The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-05-31
The Enquirer-.-.rhe Tribune.

1t has heretofore been che custom OF the
Richmond papers not to copy articles from
other Journals rejecting upon their con-
tomporaries in this city. Yesterday the En-
quirer departed from this wise rule OF con-
duct, and reproduced from the Inde1-Ap-
peal number Of paragraphs concerning
the Dispatch, some Of which are, to say the
least, in very bad taste. However, the En-
quirer must Judge for itself. We arc ready
for any kind Of warfare that may be neces-
sary. We are quite willing to rest our adj
vocacy Of TILDES's nomination upon our
own reputation in Richmond and in the
State, or upon the opinions OF our contem-
poraries. We have no fear that anybody
who knows us will suspect us Of having any
merccnary motives. We have no need to
use the purse Of anybody else than ourselves
either in Richmond or New York.
As to the articles which the Enquirer
quotes from the Dispatch concerning New
Workers, and TuDEN particularly, it would
be sufficient to state that the writer Of them
has never written one line inconsistent
with them. They were all penned by the
senior editor, who for the last two months
has been unable TO be at his post. But il
the present writer were the author OF them,
he would none the less occupy just the po-
sition that he now does. We do not doubt
that at the time they were published we
sympathized in the feelings expressed in
them, nor do we doubt that the cditor-in-
chief, though now absent, is in full sympa-
thy with the articles at present daily APP
pcaring in the Dispatch. Only yesterday
we said that TrLDEN was to us bitter pill.
But the situation has entirely changed with
in the last few months. However, we do
not choose to waste time in defend
ing our consistency. Pray, what was
the present editor of the Enquirer doing
on the 10th OF July, 1852. He was staff
reporter for the New York Tribune! an
independent Republican paper, which now
he thinks ought not to be quoted in favor OF
TILDEN. A lovely specimen OF consistency
he is! 1t is true we cannot quote any OF
his editorials to prove his inconsistency, but
we have no doubt that we could produce
the witnesses to prove that he was very re-
Gently TILDEN man-that is, il the game
were worth the candle.
The paragraph which the Enquirer quotes
from the Dispatch concerning the New York
Tribune was written by the present writer.
We say the same of the Iribune now. Ii is
nothing but a Republican paper, and it was
nothing bat a Republican paper when the
Enquirer's editor, few months ago, claimed
to be not only staff reporter for it, but to
write editorials for it. Yet it is an honora-
bic journal, and may be relied upon to
prove facts. Certainly it does not lie III the
mouth Of the editor OF the Enquirer to say
anything against that journal.
The Enquirer quotes the Express, the
Tammany rascals' organ, yet complains that
we quote Mr.. KINsELLA, "thc blackguard
boss Of the Brooklyn ring" \ sufficient
answer to such stuff is found in the facts
that Mr.. kINsELLA is chairman OF the
Kings county delegation to st. Louis, an
ex-mcmbcr OF Congress, and the editor OF
the leading Democratic paper in Brooklyn.