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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-21
THE MdYOR4LTY.

1t has for months been well understood in
the political circles of this city that Mr.. James
O'Brien aspired to be her Mayor by the aid of
Mr.. Thomas Murphy and other Grant wire
workers. Fittings to and from Long Branch,
consultations and secret conferences between
Mr.. O'Brien and the high persOnages sojourn-
ing there, all pointed to an arrangement by
which Mr.. O'Brien was to make over his per-
sonal following to the support of Gen. Grant
for President, and receive in turn the votes
for Mayor of so many Grant Republicans as
could possibly be induced to fulfill the COM
pact. And in view OF the heavy vote
from this quarter that was cast TO make
O'Brien Senator last Fall, the calculation
that this vote would be large was not without
plausibility.
Mr.. Havemeyer is not so sharp as he may
have been forty years ago, yet he could not
fail to see what was so plain: hence his de-
clining to be a candidate two or three days ago.
He did not decline because he was unwilling
TO serve but because he was unwilling to be
made stalking horse for the benefit of James
O'Brien.
When the Grant County Convention assem-
bled, the 0'Brien interest, led by Thomas Muir
ply and DecOy Bliss, jr., though vigorously
opposed, was clearly IN the ascendant. Resist
ing strenuous efforts for an immediate nomi-
nation. it appointed a Committee of Confer
ence, and adjourned over for two days to give
the managers time to fix things. But rum
blings and grumblings from every quarter
soon convinced those managers that they
must at least assume virtue;" so, when
their Convention reassembled on Saturday
evening, they nominated Mr.. Hayemeyer. No
body seems to doubt his acceptance now:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-21
GPAYTLSu IN CUATElL1LA.

When Mr.. Roscoe COnkling came to New
York to whitewash the somewhat furnished
character Of the present Administration, he
piled his brush over one of the scaliest places
in the following vigorous manner:
"The remaining relative is silas Hudson, Minister TO
Guatemala lie Is cousin TO the President. Iowa. the
State IN which he lives had the mission TO Guatemala
before President Grant came In; Fitz Henry warren
held IT. and his retirement Iowa claimed 1t still, and
presented Mr. Hudson, who Is described as an able and
accomplished man."
We at once pointed out the untruths in this
statement. Silas Hudson was not presented"
for the Guatemala Mission by Iowa. The
members of Congress from that State united
in recommending Mr.. Howell of Keokuk for
the place so worthily and ably filed by Gen.
Fitz Henry Warren. Mr.. Hudson went to the
White House ostensbly to support that recon-
mendaton. But with the vulgar cunning Of
his kind, he left the delegation in the ante
room, and slipping into the Executive pres
ence through the kitchen, of which he had
the freedom through his quality as kinsman,
he asked for the position for himself, and re-
ceived it, to the disgust and against the angry
protest of every Iowa Congressman in Wash
ington. II is true that after his name WINS
sent to the Senate, Mr.. Harlan, with that
swift servility which distinguishes him, advo-
Gated his confirmation, not on the ground OF
any alleged fitness, but because of his rela-
tionship TO the President, and the Presidents
personal wish that he might be confirmed.
The Committee on Foreign Relations reported
against him, but we're overcome by the Grant
Ring Of time-serving Senators, and Silas Hud-
son was confirmed.
The performance would have been an in
decent one if Hudson had been good man.
But il was made infinitely worse by the char
acter of this importunate cousin. He was
absolutely illiterate. He knew no language
not even English. He was lewd filthy, and
Incorporate. He had been tinker in Iowa,
but his personal habits were too bad to allow
him to make living at his trade. He APP
peaIed to Gen. Grant with the argument which
has never yet failed when addressed to him.
He was relative, was miserably poor, and
was incapable Of earning his own living.
These appeals always touch the Presidents
heart 80 strongly that he cannot keep his
hand out of the Treasury lle is q truly
charitable man. He never sees relative in
distress without making the country take care
of him. An ordinary man would hay0 given
cousin Silas suit Of clothes and moneyIenough
TO get home and buy keg OF whisky. But
Gen. Grant Is no common man. He made
this squalid loafer Minister to Guatemala, and
sent him down to Central America, where we
have 80 many and such delicate relations to
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way agents in London, to pay counsel ices
"to the extent of thirty thousand dollars for
"the negotiation of this. contract. Thus the
"fact that Mr.. Barlow was the counsel who
actually received the thirty thousand dollars
"remaincd secret between himself and
Messrs. BischOflsheim g. Goldschmidt."
There are somc people so constituted that
when they see o statement made with such
detail as that they cannot help thinking there
is something in it, especially if the person at
tackled is man of wealth and prominence in
his profession. But there is positively not
particle of foundation for the story. 1t is the
invention of q mind so morally diseased that
it cannot conceive of straightforward and
honest action. Its reasoning is-this gentle
man had an opportunity to pocket this money;
therefore he did it, Mr.. Barlow shows in his
answer to The Times that Mr.. Jay Gould had
appropriated to himself 100000 of bonds be-
longing to the Company at G5 per centum of
their par value Mr.. Barlow assisted in COM
polling their resale to the Company, efiecting by
this means saving Of over half q million
of dollars. He also insisted that Mr.. Gould
should pay $4,000 for the legal expenses OF
this transaction. This was paid and went
into the Erie Treasury, where it still remains,
Mr.. Barlow not receiving nor asking penny
of it, although he had fairly earned it. AS to
the further charge of The Times of secret
understanding WITH Bischoffsheim 81 Co., that
is best answered in Mr. Barlow'S own words {:
mo resolution authorizing the payment to me- or my
firm Of any whatever in this ever passed
Messrs BischoGsheim Goldschmidt were never author
lied TO pay ror they paid agreed to pay one
dollar to me or my firm for this service"
There was another charge about Mr.. Bar
low having received from Daniel Drew $4,000
for the cancellation of contract with the
Erie Road which is answered in the same
clear and definite manner. 1t is becoming
serious matter how long this unprincipled
game of malicious libel shall be allowed to
go on. Respectable men, when they are at
tackled in this way, give curt and contempt
uous refutatlon to the SANDER and care no
moro about it. They dislike the annoyance
of u libel suit, and prefer to let their known
character stand against the gatherings OF
professional libelers Bat this does not cor
rect the abuse. A paper like The NJ 7. Times
is as incapable Of shame as it is of candor,
and has been so encouraged by the neglect of
the men it has blackguarded that it is becom-
ing q public nuisance.
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DENYING THEIR CAMERON.

