The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-04-06
THE n. Y. TRIBUNE AFTER A TELE-
GRAM THIEF THE BOOT On
ToOTHER LEG.

The editor of the New York Tribune
has been vigorously hunting down the
thief who stole ms private midnight
dispateh sent a year ago to John HAY at
Washington, urging increased pressure
upOn Garfield to keep him from yleldlng
to COnkling ana the StalWarts' Mr.
Whitelaw Reid, the Tribune editor,
claims the thief is j. A. Hutchinson,
who. last March, was night manager of
the main Office at Washington, or else
one Guthridge, lately telegrapher TO
the Cincinnati Gazette. whichever one
of these clears himself" says the Tri-
bune, "cOnyicts the other" The West
ern Union, through letter written TO
MIR, Reid by General EckeTt, its general
manager, appears to think 1t was Hutch
insOD. so does Mr.. Reid, who says:
'If other people agree with us in not
relishing the idea of having the Wash
ingtOn telegraph offices tree hunting
ground for thieves, we advise them TO
help the Western Union to get the Dis
trict of Columbia relieved from its pres
ent bad eminence, as the only place IN
the country where theft is not Legally
criminal"
Democrats have suffered in the past
from these partisan rascals; and the pity
is that the thief cannot be adequately
punished. 1t would seem the Associated
Press has been partisan affair ready to
betray Democrats. The Tribune just
now fully realizes the infamy OF such
thieving rascals. The Hartford Times
expresses some timely views in this re-
gard. 1t says:
"During the Presidential campaigns
of 1868, 1872, 1876, and 1880, numerous
private kilograms of prominent Demo-
Gratis, committee mel and others, have
been given to the Republicans. The
absence of safety in the telegraph be-
came, indeed, so notorious fact that
Democratic committee men and others,
who, like Mr.. Reid, did not relish the
idea of the telegraph offices being 'a
free hunting ground for thieves" were
compelled to resort many times to other
means of sending information from
State to State. 1t was ayerred that even
the mails were violated, time and again.
Even now the New York Times, the lead
ing Republican paper, is discussing the
question, who carried IndlanaP and
letting out, in long and interesting tele-
grams, some of the secrets of that in
famous October campaign, by which 1t
appears that the Republicans not only
pOul ed out money by the million, but
tampeTed with the pOstOttice lOck-bOX
of the Democratic State committee
opening it with keys Of their own, ana
reading all the correspondence before 1t
went 10 lIlOSb 10 NuOll IL was lANObChs
These things were known, at the time,
to all the prominent Republican editors
in the cOuntry-but none of them, the
New York Tribune not excepted, had one
word to say against this infamous work.
On the contrary, the Tribune, day by
day, without disclosing the facts,
. ehuckled over the successful progress of
the robbery.
Now, when the boot is on its own foot,
and its corn is pinched, that paper walls,
and condemns In the lOudest tones the
"thievery" by which he has suffered. 1t
was pleased when Zach Chandler and
others were arranging the stupendOus
fraud, by secret kilograms, to prevent
Tilden from taking the seat to which
the people of the United States had
elected him. 1t encouraged that secret
and infamous work; and when the truth
began to be exposed, it sought to divert
attention from the belated and neces-
saTy exposure of the secret dispatches of
the Republican National Committee and
others, by parading what it called Til
den cipher dispatches "a lame Repubi-
can device to divert public attention
from the real rascals. The Tribune is
VirtuOusly indignant over the theft (by
a Republican, of one of its own private
dispatches. What has that honest (O
sheet to say to the treatment which the
Democrats have suffered by such thefts,
for the last fifteen or twenty years."