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Tammany Going Backward.

The determination of the Tammany Exec
utive Committee, formed ON the motion Of
Police Judge MCMAHON, to postpone until
next June the primaries OF Tammany, makes
wholly superfuous and unnecessary the
added statement that Mr.. RICHARD CROKER
was not present at the meeting. The prin-
ciples of political generalship which have
made Tammany feared and respected as a
Democratic agency, Of which he seems to
have been the last representative, were ap-
parently not represented, for the vote was
unanimous. 1t was not conclusive, however,
for the motion of the Executive Committee
is merely advisory. 1t must be passed upon
by the General Committee ON Jan. 25.
The pretext, for it is only pretext, for
the postponement of the Tammany pri-
maries from December until June, is the
claim that the new apportionment to be
adopted by the Republican Aldermen will
change the boundaries Of many Of the As
sembly districts. IL will. The census of
1899. less than three years ago, changed
the boundaries of all Assembly districts
of New York, but under RICHARD CRoKERs
leadership II was not thought either
necessary or expedient that the Tammany
summer, leaving six months OF political
inertia. On the contrary, Tammany Hall
went ahead with her primary elections as
she has always done after an election, in
conformity with the rule, almost inveterate
and illustrated by an expression which local
politicians have attributed TO Mr.. PETER
b. SwEEEY; Nominate in October, elect in
November, organize, for the next fight, in
December"
The reason for organization is obvious;
and the great strength of Tammany has
been found in it Reinforce the eweak points
or districts, supersede the unskilful or un-
successful local leaders, annex formidable
Democrats or Democratic organizations
TO Tammany, aud thus preparo in the De
cember of one year for victory in the No
vember OF the year succeeding.
Democratic politicians are agreed that
there l. no sound gsaSon fOF reversal this
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the development Of the newspaper has
vastly increased the possibility Of a sym
metrlcal adjustment Of contemporaneous 8
events, instead Of making IL more hopeless,
az this shallow pulpit philosopher says. II
has broadened the field Of survey and made
IL so far comprehensive, that now man can
look at his own time with far wider
and truer perspective than was ever before
obtainable.
He may exaRgerate the relative impor-
tance of events in his own particular en-
vironment and mistake superficial and
transitory excitements for deep and per-
manent influences, simply because he hap
pens TO feel them smartly; but the news
paper enables him TO look at the whole
outside world with critical judgment
very like that of a historian of the
past. lie may not see the drift Of
the current OF events happening near at
hand, but he can watch its wider course rs
II flows far apart from him. Instead Of the
newspapers preventing him from "discov-
erinR or even suspecting the underlying i'm
pulses which have been inherited from che
past, ;" it assists him in observing their OPP
erations in contemporary society. Instead
OF having only the small and narrow
range OF facts and experiences obtainable
in former times, he gets from the
newspaper a knowledge SO broad and
comprehensive that he has an opportunity
for valuable generalization never before
offered to the student of his own time. By
learning of the actual results Of influences
and tendencies as they are exhibited else
where, he is able to form better estimate
of their worth as they are exercised at home.
Such q view assists a wise man in form
ing q Judgment Of the proceedings Of DR..
PARKHURsT, for instance, and in determin-
ing whether that preachers influence will
be ephemeral or permanent, useful or perni-
cious, and whether he is true or false to the
principles upon which the moral develop
ment Of human society depends.
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The question to what extent the pneu-
matte tire. 80 familiar on bicycles. will be
adopted on the wheels OF other vehicles, is one
OF considerable interest. According to Lon
don scientific journal, Engineering. for cabs and
broughams in English cities the rubber tire,
with an iron hoop outside. 10 steadily growing
in favor, and thousands OF them are seen.
Since, even on the smooth wood and asphalt
pavements OF London, the rider knows at
once whether his hanson has elastic or rigid
tires. the contrast must be still moro marked on
macadamized roads or streets paved with
granite or cobblestones.
1t appears that Dublin Is taking the lead in
the general use of pneumatic tires recognizing
not only their diminution OF fatigue for riders
but the reduction in the wear and tear on the
wheels, springs, and bodies OF the vehicles. Be
sides, there is the decrease in resistance, and
the saving in this respect, as Engineering is in
formed. lis 40 per cent. In traction on smooth
surfaces" and as high as 20 per cent. on tho
rOugher. As an OFFSET there is the danger OF
puncturing the tire by sharp objects In the road,
and this danger grows greater with increased
load. II IL therefore found advisable TO inter
pose some sort of q tread outside OF the pneu-
matte tire proper. The authority just quoted
further says that " q pneumatic tire surrounded
by a cushion or partly pllAble tread has
tho further advantage that IL will not
completely overlap and enve,op small OBJ
matte tires It must DO remembered that the
conditions ARE far more trying in . carriage
than Ia bicycle. The latter has lower centre
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Errands OF Peace for Thrco Ships
OF War.

