New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-01

,ho whole course of his Administration, and TO
com nose. not one, but four, Messages The Presi-
dency is not q very arduous once aitcr all
Between his election and his inauguration sue
cessful candidates executive papers can DC con
pletcd in SERIES all the important oihces hned' anu
nearly all the responsible work disposed OF Dy
brisk journalists Of the opposite ponticai camp
II is 70 be hoped that good digestion waited on
Tbrrsdav,s sharp appetite. The next bird to have
his dav will be the Christmas goose. II he Is as
true TO his philanthropc mission as was the late,
the fondly remembered turkey, the goose VIII
give general satisfaction. For it Is generally adj
mitted that the turkey of 1888 was surpassed by
none of the long line of his predecessors either IN
tenderness or flavor. He set the standard hisn'
and it behooves the goose not to lower ITO die
| up to it.
| St Petersburg is not commonly looked TO as a
source of liberal ideas But the Servian Minister
there has drawn up new constitution for his
| country which marks a distinct advance In gov
ernmental principles. II comedies, in fact, al
most everything the Servan Liberals have de-
handed Every male Servian twenty-one years
old and paying SO year taxes is by the new con-
stitutOn. entitled to vote and to enter Parliamen1
Entire religious liberty is established, the present
harsh distinctions against Jews being done away
with The press is made free, and individual
liberty is guaranteed, so that citizens will no
longer as at present. be in danger of arbitrary ar
rests and domiciliary searches without process OF
| law Such concessions these, If the new con-
stituton be adopted, will go far toward reconcli-
ing the Servians to the reign of their scoundrehy
King, Milan, against whom they have of late been
strongly tempted to revolt.
II is amusing to ID. Lowber Smith, Commls-
soner of Public Works, putting on the airs OF q
rcformer. He loftily remarks that he has been
81 looking after things long, himself that 1t
isn't necessary for him to have deputy. The In
ference from this is that General Newton was
| mere fgurehead in the Department, which to all
| intents and purposes was run by Smith. How does
General Newton enjoy the high and mighty claims
| Of his late subordinate?
| Mayor Hewitt is in favor Of giving the people
of the city more opportunities for cleanliness
Not only would he have the free boating baths
| kept open longer than has been customary, but
he is anxious to establish clearinghouse IN some
| of the downtown parks for winter use. we don't
see why the idea isn't good one. The Mayor
suggests the new park at Mulberry Bend as good
place TO begin. 1t would probably be well to start
the experiment on a small scale and let it develop
in accordance with the demand. The floating baths
are popular and beneficial but they are probably
used more for GOODNESS and refreshment than for
any other reason Whether baths Intended solely
for cleanliness would attract the multitudes in
cold weather is question that can only be an
swered by putting it to a practical test.
| hot coal dropped from an engine on the Gle
waited railroad has cost the company the neat
little sum of $4,000. 1t happened to strike
passer underneath in the eye destroying his sight
The railroad corporation has found to its sorrow
that the work of heaping Goals of fire on the heads
of other people can be overdone.
The concerted attempt OF the Democratic ana
Mugwump papers to make out that General Har-
rsons election bought is the coolest thing out
since last springs blizzard The Democrats were
beaten because, as a leading Democrat admitted
in The Tribune yesterday, they were out-gener-
allied and out-argued The campaign IN THIS
State was utterly mismanaged by the Democratic
leaders-ignorant and corrupt men like Edward
Murphy who had no notion of appealing to the
intelligence of any voter, but whose only idea OF
carrying an election to bleed the saloonkeeP-
crs heavily, and buy all the votes they could on
election day. The Democrats, as every one KNOWS
never had 50 much money in any canvass as IN
this one and never did much bribing was
any one who saw the magnificent Repuoncan
parade in this city the Saturday preceding
the election able to resist the evidence given by
that unprecedented demonstration OF Intelligent
and educated men that victory was in the AR!
Was that victory bought? How absurd! The
Republican party elected General Harrison by
the force of its ideas and in spite of bribery, not
by means of IT.
1t is great pity that the thirteen trees planted
by Hamilton in honor of the original States OF
the Union should be marked for destruction is
there no way of saving them? Contractors,
spare those trees!
stirring controversy has arisen over the ques-
ton. Does or does not Elijah whistle ?-meaning by
Elijah the private secretary of the President-eect
Il has been said that he n most melodlous
cxecrtant upon the labial organ, but this is de-
MED with some warmth by his associates of The
indianapolis Journal who go 81 far rs 10 init
| mate that Mr. IIalford could not have survived
so many years as a managing editor if he had
been in the habit of whistling at his work. There
| would seem TO be hidden meaning in this for
managing editors
While the foreign organs of opinion which re-
feet the wishes OF Prince Bismarck and Signor
| Crisp were extolling the superhuman tact with
which the German Emperor manipulated the
hosptalitics Of King and Pope while he was at
| Rome The Tribune vcntured to observe that the
echoes of his visit to Leo XIII might not sound
so sweet in the young mOnarch's ears after his
return to his capital. The latest dispatches seem
to indicate that there a marked degree OF
reasonablencss In this suggestion His Holiness
is already anxious to know whether William de-
sires to have it understood that there is cold
ness between Germany and the Vatican.
|
DON'T TwIT HIM; POSSIBLY HE is PENlTENT
From The St. Paul Pioneer Press