New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-30

Assembly District == The bondsmen Of the JERSEY
city Chief Of Police trial surrendered him. ==
Cold. 1921, 1l23. I12E Thermometer, 49, 400, 49,.
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The game of announcing people as speakers
of political meetings on the strength of then
having been invited to speak, and in defiance
of the fact that they are known not to be In
sympathy with the objects of the meetings, is
beginning again. Our advertising columns this
morning give some striking local illustrations
of it, by which local politicians are not likely
to be deceived, although the people may be.
Chautauqua County has been made con-
spicuous during our State campaign by the
tremendous efforts of the Administration party
to carry it, To elect the Conkling legislative
ticket in the home of Senator Fenton would
be considered q very noble achievement We
publish, to-day, letter from that region,
which, while giving fair summary of pOliti-
cal movements, does not seem to justify the
hopes of the Grant men.
On the whole, although travel on city rail
roads is now more than ever embarrassed,
reports of the condition of diseased animals
are more favorable. The disorder is abating
in violence and extent, and business will be
relieved, probably, from this time forward.
The loss and trouble which the horse distem
per has entailed on the street railway COM
panies especially Will be likely to revive the
much-debated proposition to employ steam
traction on the city lines.
A member of the Bar Association addresses
TIE TRIBUNE on the subject of AttOrney-Gen-
eral Barlows lobbying in the interests of Erie.
mi .l faI another
will be read with attention. Mr.. Barlow will
not wonder if he find himself judged sharply
by the rules of professional conduct to which
he first volunteered to give sharp personal
application in the case of Mr.. David Dudley
Field; and it is with feeling of sincere pity
we see him bearing the test so i'll.
Nobody who knows anything of Mr.. Com
missioner Davenport's aDtecedents and later
doinCs will expect that his construction of the
Enforcement Law is aught but unwarrantable
and despotic. An intelligent correspondent
in another part of THE TRIBUNE, to-day, so
clearly elucidates the whole question involved
in this unpopular statute, that it is surprising
that an official of ordinary knowledge Of his
duties could have been so misled to bis
own confusion as Mr.. Commissioner evidently
has been.
A warning to builders as well as foOt-pas-
sengers should be found in the killing of
gentleman in Wall-st, yesterday, by blow
from bit of falling timber. 1t is wonder
there are so few fatal casualties of this sort In
the crowded streets of the lower part OF the
city. Attention has repeatedly been called to
the recklessness which wOrkmen show in
building or demOlishing structures; and now
the UNDECIDED warning is followed by the sud-
den death of q passenger on sidewalk.
Somebody ought to be punished for this.
Tn The most shameless days of the rule of
William NJ. Tweed there never was such a
profigate expenditure of money in this city
as is now going on under the control of the
Grant organizers. Even the payments in Phil
adelphia, monstrous as they seemed, become
respectable compared with the present opera
tions in New York. When the ballOt-bOx is
.polluted by the cash-bOx, and the people will
1ingly submit to it, the end of republicanism
ia near. We do not believe repubhcanism is
70 fail; and so we believe that this monstrous
use of money in elections is to meet with
signal rebuke. Reader, will you not help TO
give it'll
The oil regions Of Pennsylvania have
yielded 30 many sudden fortunes to lucky per-
sons, it is not surprising that all sorts of
ecbemes should be resorted to now to husband
and monOpolize declining profits The noto-
rious South Improvement Company rose and
fell abOrtively; and now somewhat similar
plan of monopoly appears in what is known
as "The Petroleum Producers Agency" ms
IS nothing more than close corporation
which is designed to control the production
Of crude oil and to fix a minimum price for
ttbe same A Titusvjlle correspondent Of The