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The Parks and the Chartor-Words OF Ia.
lIEhtenment.
From the Ne,o York Times.

From the Eet1 York Times.
A bill has been sent to Albany for the amendment
OF that chapter OF the charter which deals with tho
Park Board and the Art Commission. There are two
Important changes. One assemblies tho three PARK
Commissioners into a board. having the same powers
over the parks OF the new city that the old b ard hal
over the parks OF the old city. II Is, without doubt,
tudicious. II Will have the eject OF insurinG discus
sion and publicity to any plans which one OF the Com
missioners may form. whereas there is now no SAFE
guard against the execution OF such schemes before
the public knows anything at all about them. A
headstrong Commissioner might cut down all tho
trees in Central Park. or perpetrate any irreparable
act of vandalism. before he could be i~nterfered with.
The other provision releases the Mayor from tao
obligation TO take the painter. sculptor, and archi'
tect OF the Art Commission from a list furnished ~
the Fine Arts Federation. and empowers him TO ap-
point any painter. sculptor. and architect. There 10
no apparent sense in this. The recommendation Of
the federation implies that the artist Is . man 4
standing In his own profession. The Mayors FREQ
choice might denote merely that the selected Arch.
tect bad a political standing.
What Is needed. for the judgment OF the city .
works OF art, IS artistic artists and not political
artists. 1t would be a public calamity to have tie
restriction removed which is the only guarantee the
public has OF the ntness OF its appointed judSesto
pass Judgment.
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Herr PArrEIBAuM PIotxKL Of Zurich IL
now In St. Louis studying COL ABE SLUT
sKY's system and methods. Hewas present
and witnessed the incident. ut was mag.
nifcent, but not strictly In orderv' ex.
claimed the celebrated Swiss educator,
with unrestraihed enthusiasm, after the
defamer Of PEsTALoZzI had skunk away,
nursing his sore wrist.
1t wa not strictly in order. Col. ARE
SLuPsKY should have mastered his temper.
He should have permitted the slur on
PEsTALozzI to pass unnoticed and unre-
buked. Nevertheless, we must remember
and take into account that Astounding vi
tality and that superb physical energy
which have enabled the champion Of School
Reform to sustain SO long the manifold
cares and incredible anxieties of his I'M
paralleled campaign. Col. ABE SLUPsKY
Is no mummy.
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The Decline of the Religious Papers

