New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-21

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The wire-puers and machine workers In the
| Democratic party went To Saratoga to get the
| strnght tip" in order to support the Administra-
ton candidate for Governor. They all looked at Mr.
| Thompson and waited impatently for it. He was
authorized to give it, since his is in tho Custom
| llonse and the Brooklyn Navy Yard is worked
under his direction. lie was the chef eng neer of
| tho Administration reform machine and his
authority was undisputed. The politicians had
made no mistake. They got the straight tip" to
kill OF Governor Hill before tho Convention and
| then put in Mr. Thompsons candidate.
| II Is not generally known that Kelley has regis
tered a solemn oath in heaven, express charges
paIG. that be will yet have foreign mission. If he
has to order draft.
1t seems that Commissioner Black has begun a
new crusade against Miss Ada Sweet. the Chicago
Pension Agent. Baked in his effort to remove ber
without cause he has set industriously TO work to
obtain one His labOrs have resulted In the dis
coyery OF gross Irregularities" We counsel Gem
eraI Black 10 go trihe slow. lie should have dis
covered by this time that Miss Sweet Is lady who
knows both her rights and her duty.
The san Francisco Chronicle publishes story OF
hardships and crueties alleged TO have been snf
y,
'.e -~-- transported by tho Russian Government,
will out trial. on charge of connection with
Nihilism. According To- this man the Russian
officer IN charge OF tho island fortress abuses his
prisoners shameuly stealing the food and cloth
ing allowed them by the Cox eminent, half starving
aud keeping them In rags Still more revolving
stories are told of the treatment Of tho female
political prisoners. many of whom arc young. beau
tful aud we'll educated. WolInsky says that the
ommandant has the heads of all the prisoners both
male aud female nalf shaved. to prevent them
from escaping. and tribe of Japanese aborignes
inbabitng the island serve n outer guards. pur-
suing and recovering all who try to get away. This
man was fortunate enough 10 evade the natives
until he fell in with company Of American cod
fishers who took HIM board their schooner and
carried him to San Francisco.
Thurman positively declined to be defeated for
Governor this fall. That's where the proud pro-
prietor of the crimson bandanna was wiser than
lloadly.
How the Civil Service law ~ deiied by Hubert
Thompson's naughty chiefs III the Custom House,
and how the revenue suffers from fraud because
this wicked Administration. illustrating the spols
syStem has removed all tried officials from Office
all this is set forth under violent head-lines In
the news columns of The Erening Post. But The
Post. on the editorial page, keeps chanting In
blank verse that patronage Is dead, that the
victor has no more spoils-and Grover has
ushered IN the reign of holiness Verify The Sun is
right. Some compromise or reconciliation should
lie made between the fellow who tells on page one
why the SAINTS should be sad and the fellow on
page 40 who slidos in the daily lnstalment of his
great epic on the Baiiled Spollsmen, or Reform
Accomplished.
HorIJ hos IN odd against
TRIBUNE. Ii alleges that we are trying "to kick
up "A fight OF some kind in Virginia. Ii must DO
frankly acknowledged that The TRIBUNE OCCASION
ally enjoys oulet little tight: but the present sit
uation inlyirgna needs nooutsde help. IL is pretty
enough as Il stands.
Under this Administration the claimant Of office
who th!aks lac Will get II, ID undoubtedly crazy
lCmcago Iiioes
Yes If he bases his claim such an old-fashioned
recommendation as fitness or character. But 1t he
happens TO enjoy bad emncnce as an ex-Rebel, or
If his grandfather once gave dinner party to
Secretary Bayards grandfather or II he is blood
relation OF Mr. Lamar. or II he can sho" himself
nscful within Mr. Manning's idea of the meaning of
usefulness or il he can got drafted IN MI steven
sons fourtn class postnasershlp wheel, which runs
AT the rate of 500 day, he has quite good show.
Tho Indiana farmer who captured three tramp
burglars singe-handed, and then gave them their
choice between the pententlary aud "a hundred
la,hes apiece well laid on by himself. will prob
ably he respected hereafter by thieves though tho
legaliy of his proceedings Is more than doubtful.
The tramps thought that IN choosing the present
whipping they woro doing tho best for themselves,
bnt they had not al owed siiciently for the farm
er's strength Of arm. aud before the punishment
was over they would probably have preferred i'm
prisonmont
Mr.. Davis, the pension agent in Philadelphia,
who appointed the unrepontant Confederate Bar
biore As deputy has had n second unfortunate ex-
perience Tho protests of the Grand Army officers
led TO the removal of Barbiere and on the recon-
mendation of Commissioner Black. Mr. Davis ap-
ponted Captain Thomas II. l.. Payne, rs Barberes
successor Payne is not exactly physical wreck
such as General Black, but 1t seems that ho had
tried TO make his Grand Army comrades believe
such to bo tho oaso Ho arrested for systemati-
cally victimizing the Grand Army Posts by repro
senting himself in unfortunate circumstances, and
he pleaded guilty to the charge. Davis. on these