New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-08
NETWORK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER s. 1881.


people arrested. But this will not prevent
some bypocritical rogue from repeating the
same operation tomorrow.
Mr.. Tilden has written an interesting
letter to a humble Democrat, who wanted
to know whether it would be I" dis
agreeable to Mr.. Tilden to have
nm appear as a candidate for State
nomination before Che approaching Conven-
uon. Mr.. Tilden says that he does not
assume any such position toward the Organiza-
uon; that it was his practice when ut
the head of the party to make advisory sug-
gestlons,' but he has undertaken no
such function at this time that the
idea that he was controlling nominations
with view of running for Governor next
fall is can idle fiction of Republican and
other newspapers" The word reform " UNI
eXpectedly occurs in the letter.
The movement for establishing a Garfield
Memorial Hospital in Washington is evil
both in view of the character of the
institution and the place where it is
proposed it shall exist as a permanent mon
ument of the late President Justice Miller has
appointed an executive committee to receive
all subscriptions, not only from the United
States, but from the world at large Cen
erai Sherman is chairman, and Mr..
Blaine, MI Window, General Swain and
large number of prominent citizens of
Washington are associated with him. Treas
urer Gliiillan is 70 act as treasurer of the
tund This is one of the most appropriate, be-
cause one of the most useful, memorials of Gar
held that have been proposed and it is to be
hoped that the subscriptions will be of such q
popular kind as to make its character complete.
The great public welcome which Mr.. Glad
stone is receiving at Leeds affords him an
opportunity to deal in his trenchant way with
the current questions of British politics. His
forcible speech yesterday was remarkable for
his pathetic allusi0n to his own life as draw
ing to "its inevitable close" as well as for the
vigorous manner in which he dealt with the
subjects of land reform, fair trade, aud Irish
agitation. 1t is now clear that the British
Premier Is ready to support land reform in
Great Britain, while he will continue as un-
compromising as John Bright on the subject
of free trade. He spoke in scathing terms of
Mr. Parnell, and appears fully resolved to give
his revolutionary schemes no quarter In re-
gard to foreign countries, the Premier defined
his policy to be goodwill to all nations,
whether powerful or weak, assuming each one
to be friendly until it proves to be otherwise.
Inns great speech is certain to reecho through
ont the United Kingdom, and have a marked
effect upon the public mind
Captain HowGate is before the Courts in
Washington asking a reduction of his bail
upon second Indictment against him. in de-
fault of which he has been confined in iail.
He has given bail under the first Indictment
for 100000 and there is civil suit against
him for $lO1 900, under which all his prom
erty has been attached; the bail was fixed
upon the second charge at $4,000. The Court
expressed Willingness to fix it at $40, 600. and
upon the statement of Howgate's counsel that il
would be impossible for him to obtain that
amount promised to " consider the matter fur
ther." Leniency toward prisoners in the mat
ter of bail is often carried to absurd lengths
The case of Stuart, the defaulting secretary
of the Brooklyn Board of Education. is a case
in point. His bail was only a small fraction
of the amount he had stolen and if we are to
suppose that the money forfeited when he dis
appeared came out of his own pocket he still
made an immense pecuniary profit out of the
guileless authorities by going Bail ought, in
all cases, to be fixed ut such a figure rs will
secure the attendance of the accused, and not
put premium on his running away. 1t is no
doubt unpleasant for man of Captain How
gates former position to be in Jail, and his
physical condition probably exctes commisera
ton; but it is also unpleasant for the United
States Government, after losing several bun
dred thousand dollars of its money. to run the
risk OF losing the person believed to have
made away with it.