Republicans all over the country are denying
that Cameron whose political proIgacy they all acknow
edge had anything with the great moral victory"
IN Pennsylvania In Massachusetts. where Mr. Sumner
has many warm friends in the Grant patty il Is SAID
they look ashamed when Cameron and the Pennsylvania
election are mentioned together. Ehzm Wright, in
letter TO The Springfield RcpGl.eaH thus sums up tho
case OF Yerkes, Cameron and Harranft:
n Yerkes was Innocent OF embezzling, that vas
enough. His pardon, as innocent, wac al the Nlndct'
ton OF Harrant the admitted lcrkcs going gCk
have gained the vote OF disafcctcd Republican on.
der tLe lead OF Prince FOTncy aud oXGOy Curtin aud
yet Hartrant I0Hcd " lhcal count llbd tn0uS'ihs
more ty nOicaD, G9,215 votes ~ Philadelphia alone
against 1854 Buckalcw! lie ran there decidedly
ahead OF his ticket In the state, this majority or 20
starting from Philadelphia, under the tacncs ahd u'
tainly without aid from those marvellous GRANTEES,
Prince FOrney and Curtin rolls up beyond $1,000 II Is
said!
NV these results. under the manpulaOns OF mon
whO pardoued har OF the Pcntentiary 70 Obt'in
chem, prove not both OF two things st That tho
dominant party owes lts Pennsylvania victory 10 men
who have "A sup disregard OF truth %, That no
preteuse with which they BEGAN the campaign against
Mr.. Greeley, that the PrOSayery Demon had put
reconstruction and drauchsr the blacks. has n0tOun
dalton either IN facts IN probability 10 Is no wonder
that Massachusetts Grant men, with the normal amount
chuscJts brains IN their look
sheepi,h they meet who Is owner Of all tho
facts in this Peunsylyani election. Trey know very
well what they have been saying publicly, aud cSpr-
Secretary OF War. Tley KNOW very well that 10 every
honest, intelligent, thinking man, " whichever party,
Ing damnng facts that has ever caused patriot TO
dOuOt the permanence Of republican form O govern
ment. II the nation really has honorable future be-
it, this "PcuUsy wanna victory" M.u dO The support
ers OF Nj greeley more good tan II they Lad won 70 or
ANYTHING like H. In short may the good God fore
and ever defend our side from any such victories
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though. doubtless out of respect TO his three
days' old letter Of declinatiOn, he was still un-
willing. last night. to tell what he would do.
VIM. NJ. Tweed and Thomas Murphy are
partners in business, and have made busi-
ness of politics. James o. Brien was sus-
tanned last Fall by the money of the one, and
used in the political interest of the other. He
has remained in close afliliation with both
down to very recent period, if not TO this
hour. When Mr. Tweed's money gave out
the Custom-house leaders furnished more and
the practical politicians will tell you the
very day, last week, when OBrien's
acquisitions on the Grant campaign fund first
failed to command an instant response George
NJ. Van Mort was Mr.. Tweeds clerk, and was
chosen by that person as his successor. lie
has been candidate for Mayor, but has with
drawn in favor of Mr. Hayemeyer. He and
O'Brien lave had bitter feud, though each
has retained relations with Tweed.
We mention these various personal compli-
cations, not in any argumentatlve or CEN
serious way. but merely as facts which may
cast some light upon tho mixed problem OF
the MayOralty. We do not assume even to
guess what the Grant managers will now do.
We are only sure they will have to cheat
somebody. If OBron runs in earnest he runs
in their interest and expects to DO elected
by their aid. If Hayemeyer runs in earnest,
OBren has been used and betrayed; and
must stomach that pleasing item as
best he may. Meantime, we regard
Mr.. Abraham II. Lawrence as 10y far bet
ter qualified for Mayor than either of his
competitors. Ho is OF o good old New-fork
family, has ability and energy, is in the
prime of life, and has been most effective
champion of Municipal Reform from the start
As a member of the Committee of Seventy
and ono of its chosen cOunselOrs, he has
fought the Tweed Ring with wisdom and
resolution, and has well earned the gratitude
of the friends of honest rule. There is no
point in which Mr.. Havemeyer is better quail
fed for the office, while in most respects
| Mr.. Lawrence is decidedly the superior. TIE
TRIBUNE earnestly supported him because of
his eminent fitness for District Attorney years
ago when he was q political opponent: it sup
ports him for Mayor now on precisely the
same grounds. We do not disparage Mr..
Havemeyer in saying that he could not fulfill
the requirements of this high Office SO well as
Mr.. Lawrence can do and will.
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ASPECTS OF THE CAMPAIGN,
RAISING THE WIND.

