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THE BBOOKLYN DAILY EAGrLE SATURDAY, NOVEMBEK 19, 1892. TEN PAGES. gained by our opponents it moans that the Democrats will fight again, and will probablv win. Republicanism possesses no cohesive force when deprived of public plunder. If you doubt this statement wait a few years and see.

Ulica Observer CONTEMPORARY HUMOR. waste of time. The Eepublican masses will not follow indivisibly a single commander. Tho moment anyone attempted to exercise that prerogative division and confusion inevitably would follow. Tho experiment has been tried too often to leave room for doubt on the subject.

Renewal of it can lead only to party discomfiture. SATURDAY EYKMXG, SOYKMBKR 19. 1S92. sional life was distasteful to him. The period of congressional life in the senate is three times as long as that in the house, but the life is the same.

Tho senate would simply be thrice ns distasteful to Mr. Chapin as the house. It is nowhere proposed, not by Mr. Mc Loughlm or by anyone else, to make Mr. Chapin an exquisite martyr to uncongeniality.

To some men public office is a public trust. To others it is a private taste. who can challenge his prestige as Whitney would, or eclipso him in dobato as Cochran would, or feel independent of liis authority as Chapin would. He has stood out in this campaign clearly and avowedly as Cleveland's personal enemy. Ho has refused to meot Cleveland or to have anything to do with nim.

He has supported the ticket only because of his belief iu the sanctity of a regular nomination. It is perfectlj known to every Democratic loader that ho will go to the senate feeling entirely free to oppose Cleveland's policies, and to set dd counter policies of his own. He wants a colleague who wdll bo in all emergencies with him, and such a colleague ho expects to have in Murphy. These facts, however, constitute precisely the reasons why Croker in his new born love for Cleaveland should have boen especially suspicious of the trap he has fallen into. Of Croker's personal devotion to Cleveland there is no question whatever.

It is open, plain and sincere. It is returnod, too, after a fashion. Tribune lo day. The Rev. Dr.

H. 31. Wharton of Baltimore haj began an investigation of tho disorderly houses in tho city similar to that made by Dr. Park hurst in New York. Dorflins'cr's American Cut Cilans Is sbown in every requtuite for tho table and in beautiful pieces for Wedding and Holidar Gifts.

Genuine pieces hare trade roaric label. C. Dobflinoeb A Sons, 30 Murray et, New York. cuse. The lifo of a man is worth more than the few sticks of timber necessary to brace up a building.

Aearinjr the End at XBoinestead. The Homestead strike is broken. Its collapse is complete. Only the other day the Amalgamated association refused to order it "off." The strikers have saved the association the trouble. They are swarming back to the works.

More than one thousand have applied for re employment. Among them are men from every department of the mills. Former laborers touch elbows with former clerks in the long procession of applicants. Ex foremen jostle ex apprentices in the rapid rush for place. The returning forces include not only the sympathetic strikers, but many actually connected with the association.

Officers of that body admit their defeat. "It was," says one of their number, "our own men wh6 beat us. The very men who were benefited by this association, who never had the brains or perseverance to bettor themselves, are the ones who worked right against us. As far ns I was concerned I was not affected by the scale, but I was fighting a good fight for principle and some of the very men concerned in this dispute were the first to go back. I don't think the strike ended as it should.

I think there were many other ways in which it could have been brought to a much more satisfactory close, but the matter is ended now and there is no use discussing it." When asked what course the Amalgamated association men would pursue the same "leader" added that there was "only one thing for them to do and that was to get places eLsewhere." While many of them could not obtain re engagements in the works if they wished, thoy intended, when applying "elsewhere," to give as a "reference" the Carnegie Steel company. What the company, in that event, will have to say of them, is not disclosed. Thus ends the most sensational strike in the industrial history of the country. Nearly five months have passed since it began. With its tragic features tho American people are familiar.

They will recall it as the nearest approach to armed rebellion since the close of the civil war. At the very outset law was defied. Then followed riot, incendiarism and murder. Attempts were made to take property from its lawful owners without asking their leave. The civic authorities, endeavoring to interfere, were forcibly ejected from the town.

