New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-01
TREACHEROTS NEWSPAPER.

uhich Is OPPOSING General Tracy and advocating
Seth Low whose dishonesty Of motive does not ap
| near on the surface every one who reads II IN
| diligently and with discernment. There Is no such
| support Of Low which is based any genuine de-
sire 70 beat Tammany Hall or is not given with
| the Interior purpose TO aid Tammany as against
nsners has the Slightest hope or expectation of
Lows election. They are all using his candidarS
simply to divide the kep9pn,SSan v and d,strbing
II is the most contemplate exhibition Of political
HYPOCRISY in journalism which has ever been made
in our experience and II is the most patent fnci-
dent to il is display of treachery in two profess o
edlv Republican papers The Tribune and me
Mail and Express which drops to the bottom 90, OF
merle bascness They arc using all their feeble
influence in ways Of transparent disingenuousness
to crafty petty spite in an attempt TO unueiH
shear Il Of its srensh and emascuate IT by de-
prvlng 1t of the force Of It's great and dsinguiSn
ing issue in this campaign. Their vile labors VII VII
be spent In vain. but they are none the Tess ~
grading to Journalism and utterly con d 6ePsion
now supporting the malevolent ana aso d IN due dme
candidacy of Seth Low will be disspatfu bn s HTy
time but the malignty and treachery OF tie IeW
Republican conspirators concerned In hatcniis
will remain and the newspapers waicn are moW ,
organs OF such sentiment VIII need 10 DE MS Of
suspicously. whatever may he tne" ,raifor is too
deeply rooted in them to be eradca'ed easily
CThe NewYork sun.
Much has been said during the last two OF
three years in criticism or censure OF the Pi"o
tces and tendencies of what is called the ne"
journalism. 1t is charged with panderlng 10
the dcpravcd tastes of the ignorant ana VICIOUS
with spreading abroad prurent gossip ana saia
cious scandals; with investing crime win Inc
charm of romance and criminals with the halo
of hcroism: with wanton assaults upon the
characters of public men and private citizens
with the degradation of public morals ana oe
basement of the standards Of social eihicS ana
common decency. 1t is. unfortunately true
that the example set by Mr.. Charles A. Dana
more than twenty-five years ago whch ne
Turned "'rhe New-York Sun" from a reputable
newspaper INTO a channel for the dlhusoh
through the community of political corruption.
personal malignity. reckless defamation, CON
scIenceless ribaldry irrocamable depravliy and
fathomess spite has found mitators. Bu' u
must be said that though they have pursued
some of his methods successfully as 10 re-
duce his circulation and increase their own ny
many thousands. in one particular at least they
have not approached his unrivalled preemi-
nence. but have left him solitary. towering
unloue. There is not one of them but shows
outwardly. and with at least the scmbiancc OF
sincerity. some respect for virtue. for honor
for honesty. for integrity. for patriotism. for
civic pride for common dccency in the conduct
of politics and the administration Of public AZ
fairs Only THE New-York sun snccrs habit
ually at public virtue as hypocriiical preience'
and deridcs the aspirations of honest voters FOR
good government as longings after the unai-
tainable and impossible by impracticahle vision
aries and fools Only THE New-lork sun
filings at taxpayers complaining that they are
plundercd and robbed the taunt that so long as
they are in a minority they have no rlght 10
grumbe at the rule Of the majority. only "The
New-York Sun audacously upholds municipal
robbery and misrulc and with unbushlng cf-
frOntery proposes the erection OF statue in
honor of the monumental municipal robber OF
the age Only 1.-THE New-YOrk Sun" openly pro
claims It's belief in the politics OF plumber ana
pillage, and pours contempt upon the weakness
and folly Of reformers who believe honesty de-
srable and good government possible
1t Is not necessary to say this Tor the en-
llghtenment of tine community upon which this
newspaper has been for so many years an in
fiction and a disgrace. But it may be useful
to remind the gentlemen just now in charge OF
the Republican organization Of the Greater New
York of the anteccdents, remote and nmedl-
ate of the newspaper which apparently has the
fullest confidence of their leaders. which as
sumes to be their mOuthpicce. and in that ca
pacty has been for the last three months or
more debating the policy of the party and
over the heads Of Republicans Of influence, char
acter and standing. Do they believe that Mr.
Danas newspaper has undergone change Of
heart? That the leopard can change his spots:
Do they think that the man who In 1884 sup
ported General Butler on the Greenback ticket
IS now in such deadly earnest for sound money
that he has TO make II an issue In n municipal
election? Do they think that the man who
nj N nj no m defended
Tammany robbery and misrule after 1t had been
| fully exposed and who proposed the erection Of
statue to Tweed after he had been found out
| Is sincere now in opposing the return of his old
| friends associates and patrons to power? DO
they think this man. who before the nomination
| Of William Mckinley denounced him rs incom-
| petent and unfit. and abused him day after day
as a mortgaged candidate and dishonest man
| do they think this man Is so solictOus for the
welfare Of McKinley's Administration that he
must make a municipal election hinge on it's
support? Do they think that after egglng on
| the Citizens Union to make early nominations,
as he did repeatedly last May and June in half
| satire but whole earnest, he Is honest now In
attacking that organization for It's premature
action? Do they belieye-can they believe
that this defamer and black guard who has
abused and vilifed not only Seth Low and the
| Citizens Union, but good Republicans who ex-
pressed a preference for him as a candidate.
really desires union Of all these upon a Re
! publican candidate against the Tammany or
| ganizatOn, from which he has not yet fairly
emerged, and which he is extremely careful not
to condemn except haltlngly, with feebeness
| and reserve?
Doesn't Senator Platt-who seems to have
taken the place Of Tweed and Croker on the
shrine Of Mr.. Dana's idolatry- 'Sesn't he know
what color this new relationship gives to the
| old scandals which connected HIN so closely with
the old Tammany regime: Senator Plat has
the credit-if 1t be such-of tanning through
| the Greater New-York charter. His prctext for