Federal Offlce-holders and Liberal Renrhli.
cans Will alike be gratned with following letter m,
former at tho assurancst gives that they are no ono.
to be assessed for political purposes the latter az learn
ing that the October elections have well nigh exhausted
tie Grant ozchequer. The letter sent b. TIE TRrrxg
by the President OF tie bank whom Il was addressed
who refuses 10 regard II confidential" because bo
writes, he has acquaintance relations Of my Kind
with the Ingenious A. Is. Cornell and moreover feryenty
hopes that Horace Greeley Will DO elected President Of
tho United States"
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL, NEW YORK, Oct. fC, 1872.
lt0nl9ebtaLl
DEAR SIR: In conducting an active md vigorous az
well as lOnRcOniinued campaign the eXpeBse Of keep
ing large corps OF speakers ana cdByasscs toe fell
ana other legitimate expenses necessarily very con-
siderable. This Committee has determined not 10 mako
usual heretofore and therefore have 10 rely upon
buch voluntary contributions they, together with
OtDef tleuds OF the cause, may DO pleased 10
We have deemed IL duty 10 advise prominent Re-
pubcans throughout the State Of these facts 20 tho end
That they may be afforded opportunity Chey desto
70 90 So 20 contribute To the necessary funds Toupht
fu ana patriotic citizens OF the opinion, in which
fully share, that the OF the Greeley coalition
would be a grave public calamity. Aud although wa
feel entirely confident OF securing complete triumph
November yet when so much is at stake, should 10
without excuse We TO neglect any proper means -
make dOublY sure OF tue result
Henry Cews. esq. Treasurer OF the Committee No -
Wallst, SewYork Will be pleased to return an aekD0w
cdRneDt for such amount you may ieCi inclined
forward tn him for the purpose Indicated
Very truly yours. "A. u CORNELL, Chairman.
J. ". Knapp Secretary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-21
GRANT dREUUENT.