Hired watchmen, brought from a distance because tho community sympathized with the mob, were fired upon with rifle and cannon. They were assailed with blazing oil. After their surrender, on condition of a safe conduct to jail, they were barbarously maltreated. Eventually they were banished from the place on penalty of death. Untrammeled workmen, who entered Homestead in search of employment, were brutally assaulted.

The revolt was only quelled by armed invasion. Even after the army appeared guerrilla warfare continued. Free laborers were waylaid and beaten. The homes of non strikers were burned or defaced. A state of terror prevailed through the summer and autumn.

Only the presence of troops, and later of deputy sheriffs, prevented renewal of violence and wholesale slaughter and destruction. For the strikers were lawlessness, demagogy and brutality. Yet they could not win. The law was ngainst them. The moral forces of civilization were arrayed in opposition to their aggressions.

From their rabid assaults on life and property the minds of orderly people revolted. Opposed to the far fetched presumption that they had a right to do as they liked with the possessions of others was a stern popular resolution that the rights of corporations and individuals be respected and defended. When the country was once aroused the mob had nothing left to stand on. Ample force, typical of the inherent strength of the commonwealth, checked their mad careor. It remained for enlightened public opinion permanently to conquer their audacious campaign.

Combined to their undoing were the more salutary elements alike of capital and labor. Capital knew that their discomfiture was essential to the common safety. Free labor rationally concluded that their triumph would mean the enslavement of all labor. So the struggle proceeded. ture.

From the country emanates a conspiracy among the politicians of Democracy to strangle Clevelandism in administrative action in the government, in revenge for failing to strangle it in the national convention, and in characteristic gratitude to Clevelandism for letting it live after the convention. The purpose is to choose a "me, too," to David B. Hill, to block Cleveland from New York in the senate. The motive is manslaughter on the threshold of the administration. The words of the actors, for the ticket, were a mask of their actions to lay unhallowed hands on the legislature.

The ticket could not be stopped. Events show the people took care of it. The legislative districts were the real objective. The belief is they have been secured. If they have been, the administration will have to look for its instruments of policy among Democrats in sympathy with it and defend" itself ngainst Democrats who war on it.

The national Democracy would not surrender to the state machine. The national Democratic administration will have to respect the arrested will of the national Democracy toward that machine, if the latter's first act is to signify intended ruin in requital for prevented rule. The fight was won by freedom over monopoly. Party freedom was, always weakly, in our judgment, willing to strike half sharing terms with machine monopoly. It regarded the canvass as a peaeo.

It is told that it was a truce occupied by machine monopoly to put itself on a war footing. The people did not carry the state for Cleveland in order to stack the legislature against Clevelandism. They did not give a great majority for the eleetond ticket to sanction a cabal against it in the federal chamber of states. They did not carry the senate for the Democratic party to pit it against the Democratic administration. They did not mean these diverse results.

They did not suspect them. The boast is they have been accomplished. Perhaps they have been if Tammany has broken to the hope the word of promise spoken to the ear. Of that wo do not know. It remains to be seen.

Perhaps these results have not been accomplished, if Kings county opposes them. In any event it is the duty of the Democratic people and press to make the Tammany and Kings county organizations feel and hear what is thought by the free voting rank and file. It is the duty of the national Democracy to utter its voice on a state situation of national import, as it did at Chicago. If party deliverance is to precede the national reforms to which administration freedom and primacy are necessary, Amen! The conflict was uninvited and unprovoked. It will not be feared.

Not a shade of personal feeling is chargeable to the Cleveland men. Mr. Hill had the option and opportunity of all Demoorats to meet the candidate and co operate with the national committee. He would do neither. He will do neither.

No man could have won more and commanded more by magnanimity. He showed neither it nor even any dissembling of personal hostility. Words of fealty just enough to drape an affidavit he spoke. The louder actions of the Chemung defection and of the Albany treachery and of the Murphy movement are heard above them. Not Aaron Burr was more hostile to Thomas Jeffeison.

Edward Murphy, has many likable traits. From the money backing of "Paddy" Ityan for his conquest of Goss and for his conquest by Sullivan, on through a successful devotion to cock fighting, this prosperous beer maker's gaming and sporting instincts have coincided with a personal manliness in the rough which his Hoffman house associations have organized much, fined a little and depressed not at all. There is no more reason for making him a senator than Til is Paper hiu the Largest Clrciila (lon of any Evening Paper Published in tlio ditited Slates. Its value as an Advertising: tlcdiuni ia therefore apparent. EsgJc Rranclt Office 01 Hertford Avenue, eur Fulton Street; 435 E'iftli Aveune.

