New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-03-26

! S74 900 Then Tbe Times warmly for Sharp.
Ii gave several little seemingly admOnitory flaps
after that but no distinct flop until last summer,
when it went over once moro against Sharp. By
| the way, can 1t be true that Sharp says he has
some testimony to give about that $74,OOO which
was not brought out in his eXamlnatlonl
! The PHILADELPHIA Leiger Yesterday celebrated its
tiftieth anniversary by Publishing a fac-simile OF
It's first issue, dated Friday, March %, 1886, and
modest, sensible and appropriate editorial article
in which the chief emphasis is cut upon the evil
dence afforded by half century of iOurnl lsm that
the progress Of civilization IS steady, notwthstanI
! ing periodical agitation and depression. The LsdJr
further refers it has right to do to the success
which has crowned the policy on which 1t has been
| conducted: a policy summed up In the determlna-
ton to produce and maintain clean wholesome
and useful newspaper 1t is true that The Lefger
says it is not accustomed to sound its own praises
so true that even when, as now, the occasion
makes necessary some expression of honest pride in
what has been accomplished 1t approaches the task
! cOyly and almost shamefacedIy. Its cOntempora-
ries however, are under no such restraints. They
can say frankly that the people recognize the good
| and sterling work Mr.. Childs has done in journal
| ISM and they can declare that the oemi-centennal
of The Philadelphia Ledger we'll deserved commend
| ration OF such newspapers there cannot be-nor
are there likely to be-tOO many, and the success OF
such journal is in no unimportaut sense a guar
antee of the moral aud intellectual health of the
community from which it derives its prosperity.
The conviction of the Aldcrmanic rascals will be
! but slight step toward municipal reform. Other
rascals will take their places quickly enough. I'm
til our local politics have been divorced from the
rum-shops the public can have no security
| II joe Mackn, now IN an Illinois pcntentlary,
has the privilege of communication with the out
side world he shOHd not fail to send his cOngratu-
lations TO the Presidents Civil Service Com
missioner, Bishop" Oberly, ex-charman of the
Illinois Democratic Executive Safe Committee, in
the service Of which Mr. Maclin lost his liberty.
The Tmess answer to The TRIBUNE's exposure OF Its
imjecility and hypocrisy in now denOuncing Sharp
and the Broadway Railroad steal, when IN November
1854 it had only words of approval and commen-
dation for his schemes and methods, is character
istio. 1t remarks that Mr. Jay Gould has returned
60 town Correct as a statement of fact although
it is not altogether certain that he has returned to
ask Fagin any more questions about the Grant
fund.- but not conclusive a defence of the yenal
journal which when the steal was cOnsummated
had the efrontery to advocate it i'll these
terms: {" The conditions which this company
Jnke Sharpsl is ready to accept, and the terms on
which the consent Of the Board of Aldermen has
been given seem ALL the benefits 70 the city
and 10 the people that could be reasonably demanded and
GREATER BENEFITS than are offered by any other
plan for broadway rGlroad'
Congress has at last reached the Post Office APP |
preparation bill. 1t will be curious to see how |
many Democrats will belle their previous records |
in return for fourth-class postmastershlps.
"Why, there's nothing new in this Pan Electric |
testimony" exclaIm the Democratic editors. Ger |
tainly not THE TRIBUNE told the whole truth and |
nothing but the truth about it last October and |
of course there's nothing to add now. But, |
mark YOU the truth. whether new or Old cOnvicts |
the Attorney General and the Administration that
has condoned his offences
The people will not fully appreciate the blessings
Of Democratic administration till they hear of
Minister Winstons reception at Teheran.
The Times. in our judgment, makes great mistake in
assembling the change m the attitude OF re Sln and
in town. II Ii due to more serious and respectable
me soDeiRg snSos Th reeao:s apa
the consequences OF their talk about the relations OF
the conduct the Dry Dock strikers in thls city bar
Reading the public streets ana resisting the police in
wages fixed by Themselves and amost equally
foolish and anu-socid conduct OF the Fourth Avenue
sinpIy 10 helm inc Dry Dock men The half-cIackeI
Pa6ssts Who wrote about ms IN me Sn Ara dHSs
scale and did not perceive until they trae
suspended on the Missouri Pacific because mechanic
Evening Post
The Times ana The Post have been smartng ever
since we rebuked them for their blOOdthrsty
articles on the street-caI strikes in this city. Each
in its own feeble and spteful way is lying abodt
THE TmBCNRs inconsistency in dealing with
labor movements here and in the Southwest.
There has been no nconsiscency-not the
81 ghtest change OF attitude so far are con-
cerncd AS the mosquito season has not yet set
in these assaults arc unreasonable and premature
and we are not to be " drawn by such petty, con
temptbe warfare. At all events. not until this
precious PAIR of batherskites settle between
them the momentous question VIII Their the alleged
= Inconsistency is due 10 JAY GOuld's return from
a yachting expedition or to the vagares of half
cracked publicists and feather headed editors.
If the Legislature deals with the men who did
the bIibing and the courts attend TO those who
took the brides perhaps the people will get justice
yet
II honest sentiment were rs aggressive rs wicked
ness insidious, the pubc's servants would not be
bride takers.
Commissioner Black who made so much noise
when he took office about the of the Pension
Bureau by his predecessor for political purposes
md who was promptly given an opportunity by the
Republican Senate Committee to prove what he had
so friskily charged, appears TO have got himself
INTO mess Like all supersmart bat underdone
persons in whose bodily construction the windppe
has attained an abnormal development he has not
tho facts to back his allegations The plight into
which. Black and. Sparks by their hippancy and