New-York tribune., 1885-10-23
THE NEW-YORK TIMES AND THE pppV,
DENT

DENoUNCING THE MAN FOR WHOSE SAKE IT sr
PORTS DAVENPORT.
To The Edftor OF The Trtbune
SIR: The strenuous efforts which The W
York Times is now making serve two mas,a,.,
task which there is the highest authority for sav,
impossible Of accomplishment-exctes the ,p,...
which always attends the performance Of an unr..,
feat In the acrobac line. On its showing The II
is for Grover Cleveland, orthodox Democrat, and -
Davenport orthodox Republican. In other words q, =,
striving for the success OF both the great polit.,
parties and would fain make Itself solid with ho,s
price two cents, This brilliant cosmopolitan sch.
for arresting what you have neatly styled n f,i
barometer in the countlngrocm" OF The Times man s
ceed, but should imagine not. The fines meets -.
charge that It Is desperately endeavorng to ride g.
horses going in opposite directions at the same lin.
asserting that it is supporting Mr. Davenport no, .,
the sake OF the Republican party-Oh, no but by w.
OF holding up the hands Of Mr.. Cleveland!
Now in order to render this unaue exn
nation even plausible The Times Of course must So
that 1t really desires to have Mr. Ceyeands hands hal
up Can tshow that THE TRIBUNE has taken occassn,
demonstrate by frequent quotations from The 1iw,s.
columns that OF late it has fouly abused not oply M
leaders but the rank aud file Of the Republican nar
But Mr. Editor, President Cleveland, all intelp,.
persons know, has Jared better at the hands Of IA
Times Wants to hold up Cleyelands hands, does n,
Why, within the year just before Cleveland was nm
mated to his present Office The Times stignatzea him "a
the most caustIc BY referring to Its files sa
that on its editorial page Grover Cleveand-the man n,
whose sake 1t is now supporting Mr. Davenport-va
denounced being affected with blindness or despe,
hardihood, or o combination OF the tyo", :.
" authorizing the robbery OF the public On .
great scale" as having "smply yielded =,
political pressure" so that ethe people woas
give up their faith In the honest intentions oyerp
Cleveland" being willing to swiDdlc the achiteets
of the Capitol out of money which the State owes h
for work done for the State In order to gain repuiao
az a reformer "-said proposed swindng the part Of
Cleveland being fL~ her referred TO as about ths
cheapest and scurv p trick of this very ow.pre
reformer"; as exhibiting "humbug prctensious abon
ex-senator Murthas preenineut and shining fitness IA,
the office to which he has been named from considers,
tlons purely pOltical being "a parochial states
man." indulging in meaningless utterances Oh ths
subject of labor in OF his annual messao
to the LEGISLATURE" All this and much more OF ,hs
same sort is stamped on tho editorial pages Of m
Times.
And yet this is the paper that now asks people with
heads their shoulders and brains and not sawdusta
their beads to credit the statement that il is suppOr
ing" Mr. Davenport in the interests Of Cleveland TIA
frozen fact is The Times has dsgusted Republicans and
disguised Democrats by Its miscellaneous traltoroq
course, and not knowing in its extremity which way
turn, IS trying to turn both ways-for revenue only.
NeiC- York, Oct. 81, 1888. KNICKBRBocKER