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John A. Dix was variously nseribod to Suffolk county, Ms summer homo, and to New Tork city, his vrintpr residence. Daniel S. Dickinson came from Binghumton. They were both Democratic senators from this state at the same time.

They were the last "two at once." Thereafter the only Democrats in the Senate were Francis Kernan and David B. Hill. Kernan was chosen in 1875 long years after the Dix Dickinson period of "before the war." Hill was chosen in 1891, sixteen years after Kernan was chosen and ten after Ker nan's term ended. Hill is from Elmira, forty miles from Binghamton. The Eagle thinks his Democratic colleague should come from this end of the state.

From Brooklyn would be our preference; but from anywhere around here would "do." The argument for locality is a substantial one. It may be replied that when the Democrats chose Kernan of TJtica Conkliug lived also there. It is well known, however, why Kernan was chosen. He had been defeated for governor in 1872. Though no Democrat could have been elected in that Greeley political year of midsummer madness, Kernan ran far behind the ticket because he was a Catholic.

The blow of bigotry hurt the feelings of a powerful Democratic element. He was fitted to be senator. Tilden healed the hurt in the party by raising Mr. Kernan to the federal senate. Locality was overborne by that emergent consideration.

The next time the Democrats had two senatorial vacancies to meet, they nominated, though not in a majority, Kernan to be his own successor and Claikson X. Potter of New York city to be his colleague. The argument of locality had resumed its force. "Why it is a substantial one is plain. At this end of the state is the Democratic strength.

That strength should share federal honors with the country counties. Four fifths of the questions before the senate relate to commercial, tariff, manufacturing, linau cial and personal liberty and non interference matters. Those matters profoundly concern the Democracy, all of whose state majority centers in these cities. These cities are the traffic and money centers of this continent. They are the gates out of which the trade and travel of America go to the world and into which those of the world come to America.

Any senator's influence in the nation, whether he comes from Oregon, Ohio, Florida or Maine, is enhanced by his knowledge of New Xork city interests ami resources. The city is the heart of the Union. It sends the blm of opinion and principle through all the states as through so many veins ami arteries. For the Empire state not to allot one of her own senators to the metropolitan district of her greatest strength, need, intelligence and influence would be an act of folly and of wrong. The tariff is to be revised.

It must be done on New York city lines in many respects. The finances are to be rebased. That must be done on the lines of the financial center of the Union. Manufacturers are to have freer raw materials. New York is the chief manufacturing, as the chief commercial city of the republic.

Commerce is to be revived. Ivnv York is the center of seven eighths of the export and import trade of the land. The federal election laws are to be repealed. They bear more hardly on these cities than on any other places. The tendencies to interference with personal tastes and customs in law are to be clicked.

Now York is the home of the largest number of people anywhere in America menaced ami vexed by Biunptuary designs. The greatest test laid on the party will bo laid on its business abiiitv. The greatest need of the party is such ability. The gravest doubt of the country and the most confident accusation of the enemy are directed at such ability. New York city is the business focus, fountain, reservoir and mouth in one of America.

Not to choose a New Yorker senator would look like a confession of judgment against the cl.iims and i.roiriises and programme of the party. Plain words are best. Political reasons of a large kind concur with public reasons of the largest kind for the choice of a man from this ond of the state. Here is where the moral meaning of the election was impressed. Here was the start and here was the culmination of the movement that nominated Cleveland over the state machine.

In the country the party is a minority and the organization a paper one, in spirit a tyrant, in practice a jobber, an1 on representation a parody and a carica No artist with a bit of skill Need ever starve to detth: His case is never hopeless till Ho cannot draw his breath. SrocMyn Life. First sweet thing Ain't you typewriting for old Briefs any inoro? Second sweet thing No. He had some papers to make out about a partition suit one day last week, and just because I asked him if it was anything Uko a divided skirt he got mad and fired me. I don't care, though.

I'm going to get married just as soon as Willie Rets his salary raised, unyhow. Indianapolis Journal. "Mr. Turfman, wo have just boen waiting for you to give us some music." Mr. Turfman Really I don't know ono note from another.

