The Evening critic., 1882-08-30
To summer Absentees.

Wednesday, August 80, 1882.
To summer Absentees.
Persons leaving tho city during the summer
months can have TIE EVENING CRITIC mailed
20 their address, I'm any locality, for 80 cents
per month, or throo months for 81, payable In
advance. THE CRITIC will be found tho bcst
medium for keeping abscnteos thoroughly
posted on what iranspiros nj tho Capital. Or
dcra can be sent by mail, or left Mt the bust.
nose ONCE. Address changed as often as
desired.
PERHAPS THE most contemplate thing
In the whole course OF the Star-Route trial
was Mr.. MerriclS's wholesale, malignant and
cowardly abuse Of defendants aud witnesses
under the cover of his sprivilcgc as an attor-
ncy. Mr.. Merrick had shown how deeply
the Just and temperate criticisms of this
paper cut, In his attempt 60 haul THE
CRITICS STAFF and trustees before tho court
for alleged contempt. Yet he stood up in
court for nearly three days aud indulgcd In
foul-mouthed billingsgato toward dc.
PENDANTS and witnesses sheltering him
self behind his professional privilege,
like the assassin who shoots at you
from the brush. What this paper
has had to say about the trial
was said without any privileged pro-
lection. Perhaps when Mr.. Mcrrck has
recovered from tho excitement" of his
own rhetoric he will not be so free with
his mouth. At any rate, he has lost any
right he might have possessed to complain
of newspaper criticism, or even villiiica-
tion.
In this connection we desire to donounce
his assertion that THE CRITIc or the Ctpi-
tai has libeled slandered or villifed the
Judge jury or counsel as an utter and ma
lignant lie. We have never said aught dis
respectful of the Judge or the jury. We
have confined ourselves to the strict aud
absolute truth in what we have said Of the
prosecuting counsel and certain of their
witnesses, and which VIC arc ready and able
to prove.
= Further. in referring to General Brady's
newspaper ventures in this city, Mr.. Mer
rick's disingcnuousnoss was so flagrant that
it could only proceed from gross ignorance
of what he was talking about or the most
shameless desire to deceive the jury and
the public. General Brady loaned Mr..
Buell. the money to buy the Capital in the
spring of 1880. Afterward, when the
time for the payments came, Mr..
Buell. was unable to meet them,
and, of course, General Brady was
compelled to take Mr.. Buell's stock. the
payments being secured in that way.
That is all there is about the Capital,
except that General Brady does not
now hold solitary share of tho
Capital stock, and that it was then
and is now as good Ito say the least) Sun
day newspaper property as there is in tho
city, and the transaction was q purely
business one. After the election of 1880
General Brady, at the solicitation of numer-
Gus political friends, bought controlling
interest in the National Republican. The
purchase and the installation Of the Hon
George G. Gorham, as editor-in-chief, were
heartily approved and sanctioned by Pres.
licdn as the organ Of his Administration
and to be in safe and capable hands. Mr.
Merrick had nothing to say Of the RepHb
hcdn purchase by General Brady. In the
summer of 1881, fifteen months after the
purchase of the Capital by Mr.. Bucll
THE CRITIC was bought by Messrs. Buell. &c
Helm, General Brady advancing the
money. This was after the death of Mr.
Miller, the business manager O.
THE CRITIC up to the time of his deceasc
This sale was brought about solely through
the efforts of Mr.. Helm, now business man
ager Of The CRITIC, and gentleman
who had been known to General Brady
all his life, and whom he knew rs q flint
printer and good business man, and whit
had years ago himself sold to Genera
Brady the first paper that gentleman had
ever owned-and sold it to him on credit a
that, SO that, in advancing the purchase
money for THE CRITIC to Mr.. Helm
General Brady was only returning pas
favors and rcciprocating previou
business condolences. General Brady |.
not stockholder in THE CRITIC. This Il
the plain tale of General Brady's news
paper property in this city. He entered
into them solely as business man; on {
business basis and, so far as he is con
cerned, has always treated them as bust
ness investments. The sale of tho RepubH
can was made last winter in tn
same way that it was bought
j. G., as purely business matter. We max
these statements at length that the publ
may have no reason for being misled by MI
Merricks venomous distortions Of some O
the facts and malicious suppressons Of som
other Of the facts relating to these matters
Elsewhere in this paper we print
true history, by one who was on the inside G
of the defunct Patriot, that had $i,000,00
behind it. During the first year it wa
practically self.sustaining. During tn
second year it sank $4,000 and collapsed
During the first year Mr.. Richard T. MeI
rick had nothing to do with the manage
ment Of the Patriot. During the secon
year he was a trustee, and had and exer
cised positive control over its busine'
management. That year it sank all il
capital and was laid in its unwept and un
honored grave.
OUR DEMOCRATIC evening contemporary az
mits that the Democratic Congressional Con
mittee have taken two Senate commlttt
rooms rs their political headquarters.