New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-18


he would knock them down. natural Sc
quence of such declarations was the resolution
of the Tammany Hall Committee to 10TH
Vigilance Committees in each district
We are sorry that Mr.. Augustus Schell mas
declined being candidate for the Mayoraity.
IF Tammonv is to make the Mayor, it is not
likely to select anybody else so good. III
Tammany is not to make the Mayor tnen IL
could not march to defeat more croditably
than under Mr.. Schel's banner. The confer
enccs between the Democratic factions con-
tinue, and harmony and chaos-reign SUI
preme.
We have a serious word for Mr.. Francis ;.
Lathrop of New-Jersey. His present duty Is
to get the New Jersey Central Railroad out OF
the hands of Receiver;- mot to further
schemes for throwing the United States Gov
eminent into the receivershp oil another
doubtful election and possible Electoral Com
mission. lie is paid TO attend to his raiiroad
work. and the Court and the Public have
right to insist that he do it. Governor Kan
doph and Fitz John Porter can travel mp and
down New-Jersey on the errands OF the de-
molalizei Democracy without anybody's hav-
ing the right to object; but it would be be-
coming in Mr.. LlthrOp to let them alone, ana
mind his own business.
1t is evident from the statement which Pres
idcnt Diaz makes in his annual message that
the Mexican Republic has awakened thor
oughly to the importance of connecting the
chief towns by railroads. He says that he has
given ten States authority to build railroads,
and he speaks of ten lines which are being
constructed. These include the 1nteroceanic
Railroad at Tehuantcpec, the line from Quay
mas to our frontier, and the two great trunk
railroads which are to establish communica-
ton between the Mexican Capital and the
American system, with two branches to the
Pacific Such evidences of progress arc sig
nificant in country which few years ago
could boast only of the English built line from
Vera Cruz to the Capital.
There is nothing better in the circular sent
out by the Young Republican Club OF Brook
lyn than its reminder that New-lork Is to be
"more than ever the battle ground" and that
this is no time for OVer-coniidence. lt Is
small sacrifice to make for the country to
give up the leisure hours of the coming two
weeks to the work of canvassing voters,
stimulating registration, and turning the stay
at-home voter out of doors with ballot IN
his hand. Men of either party who Will
make this sacrifice to give General Car
field majority in this State and
in the Electoral College which can
not be ciphercd away, will be doing more for
the country than some of them perhaps realize.
A second electoral dispute would not be likely
/ Il L. no Demo-
cratic leaders know that a Republican victory
now will be regarded as the dcath-knell OF
the Democratic party, and that the ilcrce
! Ouarrels smOudering among the Southern
| Democrats will burst out in flame when there
is 10 longer any hope Of victory and plunder
for the united party. They are desperate, and
will not stop at desperate acts. They can be
cowed best by majority for General Gar
field which they dare not dispute.
1t had been supposed that Mr.. English had eX-
hausted the public capability of contempt. But
| almost every day some new page III the mans
life opens which makes us think that the
half has not been told us. When MI. English
produced in defence of the pension charges
what seemed to be receipts from several of
the heirs, many Republican papers, among
them The TRIBUNE, FASTENED to admit that
these proved that he had finally given up the
money, although the essential facts of the
completed fraud upon the Government and
tho attempted fraud upOn his relatives re-
NAMED mistaken because they rested upon
documentary proof. Bat it now seems that
Mr. English is not a man to be trusted
to put forward even correct copies of
court records in his own defence. Our Wash
ingtOn dispatches show that the copy of Mr..
English's discharge as administrator, which
was telegraphed over the country, was, curl
ously enough ante-dated by year, giving
the impression that lac settled with his heirs
within six weeks after receiving the pen
sion money. The receipts he gave did not es-
| pecially mention the pension, as THE TRIBUNE
| noted at the time, while bis voucher for ex-
penses, of which a copy is given, raises
strong presumption that his settlement adj
mnstrator had not included the pension. His
total expenses were stated at $3 80, and yet,
as the recently published correspondence
shows, he made journey from Washington
TO Indiana in 1916, when travelling cost
money to get up the papers. Are we to be-
! lieve that the frugal Mr. English, who even
now sends his personal kilograms at the ex-
pense of his friends who receive them. collected
when young man $3.964 for his relatives
and paid the expenses of the operation him
self7 Ii is now stated, by one of his rcla-
tives. that he Satisfied " some of the heirs
with n Gift of $50. Altogether it is a noble
record.