New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-20

| which established u moral ODlledtlOn even III IL
did not constitute an unavoidable contract.
The American people, according to our con-
| tomporary. The New-York Times have seen
Mr. Ccveand's manly honesty and candor APP
| proyed by the most striking popular victory
won by any Presidential candidate since the
war If this refers to his first election it
sbould be added that something must have
happencd during his Administration to change
the mind Of the American people, for when he
WAS 4 candidate for reelection they defeated him.
II the reference is to his second election it may be
said that during the interval that followed his de-
feat and the king popular victory lc lad bean
in privatc lif. and done nothing whatever as u
oubic man 10 demonstrate his manly honesty
and candor' There must he an " out" somewhere
in the Logical process by which orr contemporary
reaches its conclusion 1t is not impossible that
the American people may he carried away with
admiration Of Mr. Cleveland's manly honesty and
candor" but il is quite certain, if they are, that
they differ in that respect from the Democratic
party.
Our compliments to the gallant watermcn Of
Columbia and Cornell who are TO row against one
another to-day at Ncw-London. And may the
best crew win.
ropo broke yesterday and lev cornce fall
on several persons passing beneath it. rope
/ broke few days ago and let painter fall TO
/ his death. 4 great many ropes break III the
course Of every year with cahmtous consc-
| qucnccs How often is contractor or ovcrseer
made 10 suffer because rope breaks?
EN-Corporation Counsel De Wits bill for
| $4,000 for services rendered to Kings County has
| been scaled down somewhat, but still he Is 10
receive a very handsome sun, the referees
| have agreed that SlI,500 i. the correct figure.
! Their report was unanimous but it seems certain
that this amount was decided upon a compro-
misc There were wide differences In the opinions
| of the lawyers heard by the referees, some think
! ing that Mr. DE Wits fee all right while
others were of the opinion that $1,000 or $500"
would be ample compensation for his services
| He * to be well paid, anyway. The next time
Kings County needs the special services of a
! LAWYER il ought 10 he borne IN mind that William
c. De Witt is a high.piicc1 man.
Even in such weather as this little wine
for the stomach's sake may not he particularly
harmful, at the worst, but FOOD deal OF whis,ey
for III" sake Of qucnchins Thirst is an insult 70
the whole system.
Alderman Mckee has been put on trial again
In Brooklyn. u is not prcjudSng this ease Ia
say that frauds in connection with the Column
bian celebration have been proved and that the
administration Of justice in Brooklyn will be badly
di~crcditcd if only innocent taxpayers are com
PEELED TO suffer.
The proposition that many men have many
minds receives an emphatic Illustration III an
article appearing in the last number Of Lend
Hand on the execution of Carlyle Harris
Its author maintains that execution by electricity -
"cruc.,8 "inhuman' and "eIcrucia'insly painful
Crucl because il concrntrat.r y the whole atten-
ton and Imagination on the bare act of death.
Inhnman because :" it becomes purely physlo-
logical and not Il judicial proceeding ENcru-
catingly painful, because &" its swlftness and
painl,ssncss paralyze the mind which is pre-
paring 10 meet it IL is 10 hr suspected that
the average man of sense will shake his head AT
thcs.. statements. Execution by electricity may
indeed concentrate the attention and imagination
ON tie bare act of death, but j. there any form
Of execution which does not? Certainly there Is
nothing i'm the galows or the guill0tinc which
lends 10 distract the attention and imagination
Of their victims from the bare act Of death
Nor can Il be- established by any refinement OF
reasoning that execution by electricity Is more
physiological and less judicial III its nature than
thc moose or tho axe. And is IL not IA fine bull
Of the Irish breed 10 characterize proceeding as
"cxcruciatinrly painful,T while admitting that it
is painless