New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-15

give the Republican candida for Governor
fully $4,000 plurality. The State Senate VIII
stand 26 Republicans and Democrats. 1t did
not contain any Democrat last year. In the
House the Republicans have gained II mem
bcis lost ?. and four places are doubtful.
Giving the doubtful ones to the enemy, there
will still remain To the Republicans net gam
OF 6. The third-pa men and The Democrats
arc trying hard to extract comfort out OF these
figures. They are welcome to all they get.
The Democratic factions in the city arc in
a bad way. For various reasons. among which
may lie mentioned the Broadway bribery and
the q Br en- Flynn lvins-Squlrc scandals, they
don't know Just how they stand Certainly
they are not in the attitude thai SHOULD win
public support. In addition 10 this, neither
the Tammany nor the County Democracy or
ganzalion has any head-or in Other words,
any boss Naturally their affairs are greatly
disarranged, and they can't decide just what
to do this fall in the way of local nominations.
In Democratic division lies Republican oppor-
tuni.y.
The Commissioner of Education will try 10
clect new clerk of lhe Board to-day. They
should not do II until they have vOtcd to re-
ducc the salary ($7,5OO) now attached to the
place 70 500. AS a mater of fac. the
duties of clerk should lie performed by one
OF the other clerks in The Boards Office They
amount TO little or nothing, except to SIT beside
the president at meetings and give HIM points
in parliamentary law. But such piaiscworthy
action on the part of the Commissioners is not
at all probable. Mayor Grace has a man whom
he wants 10 put in the place (of course nc
has y ard he wants him put IN icforc the sal
nv is cut down II this is done tho chances
ore that no reduction will ever be made.
The accident on the Nickc-Plaic Railway,
thirty miles west Of Buffalo, may bc described
as an old-f.shloncd railroad muluer. such as
occurred often when railroads were now, but
which are easily prevented now when trains
are run On scientific principles and safe
syscm An excuI sion train bound east was
run into 10y fast freight bound west "A
fnghlfuly fatal collision cnsucd, although 1t
NIGH, have been much worse. The explanation
is simple. The engineer of the freight had
orders 10 take a side track al Irving but he
Thought he could make Silver Creek, three
miles away, before the excursion train reached
there He didn't make it ; but his indifference
to orders cost many lives. Ii is not strange
that the engineer has disappeared. If rc-
morse has not driven him 10 suicide he should
ie diligently pursued and punished to the ut
most for his criminal onclcssncss. Railroad
engineers are an intelligent lot of men, and
there is nothing cruel in insisting that they
shall he held responsible for orders disobcyed
The engineer employed by the Commission
crs Of Accounts 10 watch the paving work on
Fifth-ave. has made another report well cal
culated 10 make the taxpayer sick at heart
He declares that the pavement is not yet Lelng
properly laid; that the granite blocks are not
uniform and that the sand bedding is not such
rs is called for by the contract specifications.
II this is the truth, there is no possible excuse
for the Department of Public Works The
first section Of the pavement was hardly down
when public attention was called TO the bad