"Now, don't be so modest, Fred said you played tho races beautifully." Chicago Inter Ocean. Mr. Gazzlcy There you go again, looking under the bed for a man. You've done it for years now, every night, and you haven't found him yet! Mrs. Gazzley (meekly) No: and you've gone out between the acts every time I've been to the theater with you for ten years to see a man.

and you haven't seen him yet Boston News. Young lady How much? Telegraph operator Twenty live cents. "For that one word 'yes' "Yos'm. Same price for ten words or less. You can repeat the 'yes' ten times if you wish." "Dm that wouldn't look well.

It's an answer to a proposal of marriage." A'eu) York Weekly. THE EAGLE'S REVELATION. Tho Press on the Traill About That ISistorical Sinner. There must be general satisfaction to the public in the unanimous testimony of the centlemen who participated in the little dinner of September 8, now mado famous by tho story of Mr. Cleveland's "damn." that there certainly was, on that occasion, no givinir of any pledges which would affect Mr.

Cleveland's course in the later eveut of his becoming President. Nobodj who knows Mr. Cleveland, or who has watched him in his public careor, over believed that he would irive unbecoming pledgros to any man as to what he would do in office. But when there has been oven so much as a breath of sub gestion recarding a demand for ante eleotioa promises to any man, or any organization of men. it is tho best way to have the suggestion stamped upon at once.

Many guests, of as many political predilections, agree in the vital point of the denials about the proceedings at the dinner of the alleged "damn." How they may differ about other dotails, it does not matter. The pledge issue should bo regarded as settled to the satisfaction of tho most jealous watcher of public interests. New York World. No Pledges. It now appears that Mr.

Cleveland will go into his great office uncommitted by promises of any kind other than those inferred promises which follow tho acceptance of a party nomination and of the platform adopted by the party. Mr. Cleveland still sticks to his idea that a public office is a public trust, and he will govern himself accordingly Philadelphia Eecora fjnd. Try in? to Sneer Off. There fere representatives of the anti snappers at that famous dinner, and it is possible that these gentlemen emphasized their intention, if Cleveland failed to carry New York, to charge tho regular Democracy with knifing the tioket and by that charge to kiU the regular organization in future campaigns.

As Mr. Cleveland has never identified himself with the anti snappers he could not have spoken for them, nor could he have indorsed whatever their representatives might have said. New York Correspondence of Troy Press To Do As 13 Pleases. The Brooklyn Eaqle solemnly doclnres that Grover Cleveland made no promises to Tammany, or to any of the individuals who were at the memorable dinner at the Victoria hoteL It adds that ho is free from all such complications and is in a position to do as he pleases. So the Tammany braves and the anti snappers will have to gather in a circle at a respectful distance from the presidential table and vie with one another for possession of tho crumbs of patronage.

Tammany will not mind, but how humiliating for tho mugwumps. Tray Times Mr. Shearman Agrain. "There is no question," said Mr. Shearman to me yesterday, "that a deliberate attempt was made at the Victoria hotel dinner to force Mr.

Cleveland into making promises aud concessions to the machine bosses which would have been very embarrassing to him his administration. There is no doubt such was the case." "But Mr. Croker denies it." "I never said or claimed that Mr. Croker tried to got pledgos from Mr. Clevoland.

It wa3 Lieu tenaut Governor Sheehan." "Weil, Mr. Croker and Mr. Murphy declare positively that Lieutenant Governor Sheehan nover asked anything of the sort, and thoy were both present at the dinner." Mr. Shearman pulled at his beard nervously a moment before replying as follows: "It is not to be wondered at that these gentlemen desire to shield their friend and got him out of the unpleasant aud ridiculous position in which this expose has placed him. I do not blame them, but they must not blame me either.

I did not make a fool of Mr. Sheehan. "I got my information from several independent sources, the reliability of no one of which cau ue nuesuoneu. vnue I was put under no bonds of secrecy regarding the facts themselves I was mado to promise that I would not divulge the names of my informants. But, see here, I am not tho only person who knows that what I said in my speech is true.

