New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-09

40 "a avoid influencing American voters on the
eve NJ the electonsl How shrewd was his calcutta
tion that the Administration might possibly De IN
iured by the report Of his alliance with one OF
tbe Cabinet households But the pains taken
nv him to protect the Democratic party against
q rromat,,re announcement of his domestic pros
meets were wholly unnecessary. lie might have
admitted the American Continent into his con-
fdence without affecting single vote In the
Presidential contest.
We ber TO remark that on the 3D. OF March
next we shall withdraw our standing candidate Tor
the next vacancy on the Supreme Bench Duo
il Mrs cleveland should yet have an opportunity
to place another representative on that Dench'
Judge Terry, of California, now in the Alameda
County Jail. is his man. lie possesses precisely
the same qualifications with Mr.. Clevclands hrso
appontmcnt Mr.. Justice Lamar, only more
son He has insulted United States Judges, too
He has attacked United States officers in open
court He has invited and begun knock-down-
and drag -out fight in courtroom because '"e
Judge was against him. And he can make three
times as good q speech as Lamar can. Until the
Sd of March next Judge Terry is our candida'e
Has any one been so thoughtless as to remark
that it is condition theory-that con-
fronts President Cleveland?
Mayor Hewitt says he will gladly retire at
the end of his term The only thing to regret
at that time will be that he is not to be
succeeded by Colonel Erhardt.
"Thc Times dscourses plaintively on Things
Settled One of them is that the next Presi-
dent of this Nation will not spell his name with
a G.
Warner Miller made a splendid canvass. III
ever candidate deserved success he did. HIS
course before and since his nomination has been
high-minded and honorable in every respect and
he can have nothing to regret except that ne
didn't get enough votes to win.
Secretary Bayard has been the coolest and least
cxcitable member Of the Cabinet during the Presi-
Dental canvass He knew. or he thought he knew,
that whatever might be the result Of the elections
his pocket-borough could be depended upon to
return him to the United States Senate on demand.
This consoatory reflection impaired his interest
in the contest, SO that when Lord Sacvilles letter
was published he did not discern its explosive
qualities but pronounced it harmless private
matter. If he had been warned that his pocket
borough WAS in danger, and that the defeat OF
the Administration would involve his retirement
from public life altogether he might not have
allowed ten days to elapse before discovering that
the Saclxyille letter was loaded. What must be
his establishment over the political revolution In
Delawarel A Republican Legislature slams the
door of the Senate Chamber in his face. lie Will
be turned adrift on March with his Cabinet
associates.
Thanksgiving is three weeks of. Mr. Cleve-
lind will have time to work himself back to the
frame of mind in which he was when he wrote
his proclamation But, alas! it can never be
as it might have been.
Tariff Reform Deferred" is the way in which
The New-Yorlx Times DEM announces the
overthrow OF the free-trade host Yes, your
sort of tariff reform-the sort that means free
trade, but doesn't dare say it's deferred, or
rather it is indefinitely postponed.
There is a disposition the part OF unhappy
Democratic editors to revive the Saclvllle letter
and to attribute the Presidents defeat to the
British Minister'S stupendous blunder. We notice
this tendency with pain 1t was only week ago
that these same gentlemen were saying in their
most emphatic manner that the President had
been aided on the whole by the disclosure, since
he had been able to kick out the British Minister
and TO furnish the country with an invigoratlng
exhibition of Executive firmness. They distinctly
stated that the correspondence would not cost the
President O vote in any quarter Now we
don't like to have our confidence in the average
Democratic editor impaired. They ought not to
contradict themselves within week.
The interesting information comes from wash
ington that President Cleveland Gemains calm
or course The gentleman on whom the coroner
is holding the inquest invariably is " calm
Yes, Mr. Thurman, you were right when you
said in 1872 that when President had chance
for a second term he would use the immense
patronage of the Government to procure his re-
nomination and secure his reelection" And you
will have plenty of leisure now to reflect that
when a President makes Of these things he
isn't always sure of succeeding
The emergency at the Navy Yard is over and
the extra men taken on in violation of law have
been discharged. There won't be another Demo-
cratic emergency there for some time to come.
PERSONAL.
pi,bor Kama the rector ~ the Catholic Uni