Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-03
SMALL RED LIES.
Some Of Senator ConkEing's Missfate-
ments Exposed.


ments Exposed.
From the New York Tribune July 30.
We have already pointed out few of tn
graver Misrepresentation made by our red
hot Senator In his late Cooper Institute
speech. Now let us take little space for
bundle of his smaller SANDERS:
81. Mr.. Moses II. arinnell was a subscriber b
the Grant fund. He was appointed Collector 0
| New York, greatly to the satisfaction of Mr.
Greeley and the motley crew which follows him.
Mr.. Conkling knew when he wrote this
just IS well as every intelligent politician ir
the State knows, thai Mr.. Grinnell was moi
! Mr.. Greeley's choice for the Collectorship
aud that Mr.. Hiram Walbridgs was.
90. Indeed, Mr. Greeley once told the Presi-
dent That, in his opinion, offices should never be
given to those who could take care of them
selues, but should be kept for those who couldn't
make living in any other way"
Mr.. Greeley never ssid this, nor any
thing which any honest man could torture
into this. He has spoken in favor of re-
serving such off .es as they were capable of
filling for manned veteran soldiers. Does
Mr.. COnkfing mean to condemn thai?
g. Den. Grant was not altogether a novice
when, in September 1871, Mr.. Ga eeley wrote and
sent TO the Republican State Convention for
adoption these resolutions. They were written
only a little while ago, and all the ISLANDERS to
this day invented against the President had long
been current then"
Mr.. Greeley was nearly 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 pre-
tense 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 became President or after he was nom
mated is wholly false. He has accepted nothing
Of value since his first nomination-not even a
Buchanan, and Pierce, and Taylor, and other
Presidents did accept carriages aud horses after
their election"
So monstrous folly as this needs no
other answer than that which Mr.. A. T.
Stewart happened to make the other day to
A Herald reporter:
"AIlusien being made to Collector Murphy's
letter. denying that he (Murphy) 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.. Murphy's letter ON the subject in the
Herald, and that it was strange what agitation
and discussion such things gave rise to- There
that property for Gen. Grant, and he (Mr. Stew.
art) knew of one gentleman who was invited 70
become subscriber to the fund"
1t is well enough understood that the
gentleman referred to was the speaker him
self. New York knows Mr.. Roscoe Conk-
ling, and knows MIR. A. T. Stewart. There
will be no hesitation as to which to believe.
"5, Mr.. Schurz's speech, pretended to be tele-
graphed from St Louis"
This is simply direct charge that the |
Tribune, in causually mentioning that the |
whole of Senator Schurz's speech had been |
telegraphed to it from st. Louis, was guilty |
Of fIlsehood. The Hon. VIM. Orion is an |
intimate personal and political friend of Mr.. |
ConkliDg's. Unfortunately for the SIAN
Gerous Senator, he is also the President of |
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
and here is his answer to his friends SIAN |
der:
"It appears by our recorces that special re-
Senator SchurZ delivered at that city on the |
evening OF July p, was transmitted by the wires /
Of this company, and delivered TO The Tribune
he same night, which contained eighteen thou
sand six hundred and twelve CS6l2) words.
The charge to the Tribune for the transmission
If the report was nine hundred and fifty-four
iglIars and forty-four cents Gs Very
sc. We hear of Grants .pretensions,' and of
lis insisting upon being a candidate;' vet first
md last he never made himself a candidate, /
md never, to my knowledge, has he expressed a
wish to be re-elec ted"
Carry the news, then, to the office-hold-
rs, who do not dare to vote as they wish,
II talk as they wish, or even take the
newspapers they wish, because they have
n some mysterious way been lead to be-
ieve that he does want to be reelected.
Bah, Mr. Senator; concoct your untruths
With little more care for plaUsibility.
Z. "Mr. Greeley has plainly and repeatedly
vowed, in public and in private, that his pOliti-
al action hinges on patronage and spOils."
III some innocent were 10 speak of Roscoe
}onkling as a sweet-tempered person and a
he couldn't get laughed at for a
lore ludicrous untruth. If Mr.. Conkling
means by this language TO describe Mr..
free ey's position in the Seward letter, then
he readers of the Tribune, who know that
document pretty well, have an
for an accurate decision as to
Ow far he can be trusted in describing any
hing.
But enough. We have given Mr.. Conk-
ng great deal more space than he de-
erves. These ISLANDERS, misrepresentation,
arblings, innuendoes, do not hurt Mr..
ireeley, or anybody but their inventor.
We have culled them from his speech with
10 purpose of defending Mr.. Greeley, but
My of making little palmer to citizens Of
lew York their remarkable possession a
enator who can toss off things like these
very five minutes throughout three hours
peech as easily as-as be can talk.