The editor of the Bbook i.t. Eagle knows it, and so, I judge, does Murat Halstead. What I affirmed is an open secret among leading Democratic politicians, who bad known the facts for weeks, inst as I had, but did not feel at liberty to speak until the ice was broken by the Bbookltn" Eaole." "Is it true, Mr. Shearman, that a letter was written to Mr. Cleveland by some of the Democratic managers telling him that he could not be elected unless he would pledge himself to them to do certain "Certainly that is true.

The letter was written before the dinner at the Victoria hotel, as I knew perfectly well when I addressed the Single Tax club, although Murat Halstea seems to think that I did not. "Mr. Cleveland immediately replied that he fully appreciated the force of what they had stated and would at once proceed to tender to the Democratic committee his resignation, which would allow them so select someono disposed to promise and pledge whatevor they wanted, a thing which ho regretted his inability to do. Of course that letter completely floored the machino bosses, who had to swallow their mortification and disappointment as boat they could." A'eio York Herald. ttatiuSles Every Democrat.

In a doublo leaded article that reads as if it were based on authentic information the Bhook lyn Eaolk declares that at tho famous Victoria hotel banquet Mr. Cleveland absolutely refused to make a pledge that bo would recounizo one political element more than another in tho event of his election. The Eagle says: All Democrats, regular, machine, anti snapper and independent in this state will stau 1 equal iu right and claim under tho now administration. 1 lie President elect owes his nomination to tho anti snappers alone. His victory in this state was equally due to all the party.

His election in nothing whatever depended on this state at nil. New lurk wis "in it." but not necessarily "in it." Iho people resolved for once not to have' to stake success on New Vork stale. These facts render Mr. Cleveland's freedom of situation as complete his troeiloni from promises or coinTiiitmeutK is absolute. All will have to take theircbances nuder good government, and there will bo monopoly of chances for No good Democrat can find fault with that arrangement.

Rochester Herald ITJr. Cleveland's Promises. The editorial columns of tho Brooklyn Eagle are frequently very interesting reading. It is one of the fow Democratic papers that indulges in independence at times, and in two column editorials and italics when it wants to bo impressive. Wbilo everybody is wondering how Mr.

Cleveland will reward the services of Tammany, where tho anti snappers will stand in his administration, the Brooklyn Eagle's words aro worth noting. Founhkeenste Eaalc Will WANTS XUIIPUT. The strength as well as the wekness of tho Murphy outfit is Senator Hill. Hill is not generally liked even by those who havo so devotedly ollowed his flag. His motive in deserting Murphy as his colleague is perfectly understood.

He wants a junior sonator who wiU be by moral tendencies, factional feeling and intellectual limitations naturally his follower. He wants no one Record Captain Irving, after thirty years of service with his company, has been permanently relieved of duty, his place on the Teutonic being filled by a detail from the Germanic. No general charges of deficiency as a commander having been preferred which indeed would scarcely be looked for in view of his term of successful duty and of his standing among Transatlantic passengers tho assumed explanation is the desire of the White Star tnanagers to discourage record breaking. Captain Irving is not solitary in this practice. He has companions in plenty.

All the familiar ships have for years been doing their best to make time. The tendency has affected not only the newer greyhounds, but also the older vessels. For months the Aura nia and the Alaska, not now known as flyers, actually raced across the ocean, starting almost simultaneously and coming out of the run astonishingly near together. A race in sight of each other lias a more suggestive and audacious sound than making a record, but of course there is no substantial difference in the ventures. In either case each ship tries to do her best, and passengers on the Cunarder or tho Guionite were equally safe.

The fact, nevertheless, illustrates a tendency. It has been accounted for partly by postal customs, mail contracts falling to the craft making the best averages. Broader business considerations are probably even more influential. Advertisement is always good, and speed is an excellent advertisement. At all events the practice is exemplified by the fact that one line which had uniformly boasted that safety was its first aim, while celerity was a subordinate object, almost openly announced a modification of policy by building big vessels and ordering the captains to "hurry up." The blame for later customs, so far as blame exists, has been sometimes shifted to the shoulders of passengers.

