New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-17

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! In his letter accepting Dcmocratic nomination
for Congress, T. w. IIigginson speaks Of President
CIeycIands singular courage" Yes, the PreSi-
dents courage is quite singular" The courage
of nm c.iice-sceker who four years ago pronounced
the eligibility of a President for reelection
most serious danger" to the common veal, and,
nevertheless is to-day striving to compass re-
election TO the Presidency, must needs be sin
gular.s And what shall be said of the courage
of a President who, after publicly addressing
an important order to his own appontecs, SUI
| fcrs them contemptuously to ignore itp Surely
his courage is nothing if not singular Harpers
Weekly, not long ago admitted that Civil Service
Rcformer Cleveland had yielded TO thu pressure
put upon him by the spoilSmen of his party.
What is this but another tribute TO the Presidents
" singular courage? The fact is some OF the
notable examples of courage which Mr.. Cleveland
has displayed since he became President are so
sngularly singular as to be synonymous with
cowardioc.
Having surveyed the field Of local politics and
| found little encouragement and no inducement 10
depart from its rule of conduct and tell the truth,
The Evening POST falls back, presumably not IN
despair but in contentment upon falsehood, and
asserts that The Tribune is doing all in its power
to bring about the election of Grant. 1t is an
| offensive piece of " cool check the part of
that Democratic organ TO divide its editorial space
about equally between frantic appeals TO Republic
cans to vote the Democratic ticket and frantic
denunciations of Republican paper for not sup
porting the Republican ticket. However, it all
goes 10 show that when superior being has once
embarked in the cause of Democratic reform he need
not be expected to permit either common sense or
common decency to prevent him from making
fool of himself.
This country Of ours is Z" ripe for spelling
REFORM" if "The Atlanta Constitution" is not
mistaken. 1t is clear, however, that The Con-
sttution7 itself does not share this rpeness.
For il spells the of the next President of the
United States with a instead of with an Ii.
The dollar-a-day lie ought to be disposed of
forever by the statement just prepared by Mr..
Huston, chairman of the Republican State Com
mittee of Indiana. All the evidence that was
ever adduced in support Of the charge a state
ment by one John G.. Schwartz. and cOrrobOratve
aflidavts by politician named Levi o. Bailey,
one of the gang led by Sim COy who is now in
the penitentary for committing election frauds,
and one T. +. Gould. who is described an I'M
reliable, half-crazy agitatOr" Both the latter, it
IS admitted, not present at the meeting where
the words alleged to have been used, and none
of them is person Of standing. Now, to prove
the falsty Of the story, the Republican State
Committee of Indiana have procured from q large |
number Of well-known citizens of high character
afdavits denying that anything OF the kind was |
said. DR.. Patrick II. Jamison, one of the best |
known citizens of indianapolis, who suggested the
formation of citizens committee during the |
strike of 1870 was present al al the conferences,
a. q mi.
absolutely that any such language used. |
General Foster. Joseph r. Perry, leading bust |
ness man. and John T. Presley, sheriff of the |
county at the time, confirm this. Willis /. La !
Rue, Henry McPeck and Alpheus hight and other |
representative strikers who were present. also con-
tradict the story. Thomas w. Christian. brick !
mason. and w. S. Elliott. another striker add |
their testimony to the same effect The last |
named says: heard all General Harrison said, |
and. while he spoke earnestly, he spoke very |
kindly and entirely in the interest Of the men, |
On top Of these is an affidavit by six men who |
heard Gould the real father of the dollar-a- day"
lie, say once that he did not believe Harrison ever
said such a thing, because he is " no fool.' The
best testimony on the subject is that Of common
sense man would have to be both a fool and
a rogue TO make such remark. and General
Harrison has never been accused Of being either.
Secretary Whitney makes desperate attempt
to whoop up the Presidents beated Retaliation
policy. He thinks that there is no danger of war,
hut is sure that we could whip England any
way.
II appears that there Is Bachelors Club in
neighbOring New-Jersey town. and that one of its
regulations provides that whenever member
commits The offence Of getting married, he must
proceed to condone it by giving a dinner to the
club This is all very well, but one of the at
ttndant rites is plainly against public policy; for
it is stated that ut such dinner on Monday night
served at hotel in this city, all the members of
the club who were present-eghteen in number
besides the host-made speeches in accordance
with a bylaw. With Congress still in session
and the newspapers full of campaign oratory,
this must have been disheartening in the extreme
There is a time for all things but this is no time
n,