Our recent reference to the decline OF the
religious papers In circulation and in intel
lectual ability and serious conviction, more
particularly in this city, is denied with
some heat by the Pioneer.Prcss of st.
Paul. The decrease in their circulation
and influence during the last ten years Is,
however, a matter Of fact, and is undeni.
able. Some of them, formerly very re-
m%unerative properties, now keep up b conf
paratively feeble existence, and in the
whole list there is hardly an example Of
notable prosperity.
We spoke of this decline as coincident
with the entrance of these papers into the
field Of political discussion rs recruits for
the irresponsible and moonshine politics
denominated as MuRwump. That, too, is a
matter Of fact; but whether the two have
the relation of cause and effect may be dis
putable properly. We think the result is
an obvious consequence Of their attempt to
purvey "non.partisanship" to people who
are naturally Of the strongest craftsmanship,
or to those who belong to the various re.
ligious denominations md are earnest
enough in partisan devotion to them to take
religious papers which exist as their organs.
When the Pioneer-Press says that re-
liglous editors " have no partisan constitu-
ency and are hampered by nothing but their
own personal convictions" it speaks incon-
siderately. Where is there a more partisan
constituency than that made by distinctive
religious belief7 This constituency, too,
is composed of citizens whose temperament
i~nclines them to p~artisanship in both
-~It-t-- .-l -@ItffAa Thn calf ~ the
two great political parties is furnished by
these earnest religious p%artisans, for they
are men of strong and decided and stable
convictions. They do not want, politically,
milk for babes, but strong meat for men
The attempt of the religious editors to
squeeze out pa%rtisanship from politics must
be peculiarly offensive to the very type Of
mind distinguished by earnest and sound
religious conviction.
Moreover, this feeble invasion Of the field
of politics by the professionally religious
papers has been a transparent device tc
| cover their retreat from the spiritual field
whose defence was committed to them
They are purveying political non-partisan
ship because of their poverty in religious
craftsmanship, due to the decline in positive
religious faith, which has been going on in
them simultaneously. Their politics and
! their religion are akin; both are diluted
and both are intolerable to men of genuine
belief. They are neither hot nor cold they
are lukewarm.
Hence these religious papers furnish &
wishy-washy spiritual and political die
which is rejected, naturally, by the vigor
| ous minds which demand the nutriment o.
positive principle and convictions.
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In ffty.six Of the sixty counties OF the State
there was at last years election. accordingly, a
popular majority for Republican Assemblymen
of over go. 900 votes. This nttests very emphati-
cally the stability OF the Republican party out.
side OF the enlarged New York district. where
there is a combination todefeat 1t within its own
ranks. In Saratoga county the Republican major
ity was larger on the Assembly than it was for the
Republican national ticket in 1896. but this gain
was due to the failure OF the Democrats to make
a vigorous fight, they putting up no Assembly
candidate in that strongly Republican district.
On the other hand, and as an Offset, a consider
able number OF Republicans in Onondaga sup
| ported. in Syracuse, Mr.. Cottlc, a "Citizens.
Republican candidate. whose vote is hero
added TO the Democratic column. thereby
bringing down the Republican lead in
onohdaga. though Judge Wallace's ma
iority in the county was nearly 5000
and he carried Syracuse by 500 votes.
Likewise in Westchester. parts OF the First and
Second Assembly districts are included In the
enlarged New York, though on Assembly these
New York voters continue to be residents of
Westchester. The total number of such voters
is 500 in the First and 1000 in the Second dis
tr!ct, and as this pNrt OF the Westchester dis
trict is Democratic an apparent majority on the
Democratic side of 4S9 appears, though. de-
Quoting this part of the county. the Republican
majority IN SO much OF Ncstchester as Is not
now within the enlarged New York is 726.
On a light vote. with no State officers. Con.
grcssmcn, or Senators to be chosen. under con-
ditions which did not favor much political
activity among Republicans in the interior.
with the b~osetting silver question Temporal
rly sidetracked by the Democrats and both fac
! tions Of the party favoring the Same Assembly
candidates. and with much independent voting,
tho Republicans of New York had a major.
ity in hfty-six counties OF more than &C. 900
over their Democratic opponents. 1t is ma
jority large enough to afford n hopeful indica.
tion OF the election OF a Republican Governor
and a Legislature Republican in both branches
at this years election. 1t is enough to demon
strate absolutely that the Republicans have
only to get together TO win.
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years canvass evaded any declaration OF
policy by the device Of holding no State
Convention and making a nomination for
the one Office to be filled, that Of Court OF
Appeals Judge, by proxy, as 1t were, and
without the necessity of adopting n plat.
form. No such evasion is possible this
year, and the figures adduced by the sup.
porters Of Mr.. ScHRAUB illustrate the firm
grip that Bryanism.has on the Democratic
party Of New York, especially in the dis
tricts outside OF this city. These districts
will have 276 delegates at the next State
Convention, while the counties Of New
York, Kings, Queens. and Richmond Will
have collectively ia, or 102 fewer.
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From the Baltimore sun.

Kent county shooters arc enjoying rare snort
nj trap shooting this year. Several seasons ago
the game little English sparrow came MS a
worthy successor to the pigeon. but this winter
the crow has been promoted TO u use in trap
sport. As n result Of The mild open winter the
birds are strong. and when thrown from tho
trips dart OF with n vigor and swiitness of
night winch puzzles some Of The vcterJn shots
AT clay pigeons, o. even those who have breu
certain with IN" elusive sUlrrow. A uig match
took place at Ch"s;erviile yesterday at crows,
with turkeys as prizes FOR The winners.
The sIUrt does not icgin when the black
plumagc uf The birds daBhvs ont OF the trap, hut
in the dcrsc branch near The village. where the
BIRDS are caught. The branches OF the trees are
literally borne down by the weight OF the crows.
which each evening 20 there in yast fiocks 10
roOsr. To trap III" birds several lanteraJ are
dart hither ana tbither in bewildcrment, and
men without lanterns easily make many cap
lures.
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KAIULANI AND THE CLETELAED
FAMILT.
what Was the Orizin OF the Last Administra-
tion's Interest In RoSnitJi

