, 1870-05-05

80, 900, for el25,ooo, that roadway might BIO
had for m ef1uent pipe Incidentally the Gar
den Ct Eden Was to be extended fhs city Is
e hase he seS at ss I'D bs,s the gSy % Of Ptaa
est4te- :,
xhack," as taeJ EsJ at the Police Court, when
anYthing came along that had money II It To
policeman finds ahyHter client, they stand
in and whack byaaviding the fee. Capitalists
oyer3owiug with money 60 into many enter-
p5ises, and need the help OF the press- I'm
sc1upnlous newspaper prop1ietors G1ve them
sF ntaei q ang 81 u pube
opinion. The editors and capitalists 50 IN aud
5hack toeether, The only use that many
neTspaper propriotors have for their paper is
to put them upon nhacking terms with capltal-
ists. It occurred, perhags n , ne osaina sah;acs
Of This notice Lad large interest IN the etrees
railroads. Tho stock had advanced 50 thas
where he had put in five dollars he could take
out twelve, and, fearing fall he SOD ous.
It happened there was urine 1nlsnfs r.
had also large Investment Of money o. m
auence in gas stock-at any rate he had con
trol Of quantity of it. He sold that IN n
manic, having wind Of the decision Of the su-
n1cme Court Of the state, that the City Co1n-:
eli could put reasonable price on gas After
he hai sold out, the contract for ten years Was
made, and up went gas stock Is Per cent
Wash. had Eono cut to whack, and was out IN
the cold. Hence the recent outc1y IN the En-
ou1rty about the bot>taled street cars. the
President Of the City Council me yaaey Sanh, ra1
utst5on. The Enquirer has simply been used
~ mt wash. in the street railroads and the
ras COMPANY at fhs figures ut which he sold
out, the stock having neantimo ADVANCED as
relsted. This is supposed to beths prope6 use
in
rercial referred to the EnqttireTs playing the
part Of public virtue, and to the peculiar prom
inenca Of Mr.. Washington Mclean as v1rtu-
ous citizen and ensetp1lsing newspaper d-
rector.
Then followed in the Enquirer an article
which has received an unugual share ct cone1d-
Grafton, partly because M1. Mclean has taken
pains to avow thst he is responsible for it, aud
partly because many persons have supposed
That his intention In directing it to be written
was'to get1p : fight with the enthor ef these
erroneous. In the first place the language
used in the article in the Enquirer ia by no
means az strong as Mr. Mclean is in the habit
Of using in private conversation He meant
by it simply to make known that he WAS very
much dEsp1eaeet. He always bolls over IN
that way The only. public speech he eTer
made was to the same effect. It is the old
| story, with tho exagEeration incident to the
norose excitement Of advancing and irfelic1-
! Tho trouble is, tho Enquirer has been losing
its prestige md HcI can his grip The De
mocraey throughout the state have been dis,
| gusted with the Aheet, End arc diatrustfu oi
its managers. The Sam. Cary strategy, ant
tho Hamilton County Reform, resulting in the
defeat Of George Pend1eton and the ratiiica
ton Of the Fifteenth Amendment, hare broker
the confidence OF the party in the paper: Nc
Leans reputation for sagacity faded 1t Ne7
York in 1868; and the result Of tho spring cleo
tion in this city disclosed to him that he will NJ
more be ca11edupon to organize Republican Cit,
| Councils in the interest Of the Ring i seam'
not unlikely that the election Of Fitzgerald
| viii be recorded in history. Is the Enqzsazer'
last triumph; and he, though. he made I
special request Of M. Goshorn, President O
tie Council, that ho should BIO placed at ths
head Of tho Committee On Streets, Is given
back seat, where he wll be insignificant ant
harmless. These are tho aggravations O.
which there are symptoms in the Enquirer
Such are the humilating iritatiops that hay.
spoiled the temper Of our distinguished fellow
citizen, upon whose linen coat saw tho maj
Of Africa twenty years ago. It is only reason
able to deal gently With the eccenhldties tha
! are the manifestations Of misfortune
! II. q.