New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-01
UP NJCOLL'S STAFF.
their act.

rrror tho whole. District Attorney Nlcol mas
Ill lilo has surrounded himself win
= staff in which the weak spots arc lc" anu
nconsniruous Had he not been electeu ~ 'no
candidate of Tammany Hall he 'wo"lu n'N0
done better and been better Satished Wllh MIN
Golf and vet he has displayed an independence
and = concern for the public welfare III MS
soloctions which certainly many people had
ceased to expect of him. Perhaps the result Is
= t,;hrto 70 his sclf-esteem rs well as to the
publc interest, but, in any event. IL Is Eoou
result and it promises Jealous and able aohlh-
stratiOn of justice.
OF the seven men named as cher assistants
four Mr.. StapIer, Mr. Davis, Mr.. Nelihah
and Mr.. Weeks, are certainly persons OF gen
nine ability and excellent reputation fcrhdps
rho game should he said of Mr.. Semple, but he
Aid himself no credit by his servllc attendance
unon Colonel Fellows, and after five years OF
service it ought not ia be question: as IL Is,
whether the office would not be as well OH
without him as with him. Mr. DAVIS has Dceh
an active and useful assistant upon the STAINS
of both Mr.. MARITIME and Mr.. Fellows, ana
has earned his reappontment. Mr. Wellman,
during a long service in the office Of the Cor
tion aS man and as lawyer, and has been
remarkably successful in defending the CITY
in MANY troublesome and difficult cases. Mr..
Stapler has not held public office, but as
citizen he has taken an active interest III al
fairs and in all matters involving public mo-
rality he has assumed the right side. He is
known as good lawyer and an honorable man.
Of Mr.. Sims our information IS meagre, Dut
that fact. when it concerns a man appointed 10
office under Tammany Hall, may be taken TO
his credit. Judge Bedfords appointment may
he locked at in two ways. lie has been in the
office for a series of years, and has performed
its ordinary routine work more or less we'll
lie is the reverse of wealthy, and no longer
Young Recalling the scandals thrown into the
late campaign by the open claims OF the liquor
dealers that they had secured from Mr.. Nlcoll
the pledge of Judge Bedford's appointment as
the price of their support, it may be alleged
that proof of such contract has been afforded
But we arc not going to believe Mr.. Nicoll
capable of such behavior until we are compelled
TO. II would have been hard luck, undoubted-
ly, from Mr.. Bedfords point of view, had he
been thrown out at his time of life and after
his long term of service, and we shall assume
that this consideration prevailed to hold him.
and that he will earn as much of his salary
hereafter as he ever did. Nor are we unmind-
full of the claim advanced by his friends, to the
truth of which Mr.. Nicol himself delights in
testifying that in certain cases, calling for tact
and discretion, the Judge is without peer"
1t is for what Mr.. Nicoll has not done, as
well as for what he has, that he is to be COM
mended. In concluding to get along without
Mr. Parker, by whose wretchcd blunder in the
Jackson case justice was shamefully robbed ne
accepted good advice and relieved the office Of
large amount OF inefficency. None Of the
distinctly bad candidates who swarmed about
him and whose &" claims,n we may be sure, were
ardently backed by the bosses, unless Mr.. Bed
ford is to be clasSed with these, hes got in, and
when the weight of this pressure is estimated
Mr.. Nicoll is to be commended for resisting 1t.
If his staff is not model one, it is, at least a
surprisingly good catch from the muddy waters
in which he was compelled to fish.