The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-02
POLITfCHI YOTEA.


e. Sheehan. salary 5000; n Fire Commissioner In
place OF Rowland Robbins. salary Sc 900; Health
Commissioner in place OF Joseph u. Bryant. salary
$4,000 Commissioner Of Public Works. salary $4,000
and Fire Commissioner In place OF Henry u. Purroy.
salary 5000.
Al last years spring election the Myers voting ma.
chine tried In Niagara county. Last week the
Town Board OF Richmond. ontario county. after wit.
Messing It's operation decided to buy ono It IL not at
all Improbable that other tow ms In Ontario county will
experiment with the Myers machine In tho spring
election Mr. Myers Ia a resident OF Rochester and
was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for State
Senator there In 1891. His voting machine Ia an
automatic mechanical arrangement. OF the nlcketin.
hssot order beinR used and the preference
of the slecor being recorded by his pressure OF certain
specified hnit,Ga The voter presses the button. the
Myers machine does the rest There Ia counting
"nnrassnE no detective votes and pas,er ballots
The whoc business OF voting 10 done by machinery.
TpE SrN published in 1892 the rst account Of the
'rivance, and described I. infinitely few weeks ago
The term of city Chamberlain Grain expires May 1,
1873
John Golden has hren appointed 1antor OF the Ninth
pisret Court by Judge faion. to succeed Bradley g.
Chandler. deceased.
Tho turning out OF Republicans from Federal ofces
hcreahouts. which will begin on Saturday March L.
1s"a-a half holdsy-wili he a sad blow to n great
drawing their political sus,ennnce from
made IN Washington for many yenrs 40 ions A, thu
hsht OF patronage burned brightly for them in ,he
custom House or IN the Quarantine once they could
continue Their boisterons demonstrations OF feaity
to the Republican party without submitting their
claims TO tho test Of votrs Irncsforth any
they aspire 10 they must be elected to Ill., and II Ia
matter OF common report and Of general ackpowlsds
men that there 10 not one Republican Assembly dis.
tric leader who could carry his disric. running
n tfcA HE InNv y.iSi, en-
voters. What some of the old ofirehoding s,andbr.
will now do is an interesting question. the gen.
eral expectation la that many OF them viii In formal
manner eschew politics hencefor.h. AND embark in
commercial pursuits. which most Of them see N IN UGH
better qualified 10 adorn.
Tho Federal pension agent in New York city receives
900 salary The United States District Attorney re-
ceves 10000 lie has ak assistants Tho suit, Treas.
mrer receives 5000 The two internal revenue col.
lecors get $4,000 each. They have stan OF seventy.
i've clerks deputies gauEers and storekeepers at sal
aries ranging from ST. 200 TO 81. 300 These are few
OF tho desirable Federal Offices outside OF the Custom
House and Post Office to DO hod after March T. 1919
There are still three Republican Police Justices the
last remnants Of Republican municipal patronage In
New York The term OF Scion B. Smith ID tile hrst to
expire and following his that Of Charles N Taintor
and Clarence W. Mende in tho order There are
no Republican Civil Justices but there may be one or
terms of ten Justices expire. Tho term Of . Civil
Justice is six years In the contest Of tho Repub
licans elected one Civil Judge In the contest OF 1884,
six years before that they elected In the con.
test OF 1875 six years before that they elected three
The failing on in their representation cannot hoveyer
continue in 1923. for tho excellent and conclusive
reason that all the Civil Judges are no Democratic
During the years OF its political supremacy the Re.
publican party in New York state strengthened itself
ana kept its working organization In good condition by
selecting good working politicians to represent the
sentiments. principles and purposes Of ts members IN
Washington as Senators. William II. Seward. Ira Har.
ris, Roscoe Conklng. Reuben r. Fonton, Edwin D. Nor
gan Warner Miller. and Thomas c. Plntt were among
those who uphsld tho Republican banner in Washing.
ton 1t was not until party loyalty and partisan dill
gencs were put at discount. and William N. Evarts
and Frank Hscock professional men without political
following. substituted that tho OF the
Republican party working force in Nav York State
politics began. This consideration 10 not likely to he
overlooked by the dominant and growing Democratic
majority which now has David b. Hill rs its senior
rnd w choope IN January cole cue
who will have rorcefu political activity to strongly
recommend him and no dude or Mugwump trimmings
Tho Constitutional Convention which 10 to meet ia
Albany in Mny 1899. will 10 the nth to assem bio in
Ne York State. The election Of delegates will take
place. unless the date 10 changed by the Legisature
on Feb. II. Heretofore Constitutional inventions
have generally been held In the year folio wing the
call for 1t This Convention 10 an exception the pso
pie having voted TO convene It, In 1885, six years ago
and successive Legislatures having dalied with the
matter since. A Constitutional Convention has no
power to change the law. It merely proposes Atera
lions which the voters aftsrward ratfy or reject.
The report extensively repeated that the next year,,
municipal election will be unnterestng one, for
he that only few local Offices arc to be nlled
Is an erroneous 1t will DO tho most mpor.
nIt,
These arc some of the Offices which the people win FILL
Comptroller. Sheriff. District Attorney two Coroners
Ten District Judges. nine State Senator'S and thirty
Assemblymsn. besides such higher judicial positions
as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Superior
Court Judge. and whatever additional vacancies arise
Turing the year.
sAlutary reform OF the civil service could be- At
small expense secured by making tho Civil Service
aw imperative until March T. 1897 when might be
esored II tho people found that they could not got
Along without It. This wonld the political peda
'ogues four years holiday and the people four
ears rest.
The stcnographers bill for taking down the testiue-
~ in the Mike SiIney murder case was Ss2sIo A
Lain for that amount has been filed with the Comp
roller together with another claim for stenoRraphc
eryice OF 1897 for testimony taken In the Court Of
GENERAL Sessions. For hitherto res.
on the city mako no adequate provision for ssepos.
sphers in the criminal trial courts down town. and Al
result OF this claims amounting to $50 900 year are
lied with the Comptro and In some instances 4
init in court is NECESSARY before the due 10 paid
the Republican primary elections for the choice Of
county Committee for 1903 will take place on Tuesday,
Dec. IL
One word makes often as much difference In the nsId
" politics as IN the more sentimental and impressive
aAtrs OF ife II the February election for delegates 10
he state Constitutional Convention 10 to treated a.
general eection in New York city It will cost
3ooNOo Fit IL to be regarded legally a. . "specIar,
lection it will cost $245 ooos difference OF $50 900
urning word.
EA'Alderman owen NcGnnis had a variega,si DO |
'tirn! experience month ago, Until the middle OF |
october he waa looked upon a. prospective stump
anddate for Alderman In the new Fifth district Re-
ween and 7 O'Clock on the evening Of Oct. IT he
vas nominated for Alderman by the New York Democ.
ncy an organization to which no had not IRE iously
slonged An hour later he put up by the uerman.
organization which has few Mcn misses on
is roll OF membership an before O'Clock that uieht
10 was put an the he!d by tho Republicans Whom the
ew York Democracy collapsed. through the failure Of