ttoA's hnterest In hoSnftJS
To THE EDITOR OF II SUN-Sir: A refer.
ence In to.day's SuS to the possibility OF Prin-
cess Kaiulani's visit to the White House hav-
ing had some connection with Grover Cleve-
lands attempt to restore the Hawaiian mon
archy. recalls to my mind something that Capt.
Julius A. Palmer. lately the ex'Queen's Amcri-
can major-domo, told me several months ago.
While describing to me the alleged wrongs OF
Liliuokalani at the hands of that piratical
gang as he calls the members OF the Itepub-
lican Government, ho suddenly remarked. par
enthetically: by the way, do you know it Is a
fact that President Cleveland's ardor in the
cause Of the Queen was not due TO any love for
her personally, but wac simply the result OF the
fascination which Princess Kaiulani exercised
over Mrs. Cleveland :"
He then showed me a portrait OF the Princess.
cxpatiuting with enthusiasm upon her beauty
and charm OF manner, which lie said had com
pletely enlisted the sympathy of the mistress Of
the White House when The two first met. There
was more. in detail. which | don't recall.
What substantialion the Captain may have
had for his story. l doa't know. but he told it
with the air OF n man stating what he knew TO
be n fact. and considered rather u joke on the
President at that time.
BosToN. Jan. -. HENRY ALEXANDER.
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rHE EEssox or 1ses.
uicprhiiesu euprerssey IN TIA state or New
Ysrk As.nrea % the rarty lkerns TeEeiher.

Ysrk Assured " tire Party Rcrps Together.
Albany, Jan. 26.-In the State election Of
1897. for the 1rst timo in the history OF New
York politics since tho adoption of the Con-
s~titution Of 1916. more than fifty years ago.
neither State Senator'S nor Congressman were
voted for, though in previous elections the two
had alternatcd, Congressman having boen voted
for in the even.numbercd years and state Soma
tors In tho odd numbered. In 1897. except to
I'LL q Congressional vacancy in ono OF the
Brooklyn districts by tho appointment of
Francis II. Wilson as Postmaster, and in
the watcrtown district for Senator to Ill the
vacancy caused by tho death Of Joseph Mullen,
there were no such elections and, moreover.
there were no elections to fill State offices from
Governor down. the Chief Justice OF the Court
Of Appeals not being included. The election
vote OF the Court OF Appeals Judge was decided
adversely to tho nominee OF the Republican
party. the flood OF blank votes in tho metropoli-
tan district giving tho Democrats n nominal
plurality of 90. 900, but nffording no indication
OF tho real political situation ne to the two
parties.
The closeness OF the Assembly has led many to
infer that New York came near swinging into
the Democratic column last year, and predic-
tions as to the results OF the Senatorial contest
next winter arc based on that supposition. In
fact, however, while tho Republican majority in
the Assembly is small. in consequence of the
division of the Republican vote in many dis
tricts Of New York and Kings, there was a sub
stantial majority for the Republicans at last
years election In the vote cast for members Of
Assembly In tho upstate counties. as follows:
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NOT TEnF BAD, SAYS HARRISON.
Chicago's Mayor Comments ON the InvestiEa.
tion or the Police.

CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-Commenting on the work
Of the Senatorial committees investigation Of
Chicago's police and the Civil Service Commits
sion. Mayor Harrison said this afternoon that
"the mountain labored and brought forth a
mouse He gives the committee members
credit for calling his attention to two matters.
upon which he intends 10 act. What they are
he would not gay. II might be gambling, it
dens, and II might be the police pension abuses.
He preferred, he said, to wait until he is ready
TO act before he tells.
aside from these things he said. ~ do not
sec that they have accomplished anything. Take
the matter of police corruption. Everybody
knows there are policemen who are not above
taking So or $40 just as there are reform organ
~izations which are not above 1t. But this talk
OF systematic blackmail is ridiculous. ! shall
punish corruption wherever i find it."
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Tho Unanimity OF h indianapolis
Monetary Convention.

