New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-25
COME HERE. STEPHEN!

| Step LnlS way, MI stephen ID. TTcUCn L HE
| TRIBUNE would have word with you.
| DO you know, Stephen, that all along of you
and your multfarious activities during the
past twelve months the Republican party in
| the State of New-York is at this moment in
much distress and great peril That the
| State ticket is staggering along under crush
| ing load of unpOpularity toward almost sure
| defeat That Secretary FOlger, through no
| fault of his OVID, but from the misfortune of
| his associations, Is very likely to suffer politi
| cal martyrdom That the Administration of
| President Arthur, which, if not a brilliant
success seemed until within six weeks past to
be dong fairly well, or at least not heapng
up stupendOus plumbers, has incurred the
| hostility of thousands of honest Republicans
in this State, and fallen into disrepute through
out the country7 You must know, of course,
for you are practical politician and keen
observer, that this is the present condition of
affairs. Mayhap you have not reflected upon
your own connection Herewith. and do not
know how largely instrumental you have been
in producing the present situation. The
TRIBUNE asks leave to Jingle your ears with
truth or two.
The man who assumes to be the Presidents
SDOhtSlHdu anu utAJ lIICiN, DlCphNu, ouShV w
be careful, in the first place, not to run before
he is sent and next he ought to be exceed
ingly careful so to carry himself and conduct
the affairs intrusted to him as not to embar-
rass his principal or bring him into disgrace.
1t is not unknown to you, perhaps, that your
conspicuous intimacy with the President has
been the subject of wide and not tattcring
comment, and that the Presidents popularity
has not been enhanced thereby. This may
arise from the natural feeling of jealousy with
which favOrites are always regarded, and may
be unworthy your notice. The existence of
the feeling, however, should at least have
taught you the need of uncommon discretion.
We express the mIldest form of public senti-
ment when we say the general belief is that
You have not been discreet. 1t has been said
that in urging Secretary Folger upon the Re-
pubcans of this State rs the candidate of the
President you and those who acted with you
ran before You were sent. However that may
be, there is no manner of dOubt-indeed, there
can now hardly be any in your own mind |
that the methods you pursued In and out of
the convention to effect your purpose were J
neither discreet nor wise-cven if they were |
honest
Four weeks ago, Stephen, as an advocate of
Judge Fogers nomination and the accredited |
mouthpiece of the Administration, you took |
part in the proceedings of the Republican |
State Committee at Saratoga. The action of |
the committee had an important bearing upon |
the results of the convention, and it Is gener- |
ally believed that your presence and influence |
in the committee turned the scale in that |
evenly balanced body in favor of your can !
Ji1ota We nnaj not ranoot tho otor,y In do
tail. Upon your own admission the telegram |
upon which you based your right to vote in
the committee was false your proxy was |
forged; you had no authority whatever your
act was imposition and fraud. Your ticket |
was nominated nevertheless, and the purpose |
for which the forgery was done was consum-
mated 1t may be that the burst of popular
anger which followed the disclosure of the
facts too violent, and the indignant rejection
of the ticket in many quarters without sufficient
excuses that the nomination of Judge Folger
was foregOne conclusion from the outset. and
the forged telegram was not a potent factor in
eiecting it. Without stopping to dis cuss that
question, it is enough to say that the forgery
was proven, that advantage of 1t was
taken by the Presidents confidential friend in
the interest of the Administration candidate.
and that the transaction tain Is the ticket to
such degree that thousands of Republicans
refuse to support 1T.
You said. Stephen, that you had been i'm
posed upon that the telegram deceived You;
that you did not suspect it of being a forgery,
and could not imagine who had perpetrated
it. And you said you would spare no efforts
to trace the crime and bring the forger to
justice. You are Police Commissioners
Stephen. Your facilities for ferreting out
crime are much greater than those of an ordi-