New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-26

"a disgrace to the civilized world which per-
mits it. We think our own Government ia in
fnitely more nimble in its services to Spain
than is consistent with its own dignity. But
we cannot say that the Cubans have as yet
established their independence, while the
Spanish flag waves over every town, every
fortress, every seaport of the Island.
The Hon. l.. d. Shoemaker of the XIlth
Congress District of Pennsylvania is a pretty
good specimen of the average Grant politician.
He has been in Congress, and wants to go
again 40 he chose Scranton, one of the cher
cities in his District, as a likely place in which
to buy votes. The judges of election swear
that the Honorable Shoemaker offered to brlDe
them to count him inn when making up the
election returns The offer was naked, open
and explicit there is no getting away from
the evidence. Other witnesses swear that they
were offered various sums to vote for Shoe-
maker, and the ambitious Congressman win
his own hands, distributed small presents
about the polls. 1t will interest some to know
that the ruling rate for a Hartranft vote was
So 80 that for Shoemaker varies from 50 to
So so. OF course, Shoemaker was elected
and there are pious people in Boston and else
where who call this sort of thing "a great
moral triumph !"
1t seems that the example of the colored
men of the South in organizing secret political
societies has not been lost on their white
comrades at the North. The coOred men
were ignorantly drawn into secret leagues In
order to initiate the tactics of the old Ku-
Klux. In New-York there are some thirty
dark-lantern organizations, according to cor
respondent of The TRIBUNE, and these lodges
are sworn to vote against the Liberal candidate
and against foreigners. The improvement on
the old KnOw-Nothing plan consists in the DIS
tributon of small brides, which, like the small
stakes of a gambling game make the thing
interesting to initiates This secret toath-
bound scion of -NOthingism is the nat
ural weapon of party which supports an
ancient Brahmin" for VicePresident 1t is
the hateful expression of that spirit OF pro-
scription which anmates the entire Admins
tration party Is this tyranny of Grantism to
know no such thing as a haiti
In spite of a certain familiarity which their
stories possess, the testimony of Andrew j..
Garvey, John II. Keyser, and John Mob. Da-
wilson, as given in the Hall trial, was start
ling and highly important. 1t developed a
strength on the part of the prosecution hlth-
erto unsupported, and in view of the conduct
of the case on former occasion, altogether
discredted. 1t was shown by Keyser that
nearly million of the claims in his name
which were audited by the Mayor were abso-
lutte forgeries by Watson and Woodward or
all the immense claims of Andrew j. Garvey,
involving millions, barely 100000 were hon
estly presented and audited. Davidson testi-
fed to the altering of his accounts and the
forgery of his name, and all declared that
none of their fraudulent accounts had been
verified by oath, as the law required. These
are serious allegations, which, undisputed on
cross examination, leave an impression for the
present unfavorable to the Mayor. The trial
will now be watched with undated interest
as affecting others which are to follow, and
smoothing the way to securing results in
cases of even greater importance.
When the handful Of third rate women
speakers gathered on the Cooper Institute
platform to "speak for their sex" and attempt
a transfer of its political influence to Grant,
in return for the ridiculous bone thrown them
by the Philadelphia Convention, we promised
that there should speedily appear on the same
platform, to refute them, the one woman
orator of America,-a lady with more elO-
quence more power, more right to after the
wish of women, than the whole of them put
together. The columns of this mornings
TRIBUNE, which report the speech for Horace
Greeley by Miss Anna E. Dickinson,
which last night thrilled the great au-
dience in the Cooper Institute, exhibit the
fulhllment of the promise Always magnetic
and inspiring, Miss Dickinson was never more
so than last night. She pleaded for the Union
when it was in danger; she cOnsecrates the
same eloquence now to the cause of Liberty,
Peace, and Union; and now, as then, she
speaks, of right, for her sex, and gives fit
utterance to the best aspirations of those who
abolished Slavery, preserved the Union, guar
anteed freedom to the freedmen, and mean
he nv