Milford chronicle., 1904-11-04
REPLIES 70 LIE ZINES.

REPLIES TO THE TIMES.
George Il. Chandler Demands That It
Present Proof of Its Charges.
[From the New York Tribune. Oct. Isl
George Brlnton Chandler. making a
speech at Republican meeting last
evening in the village of Hampstead,
answered the charge of the Times that
George b. Cortelyou had been selected
ms chairman of the Republican nation
al committee because he had obtained
information as secretary Of commerce
and labor to aid him in collecting cam
paign subscriptions from the large cor
porations. The speech was received
with enthusiasm in Mr.. CortelyOu's
home town Mr. Chandler said in part:
LAS secretary of the department Of
commerce and labor Mr.. Cortelyou had
several other things to do besides spy
ing on trusts and railroads. In two
short years he had converted chaotic
mass Of detail into homogeneous and
methodical organization, differing in no
material aspect from the department
Of state or the department of the in
terror. He had to deal with problems
of immigration, problems of the census,
problems relating to manufactures and
fisheries. lie had to grasp and fit into
this system the great, oyershadowing
problems of labor and capital-all the
questions of domestic and foreign la
Dor. trade unions, cost of living, wages,
conditions of employment He also
was intrusted with the important func-
ton of collecting data and cOntribut-
ing, in 50 far as might be, to the solu-
ton of the yeXed problem of trusts and
combinations.
"When Mark Hanna died a great or
ganizer, a patriotic citizen and noble
man was taken away. He had been
the business head Of the Republican
party He had died on the eve Of
presidential campaign. The quest was
for a man to fill his place. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, with that quick de
cision and unccring Judgment which
have been among the prime secrets
of his success. pointed to George B.
C0rtelyou anI said. There is the
man. 1t is significant fact that
when he was appointed the New York
Times. which has since been betrayed
into Il singularly uuenviable position,
complimented the country on the dis
tinct raising of the tone Of national
campaigns by the appointment of a
man Of Mr. Cortelyou's caliber and
character.
"Iow has that selection been vindi-
Gated? Within three weeks the ma
rional headquarters assumed the orGer
and stability of an old institution. The
Democrats We're at first surprised
then chagrined and then enraged to
find that they had been checkmated
and anticipated in move after move
Cortelyou always had been there ahead
Of them Then it was that the little
beady eyes of venom, the forked
tongue of slander, began TO appear.
With sure defeat staring them in the
face. Outgeneraled, outthOught and
outfought, they became political guer-
rillas. They sought to poison the wells. .
"This is what might well have been
expected from a politician of the cali /
Der of David B. Hill. But it is gro
tesque, if it were not pathetic, to see .
great newspapers which have posed .
as custodians Of the public conscience !
prostitute themselves by becoming the
purveyors to the political methods of
Mr.. Hill and Pat McCarren. The
character of the New York Times espe-
cially has suffered gravely in the opin-
ion of thousands of it's readers. 1t is
serious strain on journalistic honor
when even the Outlook, edited by Ly-
man Abbott, a journal conducted in an
atmosphere of conscience and mind at
tanned by few if any other periodicals
in America, has to come out and open
ly charge the old and reputable Times
with deliberate falsehood and SLAM
der"