New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-08

| Fagin to Florida! what scattering there IS
among Jacob Sharps allies to be sure!
| Governor Hill may have pleased political
friends but he has not aided the of justice IN
committing the sentence of {. d. J. NOelke the COLI
victed lottery dealer All the appellate courts have
sustained the conviction but NOeke has been able
by a legal trick to prevent the carrying out of the
sentence. He did a prosperous business ana
worked for the Democratic ticket for four years
| while under sentence OF imprisonment, and he now
has his reward, in the communication OF the sentence
before he has begun to Serve it. That political III
fuence is an important factor in gaming the elem
ency of the Governor is shown by the fact that
Noelke's clerk. Marks, convicted at the same time
of the same offence is sent to prison. while the man
who employed him and whose guilt is therefore
greater goes free by the payment of fine. This
case to which TnE TRIBUNE has called attention
as remarkable for the DELAYS which a convicted
criminal of sufficient influence" can secure is no
less interesting as showing that the present Execu-
tive has keen eve to the political record OF the
applicant for pardon
Congressman Bennett, of North Carolina. asks if
il is a crime to be a Democratic Well no. not OK
acty crime, though it isn't usually mentioned
among a mans good points.
1t was generally SAID when Mr.. Garland consented
to accept the Attorney Generalship that it was
with the understanding he should have the first
vacant iudgeship OH the Supreme Court bench.
How would it do to make HIM Judge Baxters sue
cessor and let him try the Pan-Electrc issue with
the Bell Telephone Company
John Goode saws on the witness. stand that he
would see no earthly improprety' had Garland
himself brought the Pan Electric suit. OF course
he wouldn't A man who would intercept election
returns condone the throwing out of bandfuls of
opposition votes, and take another mans seat IN
Congress- is not expected to see improprieties But
such man is not tit to be solcitorGeneral of the
United States
The silver infant does not make quito 50 much
use of its lungs rs it used to.
| If it were certain that none of Mayor Graces
nominees would fall below the standard which he
set when lie wanted to make Thomas c. Acton an
Excise Commissioner the demand for putting
limit upon his appointing power would be much less
emphatic than it is.
| Professor Thatcher, who died r. New Haven yes
terlay. was probably known personally to a larger
number of Yale graduates than any other officer of
the college. The benevoence OF his aspect and
manner the genality of his nature and the conf
dence which every student repoSed in his generous
and lenient disposition, quickly established friendly
| relations between them. He the man to whom
| in case of troube-whether of pTecarious standing
in his studies anticipated disciplinethe student
went for advice ami defence. Too often the MEM
bers of the faculty are looked upon as the natural
enemies of those under their authority; every
student at Yale looked upon Professor Thatcher as
his natural friend. Doubtless he was sometimes
imposed upon but probably rot so often as those
imagined who the attempt. There was no
weakness in his benignancy. HIS counsel was
largely relied upon in the government of the col
| lege and no voice listened to with greater
respect in tho meetings OF the Faculty Several
years ago his declining strength compelled him 20
abandon in great measure the regular work of in
struction, but he remained to the last an integral
part of the college framework and spirit Indeed
| il would have been impossible to think of Professor
Thatcher as still living and yet unassociated with
the institution with which he had been identified
from his young manhood to his serene and honorcd
old age.
Perhaps Jacob Sharp will change his mind on the
subject of bribery after he hears the evidence accu-
| la al b,,M mi nd his ciatp