New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-16
THE KJyDTCATION OF KEENAN,.

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New-yorl, has fallen upon evil days indeed
,,her hor District Attorney and her City Judge
show such restless impotence to relieve a Dlioc-
piyer and a brbe taker from the odlum Vi III
dictment as was shown last week. Here were
two men who had substantially confessed 'heir
ouilt bv fight to Canada and protracted exile
there But encouraged by the worse IMAM
ox;+v the criminal Indifference of our pros
ocr+;no officials and our trial courts they had
uo.,rrod IN the scene of their felonies ana
having procured with their UNANIMOUSLY acquireu
thunder the services of pushing and pertlna-
cous counsel, they promptly seek Viilu'ca-
.;o, IN onon court which our DistIlct-Attorney
ond CITY Judge hasten TO grant them, so 1ar
&c i ;s in their power to bestow such vlndlca-
ton.
II ;s NOT in the least surprising that Colonel
rollows sbould have welcomed with jubianon
and exutation the opportunity OF DONG iaVor
70 his old friend and associate IN the county
Democracy. Bismarck" Keenan,. Inc Dig
hearted Colonel never allows such tribes is
,olon;os TO stand in the way of old frlendShips.
pu, Il * amazing that our City Judge should
hove welded so weakly and so ineXcusably 10
this scheme for sending two of the WorS' Vi
rho Montreal colony Of Broadway Doodle eAlleS
ont of court with clean bill OF heaIuD' 1t -
difficult to discover any satisfactory apPioa'"
n an apology for his course, and he VIII iii"
.bo+ his action in these cases Will be an eA-
tromelv troublesome ghost if he should oeSre
= ronominaton at the end of his present term
Even if Colonel Fellows, in the injurious COM
nlaisance of his nature and his excessive W"
dcrness and sympathy for rascals OF MS own
noltical faith. did desire to restore Jon"
Keenan, TO his place in the community VIII"
out so much as the smell of fire upon MS gar
mnnts our City Judge should not have CON
sented to be used as his catSpaw. lie Shouio
hovo denied the application to dismiss the IN
dictments and permitted some other Judee /"
do that work if it was TO be done at all
Some of the Mugwump idolaters who daily
offer incense at the shrine OF eX-freSldeh'
Cleveland affect to sheer at the report 'ha'
Mr.. Cleveland is using such influence as he re-
toins in favor of Mr. Maynard the former AS
sis,ant Secretary of the Treasury, who seems
70 stand in need of assistance from his former
chief They assert that Mr.. Cleveland Is IN
capable of such a thing. They seem 10 lorec,
tbat President Cleveland and Mayor Hewitt did
all that in them lay 10 folSt upon thlS com
munitv the most idle. inefficient and worthless
District Attorney in its history. MI CleVeidh'
and Mr. Hewitt must now be proud OF Their
sncccss. Presumably nothing that Colonel eel
lows NAV do or NAV fail to do can impair Their
admiration for his simple Christian NE or
shake their confidence in his nobility OF soul.
Even if the Distrct-Attorney mellow ana
goriol svnpatby for famous criminals ShOuld
carry him so far as to induce him at the eX-
,;otiop of his term of Office to enter into buSl-
ness partnership with John Keenan, Tor the
prosecution of Aqueduct claims and the pro-
morton of franchises before the Board OF Al
dermep under the firm name OF Fellows q
Keenan,. undoubtedly the stolid approval OF the
author of that famous letter in celebration OF
the virtues of Mr.. Fellows when ne was
candidate for his present place would not be
! lacking