The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-03
The Wrath of the Bosses.

The Hon. THOMAS COLLINS PLATT will get
scant sympathy from the citizens OF this
town in his recent attack on HAMILTON FISH.
| Jr., and FREDERICK S. GIBBS. The original
cause of his hostility to these gentlemen
| was their resistance to his scheme to make
the Worlds Fair Republican side show and
| vote breeder. Finding that he could not
have a Republican Worlds Fair in New York
city, Mr.. PLAT determined that there
should be no Worlds Fair in New York city;
and, consequently, that the four hundredth
| anniversary OF the great achievement Of
COLUMBUS should not worthily and fifty be
celebrated upon this continent. Mr.. FISH
and Mr.. GIBBS, and the Republicans who
stood with them, placed their duty as patri-
otto Americans above their duty to the
Republican boss. Mr.. PLATT proposes to
punish them for preferring to consider the
honor of their country and the patriotic wish
of the citizens OF this town and this State
rather than his picayune politics.
This city Is rich and prosperous and
crowded and it was not for her own advan-
tage that she sought to have tho Fair held
here. 1t should have been held here be-
cause here alone could it be held in a way
worthy of the occasion to be COMMUNICATED,
and here alone could it be made to satisfy
tho national self-respect and command the
admiration of the world. The country has
to thank Mr.. PLATT if the Worlds Fair of
1893, II there Is to be Worlds Fair OF
1898, is to be only an overgrown county fair.
In so far as Mr.. FISH and Mr.. GIBBS resisted
Mr.. PLATT'S line Of conduct In regard to the
Worlds Fair, they are worthy OF common
datiOn and respect.
There is a big score due to Mr.. PLAT in
this matter. 1t will be paid with interest.
On Thursday afternoon last, as the gallant
Col. ELLIOTT FIREAwAY SHEPARD happened
to be engaged in the hottest kind OF battle
with the citizens OF Richmond for the control
OF the LEE statue. a mischievous and dlsre-
spectful reporter quietly began on an obscure
page OF the MAI and Express little sham
fight Of his own against the order for the State
troops OF this city to appear at Van Cortlandt
Park for thoir first manEuvres as brigade.
AS straight-out Mail and Express Republican.
he first fired n blank cartridge at Governor
HILL. and then Disgusting himself in the uni
form OF the Seventh Regiment, he let fly an
other at tho National Guard organization by
intimatinR that II ever the New ork brigade
turned their backs on anything, it should be
on the command TO turn out on the saturday
then coming.
by that Saturday. however. the battle OF
Richmond was over. and as the grizzed old
wnrhorse who had lost it. shifted the guns Of
Van Cortlandt Park and read The EVENING
suns graphic account Of the very interesting
operations going on up there, he ordered his
picayune assistant OIL to be shot and sat
himself down to say that the sham fight
was great success and worth doing again.
The subsequent and fuller details OF II pub
lished tho day after show that in spite OF
the great and often insuperable obstacles that
National Guardsmen moet when called upon.
the Colonel was Enthusiastically right, and that
all things considered the turnout and the
were admirable in every respect.
They were valuable to all citizens Of the town
by demonstrating what such OF them as are
in the militia can do In uniform.
Considering that tho work OF the National
Guard is almost wholly labor OF love. it's
most extraordinary feature ia its surprising |
excellence. And nothing is 30 calculated to |
improve 1t in detail and to INSPIRE the militia |
as an organization as q practical illustration |
Of their ability on the broad scale exhibited on |