New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-15
rrvxopK many TRIBUNE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY I5 1884

II is safe to cay there was conspiracy for one
can hardly conceive that ont of 900 Democrats the
division Of preference would be of that sort. III
there were not thirty candidates named instead Oh
three, and II some living men did not have more
supporters than those dead men, Tilden and Thur
man. the returns were not honest. and the services
of an incorTuptble returning board were needed
Longfellow's sweet little lyric, ITO Stay AT Home
Is Best" has been set to music. II Is not generally
known that the editor of The sun has determined
TO send q copy of the song with his compliments
and regrets to Mr. Holman.
Awful thought Suppose Governor Cleveland,
by way of further furnishing theSenate for presum-
ing TO ask him for information regard to matter
of public concern, shOnld conclude to pror0gue
that body 1t behoOves the Senate to be its good
behavior 1t might send message to the Cover
nor asking permission to apologize.
\ woman whose husband had refused to buy her
new PAIR Of shoes put Paris green in his pie by
way of emphasizing her displeasure at his parsi-
mony. This is calculated to be an awful warning
to husbands, though opinions may differ as TO its
precise significance. Some may regard it as eau
tion against refusing to buy new shoes for their
wives while others may look upon it as O suggestion
that all domestic pie should be carefully examined
before being eaten Perhaps it would be still safer
never to eat pie.
II appears that in the extradiion treaty with Mex
leo, there is claim providing that neither govern
ment shall be bound to deliver up its own citizens
under the terms of the treaty. This claim has
caused embarrassment to both governments, and
very naturally, since 1t must constantly happen
that one or the other is required, in the plain In
terests of justice do the thing which the treaty
declares by implication shall not be done. Most OF
the trouble with Mexico grows out of frontier dis
putes and offences. There and long have been
great many very bad characters belongingtO both
countries lowering about the border. These
people mako raids across the frontier either way,
and out of these raids spring demands for extra
ditioll. Now it IA certain that both the govern
ments would be quite willing to give up their
border ruflians for Punishment by the country
whose laws they have broken, and that such mu-
tual extraditiOn would have a wholesome influence
in reforming frontier lawlessness. But the extra
ditiOn treaty stops in and really has tho effect OF
creating sort of neutral territory where the worst
thieves and murd from both countries can not
only live unmolested, but establish
basis of operations against American and Mexican
settlers and producers 1t is obvious that this IL
case for Congressional action, and that J. 1t ID not
altogether safe TO withdraw tho embarrassing
provision in the treaty some special provision Oh
supplementary character should be inserted in the
instrument, enabling the respective governments to
further the cause of justice and give some protec-
ton to the law-abiding frontier inhabitants by
surrendering border criminals whenever satisfactory
representations are made by the government re-
questing the eXtraditIOn.
1t is rumored that the Washington lobby finds
little to do this winter What pity that some OF
its enterprising members neglected the opportunity
to win undying fame presented by the Soudan
difficulty. They might have gone mp the Nile and
helped General Gordon to " make it square with
the Mahdi and thus have arrested bloodshed and
caused the American eagle to scream with joyful
pride.
1t would seem that Scranton, Penn. harbOrs
Democracy that is inordinately greedy. An attempt
has lust been made to swell the registry list Of the
coming election in that city by stuihng it with the
names of dead men, strangers and other persons
that have no vote in Scranton. At last accounts the
perpetrators OF the outrage the ballOt-box had
not been caught But their politics appears in the
statement that the mutations occur in the strong
Democratic wards"
The latest and most startling railroad scheme is
reported by The Cincinnati Necs Journal, which pro-
fesscs to have authority Of o railroad official for
the statement that the Bee Line is wanted as part
of a Grand transcontnental lIne to consist Of the
Delaware Lackawanna and Western the Bee Line,
and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Re, which is TO
build into St. Louis. This scheme is highly inter-
esting. but it is rather imaginative The pros
perlty Of the Pacific roads is not enormous as to
stimulate investments of many millions more at
onca in the etfort To divide the same traffic,