New-York tribune., 1879-04-09


weather will grow hotter The germs of
zymotic disease will sprout into more lethal
luxuriance. Congress will get madder and
sicker The end of the fiscal year will ind
an empty fisc, after all the pOthcr. And then
it takes money to help Congress do moth
ing. A deficiency bill will be in Or
der and goodbye bill too. pleas
ant prospect this for taxpayers. and n
valuable experience for everybody. This brcf
trial of partial Confederate rule Will teach
the country what 1t might expect ii the
Democracy had full swing.
Ex-senator Barnum, of Connecticut, the
silent, cocl-headed, calculating politician, who
has never been suspected of a single rash or
ardent sentiment upon any subject, declares
that the extra session of Congress and the
debate upon the Army bill have cost the
Democratic party 100000 vOtes"! If an
amateur in politics had made such an asser-
ton. it wOuld have attracted little attention,
in spite of the fact that it Is clear TO men
OF both parties how greatly the Democrats
have damaged themselves. But coming from
Mr. Barnum the remark is an unexpected
revelation of Democratic consciousness OF the
position of the party. He is not the man to
make loose generalizations about votes, seeing
that he knows the market value of a single
vote, of n hundred votes of thousand votes,
perhaps better than any other man III the
Union. When he says that the Democracy
have lost 100000 votes, the party knowing
his practical temperament and his unerIing
commercial sagacity in all matters relating to
the ballot, may well pause and think seriously
of its future.
In an Assembly numbering barely half of
the members elected, Mr.. LaIgbein's bill to
destroy Central Park has actually been
ordered to a third reading, and is therefore
but one step from its final passage in the
lower house of the Legislature. We shall re-
fuse to believe, until convinced otherwise,
that this is the deliberate judgment
of the Assembly or that in a full
house a majority vote could be OBJ
tanned for this measure. The action,
as it stands is a happy illustration of
the system of maintaining an Assistant Board
of Aldermen at Albany. Mr.. Langbein Sc
cured the vote he did, as il is stated in our
Albany dispatches, by the aid chiefly of cOun
try members who are, of course, of all per-
sons best qualified to legislate about the
parks of New-York City. If these country
members will read the journals of this
city they Will discover that the press
is unanimous in denouncing this scheme to
ruin park which is the chief pride of New
York if they knew anything OF public senti-
ment here they would see that Alr. LanGbcin
has no supporters whatever, except those
milita-men whose desire for a parade-grOund
overcomes every consideration of the public
health and general pleasure. If these rural
members paid Mr.. Varnum and Mr.. Strahan
the compliment of listening to the speeches
made yesterday, it could not have escaped
the notice of men, who have been simply
misled upon subject Of which they are nee
cssarily ignorant, that single inculsion OF
the military into Central Park two years ago
inflicted endless injury and cost the city sew
eral thousand dollars for repairs. The citizens
of New-York are solidly against this bill, and
the citizens of the interior will do well to let
us manage our own parks in our own way.