New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-07-14
indorse these claims he thinks that the results sun,
of the experiment at Wellsville are rena'A"'''
and worth Uf attention.
FORGETTING THAT "GREAT FRAUD"


Things are coming to head. NO" MI her-
nan has forgotten as Hoadly DID, OF ratler
more so. With Hoadly and kerran deter
mined to condone the great fraud" ana CieVe-
land condoning them for cOndoning H. 'iiihSS
are in muddle. At the outset Mr.. Ilideh ran
this Administration, and used it to pay Ills
debts II cost President Cleveland not ltIie
to settle various political and personal debts OF
the cipher campaign, and he might be pardoneu
if the payment left little soreness. presently
came the appointment OF Coiiector' MI
Tilden and his immediate friends strongly recon-
mended one man to the establishment OF many
President Cleveland appointed another.
Greatly to Mr.. Tildeu's disgust, for the veneer
able sage of Cipher Alley still remembers more
about politics than some of his antagonists ever
knew. Mr.. Cleveland made Hedden Collector
TINS identifying himself with Hubert w.
Tbompson. 1t is said that this was done at the
peremptory demand of Mr.. Manning, VINO pro-
noses at all hazards to have the Administration
so conducted if he has anything to do Win IT,
rs to make the important Offices useful IN con-
trolling the Democratic organization. thus IL
seems that the new men, Manning and Ihomp-
son. are not content to take orders from MI.
Tildcn, and at present have more power Win
the Administration than anybody else. Ndtur-
ally. there is anger at Greystone. If Mr.. IiIden
cared nothing about other results, it would
make him wrathy to have an Administration Tor
which he is supposed to be responsible make al
ass of itself.
Now comes the Noyes business. Probably 1t
was originally mere blunder. When Cover
nor Hoadly does anything that is not blunder'
his friends are amazed and delighted. but TIE
Administration saw that it could not AFFORD I"
make war on the Democratic Governor OF oh'o'
with Mclean sharpening his tomahawk ior
fight in that State. There was the influence OF
Senator Payne also to be considered, ana the
threatened hostility of Warner. Clearly the
Administration could not afford to cut loose
from all the strong Democrats in the one Octo-
Der State of the West. The chance was offered
10 separate Mr. Tilden and his influence from
Governor Hoadly and the last chance oil
Democratic success in Ohio. That gave the
Administration an opportunity to set up Tor
itself. Hence. lust when Mr.. Tildcn's friends
and mouthpieces were matchmaking iioadlS
because he had forgotten and had "condoncd
It. President Cleveland deliberately wrote Il kind
letter To the Governor. and so condoned IL NM
self One can imagine the rage at Grtys!one
when it was observed that Cleveland wrote
that the Moves matter had occasioned him no
trouble." Was it conceivablel Could this
man thus speak contemptuously and nd'iler-
emily of an appointment which placed the DEM
ocratic party on record as forgetting " the great
fraud =
And now comes ex-senator Herman 1t was
natural, PERHAPS, that Mr. Herman shonld have
& 4. hot -, ;,,nu nj.
sighted by the party dictator at Greystonc.
Bat whether there were in him any promptings
of jealousy or not, this at least comes to the
surface Herman also declares that he has for
gOttcn.n Nay, worse ; he declares the appoint
ment too small thing 20 cause any serious
trouble" This is insult hcaped on insult.
Greystone organs .wrathfuiiy quote the Wild
words uttered by ex-senator Herman IN the
Senate during the electoral contest, and they
ask show he can have SO far forgotten as to
hold the appointment of Noyes too small mat
ter to arouse the Democratic patty TO indigna-
ton"
Greystone has the best OF it, in one respect,
which the Democrats who forget will have oc-
casion to consider seriously before they are
much older. The whole Democratic party has
put itself on record. as being i'll dreadful state
of mind about the business OF 1876. Was it
merely lying, or playing the hypocTitc for popu-
lar effect Did it know all the time that it had
no decent grounds for its complaint III 80,
those who c0ndone ii, aud forget 1T. and
consider it too small thing to cause any
disturbance, are quite in the right. But il not,
President Cleveland has been stirring up
hornets nest.