New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-29


tati0n az political acrobat is second only TO Ills
reputation as a inancer with other people money
George W. Calderwood. a gentleman much hearu oi
the late campaign and frequently quoted ny in. ~. n
rlereiaI as a witness against Mr.. Leonard saiu W VIC
writer in Chicago that Halstead received S47'oo
from the Republican National Committee 10 pay III '''i
the bills Of The Neu- York Ertrd
The Eyfra was about half the 0izs OF the Iee0Td"
II mad All edition Of about 5000 but ME- C"u0i "'
says Mr.. Halstead claimed 10000
II was issued about seventeen weeks, or totai eoS' Vi
$1l 200. ~
The difference between $l1 200 paid out ana 'ne
Si3 900 received S3l 800 This sum has never pee
accoul ted for except as salary for Mr. haiS''""'
services as editor in chief. cincinnati Telegram
There is a good deal of Jealous, not 10 say
malicious. misinformation Of this sort afloat'
which might as well be stopped. AS The Ezra was
printed on THn TRIBUNEs presses, we may clam
70 know something about it. It's circulation during
the greater part of its existence ranged from
20 600 to go 600 copies. The National Committee
never paid either TO Mr.. Halstead or to anybody
else either $4,000 or quarter OF that sum lor IT,
Mr.. Halstcad himself never received penny lor
his services upon it in any shape or form, direetV
or Indirectly. He was not even paid his expenses
Nobody made any money out OF 1t excepting the
printers They were paid 40 cents thousand Tor
the composition, and, at this rate, good and Dad
men and boys, cOntflVed TO average oFci P-- P'i
week apiece while they worked at it.
1t should not be forgotten that the Conkiihg
interview was the second forgery of the campaign
by which IT was sought to bolster up the fortunes
of Tweed's old pal. The first victim OF the forgery
was President Cleveland for whom letter ndors-
ing Hill was invented, which he promptly
repudiated
Some time ago The TRIBUNE suggested that
clubs be started to dfuse among the RepubHcah
voters of the country q clearer knowledge OF the
political issues now before the people, and to
enlighten them in regard to the fundamental ideas
of the Republican party. The idea has taken
shape in many places and is likely to bea1 good
fruit Among others it set the Young Mems Repub-
can Club of New Haven Conn. to thinking, and the
result is that that they have started an attractive
and interesting periodical called The Young
Republican, which will be valuable to the young
Republican voters of New-Ilayen and Connecticut
in general. We congratulate the organization on
their prarsewOrthy venture, and hope that it will
succeed 50 well that young Republicans in other
localities may be inspired to 90 and do likewise
II is not in the spirit of partisan politics. but
rather in that of common honesty and decency,
that we urge upon all good citizens of Queens
County the cordial support of Garrett J. Garretson
for the Office Of County Judge against Is. W.
Downing. Certainly IT there is any Office with
which sober intelligent voters cannot afford to
triIe and which they should rs one man protect
from the menace Of bad control 1t is that of County
Judge Downing has had long lease of public life.
and has been fer wears the subject OF bad
report His sin found him out at last
Ills trial was fnll and fair, and the Judgment
rendered against him not nearly so severe III ITS
consequences as his crime deserved The statute OF
limitations has not yet expired against HIM, and
elected Il Judge, if the Distrct-Attomey and Grand
Jury do their duty, he Will yet lie before his own
court prisoner But it is not nceivable that
the people will permit his election. They will not
Permit the whine of persecution nor the appeal
for vinlcation" to blind them to the brand that
wOuld be placed upon thciI cOunty's good name by
the triumph of such a person as Downing
A Detroit dispatch says that in the event of the
probable retirement Of Attorney General Garland.
the Hon. DAM Dickinson. described man
who has ten times more inhuenc, with the Presi-
dent in getting appointments than any other man
in Michigan, will be given the place. Under this
Administration IT really does not seem of much i'm
p0rtance what mans qualifications for office may
or may not he, so that he has influence
Secretary Whitney should now put in snug
quarters his pet Advisory Board This is the time
when roo much cannot be taken of tender
plants.
The Darlington Is. c. Aers figures up that there
has been much more violence in that Stats since
the law enacted against duelng than in the
decade before its passage. 1t calls for the repeal of
the law and wants to the good old times again
when the personal accountability of man to man
held full sway. The South has a good deal to
contend against in her Oligarchcal public teachers
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