New-York tribune., 1879-03-13


suffering which must ensue among the home
less Hungarans. 1t will remain for engineer
ing skill to provide measures which VIII
render the, recurrence OF such disasters
practically impossible.
New-Jersey Justice goes to the polls Occa-
sionally. In both Warren and Sussex Counties
| on Tuesday the local rings were overturned
and trampled under foot, and there is much
| rejoicing among the taxpayers that they have
secured Boards of FreehOlders pledged 10 re-
| form. The contest in Sussex County was one
! of especial interest, because an investigation
into its affairs, which has just closed, disclosed
| the existence of many loose practices without
uncoveiing much that can be called actual
crime and in political campaigns distinctions
of this sort are not always carefully regarded.
A wel-infOrmcd correspondent discusses else
where the exact situation in Sussex County,
and describes the cruel pressure OF taxation
engendered by official extravaganza and waste
upon the farmers of that region. The tax
payers of Sussex have at least made sure that
there will be no more of this and the double VIC
tory in these counties is shll another sign of the
good time coming-for the taxpayers-in local
government.
The withdrawal of O'LeaTy does not mate
rally affect the great walking contest, lnasmuch
as he Jagged behind all three of his competitors,
but it is a sudden downfall for the champion
He withdrew under the express orders OF
his physicians, who have declared from the
opening of the contest, it is understood, that
his health, even his life, was in danger, and
l. ha rhaH "a
result of his defiance of training rules
and his use of alcoholic stlmulants
SO that, in its small way, this sudden
breakdown might be used to illustrate the
hyglcnic virtue that lies In temperance.-A
matter that will excite less interest but is re-
ally of vastly greater public Importance Is the
question of responsibility for the accident at Gil
more's Garden last night, by which several per-
sons were seriously injured. The great pressure
of the crowds upon the resources of the place
were not perhaps fOreSeen, but in any event
there should have been the utmost care In the
construction of temporary galleries and the
like. 1t is fortunate that the accident was no
worse, but with decent precaution there would
have been no accident at all.
All the signs go to show that the whole
Democratic party will have cause to repent
tnat spurt of rebel feeling in the Senate
when the representatives of the South forgot
to play their parts, and talked right out for
jefferson DAVIS as openly as they might have
done in the Confedera Senate itself. The
letter of an Ohio correspondent shows what
change has come over the face of politics in
that State since the Democrats in Congress
began to exhibit their purposes, and that
brief debate in the Senate will, as time
passes, be more convincing than a dozen
weeks of ordinary Oratory. The last Ohio
campaign was fought upon the issue of
finance but the next will divide upon the old
question which the South Will never permit
to be settled. The change in feeling is so
marked among Republicans that the candidate
to whom the nomination for the Governor
ship was fairly conceded has now been re-
placed with candidate who represents more
clearly the new phase of Republicansrn. Con-
sidering that the old. old contest which began
in '61 and has been so many times repeated
on bloodless fields, never ends but in one way,
it is a little remarkable that the Democracy
should insist upon being beaten over and over
again.
When Superintendent Smyth's answer to the
charges against him was presented to the
Senate the other day, we ventured the sug-
gestion that his opponents had been firing
blank cartridges again. In view of the fact
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