The Government clerks who write campaign
documents appear to be hard pushed for argu-
ments to show why Grant should be reelected.
One of their latest productions is four-pagc
pamphlet which labors hard TO convince the
laboring men of the South that they should all
vote for the TwO-Tem candidate because, when
a bill was up in the House last Winter to dis
tribute the proceeds of the sales of public lands
among the States to be used to support Com
mon Schools, more Republicans than Demo
Gratis voted aye. If that isn't non Sequitur,
then we never heard of one. The bin was not
a party mcasure-14 Democrats voted for it
and 20 Republicans against it; but because a
Republican House passed it, therefore, accord
ing to the argument of this campaign dOcu-
ment, the Southern people ought TO bc eter-
nally grateful to U. s. Grant, who probably
never as much as read the bill, and ought to
make him President as long as he wants the
Office
Of course the force Of the argument is not
affected by the fact that the Republican
Senate refused to pass the bill! And, of
course, the fact does not appear that the 20
Republicans and 70 Democrats who voted
against it did so from no hostility to educa-
ton, but from belief that the measure was
designed to open the way for the passage of
another bill prepared by the same author,
which sought to rob the States of tho control
of their Common School systems and estab-
lsh a centralized national system under the
authority of the General Government. The
Government clerk who wrote the document
knew very well that he was not paid for
stating such facts as these
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-21
BoURBONS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA ELLC.
TION

The Washington Patriot, in the course Of
ulicous article the results OF the October elections
protest against tho suppostol that
the Pennsylvania defeat Is In respect duo to the
ton Of the sraishtOut Democrats What IL has TO say
about the conduct OF its party Is douboss
ing OF their serious attention:
And We feel called upon TO make an incidental ro-
mark, called for by what seems TO usb error and inds
erection OF leading journal OF the Reform partynO',
however, VIC are most happy 90 say, TIE NEw-YoRK
hat are known as StrligltOut Democrats. Nothing
can be further from the truth. We not aware OF
half dozen wellknOwn Democrats, from the Delaware
10 the Ohio, who, In the recent canvass voted against
Mr. Bnckalew. We do not believe there one and
tins Straight0ut party IL should be remembered emil
nenty party OF leaders. There are no rank ana NE.
That there Democratic secess0ns O. Radlcallsm
especially IN certain wellknowu regions and among
tain men, not leaders trustworthy paFtsans-ls un.
questiOnably and lamentabY true When wo ind
the four lower wards Of Philadelphia, which,
0rity, giving but 1j00 when we find In one OF tho
upper wards Hartrantt with 1900 and the Democratic
candidate for the Constitutional Convention loo thcrO
is installing What this means IL Is traffic, and pur-
chase, and the detection OF leaders, FOR these
men are not leaders; but the deseron, unher tho inu
OF money OF what actually amount 70 masses. And
made this Infamous trade well known as the most
notorious cOuyicts In aud the pcnenttary no ono
seems wiling by name TO dcnOunce them. I1is, how
ever Is affair, aud only alluc TO II tO show
how utterly usOry n i to suppose that honest leaders
have aOOf. Nor do believe In the Dal coict
which Is 10 come, the BOurbOns will be- jOt moro strung
their HcghbOrs the other side OF the Atlantic.
Mr. LyOnss Court at Richmond VIII be about as much
tLrOnged as Is the Court dc ChambOrd al Prague or
wherever the fossil wreck Is stranded. We DO not d0hs
that every electoral vote that could bc ex
November; and this, aitcr the recent reverse " tho
braye, good feeling which we are 50 proud VI.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-21

guard, charged with the dignity and the in
terests of the United States. This dissolute
hummer whom Gen. Grant would not have
trusted Ms q stable-boy in his own service, re-
ceiyed by way of economical aims mission
requiring moro judgment, more discretion,
more business capacity than the missions to
St. Petersburg and Vienna.
His life there Is precisely what might have
been expected from his antecedents. We have
received letter from an American resident in
Guatemala recounting stories of his shameless
depravty which cannot DO printed in these
columns. lie is by-wOrd and reproach.
Ellis personal habits" says our correspondent,
faro so VIGOROUSLY depraved, and his manner
"of living 80 odious to all classes, that his
"socety is universally Stunned, not only in
diplomatic circles, but in every respectable
household" Is not this q cheerful picture,
Mr.. Curtis7 Have we not here Civil Serv-
ant of the kind which You and tho
President long fort You would not send this
man with message to your butcher, and
Gen. Grant sends him for four years, and as
much longer as his friends may keep him
President, as the resident guest Of friendly
power. Guatemala is q small State, but Is IL
manly to insult her as you would not dare
insult your equals Russia sent MS Minister
whom we did not altogether like, and the
President preferred to slight tho son OF tho
Car rather than to shake hands with his Minis
ter Yet we have kept for four years IN
Guatemala man whom Mr.. Fish would not
touch with pair of tOngs. What is the
reason9 Mr.. Conkling has given 1t, in the one
word of truth his defense contained" IIo is
cousin to the PRESIDENT"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-21
NeGu.alotk Daily GribltarE.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 81. 1872.

