The daily gazette., 1881-01-18

courtss-N. 7. Star.
News % REPUBL1oAN-TRE JAZZ.
RING ORG ANs-HoW THKY ASSAULT
A DKMocRATIo OFFIeR HOLDER
The following clipped from the editorial
column OF the Republican OF yesterday
nscessitates the reproduction Of the
'gross hbeI," referred 10 from the Meas
OF the same day:
"GRoss LIBEL-thAt article in the
Morning News, the biography Of Harry
Sharplsy. In the name ef the immortal
Tweed, what will Harry do about il /?
Who will care for Harry now p"
1t is hardly kind in an old pedagogus
to refer TO his former pupil in the style
OF the above. We will givs but an extract
from the article OF the .Nevs. Having
done this we shall let the organs con-
tlnus their discordant tones as long AZ
they like. The extract is as follows,
and contains the pith of the whole so
called libolIous article:
"The subject Of this sketch Ia Sharry
Harpley, President Of the City Council.
This young mans melancholy career Is
asoiumn ~arulng 10 the aspiring youth
OF this State aud nation. There 10
noshing Whatever to show that his child
hood vas marked By worse faults than
was thai Of other children with whom
he p'ayed. Tradition tsl no tales of
his cruelty 70 vagrant dogs or eats. II
1t is nowhere recorded That he PLAYED
trUent from school or raVAged bis neiQh-
DO g apple orchards. Indeed, while
still Of tender years, a. one may sAy, he
embraced :he honorable and modeI atsly
lucrative calling Of . schoolmastsr.
Here, too, his life was blameless, and
nothing occurred to foreshAdow the fear
tul descent that has slnee marked his
career. His first step from the path of
rectltude was taken when be entered
upon the study Of the law, and since
then bis course has been consistently
and continually downward.
From the law be naturally descended
TO politics, becoming State Senator,
attorney TO the Trustees OF the Poor,
and finally sinking to bis present posi-
ton a. pres:dent Of City Council. "Wbat
fall vas there, my countrymen! Then
you -" But why indulge in obituary
language? He once was country school.
master; he nov is president Of The City
Council Think of the awful hiatus.
and imagine all the intermediate step,
thereby implied His many aud faith
{ u friends have tried ln vain 10 stop
him in his mad career, and they look
fJIwald with horror 10 The time when,
sesking lower depths, he may become
governor Of the Slate or Representative
IN Congress. Amidst all this, no " Seyer,
they have one unfaillng ray OF comfort.
The success of the Republican party In
this city and county promises TO put an
edsctual stop to the further descent of
Snarry Harpley, aud all such misguided
young Democrats. Already one who,
following hard upon his heels, bad
taken several steps in the same direc-
tion, had met an impossible barrier in
his downward path.
Strange to say tho avalAnchelike
career o. him whose life IS here por-
trayed in colors 20 unavoldably som bre,
has rot been made more painful to his
friends BY dishonesty or debauchery.
He has never been cal d petit ogger
there Is no reason 10 believe that be was
other than o righteous legislator, and he
has been Slgnally just and courteous in
the chair Of Council. To be sure in
early days he was temperance man,
and 1t is not be denied tina his temper
4nce Is Of that strictly technical charac-
ter, SO earnestly preached by the NJ. S.
K. A., and SO consistently practiced by
the W. c. I. u; but still rum had
Aothing to do with his fall, aud only the
most stringent cold-water men could call
him intemperate.
His chief opponent at the bar has been
csrtain distinguished statesman's name
sake and late political aspirant of this
city, and it must be confessed that in
these conflicts our hero has been oc-
casierally unhorsed, though the success
full combatant usually comes out of the
fight looking a. If he were the vanqulsh-
ed in pugilisLie encounter. 1t puzzles
| . good many TO know Why success In a
purely Intellectual contest should leave
the victor with his waistcoat unbuttoned
bis necktle under his left ear and hls
collar riding the back Of his neck.
The subject of this sketch has q mode
of gesture peculiarly his own, apd the
observant always know, by an infallible
sign when he is making specially fine
point. II is this: In moments OF strong
lntslieotuai excitement, when wrestling
Win some great logical proposition, he
lhVArlaoIJ stIalghtena out the index
nnger OF the lett hand, nuch as one does
tno neck OF q chicken preparatory 10 chop.
ping on the ioWfshead; brings 1t il front
oi his oreast, aud gazing at IL intently
with his head on one side, again and
again bears down upon the unUffendng
member with the corresponding finger Si
the right hand. This seems to make the
| counsellor hapDv. md H. In aaid tn bayo