The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-23
Honest Uncle Horace.

HE HAS THE SUPPORT OF EVERY CORRUPT
-stL o@ RING IN NEW YORK. rASAL
The following extract from an editorial in
leading New York paper is certainly deserv-
ing of attention:
1t is well known to readers of the Tribune
that that journal began, few months since,
a vigorous and rather violent onslaught on
the Brooklyn ring. Smarting with chagrin at
having fallen behind the Times in exposing
the rascalities of the Tammany ring of New
York, the Tribune tried to recover its ground
in Republican estimation, by opening its bat
teries on the equally corrupt ring of our sister
city. 1t let slip its sharpscented, active report
ers and its news columns and editorial page
were largely devoted, for a long time, to ex-
posture and denunciation. All this head
long zeal and virtuous indignation has come
to sudden and surprising stop! What is
the motive? a .a al l-i- ~
Quite as notorious as the Tribune's furious
and persistent assaults on the Brooklyn ring.
is the fact that the Brooklyn Eagle is the or
gan, apologist, and defender of that same
ring, and constantly run in its interest. All
of sudden, the Tribune is as dumb as an
oyster respecting the frauds and rascalities of
the corrupt Brooklyn ring; and, by a singu-
lar coincidence, the Eagle comes out in warm
advocacy of Mr.. Greeley as the Democratic
candidate for President at the very time the
Tribune witholds its fire on the Brooklyn
ring. These curious and suggestive facts are
patent to all readers of the papers. They
give strong color of probability to certain
detailed and circumstantial statements made
to us by persons in a position to know what
is going on behind the scenes, in whose trust
worthiness and opportunities we have good
reasons for confidence. ,
To proceed then with our interrogatories
to the Tribune: -4s s. grd
Is it true that on Wednesday, May is, re-
porter of the Tribune visited Hampstead to
gather facts to be used in further exposure of
the swindles of the Brooklyn ring? -
Is it true that there had been previously
prepared in the Tribune Office an elaborate,
scathing article against the Brooklyn ring,
and that this reporter was sent to Hemp
stead, the location of the Brooklyn Water
Works, for facts to strengthen and fortify that
article? .a - -f -
Is it true that while this blast against the
Brooklyn ring was still in preparation, and a
day or two after the visit of the Tribune re-
porter to Hampstead, Mr.. Kinsella, of the
Brooklyn Eagle, visited the Tribune office and
consummated an arrangement?
Is it true, or is it not true, that the sub
stance OF that arrangement was. that the Irib
une should stop its exposures Of the Brooklyn
ring on the understanding that that the Ea-
gle would vigorously press Mr.. Greeley upon
the Democratic party as its candidate for
President?
Is it true that Mr.. Kinsella, speaking for
the Eagle flor which he could make binding
engagements as its preprietor), promised to
press Mr. Greeley's claims in the Eagle so
long as the Tribune discontinued its expos
ures of the swindling rascalities of the Brook
Ign ring? lGQG
These questions are not asked at random,
and we should be glad to have them answer
ed. We trust the source of our information;
but, quite aside from its trustworthiness, it
is a curious circumstance or coincidence that
the Tribune has suddenly become dumb on
the Brooklyn ring, and that the Eagle at the
some time manifests headlong zeal in push
ing Mr.. Greeley for President.
However these searching questions NAV be
answered, certain it is that Mr.. Greeley is re-
ceiving the unanimous support of every cor
rupt and scandalOus ring in this State What
remains of the shattered Tammany ring, the
equally odious Brooklyn ring, the Buffalo
ring, and all the swindliRg rings in every city
in the State, are loud and jealous for Greeley.
What is the Sympathetic chord' Ito borrow
one of Mr.. Greeley's own expressions) which
binds all the rings to his own candidacy, and
causes all their members to shout and throw
up their hats in his interest? Wherever, in
any city of the State, you find a ring organ,
you find supporter of Mr.. Greeley can
didate for whom the honest, thinking mass
of Democrats could no more vote than
Jew could be persuaded to eat pork, or the
Union League Club to hang upon its walls
portrait of Jefferson Davis.