New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-22
THE CORRESPONDENCE.


Mr.. Hewitt and Mr. George have each assailet
with great vigor the weak point of the other
Neither succeeds In defending himself against
the attacks made, because both are in position:
absolutely indefensible. Mr.. Hewitt ought TO b(
beaten because he is the candidate and Twill he
mill he the instrument of the Democratic rings.
Mr. George ought to be beaten because he is
the candidate and instrument of men who are
| hostile alike to true freedom of labor and to the
right OF labor to its savings. Both are laboring
effectively for Mr. Roosevelt by demolshing
each other.
Mr.. Georges latest letter is not quite parlia-
mentary in tone, but it is terribly severe be-
cause so much of it is true. Mr.. Hewitt knows
that the rascals who have robbed the City of
New York for years have put him up as Il cir
instrument, first, because Mt. George threatens
to wrest from them the control of the city and
the power to plumber the people second, be-
cause they think they can use Mr.. Hewitt
through his party associations. his unfdmli
arity with details of city affairs, and his Gre
dnlity third, because he is rich and will con-
tribute largely TO the expen SEES of a canvass /;
aud finally because they would rather have half
a loaf than no bread. 1t is a terrible arraign-
ment because everybody knows that Mr..
Hewitt's wealth and influence and honorable
reputation are used to help this set Of knaves,
and that NJ. George is perfectly within the
truth when he says, "All the power of the
boards, the depal tments, the officials and the
rings will be used to bully, coerce or bride
voters to support Mr.. Hewitt, and the working
man who votes for me will have to do so resist
ing bride in the form of money, favor or
work."
Mr.. Hewitt depicts with great power the
dangers to society if the false theories of Mr..
George shoald come to control. The labOrer
would be robbed of his freedom by trades
unions which boycott the workers who do not
consent TO be their slaves. He is to be robbed
OF the fruits of his labor if he has invested
them in a lot of ground for his home. He is to
be infamed by prejndices and passions to
warfare of injustice against capital, and IN
that struggle every blow he deals will hnrt
himself more than any body else, because labor
can prosper only where capital is protected and
encouraged. The tendency Of cOmmunlstlc
ideas is indeed fatal to social progress and
especially to the we'll being of the laboring peO-
ple and Mr.. Hewitt would like to have all the
conservative aud sober voters of the city
believe that his election by the corrupt rings is
the only way to defeat Mr.. George.
But there is better and surer way The
Engineers Union, which has resolved that they
want no George and free trade, points out the
right path. The Republican party stands for
protection of labor and Justice to labor and
capital alike. Its candidate deserves more of
public confidence than either the candidate of
the Democratic rings, which have so long
plundered the city, or the candidate of the
ultra free traders, the boycOtting trades I'M
iouists and the communists who threaten the
prosperity of Its labor.