New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-20

fluid with well-detned limitations
And then, what fun the Democrats are having
with Blaine 1t seems rash to say so, Dut we
really think they never had so much fun win
him before in the whole course Of his life. lhey
are sending him to the Court of st. James, and
burying him in the forests OF Maine; Installing
him in the United States Senate, and stripping
him to the blows of fate in his own back door
yard seating him in magnificent new chariot
with General Harrison dashed to the wheels, and
hanging him to lamppost behind the State De
partment; putting him in the Speakers chalr,
and sending him in swift gallop through the
gates of death There never was such sport
before; it's perfectly exhilaratng. Uo on
with the game, gentlemen; nobody objects ana
you arc making the biggest score on record
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"The ST. Louis Republic" which lately served
notice on David b. Hill that he would not
do at all for 500, returns TO the subject. 1t In
sists that Hills increased vote over Cleveland was
due in part to the trading of Democratic votes to
Uilrs advantage and Clevelands disadvantage,
and TO the knifngn of Cleveland by HllIs
friends 1t adds: Z" The sentiment expressed
in The Republics article has been of slow growth
but it is now firmly rooted in the Western MIND
Its strength and its stubbornness Will pe'
thoroughly comprehended by Mr.. Hills friends II
they have the temerity in the future to bring MN
forward for honors higher than those which ne
now enjoys" 1t may occur to the Governor that
it stands him in hand to purchase all the oil that
is being offered for sale these days to the end that
he may pour it upon the troubled waters OF the
Western Democracy.
or course. General Harrison will enforce the
Civil Service Reform law-frst because it is the
law; second, because he is in favor OF Clvll
Service Reform.
Newark is to have free library, which is to be
opened in January. 1t will be the second library
of the kind in NewJersey, the city OF Paterson De-
ing the pioneer in this field There cannot be 700
many such institutions, and we heartily welcome
the growth of this means of popular education
Boston has outstripped our other cities IN TINS
matter. although in the last few years New-York
has been supplied with three four free Libraries,
which are doing good work modest scale
When the great Tilden Library is established this
city will easily take the palm How soon that
will be is uncertain, but it is not to be expected
that the courts will interpose fatal objections to
the carrying out Of this large scheme OF practlcal
beneficence which Mr.. Tilden conceived and did his
best to execute.
Is IL true that Mayor Hewitt has decided not
TO appoint any women as Commissioners OF Euu-
cationP The services Mrs Agnew and Miss
Dodge have rendered have vindicated the WIS
dom of their selection 1t is the general test-
mony that they are faithful and painstalung IN
the highest degree. Why not have more OF the
same kind.
One of the New-YorlK correspondents OF the Lon
don free-trade journals telegraphed on the eve OF
the elections: There is no doubt that the ma
iority of the intelligent voters Of the country Will
| favor President Cleveland" The general result,
| he admitted. was uncertain, since the Republicans
had been appealing to the ignorance OF the coun-
| try whereas the Democratic leaders had united
in an earnest endcavor to enlighten the lntelli-
ccncc OF the uncducated masses, and it was i'm
nossible 70 conjecture which of the two processes
had been more effective. But whichever party
should win, one thing was certain, in the Judg-
ment of this unpreiudiced and discriminating ora
Gle: President Cleveland would have majority,
| not perhaps of the electoral vote, nor even OF
The popular vote, but in any event. and without
fear of contradiction majority OF the lhtelli-
cont voters of the country" Even this pleasant
reflection, that the intelligence of the American
Nation was enlisted on the side of the Democratic
Marty must have been rather cold comfort for
English Free-Traders on the day after election.
They had lost the market which had been prom
ised 10 them for year by the New-YCrk CORE
spondents. and they must have had their own
ideas of the value OF such arrogant estimates OF
majority votes Of American intelligence.
"The Nation is still Democratic" according TO
" The Syracuse Courier o, no. What The
| Courier evidently meant to affirm was that the
Democrats of the Nation are still But why call
attention to the fact? Silence is the recognized
prerogative of defeat
II does not appear that Mr. Clevclsnds tariff policy
| lost him many votes, and II Is noted as a curious
fact that in the North he gained in the manufacturing
and lost in the farming districts, the explanation
| being that free trade has made more way In large
| towns than In little vlllages.-(London Spectator,
December 10.
| How frank and outspolSen these English adj
mirers of the Administration are For several
months before the election they did not dare TO
describe the Democratic policy as a free-trade
policy Now that the struggle has ended, eau
ton is no longer necessary. Democratic gains or
losses they put down directly TO the account of
! free trade.
good many attempts have been made to de-
| fine n gentleman. Perhaps the oldest was the one
lately put in writing by n New-Jersey thief who,
under cover of darkness, robbed man OF money
and other valuabcs. The thief left behind him
note, inclosing dollar, in which he. remarked:
" The fellow who robbed your house is a born
gentleman and no hog. | leave you this bill as
| capital upon which to begin life anew We
grant that this Jersey operator proved that he was
not without certain generosity OF soul But it
seems TO us that he adds 20 robbery the vice Of
extravaganza in holding that he is born gentle
| man and no hog In the first place, born gentle