New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-03
TILE "CHAIRMANn AGAIN.

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the front to confess that he is responsible lie did
spread abroad the foolish untruth about the
million copies of TRIBUNE Extra, and the
Democratic Committee, and our wicked intent to
assassnate the Republican State ticket His CON
ing words of ours yesterday. But that
did not delay him. He was able-by an
arrangement no doubt with the Democrats
to get The World to print his letter of confession
and avoidance, and so we need now only comment
upon 1t.
Mr.. Smyth admits that It was all lie
about the million extra TRIBCNEs clrcu-
lated by the Democratic State Committee. bat
pleads that this an immatcral error" So! 1t
was only such little one, for You. was it, Mr.
Chairman 1t sounded better to say million -
it would make the ignorant voter (yoU
have great faith in the ignorance of
voters, Mr. Smyth,) think that there was
tremendous conspiracy, awful outpouring
of money, n perfect flooding of the whole State
with dangerous truth You are generous sort
of man for a Scotchman, Mr.. Smyth you
don't mind a little thing like making
number five times as big as the fact,-especially
when you are playing a last card" over
your own yeracous signature That was
merely AN immaterial error and you
your part 10 tell one of that sze-only litle five
for one LEA mere lie of mon-especially
when 1t was well calculated TO affect tho mind of
d" the ignorant Republican voter"
With the exception of this "immateral error"
about the million copies and the Democratic State
Committee, Mr. Smyth thinks his last card"
dispatch was all right. Well, there was moth
ing else in it, save that THE TRIB-
UNE's editorials have been intended to :" as
sassinac the State ticket" Here Mr.. Chairman
Smyth is at his best. There is nothing wrong in
this State save with the newspapers that can't hold
their tongues. Mr. "Steve" French then and
now the close friend of this lovely chairman,)
merely turned the State Committee. and by cOnse-
quence the State Convention, by an mpudent
forgery, but that of course didn't hurt
the State ticket. Mr.. Platt Carpenter was
merely bought up for the shadow of
Lieutenant Goyernorship, but that of course didn't
hurt that fire-proof state ticket. The Administration
merely outraged uine-tenths Of the Republicans in
the State by using fraud and forgery to thrust
its candidate down their throats, but that didn't
hurt the State ticket. The most discredited,
the most odious and the most unfit per-
son in the Republican party in the State of
New-York was merely put at the head of
the fraudulently appointed State Committee, but
of course that didn't hurt this State ticket
Nothing hurt, till The TRIBUNE editorials
calmly mentioned and deplored the no.
torious facts Then, bloody murder this horrible
newspaper in the Judgment of Mr.. Chairman
John f. Smyth, is not loyal to the State ticket
made by the forgery and fraud of Saratoga,
And who is this John +. Smyth who thus con-
tributes fine flavor of mendacty. deceit and blue
ribbon folly to a canvass which had its inception
in fraud and forgery which has been conducted
with conceded stupidity, and whose end is to be dis
nal failure
lie is the man whose record Insurance Superin-
tcpdcnt was so scandalous that one Republican
Senate was only prevented by purely political rea-
Suns from scourging him from Office charges pre-
ferred, while another Republican Senate, supported
by nineteen. twenteths of the Republican newspa-
pers of the State, Indignantly rejected his name as
utterly unworthy of confirmation when he came up
for reappointment.
He is the man whom Judge of the Supreme
Court, not so many months ago, appointed receiver
of an unfortunate company only to recall the APP
pointment and his senses when he found what
storm OF public condemnation the act promised to
bring upon his judicial head.
He is the man who for years has debauched the
politics of the county in which he resides never
hesiiatng to accomplish his purposes by stabbing
Republican candidates that he cannot control. and
always being associated in political wirepulhng
with Democratic boss as INSCRIPTIONS as himself
so that he can trade and be traded with.
He Is the man who while posing % leader in
the politics of Albany County, inspired so much
distrust on the part of Republicans as actually to
find it necessary the of important election
to come out in u card and state, in effect, that he
did not intend to knife the head of the ticket.
He is the man who the author of that con-
summate piece of political scouudrelsm, which was
cxecrated from one end of the State to the other
having for its object by of snap primaries the
chsement of largo proportion of the Repub-
licaus of his city. The annals of politics may be
searched in vain for a more fragrant outrage upon
the rights of the people.
lilo IS the man whose vulgar contempt for those
moral forces upon which alone abiding Republican,
ism is conditioned appears In his oft-quoted protest
against Sunday school methods in politics.
lie is the man whose naked incapacity for even
the commonest grade of gratitude and whose rare
aptitude for consistent subssrvency to the dictates
of the machine appear the dastardly course he
has pursued toward Governor Cornell
He IL the man who stood at the back of Stever
French at Saratoga, and all through this canvass
has eyinced for him consideration which may well
methods that resemble his own. They were lovely
in their lives aud after Tuesday they will not be
divided
lie Is the man whose entire political career, since
tho days when, rs Postmaster. he ran his Office
simply as an TO the machine, down to the pres
ent time when he is menaced by the defeat which
he did SO much to make inevitable, has been heavy