New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-04
Is advancing

all CIV ~Eurckal I" and smile the sardonic smile
when tho butcher remarks that the price oil meat
Is advancing.
For the benefit OF our ncighbor. "The Star
~. take tho liberty of saying that there is lots
OF fun TO be got from an argument with Colonel
Watterson. but none at all from a fight with him
Ills logic is not forceful, but he fights like the
prince of Kentuckians
In this era Of vindcations, Editor Stead has not
been forgotten.
Mr. Gin secured from "United Ireland the
text of an opinion by the Attorney General af
6rning the legality Of the Nationalist land cam
raicn. and sent the substance OF 1t to The
tribune for publication Oh Thursday morning.
As soon as the opinion was printed In Ireland an
abstract of it was tclegraphed by the Associated
Press to New-Yorl1, appearing In the morning
papers yesterday. Mr. Gill's enterprise In antlci-
natiny the Associated Press by twenty-four hours
is not appreciat ed by "1he Evening Smarter VINO
insists that he was STUFFED by somebody and
has made himself very ridiculous by being I'M
pressed with the importance Of "a simple rule OF
law" We advise cayilling friend to employ
correspondents abroad who are similarly STUFFED"
with important news and furnish 1t in adj
vance of the regular press agencies. This sort OF
enterprise win be more creditable than indulgence
Of clairvoyant intltions respecting the dissolution
OF Parliament and general election next Easter
"Tbe Evening Snarler's' London correspondent
has made himself and his Journal ridiculous this
week by scatterbrain Vaccinations of this order
Don't despise news, ncghbor. even Ii you have
difficulty in understanding 1t when you see IT,
and cannot resist the temptation to misrepresent
it and to insult an Irish Member who has been
working journalist.
BY fair means or by foul is the motto of the
Aldermanic brigands
Officers OF the SECRET service recently seized an
en1aved representation of So bill which hung In
beer saloon. Solicitor McCue. Of the Treasury
DEPARTMENT decides that the engraving Is work
of art and not a counterfeit Perhaps it is, but
such artistic tendencies are somewhat dangerous
and had better be discouraged
Secretary Whitney's elaborate explanation OF
the Navy Yard changes is tinged with line vein
of in gnation at the idea of politics having had
ANYTHING to do with them. or course. just before
election a great many new hands were taken on
But that was not to make sure OF their votes
Oh, no short. time after election there are
sweeping dismtsals. Not however. because hav-
ing been used on election day the men are Of no
| further value or course not! The insinuaton Is
a base one And, by the way, just before the
| Maine election there q prodig1ois rush OF
| the American Navy to Kittery for repairs But
that was not to influence votes in Tom Reeds dis
| trict Never The Navy Department Is up to no
such sinful games 1t merely happened so that
| there was an unusual amount OF work to be done
| at that season and II election day persisted In
coming at the same time. surely the Secretary OF
| the Navy was not to blame.
What more evidence OF guilt could be afforded
| than the attempt TO tamper with talesmcn in Nc
Quade's interestp
| Mr. Cleveland must have REQUIRED to the idea
that the office OF President is essentially execu
tive when ne took the part Of executoner In the
case of Stone and presented his head on charger
TO the hungering Democratic mutitudes
Some of our contemporaries are point
ing out that the fact that over
| sixty per cent of the post Offices created
during the present year were located in fourteen
Southern States is indicative Of mental growth In
| the South. Perhaps it is more indicative OF the
Administrations policy. shown in hundreds Of
| other ways. of keeping the South solid
| A committee of the Board Of Aldermen in re-
| porting in favor of q double-track railway in
Fultonst, says that lit was proved to the entire
satisfaction Of the committee that the laying of
the tracks in the streets proposed would not inter
fere with the traffic on those streets Unfort-
unatey 1t docs not take much to satisfy an Alder
| man that a double track railway in q narrow and
| crowded street will not interfere with traffic
II is q most damagir< and false notion that
| some of our so-called statesmen entertain that
there are no American naval architects and en-
| ginceis who are capable of designing and planning
our shirs William H. Webb designed and built
.xl1l.x Il oy,1
ORIGINAL of the present mated cruiser. besides
producing pattern ships for several European
navies John Roach has built and engined more
than hundred steamers. "auxiliary' navy
such as no other Nation has produced. modest
and unassumin, architect Of Boston produced the
Puritan and Mayfower. Captain Ericsson de-
signed q monitor that saved the Union, and Naval
Constructors Hanscom, Pook and Delano have
made more models than there are vessels In the
entire British navy.
For the McQuade side Of the case juror can
have no more serious disqualification than ntellf
gence.
The revelation that Colonel Benton's speeches
were abusive OF the President suggests the remark
that II he were to appoint to Office only those
democrats who like and admire him, he would
scarcely find enough men to give him q representa-
tive in each Congressional district
The fearful efforts Of the Mugwumps to reclaim
Mr.. Cleveland are very funny. "The POST goes
80 far as to suggest that the matter deserves
-uaycrful consideration
In view Of the publication Of Mr.. Benton's
political speeches new letter from the President
il now In order. reconciling his positions in that
} case and in that Of Mr.. Stone As 1t may be diff
6cult to convince the public in homespun English