New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-28
THE SENATE.

Mr.. Woodin, the apOCgist sand defender of
James Wood and the man of oil men who
should not be q member of the next Senate,
has been making speech TO his constituents
This speech he begins by boldly asserting that
he is an honest man. That anybody is honest
is most difficult thing to prove, and Mr..
Woodin declines to give any evidence Of his
integrity except his own unsupported word.
great part of what he says is in defense of
the support he gave to Tweed in 1870. If any
man ought to have known in that year
what sort of person Tweed was that man
was Senator WOodin. But WoOdin was I'M
sophisticated. WOOdin was a guileless innO-
cent The man for Albany, the proper rep
resentatiye of an honest constituency, is pure,
unspotted. unsuspecting, incapable OF under
standing that all men are not like himself, q
very Joseph And Mr. Woodin, after serving
four years IN the State Senate, presents HIM
self TO his constituency as such person.
Mr.. Jarvis Lord, renominated by the Demo
Gratis of Monroe County has an equally
conspicuous record and the Attorney General
has instituted suits for the recovery of large
sums of money which Mr. Lord obtained from
the State under pretense of fixing the canals.
But Mr.. Lord has had the good sense to de-
cline O candidacy in which he was certain to
become the object of a great deal OF uncom-
Portable criticism, and the Democrats, who
count comfortable majority in that District,
have n chance TO repair their blunder.
From Buffalo third angel of light rises up
and claims another two years of service. This
is the poor attorney, Lewis, the Chairman of
the Canal Committee. He was directed year
and half ago to investigate canal frauds,
but he knew that integrity ruled all the
operations of the canal contractors and he re-
fused to insult them by asking questions.
In this enumeration of the third term can
didates we must not omit Norris WinslOw.
Most that we have said of Messrs. WOodin,
Lewis, and Lord applies to him. In the XXlst
District, Senator William Foster, man whose
record needs no defense, who does not find it
necessary to make public announcement that he
has made nothing by selling his vote, and who
il not called on to defend Tweed's legislation
of 1870 and 1871, is thrown overheard by the
Republicans, and man who, it is said, will be
n worthy successor of Mattoon, is nominated
in his stead. But no true Republican will be
guilty of the apostasy Of boiling the ticket.
In the Duchess and Columbia district, SEN
otor Palmer, another excellent Senator, is also
left at home. That district it is now ex-
pected, will be Democratic, and accordingly
BENJAMIN Ray, an old henchman Of Tweed's
and Fernando Woods, has secured the nomi-
nation of that party. In 1871 after the New
Hamburg accident, Mr.. Ray introduced bill
reouiring impossible things of the New-YOrk
Central and Hudson RiverlRallroad. This bill
never came out of the Committee to which it
was referred. Perhaps Commodore. Wander
blt OF Mr.. butcher might tel why.
The XXIyth District has nominated a good
man in the person of Mr.. Selkreg, and the
XVIth presents in Mr.. Tobey man who
has rendered important services to the cause
Of true reform. Mr.. MCGOWAN of the XXth
District is also q man whose record is
clean. Mr.. Madden of the Xth may never
have taken money, except, as he himself ad-
mlts for election purposes; but he stands re-
corded in favor of some Of the worst measures
of his term.
In the XIIth District Mr.. Isaac v Baker, jr.,
has been renominated by the Republicans, IN
the face Of the distinct charge Of corruption
publicly made against him by so strict Re
nnblican as Thurlow Weed. This is no time
20 accept men who are even suspected of
yenality, and Mr.. Baker ought certainly to
stay mt home. His opponent is Mr.. Roswell "A.