New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-26

| ability liked and respected by all who know him,
and the number is large He has always been
stapch Republican and worked zealously for
Blaine in 1884.
Professor Perry has an unbounded faith That tho
Democracy will soon become unit for free trade
II is natural il is traditional, it is congruous" he
says for the Democratic party to be the party OF
free trade" No sensible person can dispute
Professor Perry here. The party which plunged
| the country into civil war; which indorsed repudia-
ton which opposed our present financial system,
which opposed resumption and which has orig
mated nothing which has not proved disastro u.s.
should most fifty be the party of free trade.
II the contest for Superior Court Judge could be
decided by the preferences of the bench and bar of
the city, Granville p. HAYES would leave Z. Ii.
Dugro hull down in the distance.
Maine workingmen are oanny Thirty ship
carpenters from that State went to Detroit the
other day to work in the Dry Dock Company's ship
wards. The Knights OF Labor Of Detroit offered
! them 81 900 to depart They took the money and
| departed but only went far as Gibraltar, Mich.
to which place the Dry Dock Companyihassremoved
its works They are now employed by the COM
plny and are happier than the men who paid them
the money.
| Peter Paul Mahoney Is about as near nonentity
I'm the House Of Representatives Us any man there.
Still he has been renomnated in the WITH District
| brooklyn. Two years ago he was electou Dy
majority of 5632. To overcome this in strongly
Democratic district may seem hopeless under
| taking. Nevertheless the Republlcansih ave- made
| an excellent nomination and they ought to stand
| n chance of winning Eugene +. OConnor is
lawyer Of good standing and in every sense a
capable candidate II the voters of the WITH
t1,afr fnkar
will send him to Congress in the place of Peter
Paul, who has msrepresened the disttict-or failed
to represent it-long enough.
Our esteemed contemporary, The Galveston Necs.
makes this sal announcement: " The world Is full
of fools" SO il u.s. aud full also of mosquitoes and
elephants, and cowboys and Mugwumps, and lots
of other things. This is philosophy 1t may be
poor substitute for sense, but they must have 1t
down there in Texas.
The philadelphia Press EXPOSES the reform mock
cry IN the Internal Revenue Collectors office OF
that city by printing in fac-simile an autograph
letter signed by the Deputy.Collector, by order of
his superior, in these words:
5 an S@qns PS Sn q ysGy
Office Is District OF PennsylvAnia send Immediately.
If this is not perncious acti' ity, it Is mighty
pernclous grammar. If his respect for the law and
for his own order does not move the President to
bounce the revenue people in Philadelphia, then
we make O final appeal to his respect for the
memory of Lindley Murray.
The Constitution of this State provides that no
person shall be eligible to the Legislature who at
the time OF his election. within one bundled
days previous is civil or military officer under the
United States Mr. Weed the Democratic can
didae for the Assembly in the Plattsburg district
is disqualified by this clause, as he now holds the
Office Of United States COmmissionar Voters who
do not want to throw away their ballots should
not vote for Mr. Weed.