New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-09
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n,acos on vessels. Our Tammany Mayor and
our Tammany Board of Appointments are up
nosed 70 using city funds for the ST. Marys' pos
silly because there is no chance for lafhihahy
"divvv,' in connection with the snip Inc
States of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania sup
mort scboolships in a generous and dlgniied
wav and find them extremely useful Inc Ein-
pire State needs such a ship even more IMAM
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. IL cannot
afford to lag behind.
Independent nominations, like injunctions,
don't go" in Gravesend. Must the courts
make some wholesale convictions to insure the
simplest rights of citizens in that town?
Governor Flower knew perfectly wei. that in
refusing to sign the bill for non-partisan boards
OF inspectors in Troy he was making IL certain
that Tuesdays election would be foully dishonest
it The question that now comes up u.s.
Was it because he wanted dishonest election
that he refused to sign it? On the face OF the
case the evidence is that such was his desire
The burden Of proving the contrary rests upon
him.
The District-Attorneys office in Kings County
Is In an extremely unsatisfactory condition. The
District-Attorney takes long vacations. and neg
lects his duties just at the time when he could
accomplish the largest and most important re-
suits i'm the public interest If he really desired To
serve the people instead Of the Brooklyn Ring.
Such influences have been brought to bear on the
grand juries in Kings County within the last few
weeks that the indictments which had been pre-
pared against certain prominent Ring politclahS
have been reconsidercd and withdrawn. great
triumph for law. order and decency was ac-
compshed when McKane was convicted. But
all the McKane perjurers remain to be punished
still. and all the Ring politicians Of Brooklyn
who have been violating the election laws and
other laws with the greatest boldness and reck-
lessness should be brought to book Meanwhile
District-Attorney Ridgway is taking one of his
long vacations far away from the scene of
pressing and urgent duties.
The Park Board has had enough Of Michael J.
Fenton the labor expert" If the Board could
be induced to get as tired Of itself it did
of Fenton the city would have no reason to
complain.
Some startling charges Of msmanagement Of
the Brooklyn Bridge have been made in the
State Senate 1t Is certain that the Trustees Of
the Bridge in some years have been miserably |
inefficient or incompetent. Their administration |
Of this great highway between New-York and
brooklyn has at times been full of the worst
blunders. and many people shrewdly suspect that !
there has been in some seasons a vast deal Of
stealing in handling the Bridge moneys. The |
Bridge police is made up Of bad material, and
lacks discipline The Tribune has insisted for
years that a complete revolution in the manage |
ment Of the Brooklyn Bridge is Of the utmost |
importance. If an unsparing investigation of all |
f..IT .1,..I- oil hn
penditures Of the Brooklyn Bridge from the start
were made. it is probable that the disclosures
would cause great stir in NewYork. in Brook |
Ign and all over the country. Any one who OBJ
serves the immense hosts Of people who use the
Brooklyn Bridge cars every day and then studies |
the figures of receipts and expenditures turned !
in by the officers II the Bridge. cannot help be-
licvlng that there is whole screw factory Of
the largest size loose somewhere.
The Rapid Transit Commissioners have
hausled the patience of the people of New-York.
They have been datory inefficient. incompetent
and laundering almoct beyond belief They
will arouse the most serious public indigna-
ton IL they waste any time over the
indefcnsible and inexcusable Bushe plan for
new elevated railroads This scheme is
wholly in the interest of the Manhattan
practicable and valuable plan Of genuine rapid
transit The commission should cast out this
Bushe scheme without delay.
The chief factors Of the South Carolina plan
were little joker tissue ballots. and canvass
crs who would count them. The Mississippi
plan comprised shotguns. and rufans who would
use them freely; chiefly before Election Day
The Troy. y. Y. plan-for it Is not justly to be
charged against this whole SURROUNDINGS the
deadly use Of reyolyers 10y murderous ward
hcelcrs Election Day. and within the sacred
pre- ncts Of the pongpace; a United States
Senator who is the patron and protector Of the
hcelers. ana eminently respectable Governor
who encourages and promotes the whole infa-
nous business by vetong legislation that would
break IL up. On the whole, the Troy plan seems
rather the most Infamous the most deliberately
and deliberately devilish, Of the three.