The Monetary Convention which reas-
sembled at indianapolis on Tuesday, after
o years recess, approved, apparently with
unanimity, of the currency reform scheme
devised by the commission appointed by
its Executive Committee. Great stress is
laid upon this action Of the convention as
indicating q corresponding unanimity of
sentiment among the merchants and
fnanciers of the country. Yesterdays
Evening Post. for example, says:
"The great value of the conventions work seems to
lie in the fact that It has demonstrated to the coun.
try that the general business public which It repre-
pented 10 practically unanimous In support Of the
plan Of currency reform prepared. BY the Monetary
Commission. A year ago everybody was for reform,
but everybody had his own plan. Now q plan has
been formulated which oil reJorJ,ers agree to be tcfse.
saJe. and patriotic. Hereafter the disC assions among
sound.moneym men will not be on different schemes OF
leRislation, but ON methods for bringing public opin-
ion to bear on Congress to secure the prompt adop-
tion Of the plan OF the Monetary Commission. To
It appears, however, that so far from
unanimously approving the new currency
reform scheme submitted to it, the conven-
ton was divided In opinion on the subject,
and a respectable portion OF its members
went so far as to condemn the scheme as
mischievous. The Merchants Association
of New York, representing a large number
of business men, and millions of dollars of
capital, believing that it would enable swim
oilers to saddle upon the country quantities
of bank currency which would either be
worthless or become q burden upon sound
institutions, sent delegates who were in
structed to protest against the scheme and
to offer amendments to it. Leaders Of the
convention, getting wind of their purpose,
labored with them to abandon it, repre-.
senting to them that the scheme, after all,
could not possibly be enacted into a law,
and that in order to secure some measure of
reform, 1t was important for the convention
to present to Congress a united front. BY
this means the opposition was quieted.
The significant thing in the affair is that
every effort was made to keep secret the
fact that the opposition We have mentioned
existed, and now that the fact has trans.
pired. the effect of the conventions action
upon that of Congress, which was never
likely to be great, will be reduced to zero.
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Tho Hon. BEN T1L1MAN doesn't care much

Tho Hon. BEN TILLMAN doesn't care much
for poetry as a rule, but he is known to be an
enthusiastic admirer of the metrical compo-
sitions of the Hon. J. GORDON CooGLER. the
S~wINBURSE of the Congaree. What remorse
must bite Mr.. TLLMAN's heart as he hears tho
SwINBURNE of the Congaree bursting into this
tempestuous lament:
..Alas' Carolina. Carolina, the land OF my BIRTH
Thy name shall be waited from the mountain to
the sea,
As being the greatest educational centre on earth,
A the cost of mems blood through thy 'one.x'
wh!skey."
Alas! Carolina. Alasl BEN TILLMAN.
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The Hon. HENRY NJ. TELLER said in the
Senate. with evident emotion, that 1.-THE bond
purchaser is no better than the man with the
blistered hand. and ought to be paid in the
same money" No goldbug has been rash
enough to assert that the bond purchaser has
any moral superiority or Is entitled to any
preference over the man with tho b~listered
hand. On the other hand. Mr.. TELLER cannot
be sure that the man with tho blistered hand
doesn't own q bond or two. Blistered hands are
tolerably Common. and may even be caused by
the practice of cutting off coupons. And where
did Mr.. TELLER find out that bad dollars are
good for b~listered hands!
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Length is a foolish characterization Tran
script.
Is 1t. thought Ask the Hon. CT SULLowAY of
New Hampshire, who wears a cloud for a Tam
o. Shanter. Ask the Hon. CYCLONE DAVIS of
Texas. the only living statesman Of the first
rank who is SO inches high. Ask the Hon.
WILLIAM MORRIS STEWART Of Nevada and
most of the other silver spouters. What other
dimension than length do their speeches havei
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-28

Prof. jerks of Cornell, a delegate to the
Monetary Convention at indianapolis. told that
collection of sages that "the gold Democrats
voted for MCKINLEY. or at least against BRYAN.
in order to secure financial REFORM This Is
news. 1t had been supposed. until the outpour-
ing of JENKs. that the gold Democrats who
voted for X SO voted in order to pre-
vent the free coinage of silver.
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That Is So.

