New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-04

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hardest working men in the Court House. From
| ha;fpast = o'clock in the morning until III
! the afternoon on every week day for many years
his curly gray hair and cheerful cOuntenance have
! been bending over the books at Chambers, until lie
| has come To be regarded almost as an essential
part of the place lie mas kept clear of politics ana
attended, strictly to his duties but that appears 10
the County Clerk to be- the best reason why an 0eh
sve partisan should take his place and 80 ms success
sor has been recruited from the Sherifs oil &C. But
! Mr. Flack may ind that this method of exercising
his discretion rs not appreciated AZ he would DESIRE
The Sun is so unkind to raise an issuo OF Verac-
| ity between tie telephone cOparcencrs.' 1t
quotes Mr. Garlands assertion in his letter to the
President that he left Washington IN August With
ont even speaking to the SolicitorGeneral about
| the application of the National Telephone Company
! for the institution of the Memphis suit Then 1t
r,prouuccs from DR. RogcIs's letter To THE TRIBUNE
| this passage: " lie Mr. GnTland having no STOCK
in this company, consented but SAID $50 the HON
! Casey Young reported 10 me and my som that ne
would leave the matter with Mr. Goode. Assistant
Attorney General and so he did; and accordingly
the sut was commenced by the United states III De-
half of a company in which MIR. Garland hc'd no
stock" This question OF veracity VIII ehAGIc iHe
>yi,gfeId R,DpbIcda to take part III the con
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course ~ perfectly straightforward aud consistent.
The charge of making use Of his public functions
for private ends il has dim'ssel cOntcmptuunsly as
o( no conseauenca hut now that his ycracity IL
ouc,t oneI so zcIlOCs scarcber after truth Will be
Liable 10 n sudden spasm Of virtue. That was
what it ioind chiefly interesting III the MulIigdn
letters
The Harlem Bridge Commissioners hold meet
ing TIN, afternoon. They should devote 1t TO the
uudoing of what thoy nave done.
The budget of pan-Eerirc correspondence phh-
Hshcd by The UorH affords Senator Harris an on
cellent opportunity for taking the floor on PueS-
ton of personal privilege aud demanding full in
ycstigntion of ths telephone scandal. Secretary
| Iar,nr'- two associates in tho Department OF the
Interior. commissioners Johnston and Atkins. are
| also brought into prominence rs among the most
active dealers and ncgotlators OF the telephone ring
Our neghbor continues It's energetic warfare upon
the speculative statesmen of its party with I'M
abatcd energy and success.
One of the removals " Tor cause IN which the
pccplc take q keen interest IS that of General
IIuidrkopcr M Postmaster of Philadelphia. When
man of his distinguished reputation deliberately
sootcd over for partisan purposes more decent ca
cuse for il must be given than Presidential pre-
rogatiyc.'
These bc the days when the Mugwump priests
| sincerity Is subjected 10 "A square test
The strained relations between ltJly and the
Sonth American Republic of Colombia, whch have
assumed a very warlikc hue, show the wisdom OF
the policy which Mr. Blaine inaugurated when
Secretary of state. If there should be a wdr be-
| 1--WE. II a European country and one of orr friendly
ncichbors IN the Southern continent II is difficult
| In zee how the United States could escape being
drawn INTO it, And yet If it were recognized
abroad that this Nation lclt an intimate concern in
the fortunes of the South American states. and
that il could not be an indifferent spectator while
war was being prosecuted against one OF them. 1t
NAV safely be assumed that Italy wOnli not have
b,cn 40 lively in her threats and her officers would
have exercised considerably more discretion i'll
their actions toward the Government ut Bogota.
Mr.. Villas and Mr. Whitney are greatly distressed
over the telephone scandal. but they partially
consocd by the thought that ut least 1t serves to
divert public attention away from the crippled
foreign mail service. and the Dolphin.
Some fine specimens of Democratic reform
grooming up in Brooklyn already The new Cor
uorat,on Counsel has appointed rs his assistants
tbo son of the Democratic eX-Judge whose recon-
u.cndatlOn ScCllTtu MS SOU VI
the Mayor who appointed him. City Works Com
missioner Conner declares that lie Is "strlcJ
parlisan" and that wherever no finds hole" he
q proposes to stick peg in it," The Democratic
General Committee has resolved unanimously that
all subordinate positions in the city departments
should be filled Cy Democrats Nothing but the
Civil Service law prevents tho entire city govern
ment from being made II partisan machine of the
most offensive type in the interest of Boss"
Mclaughlin.
To decline to publish the cause for which public
officer, alleged to be guilty of something is re-
moved ~ political assassination.
The Sun produces some eXcelcnt reasons in SUP
port of its proposition that Professor Sumner of
Yale is an agnostic. But it onis the most forceful
argument of all. lie il an unlimited frce-trader
The state of Isng an unlimited iree-trader Is
in the nature of things confession oil thai con
dition OF crcumscIibcd knowledge which marks
the agnostc. No man can know much OF anything
and be wholesale fIee-tradcr.
Neal Dow is quoted az asserting that the Re
publican party IL everywhere welded to the
loonsp This is but If 1t were true, then
there would be good cause of acton against the
saloons Tor bigamy. For it IL notorious that long.
long ago. the saloons were joined in sympathetic
wedlOck to tho Democratic party, while 1T has
| uevor been claimed that either party to the con-
tract has applied for divorce. IL Is only charitable
to assume that Mr.. Dow merely suffered from
slip of tho tongue. A man who would argue In
cold blood that the Republican party-the party of
law aud order and good morals and progress-was
welded to tho saloons. il capable OF charging that
| George Washington was welded to England.
| The diplomatic corps at Washington are reported
| rs asserting that President Cleveland's Admins
tration 10 putting more style than is seen seven