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Show MUUTiiitonix; is not moor. Tin: "Liberal" organ in this city made tlie following baseless accusation, accusa-tion, intimating that tlie Djxhmrr "S'mvs would not deny it: Wha: wocliargo ii that there has never yet been a convention cf that kind that someone in tho convention has not had a list of the men to bo namm-tiei made out and ivcn him at headquarters, and lhat lUt has invariably invari-ably ra-ulo up th9 ticket." Thi we denied, mest emphatically, emphati-cally, because wo knew it was not true, and that there was not the slightest reason in truth for making mak-ing the charge. We referred to the late munlcipil convention and asked for proof that a "list of men to be nominated" thi.ro was made out or given at "licadquarter" or any other "quarters." The utterly unprincipled sheet comes back with a tirade of personal abuse, ask more questions, each of which tmbodies a lie by implication, implica-tion, an J tries to palm all that off as proof of its original charge. Tins is the usual resort of the cornered blackguard and the detected detect-ed falsifier. The libel tluug at the editor of this paper, even if it contained con-tained the slightest grain of truth, or there was the frintest shadow of j excuse for uttering it, would atTord 110 evidence whatever in support of thcfharge whuh we have quoted alove. So with all the rest of the rhodomontade intended to throw dust in tlie eyes of the critical reader. read-er. The charge Is utterly false, and not a syllable of evidence is oflered to meet our demand for proof of any dictation from a "trinity" or other authority, in reference to the late muuiciiol election. But a writer who states as "the best of proof" concerning other ex-ploued ex-ploued charges, thai an old w oman long since deceased "told us so," may be expected to resort to any nonsense, how ever irrelevant to the isj-ue, in support of equally un-fouuded un-fouuded assertions. The writers aud publishers of tlie unmanly aud cowarily personalities personali-ties in which the Tribune indulges as a substitute for evidence and argument, will find that it only serves to disgust decent people of all classes, and to show that its charges cannot be substantiated or It would not fly into a rage and get down into billing-gate and scurrility scurrili-ty in lieu of proof. Tho Deseukt Mrr.vs, it Is true, has 11-11 silent as to many unfounded un-founded charges made by the "Liberal" organ, not feeling under the necessity of noticing a tithe of such ribaldry and falsehood. But that U no evidence either that we admit the accusations or that they are founded in truth. It is only onceina while that we stoop low enough to touch the 7ViAunc' level, and whenever we meet it in argument argu-ment w c get mud in the face, and repeated re-peated proof that it is useless to bandy words witii a blackguard or reason with a ruffian. |