New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-01

/ atteStod by the spring eleCtlOnS al! over 'tl
State, at which the Republicans made signal
gains. It Is clear. then, that our party friends
have everything to encourage them to fight a
good fight. to poll their full vote in every
district Both on National and State issues
the advantage is overwhelmingly with them.
We believe they will improve it to the utmost.
Each candidate Harrison and Cleveland, says
"The World" is his platform on the tariff
| question. True, and so 1t was In 1888, when
! Harrison, thanks to the vote Of the American
PEOPLE, defeated Cleveland Perhaps in the cir
cumstances If Cleveland could produce the impress
sion that he was not his own platform he would
run better.
The Democratic campaign poet Is growing pale
and emaciated trying to find rhyme for Steven
son.
Another physician, DR.. Stephen Smith, has
severed his connection with the Board OF Health,
presumably for the reason that led Drs
Janeway, jacob and Prudden to give up the
honorary places which they held DR.. Smith 8
curt note threw no light upon the grounds OF
| his action but it was not hard to read between
the lines his disgust at the political influences
| which now control the Board; and the state
mcnt made by him yesterday suggests what
these are. 1t is most unfortunate thing
for the people Of New-York that popular
confidence in so important body as the
Board of Health has become seriously impaired
Just at this time Nothing like 1t has ever hap
pened before, to our knowledge. Is it not the
duty Of all these physicians to let the public
| know in the cearest and most unmistakabe way
their reasons for breaking Off their relations with
the Board? What has come under their Observa-
| ton TO mako such a step necessary? The people
have the right to know this They know that the
Board Of Health has been Tammanyzed They
have q right TO know just how far political in
iuences have vitiated and impaired its work.
| Henry NJ. Stanley must have decided by this
| time that Lambeth canvass furnishes good
training for African explorers
| They are talking In Washington now Of adjourn
ment inside Of month IL is only natural that
the Democrats should be anxious 70 wind up the
session as early as possible. The campaign
material" which they expected TO accumulate in
the House has not been forthcoming. The House
has been a do-nothing body where IT has not
INDUCED in such extravaganza as the River and
Harbor bill, which Mr. Enloe, Of Tennessee, has
pronounced an Insignificant item"
Work work." Is the campaign admonition Of
the Republican League. II every Jealous Re
publican will paste it in his hat, there will be
little TO fear next November.
The Democratic Convention has hardly adj
journed before the party leaders are found in full
retreat from the positions taken at that National
Council The password has already been en-
not to be discussed, and that Republican force
bills in dealing with the South are to be made
the central issue That will not work Mr.
Cleveland deliberately chosen as the Demo
cratic leader in this fight because he represented
the issue of tari0 reform" and was not in SYM
pathy with his partys extreme views on the
silver question. radical platform was con-
structcd for this radical Free Trader, who regards
Protection as fragrant violation OF the Eighth
Commandment. The issue has been made and
the Democracy must abide by it, even il it leads
through the slaughtcrhouse to the open grave"
How the friends OF the saloon Grand Jury"
must lament that it couldn't be made pern,a-
nent.
The neighborhood reception at the Cleveland
sumncr home at Buzzard's Bay Wednesday even
the border Of politics. and yet clearly distinct and
separate. that could hardly happen anywhere else
than in America. foreigner whose notions OF
American political campaigns were gathered from
current debates or newspaper discussions would
not easily understand IT, IL was an affair in
which all the ncighbors irrespective OF party par
ticipatcd with the result Of having an informal
jolly good time. And we take pleasure in saying
that the brief speech of Mr.. Cleveland was cor
dial hearty and in uneXceptionabe taste.
The Democratic caucus that decided to make
Southern white supremacy" the chief campaign
issue ought to have met about thirty years ago
What has become OF the straw fend, meaning
the agile young man who goes through railway
trains asking passengers who they are going 10
vote for. lie generally makes his appearance in
Presidential year before this time What dc.
lays him this year? Can it be that he has gone
out of politics and is giving his attention 70 base
balp
PERSONAL.