Mr. Sumner visited NJ. Gambetta at Paris. Prince Ma
poleon hos demanded redress for his expulsion from
France == The Spanish Cortes has voted IN favor Oh
aboli-ling capital punishment for political oncnscs'
= The Rev. MIR. Purchas is dead
constitutional amendment regulating the Increase
of the State debt has been adopted in South Carolina
- Judce Henry r. S ,ldcn delivered Liberal address
nj Hroclport. n Y == Two young at Atlanta,
Ga fought duel === Destructive fires are reported
IN Chicago and SaudusGy.
The Grant Republicans nominated VIM. +. Havemeyer
FOR Mayor. Noah Davis for the Supreme Court Hooper
C. Van Worst for the Superior Court, and Benz. X.
Phelps for District-Attouey. =- Tic Kings County
Democratic and Liberal Republican County, City, ana
Congress Conventions made nominations in concert.
&C., Airport has been made to the Commissioners OF
Emigration on the condition OF their Lunatic Asylum
1t Is said that Tweed aud Fields will not be admit
tea t. bail If arrested criminal charges. == Gold
Ii2s ll8E u.s. Thermometer so, $50 40. SO, $40 49,
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amnatmenIs. tIr.. ehis Gpenlna.

GcInrN,Y or MUsIC.-- italian Opera: Faust"
Mile Pauhre Lucch :, =, :,
Rooms TuEArrR.-" Arrah-na-Pogue." Mr. and
ArA DOn B0uc!0sult -.
-, .vrx,rr Tur.TFR. -" Diamonds Miss
Fanny Davenport and Miss Linda DeL , .
GRAND OPERA HoUsE-"Le Roi Carotte." MIS-
John Wool Nils Rose Ieree, ADD John Biougnam
OIYNspIC TIFaTER. - Opera BOune La "IAnu
puchessc" Nile Marie Aimee
UNION SQUARE THEATER.-" Agnes" MISS Agnes
Ethel and D. II. HarkiaS .
WnIAcK's THEATER.-" Pygmalon and GIatea."
Bliss Katharine Rogers
AMERICAN INSrTUTE.-FOrty-hrst Annual Exhibi-
zion Day AM Evening
ASSOCIATION HAII.-Lecturo: Penal Laws and
Their Conscoacnccs." James Anthony iuio.
BROOKIYN RrNK.-First Annual Exposition and
Ipdustrial Pair Of Kin - County
CnIFoRNIA MINsrREIs, at No. 40 Broadway.
ST. JAMES THEA TER.-San Francisco Mnstrels.
ToNY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE." An Irish Dia-
uond" All Varieties.
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There mover was anything like the way in which
the people Of South Carolina have been swnded and
plundered. The vouchers in the TreasurcIs othcc
show the following payments made during the pres
emit year upon certificates signed by Franklin j.
Moses, IT,. to mob of sham oice-hOlders protesting
10 be employed by the House Of Representatives
alone:
176 clerks $1,000 III messcngers... 6l,995
lC2 porters......... 25,9l7 "a pages......... 4OI4
Nearly $4,000 paid to SCI employees of the House
Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS enough for the day OF
Judgment! porters enough to carry small election
by themselves messengers enough to do the errands
Of large cIty pages enough for forty folio volumes
of chiyary! Very strongly differed and manned
this South Carolina House CT Representatives, seems
to have been, and mighty good it would have been
in Moses thus TO scatter the money if it had only
been his own If an ordinary thief steals nearly n
quarter Of million Of dollars what hue and cry
there is about it, but here parcel Of political loafer
conspro to ch the last penny from the Treasury Of
an impoverished State and, as they al go for Grant
they are pronounced pure TatIiOts!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-21
r JOHN THOMAS IN TIE PILLoRY.


1t would not seem credible that The NeO-
York Times. after the full and explicit refuta-
ton of its ISLANDERS against Mr.. S. l.. NJ Bar
low, should still lack the manhood to retract
them. This is nevertheless the case. 1t stands
unabashed in the moral pillory in which it has
been placed, and goes on repeating the calum-
MES with which its clients, the late managers
of the Erie Road, continue to supply it. 1t
asserted on Saturday that Mr.. Barlow "made
"a largo purchase of bonds on behalf
D." of tho Erie Railway Company for
4" doing which he demanded and re-
"ceived from the seller fee of thirty
" thousand dollars" This is the lie categorical,
and il is ingeniously embellshod by the in
yention that she caused resolution to be
"passed in the Board authorizing Messrs.
f" Bischollsheim s. GOldschmidt, the Erie Rail