New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-12
A BUDGET FROM BOSTON.
aIsT OF THINGS SAID AND DONE THERE.

cRATs-THE MAYOR AND HIS ALDERMEN-sAh-
GENTS PICTURES.
fFnoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT or TIE TRIBUNE
BosroN, Feb eff il should be announced on
any day that Mr.. Neal Dow, OF Portland, Dr'
Funk, the publisher of " The Voice. ana Dr.
Howard Crosby had all three accepted appoint
ments at the head Of large and fashionable liquor
saloons in different cities, the announcement
would give a moral shock to the whole community
Those gentlemen are so jealous In their ehor.'
TO suppress the saloon that it would be felt
that they had no right to engage in the over
sight or management of any such establishments
They have no friends who would justify such
an act. 1t would not be thought any justlhca-
ton to say that they hoped that in time liquor
saloons would cease to be, and that they were
merely engaged in their management for the
intermediate period until they could be abolished
These gentlemen would be the first Of all to declare
that the whole statement was nreposterous.
I venture to suggest so absurd hypothesis, ny
way of asking, as a humble inquirer, how IL Is
that the gentlemen who are at the heao VI
the custom houses in Boston. in Ncw-i ork, anu
in other cities Justify their position, or now
their friends Justify it. We are informed no"
that these gentlemen are all frcetraders, exactly
in the same way that Dr. Miner and Dr. fuhR
are ProhibitOnists DR.. Miner and DIR. fuhK
do not walk into liGuOr-saoons and break decah-
tcrs as perhaps prophets of Israel with 'Noir
convictions would have done. But IN every
way that occurs to them they are at work ior
the immediate prohibition of the sale OF Hquor
at retail How docs q gentleman who believes
that the system Of frce-trade is moral Necessity,
that agitation for it is a moral duty, and tha'
the system of protection is itself based on fraud
how does he Justify it to himself that he Is en-
paaad in carving out the method by when the
American people have determined to protect thelr
industries? / cannot but think that the falSity
of the position in which these gentlemen stahu
may present itself to their own eyes lheir
evident duty is to withdraw from the places 'hcy
hold The evident duty of Mr. Cleveland Is 10
decline to appoint to these places any persons
who hold the same convictions In the lahhs
of the party which governed tho country win
so much success for twenty-five years ana ouHS
up this system OF industry, he may hnd cCnscIeH-
tious men who are willing TO take these places
But until these men are enlisted IN TINS duy'
there is certain faseness in the ring OF theSo
free-trade professions which arrests the atteh-
ton Of the people.
MR.. COOLIDGTs PROTEST
We have had an illustration here Of the interest
which conscientious men take in politics. In r
very pathetic gathering OF gentlemen, who' ny
whatever accident. are unfortunately connected
with the Democratic party At the summons OF
Mr.. Il. Jefferson Coolidge, himself grandson
Of Thomas jefferson, and man from whom his
illustrous ancestor might borrow credit ana
distinction. a number Of gentlemen met to form
a club for promoting purity in the Democratic
party. As one reads the names of these gentle
men. il is with a sigh OF regret that such men
shoud find themselves the tail OF the kite flown
bv the Uouor-dealers and other persons who be-
licve in politics merely as n matter OF money-ge-
ting You understand. and | suppose that many
of your readers understand, that, with us III
Massachusetts, the policy of the Democratic party
sInpIy UUvuienOV ~ nv J, WV
larce dis,ilIers, brewers and wholesale hahor-
dooIors These rcrsons direct all the conventions
Of the county, central districts ana OF Vhe
commonwealth Living in constant disobedlence
m law tlev even dictate to the ctattorneys
the course which they shall pursue, ana are sur
nrisod if dstrict-attorncy declines to obey them'
And they take the first occasion OF pubic elec-
tion 70 dismiss any rccaoitrant attorney II they
have a majority in his district.
All this is of course odious to tho last degree
IN Mr. Coolidge and those gentlemen who belong
70 the Democratic party simply because ours
IS democratic republic, and who WISH 10 see
this government administered by the he"nf lor
tho neople They are making this meek little
effort, free themselves lfOtil ilr ohEhiNiif
nuts into their hands every year for tickets 70
vote the names Of men whom perhaps they 90
not know at ALL or whom perhaps they utterly
desnisc Imagine a man like Mr. Coolidge, VINO,
In his cagerncss to see a primary meeting, mas
attended one, and has been sent to state c'n-
verilon. when he GLds himself appointed upon
an important comm'tet, OF which the chalrni""'
pcrI,aps. has been in tic House Of Correction
within twelve months. How disagrceable 1t muso
be to him to cow rse tine vital interests Oh
Mas, ,chusetts with a man who never gave any
thought to these interests and is entirely mar
ferant TO them But these gentlemen Will not
find that the Democratic party of Massachusetts
proposes to give them the slightest hand III It's
direction.
MAYOR O'BRIEN.
We have a new city charter here, drawn up
under certain doctrinaire tendencies, but with
real desire to lift us ont OF the very bad noe
into which we had sunk. The original char'er
Of tie city Of BoS on. was the oldest bit OF COLI
stitution- making which ever was left to run ior
a generation ir America The democratic ten