The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-01

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To THE EDITOR OF THE sUN-Sir. You have
| allowed mo moro space than, perhaps, 1t
was necessary for me to take to express truths
and recite facts we'll known TO the few, but which
have been industriously concealed from tho
many, because their revelation would Interfere
with tho execution Of q plot long since conceived
by envy, jealousy, and malice. Much as that
space was. II wns not enough to contain all that
1 started out TO say, and I now beg your In
diligence to supply tho omission, for tho matters
Of which i shall speak seem TO mo as interesting
as they are important.
In the first place, is Il not remarkable that n
yoar after tho Republican party stood forth rs
the sole champion Of the national honor and In
tegrity, and of civilized law and order, 80 that
last November all tho conservative and patriotic
forces Of the republic wore obliged to support 1t at
the polls, there should arise n malignant com
bination bent upon it's dcstructioni Tho Demo-
cratic Convention at Chicago deserted Demo-
cratic principles. formed substantially q now
party, thereby excluding from its fold a great
body of Democrats to whom the Chicago princi-
pies were new, strange, revolving, and impossi-
BILE. AS Senator Hill described that departure
on the floor Of the convention. It was revolution.
Hence, for very self.presorvation, for them
solves and their property, for Democracy as It
had boon, and for our institutions, they were
forced TO sock tho help OF tho Republican
party. Without its aid they wero without
hope. Tho Chicago platform was tho most
serious menace offered to this country
since the war. 1t threatened every mo-
tertal interest, and men wero aghast at
tho destruction It invited. They had no bar
rier against that raging flood of communism.
socialism, and riot except the Republican party;
and the Republican party saved them from the
threatened ruin. Instead OF ruin, now six
months after the election. hope prevails and
men SEQ ahead tho prosperity for which they
had SO long waited In vain.
Tho same destructive influences which tri-
umphed at Chicago wero also active and even
powerful in tho Republican party also,
and 1t required notable courage to resist
them and take tho chances Of fighting
them face to face. Before tho convention at
st. Louis q concerted effort was made. even
here in New York. by some would-be Re-
publican leaders to prevent any declaration ut
St Louis which should directly oppose the silver
element in their party. Their scheme was to
compromise with It. The Tribune. for instance,
struggled to keep the word gold" out Of tho
Republican platform, and in 30 doing 1t repre-
sented tho whole clique of Republican maloon-
tents now intriguing to betray their party.
They wero all engaged with the industry Of
beavers In q plot to undermine the Republican
organization In this State. 1t was mean and
petty. business to be engaged in while tho
gathering Of tho storm of political revolution
was 80 apparent to all largo and discerning
minds, but 1t suited them. or course, the object
of tho assault for which they were pro-
pairing with all their little pickaxes was
Mr.. Platt- They could SEQ nothing else,
think Of nothing else, except their spite
against him because he had proved his title
to tho leadership. for which they had vainly
striven. Mr.. Plat. for his part, was occupied
with larger gamo than tho cheap and nasty
politics of those ~spiteful political moles: and
when he went to st. Louis the result of his
thought appeared in q platform conceived By
true statesmanship. That platform at once
wrought the complete destruction Of the cabal.
They were blown up by their own mine.
To Mr.. Platt moro than any other man in that
convention, moro than any other man in this
country. is duo tho victory won over tho forces
these subterranoan ~plotters had hoped to use for
cowardly compromise. More than any other
part of the Union. too, 1t is New York, the
centre Of Its wealth and highest enlightenment,
which owes q great obligation to Thomas G.
Plat. 1t Is contemplate ingratitude not
to give him the tribute which 10 his due;
and not merely Republicans, but Democrats
also. should Join in the accord Of praise to
him. He Is tho man whom all the conserva-
tism Of Now York should have hailed as its fore
most champion, and whom now 1t should hold
in highest honor. 1t Is a poor and mean spirit
which does not acknowledge that unquestion-
able debt
That 10 simple truth. but the paltry souls to
whom I have referred. incapable OF any feeling
higher than envy and malice, arc only stirred to
the moro malignant spite by the demonstration
of Mr.. Platt's incontestable superiority.
Tho Republican newspapers OF New York arc
now on a lower moral and Intellectual level than
ever before in the history Of the party. 1t is
doleful to see their manifestations of feebleness,
thickness, insincerity. and emptiness OF all
manly incentives. The Tribune is as wooden as
the Mugwump Times. 1t is dead as a force in
politics, and I am told that its circulation has
shrunk to the smallest proportions. How
could 1t be otherwisel 1t Is unreadable;
and 1t cannot even make spice of its spite,
for 1t is under the necessity Of keeping its ma
lignant motives hidden. The other morning
Republican paper, the Press. being sold for one
cent, might DO OF good service to the party IL 1t
also had not boon affected by tho petty spirit of
mischief. The Mail and Express, in the evening,
Is a poor. fapdoodle. schoolboy. pharisaicaI.
and, withal, malicious sheet, which has lent
such aid as 1t could to the futile schemes of
the spiteful conspirators who are trying to
break up the Republican party. The Repub-
lican party in New York. as a mass, is now
more united than ever before. better organized,
better disciplined, and moro potent. moro anx.
ious for true and vigorous championship; and 1t
Will not tolerate any mean and nasty spirit of
rebellion generated, as everybody knows, by
personal pique only.
The wooden Times, OF course, Is assisting in
Its dull, Mugwump fashion. Godkin. l am told,
has retired permanently from the other Mug
wump concern. the Evening Post. and his puer.
lie successors are initiating his weakness rather
than his strength. his vices rather than his
virtues. like imitators generally. Ho gave the
impression of having some reserve power of
malignity; but now his pupils In the Evening
Post are always under full pressure. using
every ounce of their steam. so that the burst
ing Of their imitation boiler seems inevitable.
With Godkin all the life has gone out of the
Erenin0 Post. He has been made a d. c. l. by
Oxford, 1t seems, and very naturally; IL the
English had not offered him some reward at
this jubilee time, when decorations arc be-
atnMad an nlentifnlIx for seruicna ran aaroa In