New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-03
DTSCTSTED UITH ITS COMPiN1.


We now learn-after the event-that 1.-The
Evening Post" was perfectly well aware three
yeals ago that Isaac II. Maynard who has just
been appointed Judge of the Court OF Appeals
by Governor Flower, in payment, aS Is supposed
for that PERSONS services 10 senator lii III steal
Ing the state Senate, was an unworthy per-
son. 1.-THE Evening POST claims the merit OF
having made the discovery, and published 1t
"excllsivey1 Ii says " it was a great mistake
to rut him on the Democratic State ticket in
1882, as was shown by his being defeated ana
running behind his ticket. 1t was another mis-
take TO appoint him Deputy Attorney General
in 1884. and another mistake to appoint him
Second Controller in the Treasury in 1889, but
a greater mistake than all to make him Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury after Mr.. Manning
deathD This is bad series of mistakes Tor
two or three Of which we observe with some
surprise that ex-Prcsdcnt Cleveland must have
been more or less responsible; but all growing
out of inattention to the original discovery OF
"The Evening Post" The moral is plain, of
course. Like the claim to lis "cycluSiyc' dis
coyery it smells little of journaSm,' but
nevertheless has great force. 1t is thai, when
once the mistake is made OF dlSregardIng the
opinion of THE Evening Post" it is only the
beginning of series of mistakes ending at last
in dsgraceful crimes and seat on the bench
of the Court of Appeals.
We ac not by any means disposed to take
issue with our contemporary in this particular
instance. The end crowns the work. In view
of the train of circumstances which led TO Mr.
Maynards appointment it seems clear that each
step in his promotion was mistake, and that
he is himself a mistake. 1t would certainly seem
so if our contemporary is correct in saying that
chs presence on the 'cnch of the Court of APP
peals. As the reward of his raScalitics, is surely
one of tho most humililting incidents III the his
tory of the state, unless we except the presence
of Mr.. Flower who appointed him, in the Gov
ernors chair" There is no occasion for heated
argument over the assertion Of our contemporary
that both the Governor and his appolntec are
monstrositicS" Still, we may perhaps be per-
mitted TO remark that during the period covered
by these successive mistakes" The Evening
Post" was day by day contributing to the extent
of its ability IN the several tongues in is yocabu-
larry and with the various acids in lis labOra-
tory, 10 the success, not only of the party which
was responsible for Mr.. Maynard, but Of the
eminent statesmen who were building him up
and fitting him for future usefulness "Tho
Evening POST might have done excellent ser
vice in preventing good deal of this. Instead
Of which it did much to promote 1t.
When our contemporary remarks that " the
Governor of the State, the Secretary Of the state,
and a member of the bar deemed lit for a scat
in the court of last resort, were in n conspiracy
for the preparation Of gross electoral fraud,
and did perpetracc it successfully, and the main
features of this fraud were those of common
everyday penitentIary crime in which money is
obtained by bogus checks or false prctenccS,"
it states very tcrsey what most people believe
concerning the existing political situation in this
State And yet when the respectable c.tizen
rushcs out OF dive at midnight cXclaimins tina.
the place is a disgrace and that all sorts OF las
calitics Are going on there the first inquiry tina,
arises in the mind Of the average listener Ii,
"Well, how came you in therc?'