National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-03
The 6 Tribune's Testimony to the Rot
tenness OF Woodin and Sessions.

The g Tribune's" Testimony to the Rot
tenness OF Woodin and Sessions.
The reading public is aware that the
present Administration enjoys the lux
ury of an organ in New York
called the Tribune, and that it also
enjoys the support Of large num-
| Der of the members of the New York
| Legislature, who are endeavoring to Sc
cIre the election of two Reform Senators
to succeed Messrs. Conkling and Platt
The Administration forces in that Eegis,
lature are led by triumvirate of State
senators, to wit: ROBERTSON, WooDIN
and SESSIONS. Robertson is the great
national issue upon which the
President has seen fit to divide the people
of the country into the righteous and the
wicked. Woodin and Sessions are among
the former. They are the pride Of The
Tribune and the mainstay Of the country
against the torrent of wickednesS with
which the Stalwarts would fain over
whelm it. As Robertson must soon re-
tire into the custom house and distribute
the places he has promised in the interes
of Reform, all good men Will look tC
Woodin and Sessions to continue
at the old stand the busines:
of keeping the Legislature honest
and this will make people more anxious
to know what manner of men Woodin
and Sessions are. Let US put the New
York Tribune on the stand as our witness
against them. We shall find upon the tes-
timony Of the unco-righteous and rigidly
truthful Tribune that Senators Woodin
and Sessions are sorry masqueraderS.
Instead of being men of stern virtue, bat
Ting for principle, they are rotten birds of
prey. The picture of them so drawn less
than two years ago is one at which the
gorge rises. We quote the following from
the New York Tribune of September %.
1879, when Cornell was the Republican
candidate for Governor and Roscoe
CoNKLING was, as usual, the leader III the
contest:
TWO MISTAKES.
The progress Of the campaign in this State has
DES4l 81 IOE lilS hcpuDlICdl party
it is painful task to call attention to the msSteps
few as they are. But the very fact that the blum
ders are not many makes the few more glaring
and seems to increase the necessity for some plain
words of warming.
1t is q misfortane-and not a slight one-to see
the Republican roll of pure nominations broken by
the denomination of Senator Sessions and the re-
nomination of William B. Woodin. Readers of the
Tribune have already learned what manner of men
these are, though we must do Nr. Woodin the
justice to say that we consider him much the
maniier man of the two. The legislative record
and political methods of Mr.. Sessions are SO
well known that the very ease with which his
denomination was obtained is a reproach to him,
and not q credit. After all that has been known
Of him and all that he has admitted concerning
his past life, it could not have been properly OBJ
tanned. Mr.. Woodin's triumph was more difficult.
With a new district and at a time when an unex-
ceptionable candidate was needed he seems to have
selfshly insisted that the party must yindicate'
him. Nearly one hundred ballots were taken be-
fore the opposition gave way. What took place in
the Auburn district it was constituted when
Mr.. Woodin represented it in the Senate we all
know. A large Republican majority dwindled
down to a narrow margin Of q few hundred votes,
and finally in 1877, he did not even live, as a can
didate through the campaign. Tweed's testimony
confirming the strong popular conviction that he
had been Tweed's Senator and had taken Tweed's
money drove him from the field and the district
was only saved by the choice of another name.
The subject is not pleasant one. Let US dis
miss it with an expression of the hope that there
Will be no more such offenses against the good
name of fRepubIicanisn. The Republican party is
not made up of men like Mr.. Sessions and Mr..
Woodin, and does not deserve the reproach of
being represented by them When such men at
tempt to use the party for their own selfish pur-
poses their efforts should be resisted by all hon
Orable means.
We ask our readers to compare this
with the daily eulogies of these same
ATnSsrG Sessions and Wnndin in thn,Se=aao
Tribune, while all three are engaged in
and belittling the great
Of the Empire State. It
must be a vile cause which requires
or can command such instrumental
ties. We submit that the Tribune'S
present copartnership with the men it
knows to be corrupt is the best evidence
of its own corruption. 1t is as base and
false as it is arrogant and pretentious.
Let US hear from its most brazen Bohe-
mian on the subject of Senators Woodin
and Sessions And let the President see
it practice its best efforts at swallowing
It's own words.
A HaIf-Breed Confession.
The majority of the Republicans as shown in
Two votes taken in the Legislature, say that Mr.
Conkling shall not again be a Senator from this
state. Ifthfs is suggested, the reply Immediately
Is. {" Oh vpS we'll admit that. brt If Is olSo csr