New-York tribune., 1886-11-12

| Of hope.
massage treatment that viii reduce the Pres1-
dents ntrosrcctive apparatus is the kind Of treat
ment he needs.
| While the Iightninrs flash and the tempests roar
around the Administrations ship, Jonah Garland
sits on the poop-decll and leers at the doomed
crew.
| There is no foundation for the report that
| Colonel Randall has given his florist an order for
n bouquet of cyrrcss AMI immorteles to be placed
on Colonel Morrisons desk when Congress meets
While James d. Fish is said to be breaking
down physically at Auburn. Ferdinand Ward has
been represented as waxing fat ami lusty on the
regimen of Sing Sing. Well that it is so, for the
American people do not want to see the young
knavc released Of an hour Of his punishment even
for the sake Of bodily sanity Let him remain In
the congcnal company Of convicted crime
| The Board Of Aqueduct Commissioners have re-
Gently taken to holding what they call "c>ecutive
sessions BY this they mean secret sessions
This board is an administrative body and cannot
rropcrly hold executive sessions. We do not be-
levc that they have any right to hold secret meet
ings either They are public body, transactng
public business, spen ing many millions OF public
money AMI all their deliberations should be as
open as the day 1t is difficult to think Of any
good motive for CLOSING their doors to the rublic
while debating its business The other day they
secretly considered the subject Of provldinE ale
ouatc light in the tunnel AMI shafts. 1t Is no
toriois that the contractors wilfuily NEGLECT this
duty AMI leave their men to grope around in dlmy
lchted holes hundreds Of feet underTound. TO
thrr imminent peril Corporation Counsel La
combe has advised the Commissioners that it is
l tl,of ,1opfv of ir
AMI that If the contractors fail to do so they
should have it done al the contractors expense
The peo le haze right TO hear what the Com
n,;ssioncrs say and do on this subject 1t is not
,iehf to shut out the public when il Is beins con
sidcIcl IL any OF the Commissioners is acting IN
the interest of the contractors. as is so often al
legged, let him do it openly and not behind screen
Mr. Hewitt is trying 10 carry too much steam.
lie can't be Mayor and Congressman too.
On hearing Of ex-senator McDonalds remark
that "protection is dead Colonel Morrison Is
reported to have said - II !
His statement that he was much disappointed
nj the result Of the election as he had fully eX-
pected TO be chosen Governor Of Pennsylvania
stamrs Mr. Chauncey F. Black as one of the most
remarkable men Of the present age.
"pm no rcformer for | more light than
darkness in the world Thus SIMS the poet
Wilcox 1t is un 'erstood that Mr.. Gar'and-
Garland OF President Clevcand's public-ollce-ls-
a-pubic-tust Cabinet-fecS that way hlnSoi'
Hes no rrforner and doubtless he sees moro Pan
Elcctric) light than darkness i'll the world.
This ia from Yesterdays "New-YorlS Times
The PRESIDENTS references to ghonish were en-
try III Which tho Government treated with Suei
indecent license. go
The Governors statements be tIy charactezed BY
any than audacons unless we shon , re
intent,ons o Of Governor Cleveland. Goyernor Cleve
land wnS i to s :Tn%s ssU owes Them for work
sa,s n. IN Ors1 ssap TO fn ana .k
ssS.a stSesman.
1884:
cleveland said to have a record political reormer al
though that OF furniture has not yet been pro
We nuite acree with "1hc Times that its as
sauIts upon Mr. Cleveland, its Characterization
Of him as CHEAP "scuryy" and "low- priced.
its denial of his honest intentions, and all that
ia an indulgence of indecent license Ahe
vet we don't know of any law which compeS olo
Fagin TO kick himself around in this energetic
fashion
It viii take more than two years for the fre'
traders to mend their fences.
In the telephone fights the Government has
been knocked out in the first round and IN lS OWL
corner although the noble old Roman and ex-
Soncitor-Gcneral Goode hold the sponge between
them.
To they are convicted of heresy the Andove
professors will probably not be put in the stocks
nor have their tongues bored with red-hot IRON
nor be banished from the Commonwealth. Ne"
England customs are not what they used 10 DO
; "Ihomas Jefferson jr.,' is writing series o.
nolitical articles for The Albany Times. L
the elder Jefferson were alive to day he woulc
he an earnest Republican, and hence would b'
s6rely wounded at the spectacle of his junior con
tributng to Democratic journal
Cbauncey F. Black has been telling "Thc Demo
cratic Age what it that beat him for TN
tiovernorship Of Pennsylvania we have beer
shot in the back by our own people" signs Mr
Black This is a grave Indictment. our OWL
reoplc" have the floor to explain II they can why
they organizeG themselves into TARGET eXcur
eion and elected Mr. Blacks back to be target
The business public has no special sympathy
for the Bell Telephone Company, which has sho"i
itself in various ways 10 be not only greedy bu
an ill-managed corporation But honest men d(
not desire to have the Federal courts domiiiicc
and controlled by the unscrupulous ring OF pe
phone spectators who are entlenched IN once
under the Democratic Administration. Ii Thu
telephone suit had not been preceded by the scan
dalous abuse Of public functions by Attorney
General Garland and his associates public sym
rathy might have been enlisted on the side OF th'
patent- breakers AS it is the decision OF the red
o,al court in Ohio will be welcomed as rebuV
3. pan Electric statesmen and telephone strikers
who have been yainly seeking to bleed the Bel
Company.
When a politician becomes q boss, the peopI
should get TO work and stand him on his head
A rnemberelect of the legislature who declare,
,hot be WAS not a candidate for the Speakc ship