Travelers wanted to beat the record and acquired the habit, when buying European tickets, of going to "broom carrying" offices. Ship owners felt that they must compete with their rivals in all respects. So we used to be told, in tho days of steamboat racing on the Mississippi, when the tedium of the voyage was relieved every now and then by the explosion of a boiler, that there always was a plenty of passengers to volunteer to "sit on the safety valve" and help tear down the upper works for fuel whenever the emergency of beating the opposition arose. There may have been ground for the assertion in either case. Men betting on the run were anxious to win, even if there was risk of coming against an iceberg in the fog.

But these enthusiasts, while making more noise, are, perhaps, few in number, and the majority of sea voyagers prefer comfort and security. If Captain Irving is relieved on this ground there are other commanders who may well be impressed by the fact. All of them are ready enough to break records their own, if it is the highest. Nevertheless, if the White Star owners are leading the way in reform they should not be discouraged. There is a strong force of conservatives who will approve the measure.

PERSONAL MENTION. There is a victnetto of General W. T. Sherman on the new 500 treasury notes which have just been issued. G.

Blaino is confined to his house in Washington by a cold which he contracted on Miss Meta L. Cowlcs of Greoae, Chenango county, was admitted to the bar as an attorney anu counselor at law at tne examination hold in Syracuse. President Elect Cleveland with his familv will leave New York tor tho country next week, and the dinner which the Reform club intended to Kive him on December 5 will bo postponed till ms return. The eneaeremont of Miss Flora Davis, daue hter of John H. Davis of New Vork, to Lord Terence Blaekword, son of Lord Pufferin, British minister to France, is announced.

Henry White. United States secretary of leca tion in London, gave a dinner to Sir William nareourt and the American delegates to the monetary cenfereneo in Brussels. RECENT EVENTS. George Washington Post, a confederate of "Bunco" O'Brien, was convicted of burglary in the tlrst degree in Albany. The Appleton cabinet, at Amherst colleao.

which contains tho Audubon collection ol birds, was badly damaged by the storm yesterday and many of tho stuffed specimens injured. The New York state association of Gchool superintendents deoided to ask for 200,000 square feet of floor space for the national exhibit at tho world fair. The grand jury, which it investigating tho Borden murders, visited tho house in Fall River where they were done. A curiously carved stono urn was found in the hills near Hancock. N.

Y. A slight increase in wajros was given to the striking telegraph operators on tho Baltimore and Ohio railroad. It is thought that James A. Cunningham of Hanover, whoso body was found on tho railroad track, was murdered. Hugo Hoffmann, druggist of Libau, wag killed by the explosion of a retort of benzine.

William Scaniou, years old, was arrested in Boston, charged with stealing in sugar certificates from Lee. Higgiuson fc bankers. The Itcv. Dr. James C.

Clutterbuek. a clergyman of the Episcopal church, who was sentenced a year ago to four years' imprisonment for obtaining money under faiso pretenses, has died in the Portland prison, England. One man was killed and thirteen were injured in a railroad wreck near Kingman, Ariz. A number of women are delegates to the convention of locomotive engineers at Columbus, O. A field covered with waste oil caught flro at Washington, and is burning fiercely.

Counterfeit $10 gold pieces are in circulation in tSpokaue, Wash. The carpet manufacturers of Lowell decided to increase tho wages of their employes 7 per cent, on December 5. POLITICAL POINTS. A new Republican paper, called the Tribune, is to be started hi Cincinnati. A new aspirant for cabinet honors comes from Brooklyn.

The Kius county Leaiocrats think they have done well for the party so often that they think ir is about time they ot one of tho hit piunis at the capital. As the navy yard is stili at the old stand, it is the opinion "of many that ex Congressman Felix Campbell would just lit into tho place Secretary of the Navy Ji. F. Tracy will leave next March. Husrh McLaughlin has all been the steady friend of Mr.

Cleveland's interests and it is "thought if tho boss will oniy ursco tho President oioct, the oomtnissiun for Jlr. Campbell is as good as made out. Baltimore Sun (l)t Boston Democrats renominated Mayor Nathan Matthews. A. C.

Chapin, the great American salary grabber, tho man who takes everything from the public and renders no service, lias resigned the seat in congress which he might have hold until next March. But bo is still a railroad commissioner drawing S.000 a year from the state treasury, lie conies to Albany once a month and draws his salary, oj do the other commissioners, W. C. Hudson, the secretary of the commission, doing all its work, for which ho receives a comparatively small salarv. Albany Sxprcss Governor Flower has appointed Colonel Frederick Phisterer assistant adjutant general to succeed Colonel John S.

