New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-10

The Associated Press deserves the highest praise
for its excellent work connection with the great
DEBATE in the Commons. very long and spirited
report of Mr.. Gladstone's speech furnished to
the New-York press at early hour In the evening
and was supplemented by careful summaries OF the
remainder of the proceedings and the comments OF
the London press The striking scenes III the
streets and in Westminster also described
with genuine pictorial power Everything was well
done and all the copy was handled with accuracy
and dispatch The press Is under obligations TO the
general manager for his admirable arrangements.
The average Alderman is almost as sorey afflicted
as job Heart disease. rheumatism trouble with the
feet, etc. drives him ruthlessiy from his home,
and now De Lacy has gone away because his wIfe's
health Is bad and his neighbors' children poke fun
al him Truly New-York officials have fallen upon
troubous times.
The Methodist Conference has acted with sum-
mary resolution in the of tde acc used preach
ers, White and Goss whose alleged misbeaaylor
has attracted much nOtoriety recently. Guilty Or
innocent thclr opportunity for usefulness minis
tiers is gone. If the church Authorizes were always
as prompt aud justly severe in visiting the moral
punishment for sucn wrong doing rs these men are
accused of upon the heads of all persons vested
with the sacred Office who bring themselves ald
their calling into disgrace, the Methodist preach
ers of he New-York Conference have been, there
would be not only fewer scandals, but lar less
criticism made by the seeptlcal upon those who
teach purity they do not practise.
The MormoDs propose to rally around our
countrys flag and MAINTAIN the glorious Consttu-
zion for veal OF woe" his is as funny 1t would
be 20 see Tammany Hall railying around the
standard Of Civil Service Reform. Tammany
might rally thus. however, if Croker, Cochran and
Forster were to be the Civil Service Commissioners
with power to make their own laws.
This is from The Erening Post
The stoca argument OF the Albany Republican press
against John b. Thacher Dem) for Mayor is. JOAN b.
Thatcher il Fre--Traier" The connection between the
tariff and municipal politics Is unusually close III Ao'ny'
This is also from The Lueaing Post:
Both Houses OF the Legislature considered important
railway yesterday, and the Assembly unirr
the lead OF ridiculous Blaine editor from Poughkeepsie'
made the bunder Of killing one OF the most der
able IN the lot
From which it would appear that The Posts idea
of the distance that separates the tart, from munc-
ipal politics IS very different thing from the dis
tance that separates Mr.. Blaine from our local rail
way measures But then The Post is the family
organ Of Mr.. Beecher aud of the Blaine haters, the
Free Traders and the Democrats. and all methods
of warfare ere honorable in the sight of renegade.
How history moves in cycles On February the
captain of the bark Ironslde "saw remarkable
halo around the sun and he baromete immediately
began TO fall" Just about thai time various Alder
men and other official persons i'll this town heard
that the Senate had ordered the Broadway invest-
CATION. and they Immediately began to skip"
The police captains declare III an affidavit that
the statement OF The Ae,o- York Times that $4,000
had been raised by them to influence legislation III
Their favor IS false III every particular" and an
"lnfau libel" and they ca / upon The Times TO
furnish the facts that Justify such assertions. The
police captains should know by this time that Inc
ises never bases Its allegations upon facts Facts
do not enter into its conception of journalism
Facts are the last thing il thnksof when it spreads
reports to peoples dIscredit. When for the graf
iication of personal spite on the part either OF
Fagin himself of the recruits from the Spring |
field Kindergarten who run his paper. OF for the
purpose of silly sensation OF blackmail, or for no
purpose at ALL il becomes desirable to deiame mems
characters, Ike Times never pretends to bother