New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-04

regard TO the name what the same might imply-is
Trojan Democratic statesman who has learned
how sharper than serpents tooth 1t Is 10 have
thankless party associates He Is an inmate OF
the Troy Jail He tcas, but few short months ago.
one of the most industrious, gifted and efficient
members Of the sweet-scented Rensselaer, County
Ring which has done it's noblest to make Rensselaer,
the Tweed county Of the interior. Mr. Lawless is
accused of perjury, and of having peculiar ideas in
regard to the sacrcdness of the balOt-box and the
method of counting votes His fellow-Democrats
instead of condoning his eccentrictles desert him in
the hour of his extremity. James has been unable
to obtain bail, the very men for whom he has per
formed the most Characteristic of his feats of states
manship keeping tho furthest in the background
Democrats thus grateful richly deserve never to
have ballot-box stuffed in their interest, and TO
see a time honored Rensselaer, County ring motto
"Vote early. vote often"-lose all its aforetme ell
cacy.
The public debt decreased nearly sixteen and ono
half million dollars during the month Of March.
One of the fruts of Republican administration. And
now will the members of the IroQuois Club sit down
and figure out just how many Andrew Jackson din
ner speeches on Capitalization it takes to make as
good 4 campaign document as that
Assemblynan J. Stanley Browne builded better
than lie knew when he passed over Mr.. Iilden to
speak of Mr. 1ildens ghost. For the ghost is con-
temporaneOus, while Mr.. Tilden is simply late
lamentcd. Yet, stay Stanley. Can ghost bound
up the four pair of stairs of o three-story honseE
Can ghost write letters complimentary of the
ghost of Andrew Jackson' Do ghosts have barls
and support a retnue of nincompoops Do ghosts
he awake nights laying pipe and pulling wires for
the Presidential nomination of 1SS49 On second
Ia, Mr. do
Tildcn may have adjudged that You were too pre-
vious in insisting upon introducing his ghost into
the political arena when you did
So fades the summer cloud away. That ardent
devoec of banks known to large circle OF cashiers
tellcrs and other gentlemen holding duciary trusts
as "BlIy the Kid" yesterday retired from the circle
of which he has been long shining ornament to the
profound secluson which the Sing Sing grants,
Nothing liscareer became him like the leaving it.
John F. Smyth one of the 800, and ex-AssembIy-
man Draper, one of the %, were in Washington
during the past week, and their mission there is re-
ported to have been the removal Of Dir. ". y. 5.
Sanders, Surveyor Of Customs at Albany, and the
appointment of Mr. Paddock in lis place. We may
casually add that Mr.. Sanders is Garfield Repub-
lican and that Mr. Paddock, Mr. Diapers law part
ner, is a COnkling Republican
The Louisville CoHrier-JournGl admits that tho
Democratic party has certainly done some very
stupid things" If The C0Ur7-JoVEdi were asked
what it regarded rs the stupidest Of the many
stupid things that the Democratic party has DONE
we wonder what it would answer We suspect
that if the question should be put to the rank and
hle of the Democracy the reply would DO that the
party at its stupdest when it adopted the
platform prepared by committee of which the
Editor of The C0urter-J01rnal was chairman,
tanning the plank advocating Il tariff for revenue
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