New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-17
DRIFT OF POLITICAL DISCUSSION.
MIR. DAN ON-~LlTtlIl fERr
In ~ ...sfe,.as sfrpqaFI

The InnOcents did not all go abroad, when
Ct ~, r,' over the Eastern scas We kept one at
home; and his name, II is Dawson name deserving to
mori5t and entitled THE Innocent at Home" Mr..
George Dawson has been aGrlin before the AS
srmbly Printing Committee. % know" he says,
generally, that it important that what
ever the State owed us should be placed in
being pad to the clerks for work all ne Hne they
paid / had some inttmGtton OF a. perhaps a year or
i,ro ago. Mr.. Parsons had ntimaed TO me that per,
do not consider it legitimate way of doing business
10 H. because donI knO~ Whdt should hare done"
Poor Innocent, what q Ply he was not tempted We
n Roman senator. You stand charged, MI Dawson,
paper whose editorial utteranees were bought by William
Tweed. and with being the leading partner IN con.
the servants OF the people. You cannot plead the
baby act. You man OF ntellgence-a power III the
politics Of this State You would secure your own I'M
munity from public censure by the sacfhce Oh your
partners In the one instance you would charge
upon dead associate the crime OF pandering to
Tammany Hal IN the other you would Gear
your skirts Of blame by abandoning an associate
ho vii o do SGaI Dawson Your Disguise too
parent Like the ostrich. you bury your head In the
sand, but your body IL within the burning rays OF t9e
your confessions. You are too intelligent to have been
deceived by You. editor, or your pares anu d Us
Enlistment, upon you viii the fullest measure OF cen
rest.
TIE TRIALS OF THE PosT-OFFICE EDITORS.
from TIE Nation
"Supporting the Administration is some
times very trying Work Tor ~ AT mn
for instance which has resulted IN unearthing an ehor
nous number OF abuses The Administration papers
opposed II ardenty then they said had revealed moth
ng worth moution but now they say that the Adhns
trt on going all the abuses has Drought 70
light and that the President far more disguised by
them than bypOcritical IcfOrmers IL Is very snere
Their life in the whewashing Department Is very hard
and unhealthy II wac not dlfhcnlt 10 give t no
coat particularly before the investigation put tDeh ne
has been followed by long procession OF 19uDuL mar
actcrs OF whom II Is really almost Impossible 10 mae
credtable job. Lee for instance presented hiset
such a begTimed condition that he could not be nade
prcscntabie so he was passed on as improper anu
indelIcate" Now comes Terwllliger, VINO mas loig
that capacity was powerful ald 10 murphy IL to
trolling PRIMARIES" lie also takes deep lntGresI
STATE politics deep that he had himself elected Jerk
Of the senate in which capacity he received over 5000
sum ppeas to have been blackmail the printer says
was given for proofreading on Official doc uments Dn
Terwilliger himself says Il was gratuity"
THE ATTEMPT TO sTIFLE INvEsTIGArIoS'
Prom The Ph,ttdeipAd Inqutr1. .
The proceedings at Harrisburg In relation
to the petition of Col Mcclure, asking leave to contest
the election Henry W. Gray senator OF the WIN De
manner in which the Judiciary Committee has divided
the question whether the petition can De oeeTD nv
sIictest partisan light. The majority Of the committee
report that because law declares that petition Tor
sentcd within ten days after the organization or the
Senate succeeding the election, this petition cannot ge
/
a month before the election, 80 that' II
there Is any right under the lay 70 con con.
must bo commenced at the session or the
Legislature commencing in January. 1872 The result
would therefore he to exclude Col Mcclure tnrely ~
the present session and compel hun to run the riK Oh
losing hi. evidence during a years delay. while MT Gray
would remain with all the rights and franchises OF oe
ator for OF the term, although might DE tAat
legally he was never elected The House WIZ scaIGey
be willing 10 make the proposed change IN the Jaw w
out objections which will beget oppositlon 10 inc Wnoe
bin anu through this opposition the case OF Col'
laf nd lt
has been altered he has no remedy ana thhl AT
spcc! election tho aSs are Suspended. the d0oiS are