New-York tribune., 1872-09-30
cDVERNOR CURTIN.

The address of Andrew g. Curtin at Behe-
fonte on Saturday, and the manner Ill whlch IL
has been received by the Administration, Illus
trated two of the most remarkable features OF
the present campaign. On the one hahd we
saw in the ex-GOvernOr's sensible, stralghttor-
ward, moderate, but stirring speech, q clear
nresentatiOn of the issue between fraud ana
reform which is so prominent in the canvass
everywhere, but is more distinctly defined III
Pennsylvania than in any other State OF the
Union. u have declared in letter recently
" written said Mr.. Curtin, " that would not
"support the ticket put in nomination last
Spring, and that would support for Gov
"ernor Charles r. Buckalew. / know here
"p pure. honest man. only regret my friends
I" and neighbOIs, that it pleased Providence to
"throw me upon bed OF sickness. L Iost
"nearly month. If had had my health and
"strength, / would have Travelled from Lake
"Erie TO Delaware. / have right to affiliate
"with any party which Will purify the govern
"ment of my State" In few pointed SEN
tences he told the story of the Hartranft-Y
and-CamerOn Ring-an organization every whit
as infamous, as powerful, and as lnsolent as
the Tweed Ring in New-YOrk-and reminded
the people of Pennsylvania that it was their
first duty irrespective of partisan ties, to vote
against tliis combination of thieves and con-
victs. Never mind, said he what the effect
may be upon other issues. Here is our present
duty. All honor, say we, to the clear head,
the upright conscience, the courageous heart OF
Pennsylvana's favOrite son. Out upon the
cause which cannot be sustained except by an
alliance with felons If we must open the
prison doors and put swindlers into the chief
seats of power, and give robbers the key OF
the public chest, and shut our eyes to fraud
or corruption lest we may injure President
Grant then we say, out with President Grant,
and give us a ruler who will let us vote for
honest men The party which pins its for
tunes to those of a Hartranft ard a Yerkes is
damned already:
Non tall auxilio nee defensOribus istis
TcDpus eget
"Has it come to this" asked the Governor,
that when a man chooses to cast his ballot
from an honest conviction that it is his duty
to cast it for the honest men and against
the Ring surrounding the Treasury of the
State, and elbow wdeep in it, he is to be de-
"nounced ~ Yes, Gov. Curtin, it has come 20
that. You, upon whom few weeks ago no
praise was too strong for the Administration
to bestow, are now held up to scOrn as a traitor
and an apostate When Gov. Curtin left Russia
a confidential friend of the President was sent
TO bear him company in his travels through
Europe and ply him with arguments and en-
treaties until he embarked for the United
States. When he landed in New-York the
Presidents friends and agents were waiting
to receive him. They clamored at the doors
of his sick chamber, and were hardly driven
- l. o1
at the point of death. Other tokens of their
regard for him were made ready for his ac-
ceptance whenever he should say the word.
There was no statesman purer and ADLER than
Andrew G. Curtin. There was no American in
public life to whose high character and spotless
fame his countrymen could look with greater
pride. SO said the Grant men fortnight ago.
Hear these same men now. Curtin, be it re-
has never attacked President Grant;
he has only denounced the notorious swindlers
by whom Grant is surrounded and sustained.
Yet The Netc- York Times declares that he has
" destroyed the reputation of lifetime;" that he
is not only politically ruined, but "socially
"ostracized - that even his own relations have
" nothing but pity to express for him." With
dishonesty and vulgar violence,
Inc ItWCoJ III ubhOuhSiHb hio 'AoiV w DOiiO-
fonte carefully cOnceals the fact that he made
any speech at all, suppresses all mention of
the enthusiasm Of his reception, and repre-
sents him sitting all day at his hotel Gas desc
" late as if he had been a stranger in the town.
not one of his friends condescending to no
" tice him." This then is the treatment
which the most distinguished and ire
proachable Republicans must expect from
the Administration press if they dare
to raise their voices against dishonesty
in the Republican party. The German
torn Chronicle, another Grant paper, falls upon
the Ex-Governor with brutality of temper
and contempt of the dictionary which must
excite the envy even of The Times. "Andrew
" 6. Curtin" says The Chronicle during his
"whOle life" has been "a streperous but |
" always adscittious patriot "-whatever that |
dreadful thing may be. He has been a sham |
" and fraud time-server-a lickspittle-a |
" political strumpet." He is "felow,r a |
" wretched creature" who has "been honored |
" far beyond his deservingsr He has always |
been ready to "crook the pregnant hinges of |
" the knee that thrift might follow fawning" |
And, voice and cboler rising together as the
torrent Of abuse pours forth, The Chronicle
breaks at last into a real good angry feminine
scream: lie will vote for Buckalew. the