New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-13

The Mayor of Brooklyn remarked to reporter
on Tuesday that the Republicans are Young 'n'S
year, Evidently Mr. Chaplin has read the returns
from Maine, Vermont and Oregon.
Yes General Harrison Is exactly right. Tho
important question is not so mucn inc iene' -
tho stem as the direction Of it," The country IS
fully informed by this time OF the directoh anu
tendency NJ the free-trade policy advocated by the
President in his December message and set ouo
arain in much the same words in his September
letter DESPITE his contention that - we have en-
tered mon no crusade Of free trade it Is to Tree
,rodo in tho accented and established meaning OF
tho form that the policy of the Presidents message
and the Mills bill unquestionsbly tends mo
stcn taken was as long as the Free Traders oared
IN make H. Its direction IS unmistakable. fuo
tho Democratic party in full control Of the Govern
ment and longer steps in this path would specify
no visible As The London Chronicle says: 10
i immatcrial TO discuss what President Cleveland
crusade should be called. He may give 1t any name
he likes as long as we know 1t Is IN iact cruSau0
Of free trade"
Some Of the few Bridge trustees who were OH
hand for the meeting that was not held on Monday
expressed themselves in favor of imposing me Oh
members who were absent from certain NUMBER
% ,neetinqs The suggestion is an excellent one,
but before it is put into practice an amendmeho
might wisely be made Instead Of Furnishing ap-
sentees nv n fine we recommend, in view OF inc
crave deIinouencies that have become so haDltual
that a meeting of the trustees during the summer
months is unheard of, that the punishment DC
both fine and imprisonment
t. Is suggested that the Democrats display this
placard at the polls on election day Drop
Democratic ballot in the SLOT and see the BRUSH
Free Trader SMILE
aThc New-Orleans Item,7 commenting upon
the speech which Governor Hill made at the hte
Thurman ratification meeting in this city, says
Governor Hill seems TO stand squarely on tne
Democratic protection platform alongside OF Kan
dali, The Item, and majority OF the Loulsi-
ana delegation to Congress Hill VIII doupt
less be pleased with the company TO which ne Is
assigned but how about Randall
Did Secretary Whitney revise the passage OF
Mr.. Cleveland's letter in which he says " no mem
Der of our party will be found excusng" trusts
The recent Wyoming County Democratic Con-
vention adopted this lovely resolution
Resolved. That we pay tribute with united hearts
and fervId sentiment the present Executive OF the
Empire state David B. M VINO Is tne f nrgrfy and
high order Of tesmanshp, characteristic OF SAMUEL
j. Tilden, his original tutor.
It is difficult to imagine much richer rlcnness
than that High order Of craftsmanship Is
particularly good. 1t is pity that the convention
could not have been photographed.
"Tbe Democratic party is wofully deficient in
moral courage, exclaims downhearted Mug
WIND. Oh, Of course but just consider what .
supplv OF immoral courage 1t mas.
Mr. Cleveland's reputation as phrase-maKer
will not be enhanced by his latest literary produc-
ton. There are to be found in it none OF those
sonorous combinations Of words like lnnocuouS
desuetude.r pernicious activity and Admins
trative expediency," or even such taxing al
iteration as "ghoulish gee" The nearest APP
proach is neglected need" which was evidently
rolled as a sweet morsel under his tongue Neg
looted need, however, is far from good; What
is a NEGLECTED. need i? The Presidents last
MESSAGE has been issued with " full annotations.'
An edition of this letter with notes is likely to be
in demand.
Cleveland in the act of complete ana solemn
selfconsecrationo would be one of the most touch
ing spectacles of the century. But alas it can
never be.
To George William Curtis, E. Larry Goditin,
George Jones and Samuel Bowles-Gcntemen has
it occurred TO you address circular TO all your
ex-Mugwump friends, imprcssing upon them the
| necessity Of describing the time-hOnored maxim
Fa!sus in uno, falsus in omnibus? Probably II
has. or at all events il ought to have. For, OBJ
viously, unless you discard that maxim, you are
cstoppcd from supporting Mr. Cleveland. You can
not deny that in running for second term after
denouncing the eligibility of President Tor re-
election as a most serious danger to the common
veal Mr. Cleveland-and that, too, at the bidding
of his greed for public place-has been false To
one thing Why, then, if your much-boasted
political independence is not sham, If you con-
form your own political conduct to the high
ethical standard TO which you are continually
pointing other people do you not argue that Cleve
land, having been proved false in one thing, Is
to be regarded rs false in all |?
An Ohio highwayman lately filed the mouth oil
one of his victims with sand. If this highwayman
should cross the path of Grover Cleveland he
would be doing him a good turn by filing him up
with sand For if there is one thing which more
than another the man IN the White House needs, il
is sand. If he had not lacked sand, he would not
have allowed Federal ollice-holders to play foot
| ball with the " order" which he issued Tor thelI
Guidance The absence OF sand in Cleveland keeps
Garland in the Cabinet Why did Hill have things
all his own way at Buffalo yesterday? Because
there was no sand in Cleveland.
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PERSONAL.
The now Covernor-Gencral of Canada and Lady