ONE OF VACHERON'S MISTAKES.

New York, 1895

Some Comments by a Leading Republican Newspaper.

Mr. Vacheron made a very serious mistake when he had a resolution pass the Assembly by a unanimous vote, which directed the Committee on Privileges and Elections to have John C. Kennahan, editor of the LONG ISLAND FARMER, brought before that body and punished for libelling him. It was, it seems, a buncombe resolution. The accused editor, instead of running away, made every possible effort to be brought to trial, even going so far as to send counsel to Albany to ascertain, if possible, when the Committee on Privileges and Elections would begin an investigation, but his counsel found that the Committee had not the slightest intention of obeying the resolution which had been unanimously adopted by the Assembly.

Mr. Vacheron's position to-day is certainly not an enviable one. The failure to have Editor Kennahan tried and punished does not look well, to say the least, and the indictment by the Grand Jury of Albany County, following so soon after, has put the Assemblyman temporarily under a very dark cloud. — Long Island City Herald, Republican.

—Reprinted in The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 31, 1895, p. 8.