We copy some remarks of our esteemed
contemporary, the Kingston Leader, on the
subject Of foreign entanglements. They are
useful as q specimen of the ideas generated
in the weaker sort Of minds by the teach
ings Of Mr.. GoDKINs Euening Post, and the
example set by Mr.. CLEVELAND and his ex
traordinary Secretary Of State.
Mr.. GoDKIN was the inventor of the pecu-
liarly dishonest method of discussing our for
eign affairs that is pursued by the King
ston Leader and few other American jour
nails which ought to be ashamed to follow
his lead. The trick is a very simple one. 1t
consists in branding as "Jingoism" any
manifestation of interest in the affairs of
this nation outside Of its own borders, or
any show Of concern for the honor of the
flag; in denouncing the American navy as a
constant source Of peril to the peace of the
world; and in proclaiming that the CLEvE-
LAND-GREsHAM policy Of abandonment and
surrender represents higher patriotism
than the old fashioned sort.
We are not aware that any sane person is
anxious to plunge this country into the
horrors of war. or that there is any firebrand
in the proposition that the ADMINISTRATOR
uuty ICquiCo ~ W Scuu a wal SUPP W I1OuO-
lulu, to send another to Samoa and to keep
third vessel within easy steaming distance
of Bluefields.
The reason for sending c war ship to
Honolulu is that the United States Govern
ment, through Mr.. CLEvELAND's Admins
tration and through previous administra-
tions, has declared to the world that this
country intends to see to it that there is no
foreign interference In the affairs of Hawaii
The presence of a naval vessel there would
be the ordinary form of notification that our
Government means what it says; and it
would be nothing more than that.
The reason for sending war ship to Apia
Bay is that our Government, by treaty with
Great Britain and Germany, undertook in
connection with those powers to do certain
things in Samoa which we have not yet
done, or even raised hand to do. The
mission of the ship sent thither would DO
entirely peaceful and in fulfilment Of the
obligations imposed upon US by q treaty de-
signed to preserve peace.
The reason for keeping a war ship within
easy steaming distance of Bluefields is that
the moral influence of our flag may deter
Great Britain from any act Of aggression at
or near the line of our inter-oceanic water
way, which would inevitably provoke war.
The errand Of the ship to the Mosquito
coast would be the preservation Of peace,
not the incitement of hostilities.
These things are so evident to common
sense that we wonder how any editor who
was not born GODKIN can see anything
hysterical, or effervescent, or capricious in
the demand that the three ships shall be
sent on their respective errands. It is for
just such purposes that the United States
Government maintains a navy
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Shall the Democracy Be Utterly
Wiped Out?

The critical condition to which the folly
and falseness of Messrs. CLEVELAND and
CARLISLE have brought the national Treas
ury, occasions innumerable notions and sug-
gestions by way of remedy; though nobody
appears to have thought of the one easy and
infallible cure of the disease. But one Of
the most paltry and Objectionable schemes
is that proposed by the leader of the West
ern press, the Chicago Tribune Increase
the tax on beer" exclaims that able and
usually wise and conservative journal.
No. no, we reply; beer is taxed sufficiently
already.
The right thing is to repeal WILSON'S and
VOORHEES, Populistic and protectionist
tariff, and nake a new tariff on the great
and sound Democratic principle of revenue
only. A horizontal all valorem duty of forty
per cent. levied on every article imported,
without any exception or any free list,
would provide revenue enough 20 run the
Government, and lay by something to pay
off the national debt.
And what is still more important, it would
save the Jeffersonian Democracy from being
wiped out utterly and forever.
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IL. Those Of them possessed Of first paper
who do not return these papers to court
ought to be compelled TO do so. II any o
them have procured their full papers ol
citizenship, they ought TO be compelled tc
surrender them. In truth, the Federal Mar
shall for this district ought to have com.
plete list Of all the Russians living among
us who take the oath to the Gar. There can
be no divided allegiance. The terms Of citi.
zenship established by the law are exacting.
These are matters Of the utmost gravity.
II any considerable number of our residents
is bound by oath to any foreign power, by
an oath taken in this country, our authori-
ties ought TO know IL.
The thing done in New York has been
done In many other parts of the United
States. The journals of Chicago, New Or
leans, San Francisco, Boston, and other
cities have expressed surprise that so many
of the Jewish Russians there have taken the
oath Of allegiance to the new Car since the
death Of ALEXANDER III. weshould not be
'astonished to know that $4,000 or more Of
them in this country have done so. besides
Evangelical Lutherans, Roman Catholics
and Greek Catholics.
Notnlng OF the KIND has ever before taken
place. SO far as regards the natives Of any
European country who have immigrated to
the United States. All immigrants have
the right to do as they like respecting their
allegiance; but we do not like It that so
many Of the immigrants from one European
country make haste to deny their loyalty to
the Government ofthe United States, which
gives them protection, and to the country in
which they gain their livelihood, or which
extends its charity to them.
We are sure that the great mass of our
Russian immigrants Of all creeds will give
evidence Of their good faith 80 long as they
live here. This is one of the countries of
the world in which they may, as soon az nat
uralized, exercise all the rights and enjoy
the benefits Of citizenship. These rights
and benefits are guaranteed to them by the
United States Constitution.
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Foreign Note. OF Real Interest.

