New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-08

large red bandanna over his eyes, the Senator an
swers: Il really can't see report that isn't
favorable to the Democracy The Maryland
Senator is evidently a great admirer OF Dickens.
Come criticisms have been made here and there
concerning the arrangements for the reception of
Mr. Blaine down the Bay In Difference to MI
Blane's own wishes 10 was intended from the
start 10 make the greeting informal The purpose
was to confne tho party on the steamer which Will
90 down to meet him to members of the Repubi-
can Club OF this city, to n few other prominent
and representative Republicans and to his persona
friends Long speeches resolutions, formalites Of
any kind were not included in the plan Disap-
continent has been expressed III various quarters
because the committee has not felt at liberty to
receive q great number Of people who desired 10
take part in this welcome. But the limits oil thclr
boat are small. They desire TO avoid display ana
formality and they have been compelled to re-
fuse hundreds of applications for tickets Any
who may have felt-hurt by their exclusion from
the boat should console themselves with the
thought that the army of Mr.. BaInes friends ana
admirers is of such tremendous proportions that
very few Of them could by any possibility DC re-
ceived on the committees vessel.
The assault upon the Republican party as " the
free whiskey and rumscllers party ended pciore
il was fairly begun. The record OF the party
in nearly every Northern State rcfuted the charge
The accusers were laughed out of court as soon as
they ventured to state their case.
at is probable,' SAYS "The Evening Post"
DEM in a dispatch from Washington that the
Nation will not permit the widows of the few re-
naming survivors Of the War of the Rebellion TO
suffer want The language in which the idea
is EXPRESSED is sufficiently peculiar but 1t Is still
stranger TO find such an admission in tine columns
Of an Administration organ. Doubtless the Ma
ton will not much longer permit Democratic
President to insult the widows OF men who lied
for their country, and if that is the idea which is
struggling for expression in The Post dispatch
we cheerfully accept the omen.
General Harrison is not candidate who is
afraid to discuss living questions Of American
politics; nor is he a candidate who talks too
much.
Now that the sea serpent has done us the honor
to overlook the prevailing humidity. the lack OF
dancing men and the various other drawbacks OF
a rather dull season, and has actually arrived az
the summer resorts, it will be no more than decent
TO treat him with distinguished consideration. We
are confidentially informed that he is dreadfully
tired of the adjectives by which he Is described
and the COMPARISONS which are employed to make
| his majesty more appalling lie particularly OBJ
ecs to any further use of the phrase " eyes like
sauccrsp and would regard it as special favor
if correspondents would substitute soupplates or
lamp-shades or icc-crcam mouids, or even quoIts.
It strikes us that eyes like quoits' would DO
a most satisfactory and worlSmanlke comparison
| for modest and unassuming writer's. The average
oucit is probably rather smaller than the aver
age saucer but it will last longer and cannot pos
sibly be overworked. whereas the saucer that goes
too often to the we'll Of imagination is sure to be
| broken.
OBrien & Clark have secured another Aqueduct
contract by the action Of the new commissioners.
This merely shows that they willing to do
| the work cheaper than any one else. But will the
new commissioners make sure that there is no
sub-letting Of this contract? That is point of no
| small Importance. The people want 10 see the
law strictly complied with in these matters here
after and the terms Of the contracts rigidly adj
hered to.
II has been hot everywhere, but patient men
were able TO endure it, the streets are not models
of purity but longsulfering public was willing
to pick its way through the slime suburban resi-
dents say that the mosquitoes are ferocious, but
still they laugh and are happy the ills of life are
manifold, but tie philosopher conlronts them
screnely and comes off conqueror There Is,
however, just one thing which is liable to make the
great American people rise up and howl with rage
and there alarming indications that 1t is about
TO happen John L. Sullivan is apparently on the
verge Of bioalSing loose once more. His jaws
have already begun TO work, in anticipation OF
Jake Kilralns arrival, and unless he is shat UP
forthwith il will be too late.
The newest trust which has come TO oul
knowledge is that of the so-calied straw bonds
men. The full details Of It's operations have not
yet been given out, but IL appears that there are
several professional straw" bondsmen who
have formed an organization for sthe better carry