New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-09

comes from the lumber yard which sent 50 powerful
O delegation to the Academy OF MUSIC III oe."ii
NJ its owner and proprietor, W. r. Grace. Now
LET us hear from the County Democracy gas-house
which ably seconded the lumber yard in its arduous
labors for municipal reform.
Mr.. Fuller WINS one Of Vallandg ham's apologists
during War time. That would not DC q scriou'
offence in Mr.. Clcveland's judgment Inc Tres.
,dont WAS not n very robust War Democrat himself
in those days
Dr Barnarr,s resignation OF his position as
president of Columbia College was unexpected az
this time. although the state Of his health gave
warning tlat 1t could not be long delayed III.
Barnard has lust entered his eightieth year. aha
has earned by lifetime Of arduous and usetui
labor the right to some rcpose. record OF sAty
years as q teacher is rare, and one surely 10 pc
held in high honor The last twenty-foUr years
of this period have been spent in the service Oh
Columbia College Previous to that time, d.
Barnard. though OF New-England birth, and
graduate of Yale, passed most Of his active lie
In connection with Southern colleges and was
strenuous and energetic in promoting all the edu-
cational needs of that section Under his long
administration Columbia College, while main-
tanning it's conservative traditions, has made great
progress and kept and improved its place among
the leading colleges Of the country. For the ser
vices he has rendered he will long be held IN
grateful remembrance. The choice OF his sue
cessor will be an extremely important question
The college president in these days must be an
administrators as well as q thinker, man Oh
force and practical sense as well as a scholar The
qualifications needed have changed entirely within
the last generation 1t is not easy to lind such
man. and mistake in selection is q serious matter
An impression prevails that college is an easy
going machine, which moves about as well under
one man rs another, but cases are by no means
rare in which the growth Of an institution has
been retarded for many years by the choice of an
incompetent president
Mr. Lowell told the Reform Club that the tariff
reformers ought to be encouraged by the strength
of their enemies All the indications show that
they are getting as much OF that sort Of encourage
ment as they want if not more.
The Presidential contest" so The New-Yor
World" remarks, should turn on principles rather
than upon persons, q contest of ideas rather than
a scramble for spols' Considering that the
Democratic party is about out of principles and
has a bottomless appetite for spoils the Presi-
Dental campaign policy which The World out
lines is well calculated to meet with the stern
disapproval of its party associates.
Mr. Grace couldn't recognize the Greenpoint
undergrad gang at the great reform demonstra-
ton. He was dazzled by the brilliancy Of Mug
wump intellect shining Respondent on the front
seats Of the platform.
Who knows what high muck-a-muck' isP
Is the term one Of eulogy or reproach? dis
tingushed Democratic lawyer in an argument be-
fore the General Term of the Supreme Court,
day or two ago, spoke Of Governor Hill as
high muck-a-muck," and met with reproof
from that august tribunal for doing 1t is to
be presumed, therefore, that tho judges in question
are aware Of the significance of high muck-a-
muck, and do not regard it as COMFORTING with the
dignity that should hedge chief magistrate. The
dictionary people are not so well informed. Ihey
give muck" and muckender' and mucker'
and muckerer' and "muclSfOllt" and muck
heap and several other compounds OF muck
But they do not give muck-a-muck,' to say
nothing about high or low muck-a-muck In
view of the General TERMS decision, the omission
must be regarded as garing Mr. N. Z. Moak,
who bestowed the pct name upon the Governor,
is known at the capital, not only as an accom-
plished lawyer, bit ardent student OF gen
eral literature. Perhaps at his leisure he Will
explain the precise significance Of muck-a-muck
giving its derivation and stating whether dema-
goguc,o trickster" and peanut-politican" are
among its synonymes
Mayor Chaplin has appointed two prominent
ministers to positions Of Importance and response
bility in the city government Of Brooklyn. Now
il he could prevail on, say, Drs Talmage and
Meredith to accept the Office Of Excise Commits
sioner, the question of the proper management OF
the saloon business would be in u fair way Of
solution.
The President is impartial in his distribution
of judicial honors. The Southern Bourbons got
the first vacancy on the Supreme bench and the
Northern Copperheads the Chief-Justiceship. Pri-
orty of claim lay with the BourbOns, but the
higher scat was accorded in due time to the
Copperheads. A loyal Northern Democrat whose
heart was with his country during the darkest
hours of the War never receives recognition