A journeyman baker In Paris drew the 500, ,ooo
prize at the last drawing of ths Panama Canal Lot
terry
monument has lust been erected at IouvG!n, in
Belgium, Father pamlen, the apostle TO the
lepeTs," where he was born and educated
For the irst time woman has received the degree
OF Doctor of Literature from London University In
the person OF Miss Dawes a graduate OF Girton,
An extinct anthropoii from Java the Pithscan
hropus erSctus, whose skull and leg bone only have
been founc 10 tho missing link says Prof Dubois
Paris His forehead Is well developed, and he must
have walked erect
ON account OF the violent attacks upon Finland and
the Firms by the Moscow Gdsette, the HelsIngfors
JuH Suonlstds and mirdlshh, aud the Swedish Nva
FFesssR and H,UoUdstddsblaiet have agreed ignore
that sheet entirSly In future.
An original copy Of The Strange Gentleman; q
comic burettA, In two acts by Boz frontispiecs by
PhlE 1897" one Of the scGrcest works OF Dickens
brought Sl7b at a recent sale in London. nrSt edi
tion OF Robinson cTusOe, l7l9." with DefooS por-
trait fetched $780, and True Declaration OF the
Estate VI the colonis In virginia" s2ao
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FAMOUS MATTERS.


To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sir: In Tn
Sun Of last Friday note this statement:
I'VE think there must be In the United States mil
lion immigrants from the most seriously affcted re-
eon OF Ireland the counties Of Sligo, Galway Come
mara Mayo, and Clare
There are errors here. Connemora Is not a
county. Just as New England is not State. Con-
emara includes Far Connaught, Joyce country.
and the adjacent mountain districts IL COM
priscs the mountain districts from Galway Bay
20 Clew Bay, Mayo. there being no natural de-
markation, no peculiar physical features TO mark
their distinction. Besides, the scenery Is unln-
terruptodly connected.
The average length Of the entire district
comprehending Connemara, Far Connaught,
Joyce country, and Munisk is thirty nine
miles, and its breadth from north to south
twenty-five miles. IL contains about 0T5 square
miles, or 624,000 acres. This almost takes In
the counties OF Galway and Mayo.
The kingdom of Ireland Is composed Of thirty
two counties which are divided into four prov
inces, namely, Leinster. Munster. Ulster, and
iGonnag,ght, the latter being the smallest hay-
Sligo, Roscommon, and Leitrm.
The history of Connemara is briefly told
Macy, Queen OF Connaught in the time Of Conon
Mac Nessa, had three sons by Fergus Mac Roy,
and Mcdhruadh ,MoFoo' The GssSi SescendSnts % Of
Werc Ve progeny,
and they were settled in Connaught, where they
gave name to several territories. One OF these,
viz, the district lying west OF Lough Corrib.
and Lough Mask, from its situation near the
sea, was called, to distinguish 1t from the others,
ssnmaraS Sonmacne- Mara t9Dugesn: Muir, the Sea,
has been shortened to the present name OF
Connemara.
=. Glare Is the most northern county in Munster.
II is the homo Of the head Of the O'Briens Baron
Inchiquin in the British Peerage- Marquis OF
Dec. 81. X. f. FARRELL.
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Secretary GRESHAM had better steer clear
of tho Franco MalaGasy affair. though he has
received from the Queen Of Madagascar re-
quest for help. He has bungled in tho case of
the Armenians against the Turks. and In tho
case Of the Chinese against the Japanese. and in
the case Of Hawaiian royalty against republl-
canism. and in the case OF Samoa and in nearly
every other case which he has tried to grapple
with. The best motto that Mr.. GRESHAM can
adopt for his own guidance, so long as he re-
mains in the State Department as the tool Of
CLEVELAND. is Hands of everything"
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NEW YORK, Dec. :
A Kidding Criticism OF " Faust" at the
Metropolitan.

