New-York tribune., 1886-01-30


flying the country p inquired the President, while
puzzled look crept over his face.
81 mean" explained the sagacous and subtle
Daniel that an attentive perusa of our leading
party organs say nothing of the Republican papers
renaers it only too evident that you are Pan
Electrifying the country with your present brand Z"
Reform"
Then the Marine Band struck up Dare to be a
Daniel and the executive session closed
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a party which fell from power as a conspiracy
against human rights and which now attempts TO
sneak back INTO power q conspiracy for plunder
and for spoils" What sermon the prophetic
author of these words could now preach on this
| text when he contcmplates the odous telephone
ulcer that is feeding on the very heart of the Gov
| ernmeDt!
Taking one consideration with another, the
| Harlem River Bridge job deserves a premium for
| its Impudcnce.
None of our esteemed contemporaries who were
| so terribly exercised over tho Mulgan letters a
year or more ago should neglect the opportunity
afforded by the Garland scandal All their vlrtuous
sentiments, which did not happen in that instance
to have basis Of fact. will now be properly
grounded upon n real prostitution Of public func-
tions to sordid personal ends. To be sure they
| like letters and there is only in this case, the
| celebrated defence of Mr.. Garland by his friend
Rogers: but there is richness enough IN that one
letter TO occupy public attention for many months
| The sun says that Governor Hill has not done
! growing. Few men have more room to grow
| better
We lcarn from The IndpeHdeHt that there n
! time when The tribune dri not sneer at the moral
sense of the community Yes, there was such "A
imo and there never has been any othoI time in tho
history Of THE TEIBU ~. However. there rds a
tImo when we did sueor "a casual. ncbulous playful
sneer at the common sense of The Independent 1t
VAS when our ncighbor foil 10 wastiugts substance
by having cabled to II "A set of dull old verses upon
which 1t had previously sat in uncompmentary
Judgment.
Garland may not bo wiling to sell his telephone
stock for mouey. but he would gladly trade it OIL
for a vindcatIOn.
Physicians say that Insomnia Is alarmingy on
the increase among our pub c men. Perhaps it is
not insomnia. Perhaps At Is only general revival
of conscience,
An urgent cal for practical sympathy comes from
Nanticoke Penn. The tw"nty-six persons who
were recently cntombel IN mine at that point were
tho sole support of some twenty families. Nearly
all these families are lett in destitute circumstances
and their neighbors are making appeal 10 the
charitable on their behalf. which cannot tail to
meet with a generous response. Contributions can
be sent to c. G. Lyman. president, or b. +. Robin
on financial secretary, Of tho Nantlcoke Relief Con-.
mittee.
Is il not high time for the President to END tho
principle of Civil Service reform to his own Cabi-
mel and t. ask for one or two reslgnatlonA
The B-B-BliszGrd Is tho name OF newspaper
published at kinsey. Kan. by a party If excur-
sIonists who found themselves snOw-bound out |
there last Saturday. The enterprise was completed
In one number since like It's projectors IT had not
" come to stay" The first and only number was |
devoted to graphic account OF how cold IT was how
deep the fell and chilly topics Of related
terest, including the cOngealod ear" of the en- |
gnecr Of the delayed tram. Orher parties similarly
situated cannot do better than follow the exam
Pile thus set them. The printing and publishing Of |
a newspaper in such circumstances furnishes capt.
tai cn lertainment tor hands which else either
frozen beyond repair by the cold or betrayed
into mischief by Satan who is always warm enough
to attend To business
There is evidently CLOSE telephone connection
bet wecn al branch offices of the Departments Of
Justice and the Interior
In his opposition to secret sessions of the Senate
General Logan is moving in the line of tho popular
will. Public men and public bodies have no busi-
ness TO lock up pubic a1lnirs
People who have been marked by their enemies
for slaughter are not often allowed to choose the
manner of thcI death. Major Andre requested that
he might be shot rather than hung but Washington
denied his petition. The white man in the legend
assured the Indians who had captuI ed him. rs they
were heapng fagots about the stake to which they
had bound him, that on the whole be would rather
die of old age. But the Indians refused to let him
have his way The Salisbury Government real
zing that its days were numbered, was anxious to
be placed under the sod by "A fatal attack of the
Irish question But the high eXecutiOner Gladstone
said nay He agreed that the funeral OF the Gov
,rnment should take place, but would not be die
ated to in regard to tho style OF club be used in
The killing.
To Book worm: You want to know who was tho
luthOr OF The exclamation "Would that could ,
crawl into good deep hole and pull tho hole in
lfter me-" We cannot say Tor sure, but we strongly
uspect it was Garland.
The constant need for mvesti cations is a clear
,ase of perpetual motion
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