New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-02

| sent to Hobolxen 1t lis not surprising that this
| has happened in the last four years; but after
March 4 this little difficulty is certain to dis
appear.
Rcval scandals cannot be smothered so easily
in this newspaper age as Of yoRe. Eventually
the newspaper viii sweep away royalty alto
gether.
On his campaign placards in Paris General
Boulanger asked the electors If they wanted to
remain four years longer under the yoke of
corrupt intriguers and pecuiatng pohucians.7
II So he said, they should vote for NJ Jacques,
the candidate of Clemenceau, Ferry and Flo
quet" OF the three statesmen at whom he thus
had his fling, the first is the man who originally
pitchforked General Boulanger into official
notoriety, and but for him the brav' GeneraP
would never have been heard Of outside France
The second is the man whose repeated challenge
to duel General Boulanger was too cowardly
to accept The third is the rusty old lawyer,
unsldlled at arms, who spitted General BoulangcH
like rat on skewer, when that would-De
Dictator was finally egged into fighting him.
Altogether, the Generals "reminiscences OF the
three cannot be particularly gratifying to his
vanity.
What authority has The Buffalo Commercial
AtlVefUStr ZOE saying Lntb OoScrnVI Af4t ~
committed" 10 the Excise Commission binT
The Governor seems to have taken very good
care to commit himself against it in his annual
message.
The strike has divcrting side One Of its most
ssotesque features came on Thursday in an
application TO Police Superintendent Murray for
permit for 1000 OF the strikers to parade down
Broadway in order to lay their grievances before
the Mayor. Mr. Murray squelched this little
plan in short order. In fact, he didn't look on
II as joke 1t ell. and the delegation did not
appear to reeJgnize the funny element in the
affair.
DistrictAttorney Fellows's plan now seems TO
be to secure change OF venue in each one OF
the Doodle" cases still waiting to be disposed
Of When that is done he will probably breathe
easily. So will the boodlersD themselves, and
so will John Keenan, and the other members
of the American colony in Canada.
Washington dispatches state that ConsuiGen-
eral Sewall called at the State Department be-
fore starting for Samoa TO receive any instruc-
lions that might be given TO him, but Secretary
Bayard declined to see him. 1t is singular that
the American representative should have been
allowed to depart without detailed instructions
adapted to the existing situation. Secretary
Bayard might have been piqued or irrftsted by
the suLGenersPs franlness in testfying be-
fore the Senate Committee but he ought 10 have
mastered his resentment and armed his subordi-
nate with instructions requisite for the emer-
gency.
We hope that decent Democrats who voted
for Governor Hill because he was the party
candidate, and who now see what an obstacle
he is TO all reform legislation are getting grace
enough to be ashamed OF themselves.
Why was Commissioner Bates's report on Samoa
sayagely revised by Secretary Bayardp Was
It because it was so aggressively American as to
be undiplomatc? The Secretary. perhaps was
anxious to spare Prince Bismarcks feelings.
Winter is now half. over, according TO the
proverb which tells the farmer be has consumed
by Candlemas day - half his wood and half his
hay.' Figuring by the almanac, tho turning point
in the season should not come I'M
Ill next Monday. But the Signal Service,
taking the average Of eighteen years,
finds January "a TO be the coolest day in
this vicinity, which would leave us already well
started on the last part OF winter. It is hardly
10 be expected, however, that the weather win
moderate sensbly for q month or six weeks yet.
We shall be fortunate, indeed, IL it grows no
colder. The month just ended, according to the
Signal Service observations, has hereabouts had
mean temperature fully seven degrees above the
normal and about on a par with the ordinary
March Not once has the mercury in this city
gone lower than IL degrees since 1854 record
for mildness made only three times before in
nearly seventy Januaris. December was milder
than usual yet one OF rs mornings was degrees
colder than any last month.