To THE EDITOR OF The SuN-Sir: Tho
highest prices are paid, and superlative praise
is given by everybody; these facts, however. do
not overawe me- and | wish to express an unfa-
vorable opinion Of the performance OF Faust"
at the Metropolitan Opera House on Friday.
Having heard this work many times In Paris
and, at least. once in every European capital
my views may be entitled to some consideration
II the managers of our grand opera are uninter-
ruptedly inebriated by the incense OF penny-a-
liners. the result may be disastrous to art. The
public will have to pay the piper; and poor
one at that. Therefore, l would say without
the smoking room of my hotel, My dear boy. the
ensemble was unworthy OF our first lyric stage;
the bal let was nliserably small and uninterestng;
the littleness of the military band was in keeping
with its badness; the orchestra played mezzo-
forte the whole of the evening. Nine. Eames
gave fine duplex representation of the Virgin
Mary and Maria Theresa, but not of .ndrguer1fe.
would not have believed that SO good singer
as Nine. Scalchi could do so much Strsciato,
banana peel singing"
or course, there was much to praise in this
rendition of Faust" but enough ink has already
been spent upon this side of the question.
LOUIS LOMBARD,
Director Utica IN. " Conservatory Of Music.
NEW YORK, Dec. 80.
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One of the satisfactory local matters OF

One of the satisfactory local matters of
the past year has been the remarkable success
OF tho Provident Loan Society established In
May last. IL has been an institution OF benefit
to about 1900 needy people, and It does not
seem TO have brought any disadvantage TO the
old-fashioned pawnbrokers who carry on busi-
ness under the sign OF the three gilded balls
But for tho new society, organized by few
wealthy citizens. many thousands OF people
would have been subjected to a severer strain
than they suffered under during the hard times
of the year
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Outrage on n Negro.

To EDITOR OF THE sus-Sir: The enclosed Is
taken or cut or scssored from the Carlisle Herald:
BAY MNSEIII, Ala, Dec. 2s-A most brutal crme
was committed near here Wednesday night Tim
Thompson. little negro boy, asked dance for
the amusement OF some white toughs. He refused,
saying hi was q church member. Jim Jostng. one OF
the men, knocked him down with club and then
danced with his feet upon his PROSTATE form. He
then shot the boy In the hip The boy is dead and his
murderer Is still at large.
Now, you might give the "Nggers Chance"
"SMIrHn
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The Regular winter Opening.


From the Philadelphia Press.
EAsroS, Dec. 2s.-Mr and Mrs Henry Bartholomew
of Moorcstown, this county. had a very expensive
Christmas party at their house last night. They In.
vited many OF their friends TO spend the evening with
them and nre lighted m the paror by one
OF the family. When Mrs. Bartholomew saw the nre
in the stove she screamed and tainted. Being revived
she announced that few days before she had
placed for safe keeping In the stoveppe $780, which
she had received as an Inheritance Tho money was
totally destroyed.
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Sons or tho Aboiition,st..