An early.bird boom has been started up
In New York in favor of FREDERICK C.
ScHRAUB of Lewis county as the next
Democratic nominee for Governor. Mr..
ScHRAuB was the Bryanite candidate for
Governor in 1896, on a plat
form the chief plank of which was:
1.-THE Democratic party OF the State OF New York.
IN convention assembled, unreservedly indorses the
platform adopted by the Democratic party at tho
National Convention held in Chicago on July Z. 1895,
cordially approves the nominations made there.
pledges to WILLIAM J. BRYAN and ARTHUR SEwALL its
hearty and active support, and declares as Its deIfb-
crate Judgment that Meier in the history or the Demo-
cratic party has a platform been icritten trhtch en-
bodied more completely the Interests Of the urhole
people dsdfstfnOufshsd from those tsho seek leoisla.
fton for private benefit. than thar 0fren bv the Demo
cratic National Convention OF 1885,"
The advocates of Mr.. ScHRAuB's nomina.
tion assert hat his +" regularity" as a Bry.
ante is u~nimpeachable. that in 1896 he
led his ticket, that he comes from an agri.
cultural region, and was Commissioner of
Agriculture under the last Democratic Ad.
ministration, and that, finally, and chiefly,
In 1896 she polled a larger vote than any
Democratic candidate for the office of
Lieutenant-Governor who ever ran in this
State, except WILLIAM +. SHEEHAN."
II seems almost incredible that the de.
moralized and defeated Bryanites of the
Empire State should have been able in
1896 to bring to the support of their plat
form, the first plank Of which we have
quoted, a vote which, with one exception,
was larger than that cast in years when
the Democratic party of New York was re.
spected and united. The facts are certainly
significant, as showing the hold which Bry-
anism took N retains on the Democratic
party of New York. These are figures of
record:
pEAocRAuo VOTE FOR LIEuTESASI.GovERSoR
,,.... 1903
,...., oO5,og3
Mr.. SCHRAUB in 1890 polled 10000
fewer votes than Mr.. SHEEHAN, but nearly
10000 more votes than did Mr.. Lock.
WOOL in 1894.
There has been no measurement OF
strength between the Organizes and the
conservative forces of the party since the
election of 1896, the State Committee
appointed at the Buffalo Convention OF
that ysar having for the exlgencies Of last
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-28

The 81. Louis Republic remarks, with just
pride. that Missouri is first in The production
OF mules. hogs. poultry, and Zinc. Missouri is
first in nobler productions than these. What
other State in the Union can point TO public
men like the Hon. CHUMP CLARK ard the Hon.
DAD ALMoSDi Men. high-wInled and nigh
talking men like these. are 70 be preferred sven
TO mules. hogs. poultry. and sine
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The womea We're Their wI,...

To THE Enron az THE srH-Sir: The article ap.
pear.ns IN yesterday mornings issGe Of your paper.
headed Carriage oyerturns Cab. is correct In every
particular. VIII you be kind enough. however. to
state In Friday mornings issue the fact that the two
women who were referred to as being In the carrl age
with George D. Russell and John n. Dillon were their
wives. JoHN \. DILLON.
REw YoRK. Jan. "a.
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From the Sporting LyS
Edit rails all over the comfy show Illinly ibh'
the great national game has many fi nis WI" are
takils up the night fIr cleaner ana man,ier base a
IN order 10 prevent the game from loans casts, Ihe
nlagnates cannot AIord TO dsres. rd the " o'ds Of III
well wshen among The games GrsASest suppoTtSn'-
the preas.
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II our Irtsnds toho favor us srtth rndnssertpts JoT
publication ,rtsh TO hate rejected articles returned
thsv must In oil cases send stamped for that purpose.
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grand movement IN favor or the eighthour working
day.-Sprfnaneid Republican.
Tho Hon. POTATO PINGREE is too much in.
clined to diversity his political industries. VIII
eight or eighteen hours n day be enough for his
muititudinous laborsi Besides, there are statos-
men who can better his instruction. For ex-
ample. the Hon. PEACH PANTS OF Red Wing,
Mimi. who is at the head OF q grand movement
in favor OF abolishing work.
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~PAnu-Kiosque No. -. near Grand Hotel. and
RIosqus No. 10. Boulevard des capucines.