blocks OF real estate, whose transfers have
been given from the official documents, in
our columns and to this day and hour be
might still be at the work of aiding Tweed
and Connolly to put this property out of their
hands and defraud the ends of justice but for
tho peremptory order of Judge Brady. Yet
INSCRIPTIONS men have led the President to
sign letter declaring MIR. Murphy's entire
innocence of the charges brought against him
We charged that Mr.. Murphy was guilty of
gross frauds in the delivery of shoddy hats
and caps to the Government in its very death
sweat at the crisis of tho war. About this
charge there has arisen the sharpcst discussion.
On all the others, Judgment against the de-
fcndant has substantially gone by default he
has only strven to explain them them away
not to displOvc them But this he has sought
to meet, and his adrOit Use of the name of
Gen. Dix has led many to think that, though
the transactions were of the most questionable
character, the case was not sustained by
indisputabe legal proof. OF the moral proof,
we have heard no doubt Everybody con-
sdcrs the showing a bad one /; and we
suppose that, Oh the atlidavits and reports
published there is no prudent business man
who, if he were engaged III buying supplies
for the Government, would not make up his
mind to keep clear of Murphy. &" But STILL"
say his defenders, and some very reput-
able persons. the case is not legally
established" We never said it was.
How, indeed. could it be when there has
been no legal investigation We printed the
reports of the Committees of Experts, who cx-
amined the shoddy and shcllac Frauds and
there is no doubt about their opinions tho
letter of the Quartcrmastcr- General, declaring
that they were so bad they could only have
been passed by incompctcncy or collision, and
there is no doubt about his opinion the atli-
davits of the men who made the hats, detail
ing the shoddy and shellac process and result
and there is no doubt about their opinions;
the statements of a member of the Commission
(not n COurD that finally heard the case, con-
corning its limited powers and the scope of
its investigation. and there is no doubt about
his opinion. Said he:
We were In no court. had any Of the attr
butes OF u military or ciyi! tribunal II we had found
that the articles inferior to the samples report
woud have been simply taken sufficient warrant for
the Department to bring the before court In the
In he ntc anff ruth la
report which much more strongly exoneraed the con-
tractors first presented to Inc. but refused to sign
1t, and new one then drawn In the form now pub.
shed and signed By oil the menbers. Whether he sund