The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-31
DEGRADATION OF THE TRIBUNE.
Whiteiaw Raid Eniists n BIa and Ex.
Convict Against cen. Tracy

Whitsiaw Reid Enlists q BIackmaiIer and tx.
Convict AEniuat Gen. Tracy
Tho Republican carnpaigners In charge Of
Ten. Tracys canvass made an unusually inter
csting request yesterday. 1t was that th.ir
Republican brethren OF Greater New York, the
State OF New York, and the United States
should judge between them and Whitelaw
Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, who
even in the closing hours OF the campaign of
the Republicans to elect Gen. Tracy Mayor of
Greater New York continues his efforts to stab
Gen. Tracy. The Republican campaigncrs
ask their brethren in the nation to judge DO.
tween them and Mr.. Reid because Mr.. Reio in
his latest desperate efforts to stab Gen. Tracy
has printed in the New York Tribune an un.
supported statement made by ]. p. Smith.
editor of the Uine and Spirit Gazette. Mr..
Reid, for the purpose of endeavoring to de.
moralize the Republican forces. prints a state.
ment from Smith that n deal once ex.
listed between Senator Plat and Tammany
Hall. This article was printed for the pur.
pose OF supporting the declarations made in
Democratic newspapers which. like the New
York Tribune, are supporting Seth Low, the
mar who resigned from the Republican party
and never rcjoined it-that a deal now exists
between the Republicans and Democrats to
dereat Seth low.
AN' Nhhhpuikh'ib u CNIl
the attention Of their brethren In the United
States to the fact that the article in the New
York Tribune yesterday has for a foundation
the unsupported statements of J. p. Smith,
whom the Republican campaigncrs speak Of
as a blackmailer, of whose ATTEMPTS at black
mail they have the evidence, Besides, the Re-
publican campaignors declared they have the
evidence that j. p. Smith was a convict, hay.
ing served a term in State prison for crime.
Moreover, they declared that they would mover
have known that such a man existed AS J. =.
Smith except for Whitelaw Reid, whose chief
representative introduced Smith to the Republi.
can campaigners several years ago.
The Republican campaigncrs desire to call
the attention Of the Republican marty in the
United States to the fact that smith, the black.
mailer and ex-convict, has been allowed by
Whitelaw Reid, In the columns OF the New York
Tribune, to second the efforts Of the New York
Tribune 10 stab Gen. Tracy. for no other reason
than because tho Republicans OF the state of
New York cannot sec their wav to indorsc
Whitelaw Reds demand to be made Secretary
OF state to succeed John Sherman. The Re
publicans OF the State of New York point out
that New York already has its full quota of
high offices under the Mckinley Administra,
ton. IL has these:
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotcn-
tldrN 10 france, ten. Horace Porter.
tiary to Germany, Andrew d. White.
Secretary OF the Interior, Cornelius \. bliss.
assistant Secretary OF the Navy. Theodore
Roosevelt.
Tho Republican campaigners pointed out that
The Republican party has been very generous
TO Whitclaw Reid. having made him Minister
10 France, nominated him for Vice President.
and sent him as Special Ambassador TO Queen
Victoriu's Jubilee ceremonies. Besides all
this, the New York Tribune had for many Years
the election advertising during the municipal
campaigns in New York city.
In fact. the Republican campaigners said
that much had been done 10 crafty Whiiolaw
Reds Unsuitable greed for place and royenut.
but that now no more could be done, and so Mr..
Reid. in the New York tribune, has daily at.
tempted to stab gen. Tracy. the candidate OF the
Republicans for Mayor Of Greater New York,
They pointed ont again that the New York
Tribune has done all this In the interest OF Seth
Low. who resi-. ned from Tho Republican party
In 1883 and became q free trade Democrat
paiRn, and also in 1892. Tho New York JTIb.
une. on July 8, 1853, speaking OF Seth Low,
Tile deserts because the Republican plat
form Il a determined onslaught upon free
The New. York Tribune on June %, 1888,
said of MIR. Low:
The open Hostility of Mr.. Low to the party
this year viii be less mischieVous than his
treaCherous silence and carefully concealed
support proved four years ago"
Aud now, on behalf Of this MIR. Low, the Trib.
URe summons tho black mailer and ex.cOnvict
TO it's aid against the Republican candidate,
. Gen. Tracy.