New-York tribune., 1870-04-12

henceforth DemOcrats-that is small matter.
But, when such men as Henry G. Stebblns, Il.
NJ Batchford and Waldo Iutchins were put
out we insist that Mr. Tom Fields should
have gone with them, as he might have offered
to do had it been suggested that, for symmetIyS
sake his withdrawal was desirable. we can
not repress the apprehension that Mr.. Andre"
II. Green-whO mas thus far managed the Cen
tral Park so admirably-is henceforth 10 DO
Oyerruied, and required to convert the farks
into fountain of party patronage and party
| canital. until he is constrained To reslgn-that
this is the programme deliberately laid down
and TO be infexibly adhered to. Messrs. Sweeny,
Dillon and Fields form majority OF the
Board-they are vehement, INSCRIPTIONS par
tisans-they have the power, and will use It,
Henceforth the Parks will be run IN the inter-
est of the Tweed dynasty, and required to fur
nish it with their full quota of contributions
| and votes.
The Board of Public Charities has been in
creased, not strengthened, by the addition OF
Mr.. Aleck Frear TO the old Commissioners.
| Henceforth this too, will be partisan ma
chine, ana every vote dug out OF the prisons
| and poor-houses that they can be made to
yield. We shall feel the effect in increased
expenditures and taxes.
The new Health Department is not the prac-
tical Joke that we at first took it fOr-since we
are vouchsafed the explanation that it is de-
signed to be specially acceptable to our
Adopted Citizens We fail to trace the con-
nection Admit that Giovanni CeccaIin NJ. d.,
was born in Italy, Magnus Gross in Germany,
and John Mullaly in Ireland, how does that
prove them fit for Health Commissioners And
how are our Adopted Citizens benefited by
their appointment How can they be even
cajoled by it7
The Public Health is our greatest public con-
Germ. This City is intimately connected with
the isles wherein contagious deadly tropical
feyers most abound. 4 thousand crowded
vessels per annum discharge the contents OF
their sitting, siclly steerages upon our docks.
1t is impossible that SMALLPOX, Typhus,
Cholera, &c, should not be borne to our shores
by every favoring breeze. Our packed tene-
ent-houses-frst refuge of squalid poverty
invite and shelter those whose bodies have
been filed on ship-board with the seeds of pes
thence. An able and stern Health -Board-one
that believes in prevention rather than cure,
and stands ready to detect and stamp out the
first germs OF disease-is our most urgent pub
lie need ; and that Mr.. Tweed has denied us.
| His Board will allow our fever-breeding base
ments and cellars to he crowded with the
needy and miserable, and the outbreak of pes
thence will be their summons to tardy and
ineffective repression. Our City has deserved
better treatment at his hands
| We can appreciate good joke, even when
the laugh is against us and we say that Mr..
| Tweed's selection of q dstier and a rumseler
| (who is Chairman of the Lquor-Dealers' Asso-
ciation) as the majority of his new Board of
| Excise, is a good one. The liquOr-dealers have
earned all they can get of the Democratic
managers here, and they mean to get all they
have earned. They are wise in their genera
ton and appreciate the superiority of pay to
promises. There is no fear that this Board
will prove fanatiCal.'
We must say that our ruler cut it rather
too fat in appointing eight members of our
present Legislature Tweed, Bradley Fields,
Frear, Nachtmann, Hitchman, Hennessy, and
Blair TO these Commissions but, having begun
by appointing himself, it was hard TO resist
the claims of those who had directly aided
him to crush out his adversaries. Admit that
it could not be helped, and still this dispensa-
ton has an ugly look, more especially as every
one OF them will hang on like grim Death till
the last hour of his official term, and as much
longer as possible
AS to the Citizens Association, Tweed has
captured it bodily, and it hencefOrth belongs
to him as indisputably as his boots or his
breeches. Whatever tune he wants played it
will play; and, since this is understood, and
its services are fully compensated, we think we
might wisely abolish it as no longer worth the
cost of keeping up. His power to put up or
put down the taxes of our mllionares is com
plete through the Tax Commission, and may
be exercised as easily without the Citizens
Association as with it. Better shut up the
shop, and save at least the rent.
We ask but one favor of our City's master,
and that is but the simplest justice. We ask
him to take his hand off the Republican party
organization. 1t is not manly-nay, it is not
honest political warfare-tO buy and bribe the
men who profess to represent in our Commit
tee the Republican voters OF this metropolis.
We do not object to Messrs. Henry Smith,
Rufus F. Andrews, Charles S. Spencer g. Co.
earning any money or patronage that the Tam
many Ring may have to bestow, if they will
honestly proclaim that they are working in its
interest and earning its wages but it ia not
fair that they should do its work in Republican
Conventions and before Committees of the
Legislature, claiming all the time to be speak
ing the sentiments and struggling for the as
tendency of the Republicans. And we hereby
give public notice that no Republicans have
been appointed on these CommissOns-that is,
none whom Tweed does not with reason ex-
pect to be more serviceable in Office to him
and his party than any Democrat could be.
Here is Mr.. MacGregor (for example,) who is