New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-10
DEMOCRATIC LIES NAILED.
EX-SENATOR SLOAN TO MR.. FAssETT.

THE LETTER SHOULD BE READ BY THOSE WHO
ARE CRYING DIssESsIoN.
The following letter to Mr. Fassett from ex-senator
Sloan. Warner Mler's most Intimate pollhcai insno'
will be Interesting TO those who are trying To cause
dissension In Republican ranks It Will be agreeable
10 all loyal members Of the parry:
"Oswego, y. y, Nov 5. 1891
my Dear Senator: Your Republican colleagues M
the Senate have come to regard you as g'lde anu
friend, but II they could read your telegram TO me 10
day think they wonld hail you in the broader sens
OF guide, philosopher and friend l am prompted
To say this because of the philosophical and as De-
lieve the prophetic contents OF your MESSAGE
Just how soon your reward will come no one can
tell, hut OF one thing there be no doubt-whe1i
the rise and fall Of Tammany is written, the young
samson who shook its pillars vigorously at the
citadel OF its power will not be forgotten In the CITY
OF New York, where Tammany T. not a stranger t'
shrunken vote will stand the record OF your Vin-
dication.
"If the popular mind in the country had been As
well prepared 10 appreciate the evils which cniea OUT
your criticisms the response in your favor would have
been decidedly more emphatic. In looking our dis
appointment in the face, II may not be amiss 10 70
member that II takes time to mature the fruit OF any
seed, however well it may have been sown
In this it Is evident the harvest was not yet
Had it been a Presidential year. with its four months
further and taken deeper root than was possible
in the brief period Of a state election canvass
u confess that the result a surprise 10 me-
The Indications in all parts Of the State bad 20 h'ied
with confidence that the ogre OF defeat scarcely
lurked In my thoughts. II he did make himself felt
there II family and 50 briefly that all reeoIec-
ton of him vanished as quickly as II came.
"Oswego County disappointed everybody. Very
few If any Democrats looked for less than 5000 Re
pubEran plurality. and yet II fell far below that
YOu WILL query how the falling of can be accounted
for Certainly all OF the ante-elect.on signs were as
favorable for the Republican candidates when We
have carried the county by more than 5000 The
roads were good and the weather all that could
be desired. Why then there such apathy at the
last mOmeMi BY what kind of arguments were so
many voters induced to stay at home. when the In
tereSt evfnced for our ticket earnest and so
general!
There can be but one explanation, and that ex-
PLANTATION needs no EXPERIMENTATION. The conversions
10 absenteesm were more numerous than can De
credited 10 the influence Of argument. That persuar
sion used there be doubt but that the most
seductive Of all persuasons In at the last moment
and gathered many absences Is not matter ID con-
trovery It IS surmsed indeed, that the Importance
of deep plougbing in jefferson County Was 50 earnestly
urged upon the husbandmen Of that locality that a
sense OF MS seriousness somehow swept the line
ched out INTO other counties and produced an effect
upon those living heyOnd Ier OWL DDuhuaI1cs' LIE
most experienced politicians OF oswego County take
that ;1eT of II and reason to doubt its cor
rectness No such wonderful change in the political
situation OF Oswcgo County ever took place before
Oh the dsy or the eve Of an election.
Bna I can see no good to come from dwelling upon
what has passed can / derive satisfaction In
giving UP 10 jeremads. The thing is done and cannot
be undone II is cOnsolng, however to remember
that whatever the other consequences may be- the man
who wore the plumed helmet comes out Of the fight
ulscathed. No gartered knight could be more chval
rous your telegram is proof that no candidate could
meet defeat with more cOmpOsure or in better spirit
Since my view OF the situation tells me thar you
are in no need Of coincidence, / offer none. look
upon your personal relations to the contest as deserving
of congratulations, and those offer with all my heart
Believe me to be as ever, very truly yours,
GEORGE B. SLOAN.
GTo the Hon. J. Sloat Fassett"