New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-01
4 GREAT DAY FOR JONES And NEW-TORK.

4 GREAT DAY FOR JONES And NEb-fOhh'
The melancholy announcement was recently
made on high authority that General Jones had
retired permanently from politics Tor the paltfy
purpose of putting an addition upon his scale
works. During the last week or two contra
diction has been percolatng through the state
but it seemed too good to be true, ana hence
was generally dScredited. But now, in obedl-
ence to a sense of duty which does HIM minnie
honor, General Jones has personally brought
all the way from BinghamtOn to the metropolis
an explicit and absolute denial OF the sinister
rcnort that he had abandoned the people and
betrayed their cause lie has not retired from
nublic life. The new facilities for the manu-
factrre of weighing machines which he is now
in the act of creating will merely serve to ac-
centuate the main purpose OF his existence
which is to spend and be spent for the glory
of this imperial Commonwealth.
The first fruits OF this renewed devotion were
gathered yesterday by the Bushwick Demo-
cratic Club of Brooklyn, which laid corner
stone, consumed an appropriate assortment OF
meats and drinks, and listened to an Grafton
mon "The State" from General Jones' His
copious and sonorOus elOquence broke the echoes
of the Eastern District and sOothed the last mo-
ments of mulrtudinOus clans at COney Island
But not solely nor even primarily for this dld
no descend upon our coasts. lie came first OF
all to let everybody below the Harlem under
stand once for all that he is still in 1t, and that
orr interests are safe in his hands. And yet
we would not iireverentH put aside the I'M
mortal truths which he eXpounded to the BUSH
wickers. We are not certain that we compre-
bend them fully. They are in measure mys-
FERROUS. oracular, Delphic, and this quality is
carefully preserved by the intelligent and con-
scientious Bnghamton printer from whom we
received an advance-prOof. lie perceived their
character, though he may not have mastered
their full significance, and he succeeded in Civ
ing to them even in type portentous aspect
by making every sentence a paragraph. we
chill few gems and thunderbolts at random:
The most foolish of all hnman acts Is setdeception
Democracy is the will Of the people.
Ny gratitude is due to you, gentlemen Oh te Oonl
mittee of Arrangements.
Dnt 6repr,of buildings sometimes burn.
We know the State is grand and In our conceit
lightly esteem the mappreciatve.
Arc not our affairs somewhat i'll the condition they
were forty years ago
New-York seems to have been especial favorte
of the determination who designated its future
And placed near the close, as if to emphasize
tx solemnity and leave an impression OF awe
unon the mind we find this stern and ominous
declaration Honesty and frankness is the
best policy in politics. as in everything else
and no concealment of purpose should be per-
mitted to encourage a suspicion that all other
interests might be sacrificed in the advancement
of personal ambition" That is lightning
stroke which not only cleaves David Bennett
Hill from crotch to crown, but Eliminates the
slaughter; and in its glow, unscathed and
irradiated, stands General Lieutenant Governor