New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-16
TIE CAuPAIGN OF BLACKGCiRDISM.

THE CAuPATGN OF BLACkGt1KDISH
No better illustration could be offered of the
brutality and backguardsm with which "Ihe
New-York sun Is carrying on the municipai
campaign as the personal organ or Messrs flal'
and Qulgg than in that newspapers lying ana
bcastly attack upon General Arson II. NC
Cook in It's issue Of Friday. General McCooh
offence is that he holds precisely the same rela-
ton TO the present campaign for honest nom
partisan municipal government that he held 70
that of 1894 when he was in charge or the can
vass in behalf Of Mayor Strong. He has not
changed And for that matter neither has The
Sun" 1t was for Tammany as against Strong
then; It is for Tammany as against Low now.
This IS what 1.-THE Sun" says:
General McCook is not known as one Of the
famous fighting McCooks." He is only "a
cousin to the fighting McCooks. General Nc
Cook came TO NewYork from Ohio and got
place as clerk in Ninth Ward drug store.
The Republican organization. under the drec-
ton of Charley Blackie. Hugh Gardner and
Uncle George r. Deane. took him up and sent
him to Congress. The Republican organization
next made General McCOok Secretary or the
United States Senate a place he held Tor a
number Of years The next Job General Nc
Cook got was City Chamberlain under Mayor
Strong.
This can only be characterized as indecent
blackguard!sm and reckless lying. The record
Of General McCook may be found in Appleton
encyclopedia Of American Biography" II is as
follows:
Arson George McCook. soldier born in Steu-
benville Ohio October TO- 1885,. received .
common school education at New-Lisbon. Ohio.
and went while still youth to California in an
overland train. He remained on the racine
Coast several years. returned. and studied law
at Steubenville in the Office OF Stanton G. Nc
nd had q
at the beginning OF the Civil War On the first
call for troops he entered the service as captain
in the I'd Ohio Infantry. and as such served IN
the first battle Of Bull Run. At the reorganza-
tor of his regiment for three years he was
made a major. and he subsequently became its
lieutenant-colonel and colonel, serving in the
Army of the Cumberland under Buell.. Rose
Grams and Thomas. He was also with Sherman
in the Atlanta campaign, commanding brigade
par. Of the time. especially at the battle or
Peach Tree Creek near Atlanta When the
regiment was mustered out at the expiration Of
its service he was made colonel OF the l4?th
Ohio. ordered to the Valley OF Virginia. and es-
signed to command brigade: At the close OF
the war he was brevetted brigadier-Reneral or
volunteers for gallant and meritorious services
From 1865 till 1878 he resided in Steubenville
Ohio. as United States Assessor or Internal
Revenue and then removed to New-York CITY
He was elected to Congress from New-1 YORK az
a Republican, holding his seat from 1871 TIL
1855 and serving on the Military COMMITTEE
He IL now QSSS) Secretary Of the United states
Senate
Have General Tracy's campaign managers
taken leave Of their senses that they should per-
NIT their organ to spread abroad lies so easily
refuted? Or do they think that by letting loose
this vile caumniator upon well-known Repub
leans Of character and standing who express
a purpose to vote and work FOR Seth Low they
will deter others from doing the same thing?
Have they set polecat before the door OF the
organization to keep Republicans inside? IT
looks so.