The record-union., 1897-11-12

opponent, and Senator Hanna Is likely
to win in the Legislature. although the
latter will be very close. The efforts OF
/ the silver men We're concentrated here,
and the popular verdict is against them.
The currency was also an issue in
Massachusetts and Iowa, and in both
these States the Republican party, as
the champion of sound money, has won
| splendid victories. AS the Republican
nominee for Governor of Pennsyl-
vania has only 125. 900 plurality, the sit
uation there hardly calls for comment.
The Democrats won in Kentucky, but
what barren victory is theirs, They
have twenty majority in the Legislative
Assembly, but there is no United States
Senator TO elect this year In Mary
land the Republicans would undoubted-
" have Won easily had it not been for
the unwise course of Senator yelling
ton in attempting to dictate the policy
of his party in that State AS it is, the
| chances are favorable for the election
of United States Senator to succeed
German.
Fusion won in Nebraska, and Mr..
Bryan probably feels that he still has
the right to exist, politically He is en-
titled to the crumb. But Nebraska is
offset by a great and unexpected Repub
lioan victory in South Dakota 1t is
understood that Arkansas, the State of
Chairman Jones, went Democratic this
year.
Tammany and the Democracy won in
New York City, but the party is likely
to find the victory and it's logical results
heavy burden to carry. Who rejoice
over that victory? A dispatch from
New York to a morning paper says:
The tenderloin madly rejoiced over
Tammany's victory. The good old days
had come again for the good old Ten
derloin. Crowds began to gather in the
Tenderloin as early as o'clock in the
evening. At 10 o'clock that backbone
of the Tenderlon between Fourteenth
and Forty-second streets was almost
impossible. At 6 o'clock this morning
it was still filled with people, many of
whom were staggering under their liba-
ton 10 the patron saint of the city that
will be wide OPEN
UNCOMMON UNFAIRNESS.
Humboldt Standard: 1t is not un-
usual TO see in a yellow dog popocratic
paper the grossest Misrepresentation
but it is rarely the case that news
paper which desires to be classed as
reputable and reliable will make a
brazen statement like the following
found in the Woodland Democrat:
Senator Platt seems to be under the
impression that he can elect General
Tracy Mayor of New York by the use
CT corruption fund. Armour & Co.,
the big Chicago packers, have contri
buted 100000 to the fund.-
From what source did the editor get
his information? Here is a statement
that one man is trying to elect an ex
Cabinet officer Mayor of Greater New
York by bribery and as unequivocal
statement that Armour & Co. of
Chicago put up 100000 of Platt's cor
ruption fund
This is a serious charge. Is it true?
1t is a ten to one bet that neither state
ment is true. This is uncommon un-
fairness. Most editors would say: 1T
is said that Platt seems to be under
the impression" etc. We call the at
tention of editors to this item, not that
it is worse, or half so bad as the lies
in the yellow Examiner and other pa
pers Of that stripe, but to suggest that
the newspaper man, the editor, would
have more weight with the people
when he does denounce political cor
ruption If he would take greater care
to tell the truth, or more properly, not
to tell downright falsehoods in such an
offhand manner One paper suggests
that Boss Platt is buying votes for his
candidate. Another knows that Platt
is on good terms with Phil Armour of
Chicago and he intimates that Armour
is helping Platt to the money and such
paragraph as the above is penned
with all the assurance in the world
that the people will believe it. Now, our
people are bad enough-they are just
as bad as the men they place in office
as a rule, and they should not be
made worse by such statements. If the
editor convinces his readers that such
men as are successful in a large way
in political matters are all thieves, all
rascals, all e-givers and that all
wealthy men are willing to give of
their hoard to corrupt the voters, he
lowers the standard of morality in his
own neighborhood. Men, as rule, will
not try to be better than they think
successful business men or successful
officials are.
This blunt, unqualified statement is
indefensible, because the man who
wrote it cannot prove that it is true;
ir fact he does not believe it is true
himself and therefore is attempting to
mislead others by repeating a stale
falsehood as truth for which he could
not vouch.
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