New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-30
MIR, 1BBETTS CANDIDACY.

Mr.. Leon Albeit has been making speeches
every day and evening since his nomination, but,
although his own achievements constitute the
simple and only theme of his Oratory, he has not
found time to answer one of the damaging
charges made against him. He did make an at
tempt to explain away his insulting attitude
toward Lincoln, but the record shows that his
excuse was as untruthful as hs vote was I'M
patriotic. He waves away all quoted history ms
Republican calumny, and then proceeds to
glorify himself as tho friend of the working
man, in spite of The fact that while voting In the
Assembly 10 donble his own salary, by forcing
the State to pay him i'll gold, he helped to per-
petuatc the niquitOus stOre-Ordcr system, under
which wOrkingmen were systematically de-
frauded. He has had the effrOntcTy to
claim specifically that by his efforts IN the Legs
lature, aud as counsel for the employees Of the
Central Railroad, he compelled the reluctant
officers Of the road to hand over to these men
S4OO, 900 due them, and 1T never cost them
cent" Senator Mcpherson took pains TO add
whatever weight his own word carried to this
claim The truth is that the whole claim is not
only basclcss, but a SANDER on the living and
the dead. The act in question passed without
opposition from any one. Judge LathTOp, the
receiver, himself urged the passage of the bill,
was, in reality, its father-and instead of
obstIucting the efforts to pay the men, he was
really the employer of Albeit as counsel, who
asked and received $500 for appearing before
the Chancellor in that capacity.
Persons unacquainted with the colossal
impudcnce Of this man will hardly understand
how it is possible for one aspiring to position
of such dignity to make assertions which can
be so readily disprOved. But claims like
the above are modest when compared with his
brazen effort to pass himself off as an "Anti-
monopolist" Here again the record proves, as
has been abundanty set forth in the press Of
New Jersey, that no public man has 50 indus
triOusly pandered to the appetite Of hungry
corporations. If a water front is to be occupied;
if millions of dollars worth Of property, belong
ing to corporations is to be exempted from tax
alton, and the burdens thrown upon the people;
if an irrepealable contract" is to be invented,
under which the rights Of the State are to be
denied for ever if the practice Of the courts is
to be subverted to facilitate the escape of arail-
road from meeting its obligations, and helping
il to defeat the law, Mr. Albeit is on hand in
the Assembly, in the Senate, in the
lobby, in the courts, always and for
ever the Jealous agent OF corporate greed.
These charges are established by the record,
quoted against him page after page, and he
knows that everybody who hears him knows
that he is an impOstOr when he proclaims his
affection for the people and his hostility to cor
poratc aggression.
And after all, those passages in his career
which never have appeared on record are inf
nitely worse than those which every one can
read. People who have some knowledge of the
ways of the lobby will understand that 1t may
be difficult to prove many disgracefu acts
which are known to a moral certainty TO have
been perpetrated. The reputation for virtue or
the lack of it in public men is not based on
what is sworn to in court or printed in Legis
lative journals. But none the less is 1t usually
a correct measure of personal character. The
charges which stand as common fame
against Mr.. Albeit would never stick to
Judge Dixon or to Frederic A. Potts, to name
the last two Republican candidates for Gov
ernor of New-Jersey. Neither would they have
been listened to if brought against any one of
the Democratic candidates who have been pre-
sented for the last fifteen years. The nomina-
ton OF a man with q tainted repute is an UNI
pleasant innovation in the politics of that State,
where high character, personal and official, has
always been esteemed the first requisite Of q
candidate for its chief magistracy. This
explains why he was driven from the Con-