New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-07

But now that We learn that his par, in al.
dition TO the $4,000 allowed BY law, was maa.
up by the contributions "of several public spirited
gentlemen Of this city,, we shall not Withhold the
! expression of our establishment and condemnation.
Where should We be, If this method we're to Secoms
general II judges, mayors, superintendent, and
captains of police, and other persons in authority
were TO be in TIE pay not only Of the public but Of
private individuals also7 TIE NJ y. Times tanks
this would be all right. We think il would be no.
only wrong but dangerans aud for that reason we
rtjoice that in the Police Department it has been
stopped.
We know no person in particular as exercising
an improper influence " over Mr. PilsbuIy; but
we believe this arrangement clearly did. Asds
from its intrinsic improperly, it evidently pulled
him up with an exaggerated sense of his own i'm
portance. When the Chief Of our Police is paid
twice the salary Of the Governor or Mayor, 10 it not
natural that he should fancy himself Of twice the
consequence Of either VIII he not be tempted to
look down on beegarly Commissioner, who arc
paid but fifth To q third Of bis salary1 Hence
his incessant demands for pOwer-more power-alI
power. The fault was not wholly in the man, but
in bis circumstances.
Mr.. PilsbuTy has chosen TO leave TIE Depart
ment on punctiO. No one plotted againsthim-
enc wished him to leaye-no ono assailed or sought
to embarIass him. He sought to render the Board
subsergient to himsef; they declined; 90 he left.
1t was his right to do so; it is the Commissioner
duty to gil his place with as good man, and We
presume they will do it. Baseless clamor may
embarrass but cannot defeat them in this purpose.
The law imposed on them duties with regard to
the management of The Police which they could
not ignore.
Ore word al to politics. The Metropolitan Po-
lice Act is stigmatized as " Black Republican"
scheme; yet, up TO this hour, there has never
been Republican Chief Of Police, and we be-
lieYe decided majority Of the subOrdinates are
not Republicans. We doubt that the Commis-
sioners ever inquired or cared what an officers
politics were, so that be performed his duties
faithfully. Now the cry is that the late Chief has
been sacrificed to appease the hostility of Mayor
Wood. There is no truth in this charge either.
We believe the Mayor asked that the Police squad
Immediately surrounding him should be under a
captain who wss not his personal enemy, and the
Board, deemipg this reasonable request, directed
a transfer accordingly. The Republican Commits
siOners do not deem it their duty to quarrel
wantcny with the Chief Magistrate Of our City
whom the law makes their associate and peer.
Why should they 2 Besides we believe Mr.
Pilsbury effectively acquiesced in the change which
Mr. Wood desired But all the hurricane of lies
about coalition between Wood and the Repub-
Leans, &c, &c, is as baseless as falsehoOd can
be. Mr.. Wood has his own ends and his own
allies, rome of them having any affinity with Re-
publicanism. We are all quite aware that he de-
tests and would crush us if he could; and We
neither love nor trust bin; and whoever does
either must do go on some other Endorsement than
that of the Republicans of New.YoTk.