MeEwun, resigned. Wo gather from those great victories that when they are won by tho Democrats thoy point to the continued power of that party. When they are Cleveland's Speech. The speech of Grover Cleveland on Thursday night, which was published in Friday's Eagle, can advisedly be called great. The greatness is that of the character of the man and that of his faith in the people, especially in the Democratic people.

"VVe take that speech as a measuring rod of the duties which will come to him and of the opportunities to do good to his country in the presidency. The result justifies belief in the extension of civil service reform rules to the service of every department of the government in every branch of employment to which they can be applied. It justifies the belief that in all purely political employments, essential to the policy which the people have appointed a party to carry out, only Democrats of competency, character and specific fitness will be selected, in so far as those qualifications can be ascertained. It justifies the belief that men or organizations that purposely deceive the appointing power in these respects once will never have the chance to deceive it twice. It justifies the belief that the administration will challenge the enmity and seek to reduce or end the reign of rapacious and reactionary influences in the party.

It justifies other beliefs, but these will suffice for to day. All of them will work out toward act and fact in what we hope will be the best administration in the annals of American peace. Criticism and Inquiry Should be Welcomed. President Lewis is right in a sense. There are several hundred stockholders of the Brooklyn City Railroad company.

They do choose thirteen directors. Tho directors do act for them. Sofarsotrue: but it is not the case that the stockholders and the public should not, when grave events are under waj among tho directors, receive all the information possible or right to give. There are 444 national directors called representatives and senators. There are about 15,000,000 national stockholders called voters.

They are very in sistant on the right of publicity of procedure on the part of their directors and they get it. Beside, the railroad companies are public corporations chartered by law. Their charters are repealable by law. They are forfeitable for abuse or non use of trusts or conditions. They take up the public thoroughfares.

They are permitted a monopoly as public carriers. They are allowed to charge the people for being carried on the people's own streets. The theory that they are private affairs, like a four hand game of whist, is pleasant, but not even plausible. There will always be inquiry and curiosity about public corporations. The larger they are the more inquiry there will be.

The less communicative they are the more the curiosity will be. Candor aud communicativeness will be found best in all respects. Moreover, there will always be criticism. This is in the nature of things, to start with. Criticism and agitation are the laws of the health of public interests.

Public interests are involved in public corporations. The laws of criticism and agitation apply to them there. Especially will this be so when a corporation is as extensive and as nggrassive as that of the Brooklyn City railroad, and when the con cerns with which some of those in charge of it are connected do business with the road itself in a variety of matters. There will bo criticism, inquiry and difference of opinion. There ought to be.

The fact should be relished and not resented, for it is a fact which operates as a safety valve for all forms of incorporated energy and which eventually produces that public satisfaction which is tho security of the tenure of corpo rated power on public franchises. Those who jump about, among whom is not Mr. Lewis, like a hen with her head off, under the very idea of criticism or inquiry, are funny, but not wise. They may unintentionally incite what they repel just for the amusement of seeing them jump. If everything is all right, there is no occasion for them to jump.

If not, they ought to be too good actors to jump. Jumping is not their forte. The net result of inquiry stirred by recent events is favorable to President Lewis' management. The directors uphold it and him. The stock of the road "booms." The service improves and extends.

The highest praise Is not withheld from him by his associates. This is as pleasant to the press to say as to him to know. It could not be assuredly said and known but for the very disenssion to which objection is mistakenly made. Incidents of removal and discharge and of change of hands in control of affiliated corporations are legitimate and inevitable subjects of discussion. The more discussion there is, the larger the volume of approval will be of what is found to be right.

Such an effect should be desired. What causes or may cause it should bo welcomed, not disrelished. The people are a good partner and a helpful confidant. They could even make the relations of the road with sueh political brigands as would prey upon it easier and less extravagant than precedents in other cities warrant the theory thnt they are here. Vcstcrdaj'j Storm, So long as the currents of air sire affected by sudden changes of temperature there will be such wind storms as visited this city yesterday.

