The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-22

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derOuS PurpOse'-MetZ Gets Slammed
Municipal Business Goes On. on the
side, In the borough Presidents Once
vol. l., No. l." OF Coier'S Bulletin dno
Brooklyn Record will be on sale to-day
Coier is the President OF the Borough oi
BROOKLYN. The Bulletin Ia a four page
newspaper, IA by 10LI inches in size, Illus
trated, with advertisements-'Help and
Situations Wanted, Rooms, Resorts, DO,
s cents per line: no ad. under five lines
and the purpose of the publication is to
tell the citizens Of Brooklyn how Brooklyn
gets the worst of il in the city government
and TO swat Metz, also McCarren. Advance
copies OF the paper were issued last night
80 the morning newspapers could print
advance notices.
The p starts out with a quotation
from a letter by George Washington to
DR.. David Stuart In which Washington
says;
Suffer yourself to be blamed, impris-
oned, condemned; suffer yourself eve to be
hanged; but publish your opinions; 1t lie
not a right: II Is duty
Immediately Editor Coler sets forth his
purposes and says:
For mere mortals, who are neither
saints nor scoundrels, this it published
Then he goes on to say that nothing
in the world is so interesting as a fact, .
and he adds some ways down: Touch
a fake with fact and the fake will squirm
with agony
A promise follows to take a crack at
commercialism in journalism, and this
jaunty declaration follows: I'VE start
on our journalistic journey without the
heavy baggage Of ponderous purposes.
We start forth as children singing" There
are lots OF other things that are going to
be done, such as-but what's the user Why
delay the swatting that Metz gets?
Here is one:
On behalf OF the borough, we differ with
the Comptroller.
We have no quarrel with Mr., Metz person.
ally he has enc with US.
Trouble is going to continue, as this shows:
In our next issue We will discuss the rels-
tons between the Comptroller and ourselves.
We have worked and voted for every appro-
~priation he has asked for In his department
and for every departmental estimate or bond
issue for Brooklyn. whether 1t came under
our control or that OF the Mayors appointees.
The trouble lie. Brooklyn refused In Novem-
Der. 1905. to elect any OF the candidates OF
the Comptroller's boss. and McCarren's bench
men are avenging the insult.
Then this s~ockdolager comes:
Perhaps it was right TO dissemble your love.
But why did you kick me downstairs?
Bro oklyn 10 n. A. NJ.
McCarren gets IL next:
cal boss.
Brooklyn has a combination boss of bosses.
He pretends to be a Democrat, and charges
a Republican Governor with being an migrate
because the Democratic machine sold out its
party and elected him.
Wall Street and Albany are the headquarters
and happy hunting grounds Of the corpora
tons that provide money for bosses.
How does the boss work for Brooklyn?
Gov. Hughes need not despair Here
is d political future for him;
No Democratic Governor ever acted In a
more democratic manner coward the city
OF New York than has the present incumbent.
bills interfering with home rule have been
quietly returned labelled: This is a matter
for the consideration Of the local authori-
ties. rs a Democrat, we are glad to support
Hughes. and always keep room open for him
in our own little party.
As full justification Of all this the paper
says;
When Scotland was Joined to England
that made Great Britain.
When New YORK; was joined to Brooklyn
that made Greater New York.
New York is the best and most important
city on earth. and Brooklyn Is the borough
its brains came from.
The Bulletin has two leading articles, both
signed with initials. The one to which
y. S. G. are attached is on "the debt limit"
1t complains that the oity's docks and the
are counted as liabilities when they
are assets and thus the debt borrowing lin
.itations are hampered, and IL says that III
the city owned all the property within its
il could not constitutionally borrow
one cent because then none Of it would be
the tax roll
Municipal business on the side will con-
tinue to go on In the office Of the Borough
Of Brooklyn.
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