How MIR. Clay is assai,ed.
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The Morning Netos has two columns of picked
passages from Mr.. Clay's Speeches and Letters
through twenty years intended to convict him OF
Inconsistencies, especially on the Tariff question
The following is fair specimen of the whole;


TAxIrr. or lsl6 ls2i.


One side:


spectively passed."-ur Clay to Bensaa and Biedsoe


The other side:


You right 50 far q. the record ee1ss!ned
Mr.. Cay 10 .Ar. -Nertnetaer.


Here is clear contradiction made out of ex-
pressions which, if honestly quoted, would have
exhibited the most perfect accordance. Mr. Clay
had written to Messrs. Benham and Bedsoe that
MIR. Meriwether writes him that he could not
End his name among the Y cas- on either bill


Mr.. Clay answers,


"You are right, so far us the record is concerned
in YOUR statement that did rots for the Tariffs
of 1916 and 1924, but supported their principles,
and hare al.cGys admitted that ~ tds0r o.
tken,."


Here an inconsistency is manufactured by
quoting part of sentence and supprcssing its
more material portion. Mr.. Clay was Speaker
of the House in 1916 and 1924, so of course did
not vote on the final passage OF either Tariff bill
but he was the ablest champion of both in Com
mittee Of the Whole, and there repeatedly voteG
to sustain and establish the principles and proyiS
ions Of each Yet his reiteration to Mr. Meri
wether of the statement he had already made tc
Mesars Blenham and Blcdsoe, is made by sup
precision and garbling TO wear the appearance o.
denial or preyarication Mr., Clays opponents
have bad luck alike in stealing or forging private
letters and in garbling public ones.