New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-27

The quiet announcement is made by the DIS
trict Attorney that he is trying to decide
whether or not he shall let some of the bribe-
taking Aldermen confess their guilt and get Oft
with light sentences. Certainly light punish
ments for these scoundrels would not be p0ru-
lar. But how changed is the situation since
Sayles ran away and McCabe was arraigned
Then all the other indicted men were loud in
their pro.estations of innocence now the Dis
3trict-AttOrney says it is intimated to him that
the guilty ones want to confess. Would it not
be good thing to reconsider the size OF the
alleged bribe-givers' bonds 2
The Federal Administration and Governor
Hill are agreed upon the Importance of send
ing a Democrat from New York TO the United
States Senate this winter and are working
energetically to elect nineteen Assemblymen
more than they h ad in the last Legislature.
To help them, the third party PIohibltOnists
have nominated candidates of their own, hop
ing thereby to draw fIom the Republican
siren 9Th. 1t is not likely that this undertaking
will be successful, but Republicans in town
and throughout the State should bear it in
mind. See that every vote is poled Don't
wait until November to arrange for that.
Brooklyn Republicans are getting to be
greatly stirred up over their local canvass.
The meeting in the Academy of Music on Mon
day night contributed much to their enthusi
asm, and the action on Saturday night of the
Young Republican Club not a little. The lead
ing issue is simple enOugh-enfOrcemeDt or
non enforcement of the law against wrong
doing, especially o-selling-and reputable,
upright citizens surely will have no great diff
Guilty in deciding on which side TO rally. Ii
full Republican vote is polled, the chances of
General Tracys election as District Attorney
Of Kings County are bright.
The adherents of Tammany Hall who favor
Mr.. Hewitt for Mayor barely filed the Four
teenth Street Wigwam last night On Friday
evening the same slimDess was noticed at The
gathering of the County Democracy in the
great hall Of Cooper Union. Where, oh where,
were the overflow or outside meetings which
both of these factions have always arranged
for heretofore Missing And missing. too,
because the enthusiasm for Mr.. HeS lit is fast
ebbing away. Does any one suppose that such
failures would have been allowed if the fac
lions expected to elect their mani
The Superintendent of the Foreign Mail Ser |
vice, known to politicians as Mic" Bell, |
feels called upon once more 10 ueIenu tne nos
tile attitude of the Postmaster General toward
The American steamship companies. lie does
this indirectly by iDtimating thai the compa-
MES have at length surrendered (seelng that |
bollying woald do no go0d) and accepted the
Post Office Departments TERMS although Mr.. |
Villas in some instances finds that he can do
better without them. Business trading
with South and Central America will hardly
agree with this conclusion. Moreover, the
Postmaster Generals friend weakens his case,
by suggesting, in winding up his report, that
Congress shall re-en ct the law requiring
all vessels OF Uniten st les register to carry the
Dails whenever and ior whatever the authOri-
ties pleass
The $4,000 robbery on the st. Louis and
San Francisco express tram is not satisfactorily
explained by the messenger FOtherlDg CHAM,
Who was found gagged, bound and tied in his