Year: 1879

The Republican Ooasts oi i'S i'"''y
fsats in publishing crude accounts oil The
recent hospital scandal. We have no
disposition to be in hurry to publish
matters that tarnish character. In that
We make haste slowly. 1t is by such
actions trouble is brought upon friends
as well as foes many times. The Re
publican ought to have learned sufficient
of this from its recent experience. IL
talks now again Of what it might do
and says it ''might name between forty
and fifty Democrats who voted without
having paid any taxes within two years
before the election" 1t had better be
careful. 1t has already published too
many names, and has got its friends IN
trouble. For we do not believe MIR.
Henry Evans would have made the false
affidavit he did that some forty-four
Democrats had voted illegally had not
the Republicaa and its allies deceived
him by just such assertions as it is again
making, to deceive the people for poiitl-
cal effect and boulster itself up. This
was cruel and unjust IT. the Repubticdn.
Il then misled its own friends to COM
NIT a wrong against their neighbors.


And now again it has inflicted Sc
we're blow upon the reputation Of sew
eral of its political friends, Mr.. Evans
included, and publishes their denials
with as much callousness as though they
were some criminals Pleading for s'is-
pension Of opinion. The GAZETTE
hopes to retain the good opinion OF ITS
thousands of readers by furnishing them
with truo and wholesome news and 1t
always tries TO avoid wounding the feel
ings of any one. The Rcpubiicrn and
one other paper fastened to publish the
affidavit of Mrs. Zeigler, in which she
was prompted to include the names OF
numerous citizens. There was no use
in hurting This affidavit before the pub
lie. The case was in the incipient
stages Of the law, and ought not to have
been rushed into print. The GAZETTE
at once rejected that affidavit. We felt
q high regard tor some OF the EepuOll-
cans as well as some Of the Democrats
whose names it embraced and we now
say it was a scandalous thing thus to in
jure the innocent TO get at the guilty
If there were any gully. W.
believe serious damage has bcci
done to the good reputation of SOM
of the gentlemen named in That all
davit, abroad as well as at home
The publication as it is copied into th'
Philadelphia Times and other papers J!
calculated TO destroy confidence ant
affect the standing and credit of thes'
gentlemen. For instance what must th,
Honorable Thomas Bailey Potter thinl
of City Treasurer Vincent who LA jus
been on visit to the distinguished for
eigner, the guest of Mr.. Geo. w. Childs
when he reads IN the Times that MI
Vincent chad spent Sunday nights Il
carousals at the City Hospital" W
may 90 little further and ask wha
may be thought of the other gentieme
whose names were thus coupled wit
this affair, by those with whom the
trade in New York and Philadelphia
The Times very appropriately Iemarl
that the "City Hospital scandal grow
with what it feeds on" and that pap
publishes just enough to do injustic
As our little city is Southern town, u
scandal is caught up by that feeling


antipathy all over the North viii


Northern politicians seem to delight


encourage, and from which one hund


thousand office holders get their 81
stance, and hence it is waited on il
every newspaper to the discredit OF


holders of such names as these calo
and careless newspapers have imprope


and maliciously in some cases gwen


the world. How can these gentleme


denials ever follow this flight of


scandal? Well, the Republican II


enjoy all it makes by boasting of 81


hasty feats. The GAZETTE does


seek notoriety at the expense of


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