New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-13
great geniuses do not always make the best OF
husbands.

The size and spirit of last nights meeting az
forded ample proof, if any were needed, that the
people of New-York are in earnest about the
cleaning of the streets. The question mas De-
come one gravely affecting the general health, and
the public, as q result, are In no moou 10
listen to minor considerations, nor perhaps
tn heed some considerations which arc by no
means of slight Importance. They demand
clean streets, and, as the surest road to getting
them and keeping them, that there shall he a
single undivided responsibility IN the
matter. When the question arises, how
ever upon whom this responsibility shall
be placed, it must be admitted that 1t Is
n field for legitimate differences of opinion
The excellent citizens who composer
last nights meeting are warmly III ia'ol
of the bill putting the work in the hands Oh
the Mayor. Many others who da nov
take part In it were also wei ols-
posed toward the plan until the Mayor
by his attack upon the Police Commissioners
aroused suspicious of his good Faith. these
suspicious will hardly be removed by ms piedSe
70 the Citizens Committee, for such pledges are
unhappily. not always kept nor by his treatment
of the Commissioners at the hearing YESTERDAY
which will not give him reputation for JIleicisl
qualities IT, however, the Legislature should
see fit to grant him the power he SEEKS ne
will not be prejulged by citizens of either
marty. but will have fair chance to show
what he viii and viii not do.
The Democratic newspapers have jeered to
the best of their ability-which is not great,
even in ieering-at the declaration OF HE
TR1BryE and other Republican newspapers
that the contest in the Senate Is really one Tor
political freedom in the SOutll-an attack upon
the Democratic despOtism which robs the ne
phbican negro of his vote, and chokes down
any breath of independence in white Demo
crnt. Ii is interesting, after 40 many Demo-
cratic editors have conclusively proved that
there is nothing in this to have 1t admitted
IN the best Democratic authority that
there is everything in il, and that tins
il the whole meaning OF the hgtt
prominent Southern Senator SAYS III our WASH
ington dispatches: Owe would not continue
" this struggle twenty-fOur hours, II nothing
"were involved except the possession OF
few Offices If the Malone movement III
"Nirginia succeeds, we may rs well make up
"our minds to surrender the control OF baii
On dozen of the other Southern states. Ma
"bone's success will make political rebellion
"ond treason respectable in the South,
"and Maloncs will spring up in North
"Carolina, in South Carolina, IN Georgia,
Gin Alabama, and even i'll Mississippi. The
"very existence of the Democratic party IN
"some States is at stake in this contest. DIS
affected Democrats in every Southern STATE
care watching the struggle with eager interest,
land they will rise in rebellion against party
discipline the moment they see the Demo
"cratic party overthrown in Virginia" This Is
the whole story. The Democratic Senators are
struggling to maintain the Democratic tyranny
in the South. The Republican Senators and
General Malone are fighting fur political indie
pendence, a free ballot and an honest count