New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-11
LET THEM DO TUEIR UORS7.


iority at Albany during the past week
il is not clear whether imbccity or dcprauty
is their ultimately controlling force. Until they
opened the Maynard inquiry it appeared as II
their brains might be slightly better than their
morals But when, in bcdlcncc 10 Hi com
mand. they determined TO furnish him with 4
whitcwashing report for use in his crazy quest
after the Democratic Presidential nomination.
as q sort of off set to the Bar Associations ter
rjblc indictment. they did the slicSt thing that
gang of dull-wittcd politicians was ever
fooled into. They have drawn on themselves
the ridiculc. contempt and Indignation of every
man in the state who possesses spark OF IN
tclliccncc or feels a throb of honesty.
Before their committee had held its first
session. the very raScals whose acts it was to
investigate wrote the report it Is now about
10 bring in. And. 10y their direction, it pro
ceeded to create a record without the smallest
prctcncc Of regard for the facts, 10 sustain
that report 1t hired. n public expense a
couple of attorneys. and committed 10 them the
task of insulting and bullying the most dis
tingushod lawyer, of Ncw-lok. Instead OF
investigating Maynards crimes these hired
attorneys undertook 10 investigate Mr. Peck
ham. Mr.. Coudcrt, Mr.. Carter. Mr. Stichncy
and their associates and To- create the i'm
preston that these gentlemen had attacked the
character Of judicial officer. whom most OF
them had never met because thcX were Re
publicans, or because they dcSpiscd David i.
Hill. or because they had appeared for interests
which MAYNARD ~ lawyer. had opposed. Then
the committee brought forward a witness who
unblushingly sworc himself guilty Of perjury.
and there their investigation closed. Not
one word of the testimony they took was ad-
mis,iblc. Not one fact bore even remotely on
the subject Of their so-calcd inquiry. And
when the Republican minority offered 10 bring
in testimony which was pertinent and 10 prove
that Maynard had deliberately lied in his de-
fcn>ive letter to the Court of Appeals, they
refused 10 allow il
This was committee Of lawyers and on II
sat senator Parker of Albany, Senator Ne
Mahon and Senator McClcand-thrcc Demo
Gratis who make a large prctcncc Of rcSpccta
biIity Each Of these men knows that in re
fusing - admit this testimony or TO examine
the witnesses summoned by senator SaXton, he
violated his oath and committed an act of down
right dishonesty. Each Of them knows that he
has voted to shield the foucSt political crime
that has ever been pcrpctratcd in any Northern
State. and that his vote was given in humble
obedience TO the order Of David i. Hill, under
whose direction and for whose benefit the crime
was DONE ReSpcctablc" Faugh! Now
let's hear no more of that. These three men
have taken their proper places with the CantoIs
and Suffers the plunkitts and SullyanS. They
have been whipped by man they detest into
acts they know 10 be utterly wrong.
Now, let the Democrat, 60 right ahead. Sen
ator O'ConnOr gave them the truth
when he said the other night that neither
the people nor the Republican party ask or
expect of them anything decent, fair or hon
orablc. They have gone so far in their
lawleSs course Of bOodling and Scat-Stcang
that the worse they do now the better They
have riotcd in public franchises. They have
robbed the courts of public confidence They
have disfranchiscd nine counties. They have
connected one Of the most shameful gerry
manders that ever appeared in an American
Legislature. They are preparing now
10 steal next fall by the trick of
artful boundary arrangements what they
stole last fall by dishonest arithmetic and
the theft Of public records. They are trying
TO pass u bill to enable them to steal the Pres
idcncy by placing the whole MACHINERY Of No
yembcrs election in this city in the hands Of
Tammany Hall. Let them go right ahead with
their whole programme. The people will see
TO them and to their master in good season.