New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-05
PVTRTD SHAN.

What Weiter OF inslncerlIy anu PISocA~0 "lAA
hurnbug this whole Parker campaign Is!
The Judge professed 1t unbecom1ng for MIN
to make stump speeches-till he got scared
Then preserving the insincere pose seemed TOO
COSTLY and be rushed to the stump like mad
man.
The Judge ostentatiously forbade personal at
Jacks on the President, or an uncivil word-ull
HIS demand for more ginger led MIN 10
abandon the sham. Since then he has hlmsell
uttered more degrading and slanderous accusa-
tons against the President than have ever been
uttered by any other candidate for that hlgh OF
fee against his rival in our whole history.
Even Andrew Johnson, when swinging around
the circle" was not so calumnious
The Judge finds Cortelyou an unworthy ana
ungcrupuIous Chairman of the National Com
mittee. Yet his Pharisaic skirts and phylacteries
are lot broad enough to hide his own Chairman,
Tom Taggart tavern keeper and gambler,
trying at this moment TO debauch Indiana sur
frage BY pouring out from Belmonts treasury
the enormous sum OF $500, 000-more than three
times as much as Cortelyou has devoted to the
whole Indiana campaign, from the beginning
until now Still less will his skirts hide his
other familars, diligently doing his work IN
the background while he strides to the front of
the stage to abuse Cortelyou-David B. Hill,
the election thief; German, Sheehan. McCarren
and the whole unsavory crowd.
The Judge pretends to believe that support by
the Trusts is proof of dishonor and yet in the
list of his nearest prominent supporters, from
August Belmont and Cord Meyer down. there
is hardly one who is not identified with Trusts.
The Judge is fred with zeal for the Consttu-
tional rights Of the brown Filipinos, Igorrotes
and Moros, nine thousand miles away; but tort
IRE cannot draw from him an expression about
the Constitutional rights of his black fellow cit
Eens, in the only States from which he is to get
electoral votes.
Like master, like man. The same putrld in
sincerity has struck through from the Judge to
the respectable newspa pcrs which demean them
selves in his support. The Evening Post
which said man who lodged this last question
Of the Constitutional rights of the negroes wasn't
fit TO be President this year or any other year,
is now trying its stoIid best to make the dodger
President. The leading organ of the Democ-
racy, which has several times tried unavailingly
10 lit its campaign to a decent level, falls in
with the tide. Having freely declared Mr.. Cor
telyOu too conscientious and highmlnded gen
tlemar for any dubious duties of the Chair
manship it joins the pack and yelps at
the heels of this conscientious and highminded
gentleman" the confdant Of its own friend
Grover Cleveland; and so tries to divert atten-
ton from the Democratic Chairman the IN
speakable Tom" Taggart. 1.-THE New-York
Times" paid Mr.. Cortelyou a similar tribute
and under like stress joins now, full cry, in the
same abuse. 1.-THE Brooklyn Eagle" paid him
even higher compliments and is now reeking
with worse abuse. Dozens of instances of like
conduct in other cases in this campaign will
occur to every reader. Never In the history Of
the Democracy have It's chief newspapers so
conspicuously and repeatedly advertised their
cynical insincerity, and eaten their own recent
utterances with as much apparent zeal and
relish as if they really liked the diet