To THE EDITOR or TAE SuN-Str: The father
OF Mr. Thomas G. Cornell, whose death was an
nounced In the Sunday issue of THE SUM- was
Quaker and an Aboltionist. In 1885 he lived at
Rochester. \. Y, and drove from there with the
late Lindley Murray Moore, also a Quaker and
an Abolitionist, to Utica. They were delegates
TO the celebrated Anti-Slavery Convention held
at that time in Utica. A pro-slavery Judge ad-
journed his court and led the march to break
up the Convention. Messrs. Cornell and Moore
stepped into their carriage. which was under
the shed belonging to the church where the
Convention was held. The mob gathered around
them and seized the carriage for the purpose of
overturning II. Mr.. Cornell struck his spirited
team sharp blow and they sprang forward and
wrenched the carriage from the hands of the
mob. My father who had announced himself
as an Abolittonist in 1888. was also delegate
to that ConventiOn from Amsterdam. The late
Gerritt smith at that time was a colonization-
list, and had given large sums Of money to aid
the colored people to Liberia. He attended the
Convention as listener, and when it was
b broken =, Up he invited the delegates to go with
which he offered to them free OF expense as long
as they desired to use it. While listening to the
debate he became con verted and from that date
was generous. liberal, and active supporter of
the Anti-Slavery party,
Mr; Thomas {. Cornell was nephew Of the
sanity i.ucretia Mott. and throughout his life
q consistent, active, earnest. and efficient
worker for the uplifting of humanity. His
whole life Is a severe rebuke to those who are
persistently attacking the Roman Catholic
proposed the organization OF the Sons of the
Abolitionists: My object in SO doing was to or
GaniSe society @ which would gather The facts
and their work; have no doub that the or
ganization could still be secured and the end
had in view accomplished.
NEW YORK, Dec. 80.
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She HAD Had Her suspie,oa..

FROM me Fhhddeiphfd L<d0er.
Mary N. seey and Jason Hodges OF Provincetown
Cape Cod were engaged to be married for fortythree
years. The engagement broken last Thursday.
because Jason pulled corkscrew out Of his pocket
along with his handkerchief Miss Seely says she 10
glad the discovery made because she had had her
suspicious for thirty.nvo years.
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Of gravity. and is always taken round a curve
with care. and At an inclination 20 the YER
tical, while IL is never turned In circle fully
loaded, with one wheel stationary. IL Is not the
ordinary running strains that are 10 be feared
in carriage 40 much as the occasional ones that
occur In clearing ruts, turning corners. and the
Ike" The American trottinG track has added
a good deal OF valuable information as TO the
use OF pneumatic tires on one class OF vehicles,
yet the future will probably see much greater
development OF them for pleasure carriages and
others designed for light loads or for special
classes Of thoroughfares.
The first step, that Of solid rubber tires. which
is taken on some private carriages. and partly,
as has been seen, on public conveyances In
London. naturally leads to pneumatic tires. and
we believe that an English device sometimes
protects tho latter with wire shields
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Another Convert to Iua,v,du., Cup..


Tho Warren Avenue Baptist Church last evening
discussed tho matter OF individual communion CUPS
and upon tho recommendation OF the committee ap-
pointed two months ago, IL voted to adopt them
Deacons Wentworth and Sawyer and Mr.. c. NJ. Bar-
rett were chosen 10 select the cups Tho church has
about 700 communicates.
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The Value OF . Hyphsa.

From the Char. RDok.
I recall an advertisement which actually appeared,
sans ny phen recently In London daily TO wit; Mr..
and Mrs. Nathan Levi. having cast on clothing Of
every description, invite an early inspection"
The sun., 1895-01-02

locAL yEws -Ths CITY and Suburban News Bureau OF
the UpvTEp PHEss and NEW YonK ASSOCIATED Pass
10 a. ~ TO 20 Ann street All Information and docu-
nents for public Instantly disseminated TO the
press OF the whole country.
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y our Jrfsnds vho 6aror vs tviih -rdrpsevfpts for
publication rish 10 haze rejected articles retarred,
tier wpust IN all send somps for D.ai purpose.
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The number Of living people who ever
saw the Father Of his Country has become 30
very small that each one Of them must be an OBJ
ject of interest, more especially historians aad
bioRraphers. We do not suppose there can be
over dozen Of them. all told, as WASHINGTON
died In 1909, and anybody who can remember
him must be good deal over 100 years old Mr..
GEORGE CONRAD. who fourishes out in Iowa at
the age Of 1l5 declares that, when he was
young man Of seventeen. he heard wAsHING-
TON make speech at Philadelphia. The speech
must, therefore. have been delivered the year
before WAsHINGToN's death, when he was in
the eth year of his age. We should think 1t
would be worth the while Of the score OF writers
who are getting up new lives OF WASHINGTON
to secure such "reminiscences of the occasion as
can be procured from Mr.. CONRAD who is in
good health and of sound mind and memory
and lives at Manchester, la. He is probably II
not surely. the only living man who ever heard
WARRINGTON make q speech. Recorder Corr
may be able to take the time to investigate and
cross examine him.
The sun., 1895-01-02

Instead OF trinlng with bad cold use Dr. D. Jaynss
ExpeotorAnt. which will loosen the phleEm, subdus
Inflammation and certainly your lungs and throat
much dangerous wear aud tsAT.-Ads.