The New York herald., 1873-07-20
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY JULY 90 ls7s-TR1PLE SHEET

Tnou mast sent sweet springs to all the pleasant
streams.
In the end Thou hast made them bitter with the
sea.
The partisan journals all snap at him. The
republican papers that cried for his election,
AZ Endymion did for the moon, declare that
he is delusion and snare, as the mythology
cal youth would have done if he found pale
Cynthia to be piece of green cheese on closer
inspection. The democratic journals savagely
denounce him as man who forsook his own
party, joined a set of nondescripts and
then set up for himself The liberal pa
his audacity in doing things they asked him
to do, but doing them in way to disappoint
his friends, as we'll as his enemies The COM
mon grievance held by tho partisan press
against him is that he has not put the ''rght
men, into place; but whether these journals
have satisfactory idea of what ''right men,
are is very doubtful. On examination it gen.
orally comes to mean ''our pet lambs, Mr..
Mayor" There are more parties rushing can
didates for each place than there were crews
at the Springfield regatta. The Mayors diff
Guilty is that no matter how many pull in the
of the Aldermen. The Aldermen, on the other
hand, can reject but it is useless to reject
while the Mayor is too obstinate to nomi-
nate to their liking There is not even
the melancholy chance of his favorite being
beaten, as Tom Bowling was the other day at
o,,tl, Do tba ind hou olo sod
the race off unless there are ten entries. We
pity the Mayor, we sorrow for the Aldermen,
we bemoan the partisan press whose columns
are quivering under the efforts of the blinded
Samson, who is savage at grinding in Philis-
tine mill where there is no grist. The Philis-
tines are savage too. This is reform.
We can walk round the Tombs and count
murderers' heads by the dozen, and feel
rapturous delight in rejecting that the rowdy
is safe and the peaceful citizen in danger
for is not changing played out2" Jack Rey-
nolds lived ahead of his time he lost the
race of life by a neck, as it were for, had
he survived to these reform times, he would
have seen that Legislature can practically
annul the. death penalty. Murder has been
reformed, not the murderers. We can take q
glance at reform financial officer, who carries
on the business of the Empire City with all the
cheese-paring, lightweight giving and petty
trckness of tenth rate grocer in poverty
stricken neighborhood. 1t was Tammany's
plan to be ruinously prodigal reform says
through her sad Andrew that she is skim
flint The reek and filth of the streets, the
pestilence lairs, the low dance houses, the
policy shops, are all evidences of reform. The
high priests of the new political religion are
fighting like village dogs-plenty of bark and
not strength enough in the jaw for q solid
bite. Must we not pray that this is not all
we shall see of reform? muzzled Mayor, a
Board of Aldermen combined for spoils,
wrangling press abusing each other, calling
names to the Mayor and denouncing his foes.
What potpoirri for our voters to contem-
plate, what hopeful picture of the selfish
ness, can't and hypocrisy that lie like quick
sands beneath the surface of the thing called
reform as we know it just now