New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-26

| expectations. In Southern sections, where the
cotton crop has been much injured there are signs
Of anxiety disappointment in trade. Bank
ccarings last week exceed those of the same week
last year because Thanksgiving then occurred on
the cath, and with allowance for only five work
ing days last year clearings show small loss for
each of the last two weeks outside Newly orlS.
| Failures have been more numerous than last year,
amounting TO 9O2 for the past four weeks. against
SIP last year in the United States. The Treasury
| took in about $500, 900 more than it paid out
during the week but, with that loss and part OF
the specie outgo, the banks nevertheless reported
a small gain in reserve, not rejecting IN their
| statement the larger loss of specie near the end
| Of the week
Mr. Church, lately the chief engineer Of the
! Aqucduct shows bad taste, If nothing worse,
when he says that the position of those who look
with doubt on the proposed Quaker Bridge Dam IS
laughablc" TO this he adds that there can
be but one conclusion to the matter This is
not a wise position for any official connected with
| the work to take. The question whether this
mammoth dam shall be built is still an open one.
| The Adueduct Commissioners are still sitting IN
! Judgment upon it. Mr. Church cannot possibly
| know whether only one conclusion IS possible
His talk is in the nature OF bluif, and, of course
he expects to influence the Commissioners by It,
| r. is not merely an engineering question we
have before pointed out whether the city's water
supply shall be drawn from huge lake of stag
nant water Common sense enters into the prob
lem, as we'll as the burden that the taxpayers
will have TO bear And, so long as engineers
themselves are unable to determine whether the
| dam, if built, shall be straight or curved, less
| dopmatical attitude would be more becoming in
Mr.. Church
| The Republican candidate for Mayor in Boston
says that the contest for that office is not a
contest between the great political parties. 10
| my mind it is a contest for good government
| ONLY" This utterance shows the cleareSt APP
probation of the situation. Evidently Mr. Hart
stands in Boston for the same thing for which
! Colonel Erhardt stood IN the recent contest IN
this city There is good reason to hope that the
| Republicans there will be more successful than
! they were here. Mayor O'Bren was elected last
time by only few more than l,400 votes That
is not very much to overcome. The election OF
Mr. Hart would be notable triumph for good
! government in Boston.
| Southern journal has made the remarkable
! discovery that in spite OF systematic suppression
of the colored vote in ten States the negroes
elected Harrison after all 1t shows that in
New-Yorl State alone there are about $4,000
adult male negroes, and that $4,000 is a low
estimate Of their voting strength on the Repub-
hcan side These black citizens, it contends,
defeated the will of the majority of the white
! citizens of the whole country" Cleveland, 1t
asserts in triumphant tones, was the undouDtcd
choice of the white people, and Harrison owes
his election to the negroes. Nobody can deny
that the votes of black citizens are counted
as cast not only in Ncw-Yorll, but in every
Northern State as we'll They only dsfran-
chised in the South. Indeed, in order to equal
ize the injustice from which they suffer there.
every Northern negro would have to vote
dozen times at the polls.
! Excise Commissioner AndreWss proposition
that special allnght licenses should be issued
for certain neighborhoods, such As prntng-oilices,
markets and the Ike, seems to be open TO grave
objection. That the men employed in these
places should not be deprived of their privileges
because of the hours during which they are forced
TO be at work is not unreasonable, and in the
hands of n proper Excise Board the right to grant
such licenses might not be abused But we must
take our Excise Boards we find them, and 1t
Must be confessed that the average during the
last twenty years has not bce4ehigh. Among the
localities named by Mr.. Andrews where such Ii
censes might properly be granted we notice the
ferries Well. if there should be few saloons
kent open in the neighborhood of each ferry on
the ground that good many people pass that
wav, why ought there not 10 be at least one
saloon near each elevated station? Where, in
fact, could the line be drawn? 10 set strict
limit in number to these places would scarcely be
practicable While the plan has certain adj
vantages these appear TO be more than offset by
the obvious disadvantages.
There is one man in this country who is con-
WINGED that the candidate of the Democrats for
President in s92 will be neither Governor Hill
nor a son Of the Astounding West. He is eN-Judge
McCuc Of Brooklyn This is the way he puts it:
" Look around you now and ask who take
Grover Clevclands place at the head of the party
when another campaign is to be fought. What
Democrat is at all conspicuous as a possible Presi-
dent? / but one, and mark my words,
three years from now the Democrats can see but
one. and that one is Grover Cleveland" Mr.. McCue
has received two very comfortable o.lices under
this Administration. is he merely expressing his
gratitude, or showing "A lively anticlpatlye APP
probation OF possible favors TO come
Eugene Higgins contemplatcs his retirement
from statesmanship-or shall we say the retire
ment Of craftsmanship from him with cheer
full courage and most practical philosophy. lie
is represented MS summing up his views of the
political situation in the cpgram, " I'm poor, but
I'm pretty 1t is impossible TO mistake Eugcncs
meaning. Obviously he desires to be understood
as holding that. although his prospects of being
called upon TO assist in running the next Admin
istrafion are " poorn vet he is sustained and