New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-01
LIE HtrEnEYER cLRcrL1K.

The trouble with the secret circular to the
Protestant clergy in the interest of Mr.. Have
meyer, and specially against Francis Herman,
is that il got out Slrouded in darkness, the
crusade against Mr.. Herman on account Of his
religion might have been as effective as its
active and silent promoters wished, while
meantime the votes of many of the very men
il prescribed could still be angled for on other
grounds. But the light ruined the scheme ;
and everybody who darcs, is fastening to
deny alI responsibility for it. IL it had been
kept secret, would Mr.. Havemeyer have re-
monstratcd with his assocatesf No; the
trouble is that they got found out The Sun,
which first published the circular, has COM
plcted its inquiries into the preparation of the
document, and we can now form pretty correct
Judgment of the whole affair. The Council
instructed its Committee on Publication to-
draw up such circular, and the names of all
the Executive Committee were affixed to it "a
matter of course. 1t was not submitted
To the members individually, but the assent
of each was inferred from the previous
authorization. This WAS the course usually
taken with the publications of the Council it
was understood and taCitly acquiesced in by
the gentlemen concerned, and though we re-
gard it az highly Objectionable, We cannot
agree with Mr.. Schultz IN styling the doou-
ment fraud" The secretary, or whoever
wrote the circular. supposed that he cOmpre-
hended The spirit of his instructions and cor
rectly represented the views of the Commit
tee.
The circular bore the names OF twenty-five
persons. OF these two are in Europe. Four
L., al l..
search of them. Sixteen submitted TO an " in,
"terview.r and Of the whole sixteen only
three made an unqualified disclaimer Of the
sentimen expressed in the circular. Two,
Mr.. Beers the Secretary, aud Mr.. a. X. Wet
more, acknowledged signing the paper. Five
saw nothing intrinsically Objectionable in it,
although one of them. Mr.. Hslsted, thought il
WAS untimely. Four denied signing but did
not say whether they approved or disapproved.
Mr.. Dexter A. Hawkins refused to say whether
he signed the paper or not. but he saw moth
ing in it but what he regarded as sound Mr..
William r. IIavemeyer was very anxious to
have il understood that he never saw the cir
'cular until be read it in the newspaper, and
that therefore he must not DE held responsible
for u; hat he did not say that the sentiments
to I've inferred that they were.
These developments confirm, in the maiu.
what Mr.. Beers said to q reporter on Tuesday,
that the senti.%ents expressed in the mani
Committee Three of the Committee do in
deed protest-now that the sentiments are
shown to ice unpopular-that they do not hold
them, and we have no doubt they protest
honestly whether they would have held them
il no fuss had been made about the matter, tx
another question. But the feeling of the ma
iorty of the Committee is unguestionably with
the secretary. The feeling OF Mr.. Havemeyer
ia apparently with the secretary. The Repub-
lican candidate for Mayor and his friends. as
well as the two straight-out Republican, Or
eans The Ner- York Times and Harpe's
Weekly, are ali concerned together in the