New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-26
Nrw.vorK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY OCTOBER 20 1882

taxation, g with its alarming and alluring surplus"
He must have touched q vibrant chord In the
breasts OF his audience when he talked about re-
ducing an alarming and alluring surplus" IL sa
work In which he could count upon their most
hearty and eager cooperation. Tammany doesn't
reduce It's whiskey very much. but It can reduce
an allurng surplus" quicker than any body Oh
statesmen that ever cracked public crib.
II ought to be safe enough now TO count the Xlth
Con gressio nal District as redeemed to Republican
ism and sound doctrine: William l.. Strong, the
Republican candidate has all the strength that bis
name implies clean-handed honorable mer-
chant. philosophical citizen. intimately assooi-
ated with the very flower of the party in New-York.
the most invetorate Of fault-fnders will be unable
to discover reason for not supporting him. Against
him the Democrats have pitted Orlando b. Potter.
Mr. Potter might once have made a good run, but
voters cannot have forgotten the horrible scenes AT
the burning of his Park-row building, and the light
which was thrown on his character and business
methods by the investigation that followed Inc
XIth District includes the best part of New-fork,
1t should not be represented at Washington by
man who so narrowly escaped indictment as dld
Orlando b. Potter.
Mr. Michael J. Dady appears to bear to the Adj
ministraton in BrY Oklyn about the same relation
that Mr.. Proxy French does in this city-and to
have done the State ticket about the same measure
Of harm.
Some so-called Republicans seem bent on doing
all the harm they can to the party in the AlAth
Assembly District. Tho action of the machine
leaders who refuse to put in nomination Republl-
can candidate for the Assembly and ask the Repub-
cans of tine district to support the nominee OF the
County Democracy, bears every mark of dis
graceful "deal.D There are already two Democrats
in the field nominated by Irving Hall and the
County Democracy, and there may vet be third
With the Democratic vote thus divided surely
Republican would have a good lighting chance. But
the professional politicians who controlled the dele
CATION from the Twenty second Ward IN the Assem-
blyconventIon insisted that Edwin T. Coventry, the
County Democracy candidate, should be supported.
The delegates from the Twelfth Ward refused, but
they were outvoted. The explanation of this dis
crcdtable affair said to be that Secretary John
son, Of the state Committee. has been associated
with Mr.. Coventry III business and wishes to send
his partner to the Assembly by the aid of Repubi-
can votes. If tins is true, il is trick which Will
yet come back TO plague the inventor
The more Aldermen Of the right sort whom the
Republicans elect the better it will be for this
town Our City Hall Is politically of the foul
sewers have. and needs cleaning out as badly
as any. If the iXth District viii put George ".
Bush in an Aldermanic chair he Will be of service
III that work. He is quiet business man, not
soiled and scanned Dy the and tear of ward
politics. az most OF present lot of local states
men are, and he has the esteem and confidence OF
his feIlow-citizens
Nh Samuel Cox is a. his best as a humorlst when
he is juggling an audience OF wiIe-mOuthed Demo
Gratis with words He has hardly ever been fuunier
than he was the other night in his very solemn
speech accepting rrnOmmatlon. To Mr.. Maurice
HOllahan and the other statesmen ngagedlD calling
him the pubic service, he SAID the secret OF his
long continuance in the public service was that he |
measured lis duties by rule. The ngId rule said he
has been that OF the written law of granted power
strictly construed no excuses, no prOdlgatleS, no
compouudIng usurpatIon OF powers, no stranng |
after effects of national ehulgence TO eclipse |
the more important though less garlsh sys- |
TEN of local and State Institutions I'm |
agine Hollahan and his fellow patriots wrestling |
with " the effects Of national efugence" and try |
ing to make out how they "ecpse . the less |
garish system of local aud State institutions" 1t
must have struck them very much the actors |
gibbery gosh in Judge Brady's famous story did |
the honest German upon whose cabbage patch the |
actors COW had trespassed. /" Mr. Shamson," said |
the mystihed German. " you're a dom'd hoombOg" |
It very important this year ~ elect Democratic
coroners. If Perry Belmont should happen TO
slip on a banana skin and break his neck during
the next twelve months, 1t will be Of the highest
importance to have coroners in Office who will not
shrink from tlacng the banana to Blaine.
Mr. Abram s. Hewitt has been renOminated for
Congress, it is said by the repre- entaryes OF Tam
many, Irving Hall and the County Democracy.
I here must be some mistake about it, however.
Even if il were possible that the County Democracy
could so far forget the purpose for which they
organized as to unite with the faction they set out
TO destroy il carnOt be that Mr.. Hewitt would
accept the support of Tammany after saying what he
has about the corrupt and tyrannIcal methods of
that concern. Moreover, he announced publicly |
Two years ago that Tammany was thing Of the
pastp He would not be likely to accept nOmina-
ton from ghosts. Perhaps, though this is some
other Hewitt. Even then we do not understand
how Tammany can have had any share IN the
transaction. 1ammany-it there's any Truth 10 |
Democrat tic pOlitcIans-is dead-cOnspcuously and |
unusually dead-kiled by the County Democracy |
What Hewitt is this And which lanmanyi
What does Mr. Cox mean when he says: Believ- |
ing that modes of Interpretation are matters of |
faith while vicious and loose political codes cause
corruption, if not corrupt in themselves shall if
elected. continue to profess well practise. |
these prInoiples"i He adds that this Is not diff |
cult "siuce il has become habit" This looks like
"A burst Of uncommon candOr.
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PERSONAL,
The Hon George Bancroft has gene to Washing |
ton for the winter.