New-York tribune., 1891-10-16
4 CASE or ZIG HEAD"

"I want particularly to call your attention
20 the spectacle which we are now witnessing
in this State" This was the announcement
with which the present Governor Of the state
of New-York. the United States Senator-eect
from the State of New-Y York, the candidate OF
the Democratic party Of the State Of Ncw-YOrk
for President of the United States, opened a
speech at Bu(TaO to an audience OF 1000 peo-
ple. Everybody must have been interested at
once to know what the spectacle was that this
distinguished person considered so startling and
strange. Still moro interested when he de-
scribed it, "The Republican candidate for
Governor" said he, with the impressive manner
and solemn intOration of the fakir az the
curb leading his hearers up through the details
of an unusually narrowing recital to the offer
of an uncommony useful soap, "is trying to
run away from his record" This was indeed
"spectacle." The 1900 Buffalo people who
hal gathered to hear and see the Governor,
United States Senator, and probable Presidential
candidate, bent forward eagerly to hear the
great man on the platform describe the per-
formance. Evidently he had caught the Rcpub-
hcan candidate for Governor in some grave de-
linquency had proved Il from the record, and
put the criminal to flight. The 1000 Buffalo
people were now to enjoy the satisfaction of
seeing him trying to run away from his
record"
The eminent statesman entered at once with
much cilcumstantiality and detail into the har-
rowing narrative with which he led up to the
stereGtYped statistics setting forth the superior
qualities of his soap. It appears that some
three or four years ago" as the Governor rather
loosely states it he sent to the Senate the name
Of Michael Rickard as Railroad Commissioner
of this State" and that he was not confirmed.
Mr.. Tassett thought that he voted for the con-
frmatOn, and was reported TO hayc said 50.
Governor He'll, whose memory Of the points he
played in the game appears 10 be very good,
remembered that he did not. This constituted
the " spectacle" And the Governor, with rather
more excitement than the occasion seemed to
call for, proposed b have the question settled
right off In his confidence in the correctness
Of his memory he said ''lf he can eStab
lish by the records of this State or by proof
that he voted for the confirmation of Michael
Rickard | agree to say not a single other word
in this canvass" TO which we beg leave to
suggest the bare possibility that our eminent
statesman, Governor, Senator, and probable can
didate for President, has overes,imated his own
importance in the canvass. Considering what
he has done and is doing on the stump, Mr..
Fdseett might well hesitate had he oceans of
proof to offer them, If the effect would be the
withdrawal Of Governor Hill from the canvass.
For he is quite spectacle himself; an object
lesson, in fact, which the voters of this State
may find it useful to consider
The Governors alternative proposition to Mr..
FasSett was this "And | suggest that if he
cannot establish that fact, which he stated the
other evening, he himself ought to withdraw
from further participation in this canvass"
That is to say, if Mr.. Fassett cannot establish
the fact that he voted three or four years ago