The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-11
DIR. cUYLER TO GOV. BLACK.

Governor Black, of New York, is dis
gushing the better element of his party
very much indeed. That element had
great hopes in him but he has begun
to blast them. The great cause of their
disgust is his appointment of a notori-
Gus lobbyist, if not a corruptionist, to
the Office of state superintendent of
insurance. which office has an immense
patronage attached to it. The name of
this notorious lobbyist is Lou" Payn
His appointment has been condemned
by Republican and Democratic papers
alike, and all on the same grounds; but
neither public sentiment nor the pub
lie press has been able to affect Gov
ernor Black. This having failed, resort
is being had to that last resort in all
such cases, the open letter The Rev.
Theodore 5. Cuyler has addressed him
one through the New York Evangelist
He recites the fact of the governors
election, and reminds him that he had
addressed him a letter of congratula-
ton upon his splendid opportunity for
a lofty and honorable career; he even
quotes from his letter the advice he
gave Governor Black that he may the
more strongly impress upon him the
condemnation of his course. Dr. Cuyler
goes on to tell him how his first mes
sage awoke some unpleasant suspicious
when he INDUCED in a fling al civil
service reform. After reciting one of
his appointments in Brooklyn, ne tells
him the test case came with the ap-
pointment Of a state superintendent of
insurance. The doctor then proceeds
as follows:
The man whom you selected for that
high Office was the man who had been
mainly instrumental in securing your
Nominations man who had long been
your "crony' and adviser and a man
whose long career as a machine poll
tician and professional lobbyist had
made him notorious over the whole
state. It was of him that the eminent
civilian, the Hon. Elihu Root said in
language a hundred times quoted that |
Louis Z. Payn had long been a stencil /
in the nostrlls of all good and honest !
men in the state Of New York" That 4
this man is the conspicuous type and Z
representative OF political intrigue and I.
corrupt Jobbery and machine" politics
every intelligent citizen in New York :
knows full we'll
Governor Black. when you presented /
and pushed-in spite of indignant re- ]
monstrances in the legislature and over /
the state-this man for such lofty ]
station, you revealed yourself, Mr.. I
Payn has always been credited with Z
keen knowledge of human nature In /
securing your nomination for the I
executive chair once honored by Gin /
ton, Marcy, Seward, Wright, Dix, Nor |
San and othhl eminent statesmen, he 4
understood his man perfectly. He /
knew that you could be relied on to do I
his bidding, and to pay your personal |
debt 10 him at the cost of the public I
treasury and the public honor BY this I
audacious act in the eye of the whole 4
state and nation you have identified I
your administration with the odious /
'spoils' system, with the tyranny of /
an irresponsible boss" and with that /
whole corrupt method of machine gov
eminent" which is sapping the very !
life of free republican institutions
That is a denunciation that must |
make Governor Black vince when he |
reads it, if he has any sense Of what