New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-07

CONGRESSMAN Breckenridge, OF kentucKy WHOM
Speaker Carlisle has placed upon the COMMITTEE
of WAYS and Means. is the enthusiastic Tree TRADER
who declared at the Boston dinner that almost
all the articles, il not every article, on the IaA
lis, has been put there by private interest to
secure private gain and is kept there because the
combination cannot agree whose fleece shall be
SHARED" This is the kind of raw material that
is worked into the most important House commit
tce-thc one charged with exclusive consideration
Of tariff and Industrial questions
Mr. Blaine took his Americanism with him
tn Europe. and he will bring it back with HIM
when he returns
Dut gentlemen. the President has set us the eN,
ample not only Of courag but OF good sense ana hi
moderation lie has kept strictly to his text anu h'
wrpose.-(Jamcs Russell Lowell
What text and purpose? The text OF his
Letter Of Acceptance in which he pronounced HIM
self to he ineligible for a second term? has the
President kept strictly to that text ana that
purpose, with that genius for pain-spcaking SIM
plicity. truth-teIling and courage with which
Mr. Lowell is enamored?
uoman. Of Indiana. has succeeded in his little
game In the last Congress he was member OF
the Appropriations Committee. During Rcpuoh-
can Administrations this was his favorite commit
tee. It enabled him to stand in melodramatic
attitudes in the way OF all important governmental
expenditurcs and howl extravaganza with lusty
demagogc power. But when his own party came
into power he could no longer cut these antlcs.
Moreover, his Indiana constituents, Win true
Hoosier appetitcs, clamored for big approprla-
tions and Holman saw his reputation as the
Treasury watch dog slipping away from him.
lie be came the greedy champion OF Just those
expenditures which he had previously stormed
against This naturally made him the laughing
stock of the country. lie took no pains TO re-
tain his place this year Indeed, story has been
going the rounds of the press during the past
two months representing him as DESTROYS OF being
dropped from this committee and oil having thc
craftsmanship of the Public Lands. The result
has confirmed this story. lie gets that coveted
place where he can disport himself as the I'M
terrified foe Of corporations and land-graopcrs
without standing between his party's stomach
and its natural prey.
Daniel Dougherty now follows ex-Judgc Hoad-
IL in pulling up stakes in spot where he has
| built I'D n large legal practice and. though well
on in life making this city the Mecca of his legal
| hopes Mr. Doughcrty is to be congratulated on
| his breadth Of view regarding the broad heid Oh
activity afforded by this city for men OF Drains.
| OF course this step taken by Mr.. Dougherty has
| no more political significance than the action OF
cx-Judgc Hoadly. Still. this is good place for
| Democrats with pull
Speating of the DOODLE trials, District-At-
| torney Fellows says that Scmple and l are the
only ones in the office who know anything about
the cases. Unfortunately, yes. The man who
knows everything about the cases and who really
| convicted the boodlcrs" who got their deserts
| is no longer in the prosecutors office
THE TRIBUNE carly hailed the Democratic fcud
| in Louisiana as opening an excellent prospect OF
| getting at the truth about Southern politics, ana
| upon Democratic testimony. The successive ne
velopments of the McIinery-Nichos campaign,
which must now have reached high pitch Of
| bitterness seeing that the anti-Adminlstration
| Democrats have carried a majority OF the New
Orleans delegates. have justified this expectation.
| Here is the latest. The quarrel has brought out
letter from jones d. Houston, State Tax Col
| lcctor and McEncry man. in which he makes
| these sweeping charges against Nathan d. wal
| lace a Nichols man, who sat, by grace OF fraud.
| in the XLIXth Congress.
| Politically Mr.. Wallace IS the last man in Lons-
n anver was elected to congiess as he well knows
| His election the grandest farce ever porpetr.Ieu
npon the people The hallct-boxcs were stuffed from
one end of the town to the other to return him. He
| knows this. ought to know II, rom converse
That he Is political corruptionist stand ready to
prove in any court IN which no may see Ill 10 prihS
| against me lihel suit.
| This Is good Democratic testimony as TO the
| way Democrats run elections in Louisiana. But
il is waving the bloody shirt" 1t seems, to speak
| of these things 1t is not wicked to do them, 1t
| is wicked to reprosch anybody for doing them.
| This is the view OF the Northern doughface who
| would never think of excusing burglary or arson
| but has a contemptuous smile for anybody who
| talks about the much more serious crimes COM
| mittcd in the South.
| III this sort of thing goes on the managers OF
| the elevated roads can announce hurdle races Mt
certain hours. No extra charge.
Speaker Carlisle puts Mr.. Clements Mt the head
| of the Civil Service Reform Committee-the man
| who reported a bill last year to repeal the Civil
Service law. This Is good specimen OF Demo-
| cratic sincerity in that direction.
It does not follow that the same logic which
| allowed Mr. Lamar to sit in Congress would put
him on the Supreme Court bench. 1t is bad
| enough to have the accomplice Of law-breakcrs as
Mr. Lamar undoubtedly is, sitting among the law
| makers: but in Congress he is only one Of several
hundred In the Scpreme Court he would be one
| of nine men who would make and unmale law
| for the whole Union.
|
PERSONAL.
| Nina Patti N,rotni has about decidSd to leave her