National Republican., 1881-09-06

sonaDle 10 nope Tor Detter state OIL pulse
and temperature when he arrives at
Long Branch
n Suggestion for New York Republic
cans.
The New York Tribune clamors loudly
for platform ut the coming State con-
vcntion that shall bring up the unfortu-
nate controversy which decent people de-
sire shall be regarded rs having been for
gotten since the I'd of July. 1t endeavors
to disguise this inefIable meanness by
such words as these:
The convention will do what the committee for
reasons doubtless satisfactory to ITSELF omitted TO
do 1t will express its sympathy with him tmean.
ing the PRESIDENT, and In that way represent the
real wishes and feelings of the majority of Repub
licans.
There are two false innuendoes in the
above. One is that the committee put
slight upon the President. The answer
is that Collector Robertson, who was pres
ent with friends numbering only two less
, than half the committee, would certainly
have proposed resolutions of sympathy
with the President had he or they
deemed it a suitable occasion. The Sec
ond is still meaner, in that it maliciously
intimates that resolutions of sympathy
would not be acceptable to some Repub-
licans.
The Tribune thus proceeds:
There will be no desire to ostracize anybody be.
cause he did not act with the majority in the sena.
torial elections. But there will be strong deter
mination that the hearty accord of the majority Of
the party with the President shall be expressed I
the nomnaions made and in the rs.s,oci,;ions .,
adopted. 1t will be very .i.y,eonTenient for the
S,S pSy !, sno w m to represent the will
,no i,'Jorl,y llhis respect Possibly so strange
a,'us n The wishes of the party might result
,44aslrously in the election. Hence we take 1t for
sranteo tnat tne candidates and platform wfll be
IN hearty accord with the administration.
Does anybody suppose that any subject
about which portion of the Republicans
of New York have not been in accord
with the President is to be introduced
into party convention? Is the discord-
ant shrek of the Tribune to be heard
there? Would it not be more seemly for
all to act as one political family?
If the Tribune shall insist on disturbing
the peace by reopening old questions,
The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN has q sugges-
tion to make to the Republicans of New
York, and that is to discuss the dis
turber. In 1878 the New York
Tribune was edited by Whitelaw
Reid, as it now is. Reid joined in
the brutal assaults upon General Garfield
which that year almost broke his heart.
When General Garfeldappeared before a
congressional committee and made full
and explicit denial of the infamous
charges made against him, and satisfied
all who could be satisfied, Whitelaw Reid
coarsely assaled him MS talsifer and
put the whole power of the Tribune
against him. The cruel and malignant
words in which the Tribune editorially
calumniated General Garfield are still
qmreirdcted by their author, Whitelaw
Reid! Let the convention brand him and
his paper with the hot wrath of right
eous Indignation for his false accusations
against the then Congressman James A.
Garfield, and for his insolent and abusive
adherence to the charges in the face of
General Garfeld's denial Let a resolu-
ton be adopted warning the people not
to heed the crocodile tears Of the Tribune
over the man to whom it has never apol-
ogized for its infamous libel. No Repub-
lcan ought to admit that paper into his
home until it repents of its worse than
murderous assaults upon the present
President in 1878.
Then, having. vindicatcd General Gar
field from the poisonous libels of the Iri-
Jwie, let the convention adopt another
resolution denouncing the assassination
of Presidents in general, and let it hold
up to eXecration and scorn all journals
which aid, abet, instigate, or publish cX-
hortations TO the assassination Of any
President. The resolution should con-
clude with special denuncation of the
New York Tribune for having attempted
TO incite to the assassination of President
Grant by the publication, in its issue of
January 8, 1875, of letter saying that it
would be good thing ifsomebody would
play Brutus TO the Presidents Cesar.
The Tribune cannot set itself up in de-
cent company unchallenged. 1t seeks
now TO degrade President Garfield by as
suming the leadership of what it ridicu-
lously pretends are his interests in the
New York State convention. He has nc
other interest than to have united party
represented in harmonious convention
all deeply sympathizing with his suffer
ings and hoping for his speedy recovery
unless it be that he have immunity
from the oilicious zeal of the unrepentan
libeler of the Tribune and his attorneys
in fact
Better, however, to have no crimina
ton or recrimination at all, Let us have
peace,
Our brilliant, vivacious, witty, and