New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-07
Ii now style Henry Watterson q Protectionist o
Mr.. Edgerton a civil Service Rsformer.

The decision OF the Republican National League
to continue the headquarters in this city IS wise
one. The fact that Nebraska man has been
| made president Of the central organization VIII
| make no difference on this point. New-Hcrk is
the real centre OF the country whatever claips
| may be set up by other cities and here Is the
place from which the work Of directing the
| operations of the host OF clubs can best be per
| formed
It is pity Sir Charles Russell did not have lie
/ Caron's letter to Mr.. Powderly, Offering 10 blow
up all the ges and culvegts along the missouri
Pacific This atrocious proposition was made In
| writing by the informer while the great Missouri
Pacific strike was in progress in 1886. Name
| only those in whom you can place implicit con-
fdence," wrote this singular traitor, and VIII
| place in their hands the material that VIII, u
properly handled destroy every bridge and calvert
on tho roads Sir Charles might well have been
curious to know upon whose account lie Caron
was proposing this internal business. He was at
that time In the employ Of the English Govern
ment, he says, but they could not have desired
him to advance the cause of the Uutonists by
blowing. up the Missouri Pacific.
Mr.. Miller Is, however. doubtless an improvement
on some Of bis more recent predeeessors.-tAew-
GRAFT will not be likely to deny so moderate q
statement Of fact But that is not much Of q
compliment. Any honorable man who was above
dragging his. private business interests into the
Department Of Justice would have been an i'm
provement on Garland.
The adoption Of constitution is merely the
latest step in the steady progress Japan has been
making since American enterprise in 1854 opened
that country to the world; progress that has been
startlngg rapid since the complete establishment
Of the Mikado's authority in 1878. The Empire
has in the ten years following that date acquired
one Of the best public educational systems both
elementary and advanced, IN the world hundreds
Of newspapers have been started; q complete and
cheap postal system has been established hundreds
Of miles Of railroads and thousands of miles Of
telegraphs have been built; all large towns have
been equipped with telephone systems; cotton-mils
and other factories have been built up that now
outstrip oil foreign competition in the homo
market; the army and navy have been reorganized
on the best known models; and the finances Of
the nation are as sound as any in the world
There is not in all history, probably any record
Of progress from the semi barbarism Of ages to the
best civilization comparable with this for rapidity
and substantially.
1t Is learned from The Courier-Journals that
on the fourth OF March the Democracy received
its second baptism of firc' 1t is 10 be feared
that these warm baptisms, like some vaccinations,
Queen Victoria, while appreciating che honor i'm
piled in the request declines grant her autograph
to strangers applying for It. Her private secretary
writes that " the immense number OF applications
has necessiteted the establishment OF a rules
The Queen might have taken hint from John
Phoenix. Whoever applied for his autograph got
1t and got also this cheerful explanatory line:
This autograph may be relied upon genuine
as 10 was written by ono of Mr. Phoenx's most
intimate friends
Il Is greatly to be hoped that no Justice Of the
Supreme Court in this county viii again author
lie the sending of New-Yorlk City's criminal bust
ness outside OF the courthouse In City Hall Park
There is no more reason, not particle, why o
Jury could not be obtained 20 try Chary and Nc
Quade than 10 try Kerr. IL only proper effort
were made 20 obtain Il. The search for.a Jury 90
try Kerr began on February I6. within sever
teen days the box was filed, and the trial is now
in progress. This experience entirely disposes OF
the grounds upon which change Of venue can be
asked In tho Doodle cases. New-York is able 20
attend TO its own affairs and it's officials have no
adequate excuse for assuming the contrary.
The Democratic Presidential campaign of 1892
began on the 4th OF March. :" The World is the
authority for this interesting piece OF political
news There is something pathetic In the spectacle
Of the Democracy getting ready so early for so
bad spanking as the one which awaits it four
years hence.
Il is rumored that doctors sometimes respect
fully, but firmly, decline to take their own
medicines But It certainly cannot be said that
Postmaster-Ge WannmalSer is not o generous
patron Of the Department over which ne has been
called upon 10 preside. The Philadelphia In
quirer" states that his letter mail alone costs him
$3.50 day. while " the mail order department
at the big store employs forty persons"
They manage these things better in Arkansas.
A member of the Legislature of that State recently
had occasion to nominate q young lady for the
office OF enrolling clerk He is reported as having
met the responsibility of his position in this superb
manner: II shall not say that the one name Is
as beautiful as the angels are, for have never
seen an angel and know not how beautiful they
are, hut will say that If angels look like the
lovely maiden whose name put in nomination
the angels are beautiful indeed Vet
Gran politicians who have never missed at
tending political convention for the last quarter
OF a century and more agree that they never
heard candidate placed in nomination so beapti-
fully And did tho young lady get the place by
acelamatiop. the entire Legislature CALAMITY sup
porting her by acclamation? Alas for mans in,
humanity to woman, she got left, owing TO the
fact TINT another candidate received more votes.
What sad world II Is in places