New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-03

poet lawyer, y. NcDD Rogers, bJlll W IL
his letter is all right"
I'm view of the disclosures OF Governor Hill 3
association with the arch-thief Tweed in the
purchase Of The Elnrd Gazette. which he still con-
trolls the following excerpt from that paper is
thoroughly funny:
Shall tho arstocratic contcntod pampcrcd son OF
luXuryIru DavenpO q or the alert, active able, self
made man-David b. Hin Ifit be n question Of which
will the state most elcenty-and that is what t.
should be-no one dispute that Hill Is the man. II 1t
DO question OF which career ecitS most OF inc pune
admfaoa ana aPpTSya G[H can we S ey9re berfore
that whatever the choice OF favored few may De. the
choice Of the peOpc-the toilln2 masses VINO make up
the majority-will be David b. Hin.
Tho Governor is working his organ not wisely,
but too well. Think Of his serene audacty IN ask
ing for comparison of his record, saturated with
noisome Odors, stained with the ASSOCIATION OF
thieves and public plundcrcrs, whose bidding he
obcycd and whose wicked schemes he engineered,
with that of Ira Davenport Mr.. Hill had better
sell his paper. even If he has to get rd of it on
terms as cheap as those Tweed gave him.
II Mr. Garland should get Mr.. Rogers in that hunt
ing box of his in Arkansas, what amonkey and
parrot sort of time they would have OF it.
Excise Commissioner Mitchcll's amazing testi-
nony before tho Senate Investigating Committee
concerning the character of the women who may be
fouud in the Sixth-ave. .cOncer saloons after md
night leads irrcsstibly to the conclusion that this
fellows acquaintance with the ways and qualities
of respectable women is extremely limited
DISPATCHES state that the registration in Cincin-
natl has reached 10000, which is about 5000 less
than the total vote at the Presidential election last
year THIS Is a pretty full registration for an off
year but the question of vital importance, which
the dispatches do not vet answer, is whether the
number has been swclcd by the fraudulent regis
tration Of Democratic repeatcrs, and by other
devices in preparation for fraud NJ the polls If the
registration is reasonably honest amounting to
60 oO0 for tho city OF Cincinnati it should indicate
so full a vote that the Republicans may well look
forward TO the election with confidence. But tho
Democratic managers have rested their hopes alto
pether for some time past upon the of their
schemes for the defeat Of the will OF the people by
fraudulent REGISTRATION. fraudulent voting, and
swinding in the CONT, end II will require more
energy and more shrcwd sense than the good CIT
liens of orr cities usually show 10 defeat their
schemes On the othcr hand, though the Democrats
may cheat with success in ct the large cities.
aided by the rascally acts OF the last Legislature.
they are likely to he confronted with unusually
heavy Republican majorites in the rural districts
Hereafter politicians who want to enrich them
selves while ostcnsibly serving their country will
fight shy of lawyers with taste iorpoetiNng. such
fellows seem 10 have a terrible knacl ot letting the
cat out Of tho bag Just when tho politicians want
the eat drowned a thousand fat!loms deep
The Chicago RGirdy Ags in its issue OF October |,
shows that the number OF new railroads proposed
and in pro gress during the last nine months has
been G2G with total mileage OF 1893. From
thi, record II argues that "A surprising awakening
g in, ri IN rnilN lu
come evident But the activity seems to be main
w in the projecting OF railways papor for the
actual construction of roads has been less this year
thus far than III any other year since 1878, only
about 700 miles having been built, against over
1900 to the same date last year. and about 1900
to the same date in 1850. Tho question is whether
the money can be had for the great swarm of new
railway enterprises proposed. In tho present con-
ditiou Of the market for securities. and with the
confidence OF capitalists at It's present low cbb it
seems rather unlikely.