New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-12
nv lWFUI, CRISIS,


intalTaence that Governor Hill conceives him
seIf to be- in peril of assassination, and has ac-
cordingly procured the services OF three detec-
tives who surround his person and one nisht
watchman who patrols his grounds From wna1
quarter he scents the approach OF danger we are
not informed But it is certain that ne I" smells
a rat.n and we are led to infer that he "sees
him floating in the air." That he will be able
IN min him in the bud" must be the prayer OF
all good citizens. We have not always agreed
with Governor Hill in politics. as our readers
NAV have surmised. Two or three times in the
course of his public career we have felt Obliged
to speak with a considerable degree OF plainness
about his executive acts IL has not always
seemed to us that he was animated by an alb
sorbng and unfaltering purpose to promote the
public welfare at the hazard of his own personal
fortunes. His devotion to pure suffrage, 10
temperance and to administrative reform mas
occasionally appeared to be on the point Oh
wayering 1t has occurred to us at rare inter-
walls that his official action was tnged with par
tisanship. We have listened with PAIN yet not
with absolute incredulity to the assertion that
his good-nature sometimes beguiled him into
giving the semblance of intimacy to his toera-
tion of the mammon of unrighteouness And
there have even been rumors to the effect that
he was Democrat.
But all these blemishes, actual or alleged
dwindle into nothing, to use the vivid words
of Fox, and vanish like vapor before the sun IN
presence OF the peril with which the Governor
is now confronted. The whole Commonwealth
shudders and recoiIs. The horror is so sudden
t., hofi II
head the State suffers already the pangs OF dis
solution. And not only that The Senate OF
the United States is involved and tho peace
and prosperity of the Nation are threatened.
Something must be done forthwith. But what!
Who knows how and where to strike? Is the
Governor sufficiently alert? Are three detectives
by day enough? DO what they may, one quar-
ter remains unfortfed and unexp.Ored. Is
single night-watchman anything but mockery
and delusion? The Executive Mansion is open
on all four sides. While he is securing the front
doc. predestined monster may stalk our OF the
solitude and enter tho kitchen-window. This Is
no time for trihing and half-masurcr' The
Governor has no right to underestimate the dan
ger. 1t is his duty to sink all thought OF HIM
self as an individual. 1t is the State that is in
ieopardy. He must call out the militia. Nay,
more. This plot and this emergency arc peculiar
" adapted for the consideration OF the marines
Let the new Naval Reserve be summoned from
their homes to safeguard the Chief Magistrate
But merely to thwart the conspiracy is not
enough. 1t must be run down, explored, ripped
ND and exterminated. Who are the fends
Smith Weed has a long score to settle-but perish
the thought General jones has suffered griey-
o,sly. but he is a soldier and patriot, and he
is not paying freight across the Styx. Who
then? All ha We have it. The satraps who
were discovered lurking in the woods above the
Harlem by 1.-THE World'' just before election
ara at the bottom of this damnable business.
They were foiled at the polls, and popular at
tertion was diverted from their Vaccinations.
II WAS thought that they had disbanded, but
obviously that was lamentable error. They
have been darlily plotting vengeance, and ex-
cent for Governor Hills almost superhuman
penetration they would have made bloody
conquest of us all. Would to Heaven it were
within our power to identify and snare them !!
But we are helpless. We call upon "The Woiid'
TO add one more glorious achievement to its list.
Our contemporary has got the satraps down fine.
1t knows their lair, and probably possesses their
PORTRAITS and biographies. 1t alone can segre-
gate and corral them. And having done that, if
il would nut them aboard scOw in the harbOr
and then cause its Goddess of Liberty to tOpple
from her base and bury them and herself for
ever beneath the waves, it would deserve well
of the Republic, and, contrary to all past ex-
pectaion, its circulation and its affidavits would
60 laundering down the ages hand in hand.