The Portland daily press., 1874-10-13

youth, energy and good reputation. Warned
by the example of servility set by the present
occupant of the executive seat, they have select
ed man who is but little past forty and whose
whole adult life has been one of rare activity
and no little usefulness. In the Fire Depart
ment and the Mercantile Library Association
he was conspicuous for force of character and
strength of will. In the Committee of Seventy
he displayed the same qualities quite as per-
ceptibly. He is plain, out-spoken and fear
less man, and is much more apt to stalk his
mind" than to "mind his talk" He has. and
has had for long time, contempt for Have
meyer, which has found vent in expressions far
more noticeable for their strength than their
elegance. There is no reason why he should
not make good Mayor He is ambitious and
sensible and would naturally be impressed with
the conviction, whichit takes merely average
common sense to produce, that the only way to
win fame in that office is to earn the praise Of
the people by judicious, economical and effi-
cient administration. $3.50 sf9i'N ,iIeritfT
Heis not a man to be ruled by anybody else.
He is rather imperious than tractable. He will
see to it that the office is curtaed of none Of its
powers while he holds it. The intimation that
based upon total misconception of his charac-
ter. He has been terror to every organization
that he was ever connected with, unless it fol-
lowed his counsels, but power as long as
things went to suit him.
On the whole, there is something rather re-
freshing in the idea of infusiug so6e young
blood into our municipal system. One gets the
notion that nothing but lapse into second
childhood could by any possibility account for
Havemeyers latest puerilities That a ruler Of
million people should voluntarily engage in a
newspaper wrangle with private citizen and
sign his name to a long chapter of defamatory
charges, no matter whether well or i'll founded,
is spectacle too pitiable for scorn. The deri.
sion it provokes must needs be tempered with
sorrow. The most charitable thing we can say
of him is what Dogberry said of Yerges:
"a good old man, sir;
He Will be talking; as they say, when the
a hge e is tiG IN the VII Is out; God help us
Many of his previous performances have been
more grotesque than anything of which history
makes mention as of actual occurrence. But
this last surpasses all the rest, in its broad de-
parture from every principle of self-respect and
dignity. There isn't a justice Of the peace in
the smallest town in New England, whose
pride of station wouldn't keep him from being
an actor in such farce as that
1t cannot be denied that our ancient Mayor Is
man of weight, for he has served for sinker
to carry under the Committee of Seventy, to
submerge the Council of Political Reform so
that it is just struggling to keep its head out,
and to make the word reform rather disagree
able and unwelcome sound to the public ear.
to say nothing of the mourning he has caused
to $4,000 Republicans, every soul of whom is
sincerely penitent for having made him what
he is. ..... -. ....f. 4-f. r.. .. .
We fall back again through that inscrutablc
dispensation into an old captivity 1t will bo
years hope before affairs go to thu bad, even
to the extent they did before Tweed's advent.
Public vigilance grows more and more keen
even in such stolid community as this, and
doings that would have elected no comment
dozen years ago, are denounced now with em-
phatic vehemence. The new regime in Tamma.
ny Hall, will be obliged to conform to the moro
exacting spirit of the age. So that looking up
on the scene with the tranquil impartiality of
an external observer, am disposed to make
the best of the situation, and to find comfort
in the reflection that we have been, and might
be worse off than we are. YARMOUTH.