New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-12

day.
Mayor Strong. dropping into his Latin gram
mar says that II Plat and Quigg persist In
their present course the Republican party OF
this country will be divided. and the Plat ma
chine will be ''in the vocative." He is quite
right. Plat will then have passed through
nearly all the cases in succession. He insisted
upon being In the nominative before the late
County Convention, in the hope Of being after
ward In the genitive to the possession OF
patronage and In the dative as TO distributing
of,ces: then through the voube Quigg. he put
himself I'm the accusative toward the majority
of his party He has already been put In the
vocative by being found wanting" and nothing
remains for him but the ablatve. which means
his taking away.
Tho determination Of the seals Of the Pnby-
ioff Islands would be q severe measure, but 1t
would be incomparably more humane than a
continuation Of the present system OF torture.
Not the least interesting feature Of Gernfany's
seizure Of Kao-Chau is that that spot had
been selected by the Chinese Government for Its
own use as o fortified port and naval station
That was the first recommendation made by Ii
Hung Chang on his return home. and 1t Ia by
no means improbable that II was that fact that
prompted Germany TO seize tho place.
That was a funny resolution which the Tam
many Committee OF the XVIII Assembly Dis
trict passed on Friday night at meeting held
in the Chimney Corner" They paid tribute
to Croker FOR his wise. broad-minded and az
rressive policy adopted in the recent campaign"
The wise. broad-mnded and aggressive policy
II Will be remembered. consisted in lying low
uht1a n
the rest The Chimney Corner" was an ap-
propriate place to pass the resolutions. 1t was
a chimney Corner campaign on Cookers part
Mayor elect Van Wyck In reported to DO try
ing a chainless wheel over at Lakewood. THAT'S
all very we'll for a bicycle. but II he thinks the
wheel he is going to mount on January ] is
chsinless he'll soon find his tire punctured.
On the surface nothing could be fairer than the
offer made by Quigg in his latest outgivins
II the nti-machne Republicans-who. he COM
plains. are now scattered around In various
camps-will only get together and let us know
what It Is that they want. every demand Will
"bs met which is consistent with the principle OF
| .matority rule" The hook under that fine bit OF
Old cheese is found in the important circum-
stance that Quigg's principle Of majority rule"
| is based on the recognition OF Plat and Qugg
as the majority. Better bait the trap with some
thing else.
So Georgia proposes to try notification OF
Federal laws. She had better ask advice on
that subject from her next neighbor at the
northeast.
| The approaching demolition Of the distributing
| reservoir in Bryant Park to make room for the
new library building has caused people to read
with interest what was written about that mas
sive pile when It was new. and one Of these docu-
| ments. quoted in to-day's Tribune Supplement.
shows that in those days a six-story building
was looked upon as an immense house, The
Supplement contains also picture OF what Is
called tall building to-day. The difference
between the two structures Is Just twenty