New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-27
SNATJ RED LIES.

We have already pointed out few of the
crayer Misrepresentation made by our red
hot Senator in his late Cooper Institute speech.
Now let us take little space for a bundle of
his smaller ISLANDERS:
l. Mr. Moses ii. Grnne was a subscriber to the Grant
fund He was appointed Collector Of NewYork greatly
to the satisfaction of Mr. Greeley and the motley crew
which follows him.
Mr.. COnkIing knew when he wrote this, just
as well as every intelligent politician in the
State knows, that Mr.. GTinnell was not Mr..
Greeleys choice for the Collectorship, and that
AR. Hiram Walbridge was.
O. Indeed Mr. Greeley told the President that in
his opinion offices should be given to those who
could take OF themselves but should be kept for
those who couldn't make living in any other way.
Mr. Greeley never said this nor anything
which any honest man could torture into this.
He has spoken in favor of reserving such
offices as they were capable of filling for
manned veteran soldiers. Does MIR. Conkllng
mean to condemn that
g. Gen. Grant was not altogether novice when, in
September 1871 Mr. Greeley wrote and sent to the Re-
publican State Convention for adoption these resolutions.
They were written only little while ago, and all the
ISLANDERS to day invented against the President had
long been current then.
Mr.. Greeley was nearly a thousand miles
away when those resolutions were written and
presented; and Mr.. Conkling knew it, Mr..
Greeley never saw them and never heard of
them till he read them in the newspapers.
There never was even pretense on the part
of anybody that Mr.. Greeley knew anything
about them till Mr.. Conkling was reckless
enough to indulge in the above neat and
handy falsehood.
The charge that Grant accepted any gift after he be-
camo President after he was nominated is wholly
false accepted nothing Of value since his first
nomination-not even a carriage and hOrses-athough
Lincoln, and Buchanan, and Pierce, and Taylor, and
other Presidents did accept carriages and horses after
their election.
So mOnstrous q folly as this needs no other
answer than that which Mr.. A. II. Stewart
happened to make the other day TO Herald
reporters
"Auson being made to Collector Murphys letter, de-
ryng that he Qiurphy) had anything to do with the
purchase and presentation TO President Grant OF that
Long Branch cottage by the sea- Mr. Stewart remarked
that he had noticed Mr. Murphys letter the subject
in The Herald. and that 1t strange what agitation
and discussion such things gave rise to. There were
eight subscribers In all for the purchase OF that property
for Gen. Grant, and he r. stewar knew OF one gem
tleman who invited 10 become subscriber to the
fund"
1t is well enough understood that the GEN
tleman referred to was the speaker himself.
New York knows MIR. Roscoe Conkling, and
knows Mr.. A. r.. Stewart. There will be no
hesitation as to which to believe.
s. Mr. schurz's speech, pretended be telegraphed
from st. Louis.
This is simply direct charge that THE
TRIBUNE, in casually mentioning that the
whole of Senator Schurz's speech had been
telegraphed to it from st. Louis, was guilty of
falsehood. The Hon. VIM. Orion is an init
mate personal and political friend of Mr..
Conkling's. Unfortunately tor the slanderous
Senator, he is also the President of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, and here is
his answer to his friends SANDER:
II appears by records that special report from st.
Louis purportng TO be speech OF Senator schurz
mtted by the wires Of this company, and delivered
THE TRIBUNE the night, which contained eighteen
thousand six hundred and twelve t1s6i0 words. The
charge TO THE TRIBUNE for the transmission OF the re-
port was nine hundred and fyfour dollars and forty
g. We hear of "Grants pretensons," and OF his "in-
four cents 1854 Az Very truly yours. WILLIAM ORION.
sistng upon being canddate" yet, first aud last no
never made himself candidate. and never, 10 my
knowledge has he expressed wish 10 be reelected
Garry the news, then, to the oilice-holders
who do not dare TO vote as they wish, or talk