New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-12
Mr.. Blaine has been thoroughly received.

II NAV be doubted whether the decision OF tho
Brooklyn Park Commissioners in regard to the site
for the Beccher statue will give general salts
faction 1t is to be placed facing the Last Drive,
opposite to the flower garden and on the spot
where for tho last fifteen years the bust OF wash
ngton Irving has stood. The Irving bust Is to be
removed to some other part of the park Inc
proprety or wisdom of thus removing long-es-
tabshed feature is in itself questionable. But,
aside from this. many people Will believe that
the glare of an open space where drive ana "a
footwalI< run side by side Is not the most lifting
position for the permanent memorial Of the great
preacher qucter and leaf-embowered spot Will
suggest itself to not a few minds as far more
appropriate An ultimate decision of the matter
might wisely be left to committee composed Of
competent landscape architects and the designer
of the stotue This is something that the people
generally have deep interest in. since the statue
is the outcome of popular subscription. There
ought to be no mistake in the selection OF site
Maxwelrs dying proclamation to the people OF
England was enthusiastically absurd. He was
as much of fool as villain
In ono respect Mr.. Blaine is unlike Mr.. Clay
While wantonly assaulted Presidential candi-
date he is not embttered and defiant but simply
mapuanimous have no personalities to indulge
in have no sores to heal" was his only refer
ence on Friday night to the last campaign Of
fcrocious and malignant abuse. There was
equally malcvolent criticism of MIR. Clay during
his exciting campaigns but grcat-hearted as nc
was, he could not rise above resentment when his
assailants were aiming their poisoned shafts at
him. In his famous Lexington speech when his
defamers were in the crowd before him, he drew
himself up to his full height and with flashing
ewes struck back ut his foes The ours of party
have long been barking at my heels he exclaimed.
and the bloodhounds of personal malignity are
Swinging at my throat but scorn and defy them
now as | ever did, Mr. Blaine has fought many
a hard fight in Congress, and throughout his pub
lie career he has been maligned by personal and
political enemies; but with n gesture of contempt
he ignores everything that has passed. He " In
dulrcs in no personalities He has no sores
to heal
The officials of the Ncw-iork Post Office seen
TO be guilty of pernicous inactivity where getting
sample copies Of Republican newspapers through
the mails is concerned.
A useful lesson on the danger of hasty idcntiii
cations, with a special application - crmina
trials, ought to be learned from the experience o
Officer Urich who recognized beyond the posi-
billty OF mistake, as ne hupposect, inc Douy oi III
son nc the Morgue The boy was eleven year
old: quite old enough to have developed stron
facial and bodily characteristics. and the evidcnc
thus furnished was absolutely confirmed TO tn
fathers mind by several special and distinct mark
Of identity Nothing but the living presence Of hi
son could have convinced him that he was mis-
taken. lie would have resisted the strongest dec
larations that the boy had been seen subseauen
to the discovery Of the dead body. And yet with