The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-12-18
NO. Sc.
"Let ft Drop


ted cowardly and disgusting slauder In
>rence to one of our public men, and
ba1;nr been pretty thoroughly exposed,
has now soddenly woke up to the fact
that the snt 'ect is dirty one, and
that the nrn5en,> course would 6e to say
no more about il. ''This "a not pleas
ant subject" it says, md ought to De
dropped" Thus the street.-the l,'nohl
you catch picking you pocket bawls ous
loudly. when he feels your grasp upon
his wrist. LET me go" 1t is all very
fine for convicted slandere3 to beg pee
pie to drop the subject" when his
mendacity is made clear to the public
But of all known methods of defending
mendacity, it seems 10 be about the most
lmpudent.
The Tribune gives a list of persons who
obtained rooms at tie West End Hotel
after Senator Carpenter had failed. The
fact is that all those persons had engaged
rooms beforehand. So much for thas.
The evidence Of the hotel clerk it sum-
mariIy dismisses by calling the man u
liar Nothing eau. ha more simple.
When a slaudered Is confronted with ia
witness who disprovcs all his assertions.
let him cali that witness i ''iiar, and the
whole thing is settled But it Is TO be
observed that the Tribune admits by its
silence that its correspondent. Ramsdeli,
admitted TO several persons tha5 his attack
upon Senator Carpenter was utterly
unfounied, aud that be ONLY made It t.
get even with the Senator Tor causing
his imprisonment On this most vital
point of the evidence i dare not say 3
word. Only this queer hing has hap
pened to it-all oi sudden it l. seized
with desire to ''!et subject drop On
which ii had evidently prepared itself for
long campaign. 1t has already publish
ed whole columns about it-now all it
asks is that no one viii say any more
about It, Il forgive you" 1t says to the
person it has slandeger let us shake
hands and be friends
This is fine example of the way in
which newspaper may invent some
subtle charge against mans private
character, taking care TO drag lady into
the affair and then shelter itself in
silence TIE professional black maiers
game-they trumped up some Infamous
charge against man or woman, and as
the evidence of innocence could not be
produced without involving the accused
persons in all sorts of disagreeahle crcum-
stances, they generally paid the black
mailer his price. In this case, the mo
| tive seems to have been one of simple
malice, or, as Ramsdel himself expressed
| IT, the desire ''to get even.
The papers generally, we are GLAD to
| say, strongly condemn the Tribune F.
course. and admit that the evidence ia
( behalf of Senator Carpenter is conclusive
The NewHaven PaHat}ium (no friend
of our) saws:
The defense of Senator Carpenter,
| published by The NewIork Times, is a
strong one, and must compel an answer
! from the Tribune Two OF the statements
made in ii may be accepted as proved,
| viz: that Senator Carpenter was not in
state Of intoxication during his visit Ia
Long Branch, and that the lady, By whom
he was accompanied. holds Respectable
/ position. The gorgeous and s0men h3;
| sloppy rhetoric in which the TTiJHac
clothed It's charges against the Senator,
give the impression that the lady was =
person cf notoriously bad reputation Il
DR.. Bliss-the gentleman connected with
f. CunduraGg0, we persumc-and Senator
Spencer state the truth, RamSacll, the
correspondent upon whose informatiao
the Tribune based It's articles, has con
/ fessed that he is q malicious slanderer -
The Baltimore -4DacIJcaR remarks ihat
"the defense which appeared in The New
York Times of yesterday is generally
received in Washingt ton as being a com
plete yindication." The Worcester Spy
! quotes the greater part Of the testimony
We have produced. and says
As the evidence stands, this is to be q
very bad case OF malignant and dastardy
/ libel, 10 which the records of political and
! personal warfare 50 iaras we are familiar
with them, furnish hardly any parallels .
/ The Philadelphia Press has the fellow
ing
"Of the lady, we can freely state that
| we haze known her father mother,
! brothers, aud sisters i'or many years, and
We nave never met a more iIreproachable
| woman shan herself, or a mere respectable
| family than that whose name she bore
before her marriage Fer her sake and
/ theirs We have deplorcd the publicity
! that has been given to ths charge against
public man who has done so much hon
or to our public COUNCILS as Senator Car
/ penter.
A very stupid parer published at
| Washington, called the NatjoauI Rcpub-
lcan--which, by the buy, WAS not always
stupid paper-says that the article
! published In their columns is based upon
the most satisfactory and convincing
/ facts, tut docs NOT serve the purpose
for which it was intended" Il goes on
to say that the evidence is sufficient to
acquit Mr.. Cafpenter" yet it does not
answer the purpose This is pretty
good specimen Of a Lull The same
funny paper says that Ramsdel ough,
not TO have been attacked and yet
Ban.sdell was the author OF the original
calumny he was the man who started
the whole story, and who subsequently
admitted that it was false Is thero any
reason why such a person should escape
or could the SANDER be answered at al
without reference TO lis concoctor? We
should think that the NutjoaqE RcDuJ-
ttcan must be considered rather an able
paper in Washington and be much
respected by the Republicans there. Neu
/ Io,h, T,.0.et.