New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-14
we submit TO the bard that the subject is not one
calculated to wake to ecstacy the living Tyre

The Evening POST DEM and the Second
Ward Mr.. Godlxin must have hired his present.
sensitveness at enormous expense for this cam
paign only If not he is nothing less than
psychological phenomenon; for only four years
ago this same reformer unbushingly stuck all
through the campaign to the platform that chastity
is not essential virtue, that offences against
il have often been consistent with the possession
of all the qualities which ennobe human nature
and dignity human life and make human progress
possible Nay, more, he was so infatuated wth
his monstrous doctrine that he actually insisted
we had not treated him fairly until we bad
reproduced in all its hideous completeness the
sermon which he preached from this text. We
reluctantly yielded TO his wishes, but the exhibit
ton of his dcpravty was so revolving that for
weeks afterward we did not dare to look Anthony
COmStOck in the face.
There are Democratic friends enough Of the late
Daniel Manning who heard him tell of the man
ner in which he was Inundated by Grover Cleve-
land to defeat the reelection of that Democratic
autocrat DO they intend to keep silent and let
the Juggernaut roll over them
THE most conspicuous free-trader in the coun-
try to-day is Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana
The Utica Observer whose editor is postmaster
of Utica, makes this assertion. We trust that the
Postmaster-General will see that his salary is at
once raised as a reward for this superb display of
mendaciously pcrnicious partisan activity 1t is
understood that owing to the pressure on its col
umns The Observer" will not call Harrison a
horse thief until the last Of next week.
One of the flvOrite answers Of the Mugwumps
when they arc accused of having left the Repub-
loan optrr 70
they were i-protecton,' is that this is shown
TO be not the case by the fact that the candidate
they wished the Republicans to nominate in ss4
was Senator Edmunds. The objection to this is
that the answer is not responsive the lawyers
say. However, since they in a sense, regard
Senator Edmunds an oracle, they must be
particularly interested in the Senator's opinion
of the conduct of the Civil Service under the man
whom these Mugwumps. when they couldn't get
the Senator for a candidate, supported as re-
former This opinion is given in the July Forum
Mr. Edmunds says: 1t may safely be asserted
that there has not been, since the foundation OF
the Government, more sweeping and persistent
and political removal Of citizens holding minor
offices and cmploymcnts than under the present
Administration There you have it. Senator
Edmunds's observation comedies with that of
every other fair-mnded observer The Mugwumps
may succeed in dccciving themselves for some
time longer as to their real attitude but they
can deceive no one else.
Il was smoking for-for-I was smoking for
nv corns' That's what the boy at boarding
school said when the principal caught him with
"A cigar in his mouth. The youngsters eNplana-
ton was rather absurd but not more so than the
Democratic pretence that the Republican tariff
plank means free whskey.'
The friends of the late Samuel J. Tildcn are
lust waking up to the recollection that Grover
Cleveland belonged to an anti-Tilden club in Bur
faIo, and that Allen q. Thurman helped defeat
Mr.. Tilden's designs on the Presidency III 1876.
OF course Republicans couldn't object to Cleye-
land and Thurman on these grounds, but there are
some lively Independent Democrats in New-Iork.
who love the memory Of Gramercy and Graystone.
who are "agin the Government
Now TO take the entire S56OOOOOO, which Is the net
revenue from sugar and the o.
which IS about Ihat GeTVe i HDm M
unable to take any burden elsewhere OIL the man
nfacturers of America or give relief 10 me taApayels
and consumers in any other direction and thus remedy
any Just of discomfort that labor which has or
arT nos SG for the present if It does not in
definitely put Off the day OF true revision OF the tar1f
-(Nr. Breckenridge kentucky in tariff debate
of if the tobacco taxes and One-half-not the
whole-of the sugar duties were taken off. Add
s3I. 600, 600 and s2s, 600, 600 and you will have
$50. 600, 900; and the annual increase of the
plus is supposed to be about SEQ 600, 00O bill
with two short sections, according to your own
confession, would settle the surplus question;
but you don't want to have 1t settled in that way.
You insist upon turning the tariff upside down,
destroying confidence in business enterprise, raid
ing American industries in the interest of foreign
and making confusion worse con-
founded. Yet tomorrow you will be saying:
" It's not free trade that we are after. 1t Is the
surplus question that must be settled!'
OF all doctors quarrcls that the German
surgeons with Dr. Mackenzie is the most con-
Was it crime or conspiracy for him to
prolong the Empcrors life and enable him to reign,
if only for three short monthsf
Cleveland Mugwumps who are clamoring fool
ishly about the immortality of free whislley need
he reminded that the abolition of internal rev.
enue taxation is one of the fundamental doctrines
of the JefTcrsonian Democracy. They are per-
manently attached to the Democratic party and
apparently are not dsp!eased with their sur
roundngs. They should be warned against
snecrng at the timc-honored traditions of the
Democratic party.
In his eulogy on Samuel J. Tilden Governor Hill
said: " lie may not always have regarded it as
the part of wisdom or prudence to fully explain or
announce his plans or purposes The Governor
seems to be aiming to initiate his predecessor in
this respect But we 10 not believe that anybody
is in the least doubt to the plans purposes of
David Bennett Hill in the present coniuncture. He
is not standing on the hOusctOpS crying aloud for
the nomination for Governor; but he is after it all
the same and unless all the signs fail he will get
it, too The assistant Democratic organs are rails
ing an cutlery against him, but they are sure to
be ignored. Mr. Hill is deep pottcr, and he made
good OF his opportunities in the way of approx
ing and disappearing bills Certainly he made
himself solid with the Kings County Democracy
In this ,vnr The Administration mnv not like