New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-24

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nearly 10000 for it out of total vote upon 1t Of
$4,000, 900 less than the total vote upon
State officers. With all tho Indifference that was
shown regarding the proposition by those who
should naturally have opposed it, and the msun-
derstanding of voters who voted for it when they
supposed they voting against it, the majority
is not as great as there to fear it would
be. The vote for it is considerably below ma
jority of all the votes cast and the Legislature will
be justified in taking that fact into consideration
1t would certainly be wrong to the State and the
taxpayers to abolish the contract system until
better system is devised in its place.
To inquirer: Those January Democrats" of this
State, to whom that intelligent foreigner Galig-
naHis Messenger lately took occasion to refer, are
doubtless the Democrats who counted upon
Democratic Legislatures beng chosen this fall.
Naming them January" Democrats is merely
The Messengers sly way of indicating that ever
since election it has been pretty cold weather for
them.
commercial party " from Chihuahua, Mexico,
as it called in the classic diction of the West
ern press, has been visiting the United States on
tour of business exploration, and after reaching st.
Louis, turned back homeward. ThesSt. Louis news
papers exultingly telegraphed the announcement in
all directions that the " commercial party" would
not visit Chicago The Chicago papers at once re-
sponded that it was to be expected that the party
would be disguised with the United States and anx-
ious to return home as soon as they had taken
good look at st. Louis. Says one paper Beyond
the bridge and Sbaw's garden they found nothing
In st. Louis save few bobtailed streetcars hauled
by mules; streets that are narrower and dlrtier
than the streets Of their own cities; tumble-dOwn
business houses that were going to decay when
Pierre Choteau died merchants who sat on empty
barrels and boxes in front of empty stores and
passed their time away whiting sticks and chew
ing tobaccO seedy colonies, generals, and judges at
the hotels, and q general display of poverty and
desOlation which filed the strangers souls with
horror. Something must be done to prevent this
sort of thing In the future" 1t is pity the COM
mercial party" did not go to Chicago. 1t would
have been such privilege to read some of its news
papers.
There is nothing like an explanation that ex-
plains The Buffalo Courier in an article on " New
York Candidates." clearly points out how 1t
happened that Governor SeymOurs Presidential
aspirations were brought to naught in 1868.
Governor Seymour failed" says our contemporary,
" because Democratic success in 1868 was utterly
impossible, everybody now perceiyes" There
you have II in neat little nutshell. The Courier
would do well to keep this explanation in type. 1t
will find 1t convenient to use after the November
election of next year, when weeping, wailing and
teethgnashing Buffalo Democrats fall 70 inquiring
how it happens that they are whipped again.
Senior Castelar's English admirers have been |
startled to find him countenancing so dastardly |
crime as the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish |
and lIr. Burke. In the course of review of Euro
pean politics published In Madrid fortnight ago
he referred to the murderers as various patriots,
who are to-day adored saints and martyrs by |
the simple faith of people determined to recover
their cOuntry's ancient independence" The assas-
sination of Carey he pronounces an exceptional /
punishment of an exceptional crime y" the execu- |
ton of the verdict of the Irish nation" and afrms
that a race Of such determination must be inyinci-
BILE. 1t seems scarcely credible that so eminent |
Liberal and 80 accomplished and scholarly man |
as Senior CASTELAR, should defend the atrociOus muir |
der of the Secretaries in Phenix Park. The Euro
pean republication Of which he has always assumed |
to be q champion Is pacific in its tendencies The |
cause Of universal democracy TO which he has de- |
voted the energies of a pure and honorable life is
not to be COMPOUNDED with deeds Of brutal savagery
and crimes against civilization.
There ought to be provision made at once by the |
Bridge Trustees for commission hours on the cars |
Five cents fare is more than workngmen can afford
TO pay to ride mile, and 1t is a great deal more
than the ride Is worth. During the fog Tuesday
night and Wednesday morning thousands of work. |
ing men and women were compelled TO cross the |
Bridge in order to escape long delays at the ferries
But thOy had to walk or else pay five cents fare |
,aoh way. There are commission hours on the fer
RES and elevated roads, and there ought to be on
.he Bridge. For that matter, five centsis too much
20 charge at any time-three cents would be |
enough. But it costs only cent to GROSS the fer
les between the hours of and 1880, and 1t is |
absurd to charge five times much to ride across |
.he Bridge. 1t is time the Trustees endeavored TO
make that costly structure Of some greater benefit
20 the public than it has been as yet.
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