New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-18

Most Of the Democratic newspapers Of thia
State preserve toward the Senate steal a dis
erect and eloquent silence. They know there is
no ground on which it can possibly be defended,
and not having the courage and honesty 10 say
what they think, they do tho next best thing.
Occasionally, however. one of them ventures in
a tmd way to say something in the nature Of
a general assurance that it is all right The
Syracuse Courier" for instance, mildly observed
the other day that il will be "much mistaken if
Judge Maynard shall not utterly conlound his
accusers before he gets through with them
"The Courier evidently foreetS who Nlaynard's
accuser is and where the accusation has been
made. Justice Edgar W. Cullen, a Democratic
member Of the Supreme Court, is the man who
accuses Maynard, and he has put The accusation
in the form Of judicial decision which no man
can now wipe out.
Judge Cullen says that a true and valid return
of the votes cast in Dutchcss County to fiji the
Office of State Senator in the general election last
November was forwarded in pursuance of law
and of a special order of the Supreme Court TO
Controller Wcmplc, at Albany, Oh December -,
1891, to be by the Controller delivered TO the
Secretary Of State and by him Submitted TO the
Board Of State Canvassc1s; that there was in
law and In fact complete transmission Of that
valid and true return TO the Controller; that
Isaac ii. Maynard, without the Controllers
knowledge or consent, intercepted that valid and
true return at the Controllers Office on its way
TO the Board Of State Canvasscrs and gave il to
a man named Emans, who took It away with
him. and that this was the reason why that valid
and true return was not before the Canvassers
when they acted in the case of the XVIII Senate
District
The artfce employed by Maynard to get the
letter containing this true and valid return was
thus described by Joseph Allen, under OATH be-
fore Judge Learned. as referee, at Albany, on
February l.
O.-You are the Controllers messengeri A.-Yes,
Sir
Q.-IIave you any knowledge of any letter received
at the Controllers Department being delivered in the
Office to any one not connected with the office A.
There might have been such letter delivered TO some
body but ii was directed wrong.
OIL mean official letter, directed to the Con
trollerl Al did give letter TO man.
Q.-who was tho mani Ale had been pointed
out to me TO be Judge Isaac H. Maynard.
Odd you ever before deliver q letter under such
circumstances, A.-So, sir; not that know Of.
Q.--IIow came you to deliver the letter to him. A.
He said II had been directed wrongi
Did he say that? If he did he lied The let
ter was directed properly, and it had reached
its proper destination. But, however directed,
Isaac II. Maynard had no business with it.
Neither had the Controller except for the one
purpose Of lis safe delivery to the Secretary of
State. Maynard stole it, and if Aliens tesi-
mony is true, he lied to steal it, and he stole il
TO prevent its transmission TO the Board of State
Canvassers; and when that Board met and can
va,sed false return in hagmnt violation of the
Court Of Appeals decision, Maynard sat by in
silence while Attorney General Tabor declared
to Judge Cady that the false Mylod return
was the only one the Board had ever received,
This is the man who, by the act of Governor
Flower and of the Democratic Senate to create
which he stole that return, is now sitting at
Albany as Judge of the highest court in the
State, passing on the lives and fortunes of six
millions Of people. VIII he utterly confound
his accusers''? Then. what will he do with the