Sometimes they will blow down buildings and destroy lives, and sometimes they will do nothing worse than tear awnings into ribbons aud pull down telegraph wires. Tho amount of damage done will depend largely upon the con dition of the structures exposed to the violence of the gale. The building which toppled over in South Brooklyn bruising three men and three children was frame and unfinished. It was not intended for a wind breaker when it was completed, and in its in coiupletion it did not serve as one. The injured men deserve considerable credit for attempting to save the property of their employer.

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All newsdealers and THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS CO NEW TOEK. Finally the Amalgamated association reached the end of its tether. Its violence has been unavailing. Its tyranny has borne bitter fruit to its members. It passes from the stage reminiscent of a foul conspiracy formed for sordid and ignoble ends.

Its ringleaders have in vain brought suffering and punishment on themselves and their colleagues. Their failure could not be made more signal if all the elements of adverse fate had purposely united for their undoing. While the strike is practically over the sequel is to come. The men who have conspired against law and order are criminals. They must be punished.

Murder is murder, whether committed at Homestead or elsewhere. Arson is arson in one section or an another. Treason is treason, no matter at what state its shafts be aimed. The agitators of July should be taught a lasting lesson. The apostles of bloodshed and confiscation should receive a decisive warning.

Once for all a few things should bo definitely settled! Every man has a right to take work when he can get it. Every man has a right to leave work, on proper notice, if so disposed. No man has a right to interfere with the right of others to work. The employer is entitled to engage or dispense with whom he pleases. The moment a place is vacated it belongs to him alone.

The attempt of the man who has discharged himself to kill the man who applies for the vacant place has its motive in murder and should be punished by the gallows or prison. Enforcement of these truths should, when necessary, be sustained by the whole power of the state or nation. Of the ringleaders at Homestead an impressive exam pie should be made. Their misguided victims have sustained the principal share of the suf fering. It is their turn now.

IVever Too Laic to 3Ecitd. The pressing need of Republican reorganization has at last made an impression. To night a committee of the regular machine central body will resume consideration of the problem. All agree that something must be done. Whether it should have been dotu before Is not now, perhaps, worth inauiring.

YA Ul history, so far as the Republican politicians are concerned, repeat itself? If not they must make up their minds to accept the inevitable. Public opinion has decreed a radical change not only of methods, but of men. Something beside the breaking of tho machine has happened. Tho engineers are discredited and disqualified. While Collector Nathan has been most forcibly repudiated he is not without company in his misery.

While the Republican voters of the city have decreed his retirement as a "boss" they have demanded, with equal emphasis, the withdrawal of Mr. Willis and others of his opponents. They have, moreover, served notice that they will not be "bossed" by any individual or oligarchy that can be selected. Consideration, therefore, of Mr. Worth or Mr.

Nichols or any other party manager as a supreme leader is a there is for making him a cardinal. The motive is not bottomed on qualifications for the office, or on the idea of its congeniality to him. It is bottomed on tlie design of having the present senator count two against Cleveland where now he counts one. If Richard Croker, through the subordination of public reasons and party reasons to personal attachment, sanctions and assists the conspiracy of the state machine, the Brooklyn delegation at least should not follow him, merely from a habit of co operation or from a fear of being beaten or for such ineffably re tail pay ns the assembly speakership. The honor rank and the honor opportunity of this county in Democracy should not so be squandered.

Brooklyn has no candidate, although she has plenty of men who would adorn the office. Before such a phase of the case is the case itself, the qualifications for the office, the desirability of an administration and not of an anti administration senator, the meaning of the state machine's Murphy movement and the effects of derangement and alienation liable to follow its success. The new administration was not elected by the casting vote of New York. It can afford to do without it. Can the party in New York afford the results of separating both its senatorships from sympathy with the administration? Cau the state machine survive such a victory as it insists on? Time remains in which both the party and the machine can wisely ponder all the conditions and consequences.

IWr. Chapin. Alfred C. Chapin retained his office as cnnirress mau alter appointment rnilmad eouimis inii'" r. ovinc to the sairdl niaiority possessed by the IVmo.

ralie party in the house of rcpresenta I iJi ji'itlo Courier Small majority? ir0' What doe the Courier consi'ler a lnrKe majority, anyhow? Lockport Sun Ulitl I The ('i)'irier probably meant the sniidl ma jority within the Democratic list of congressmen against the since floored heresy of free silver. Mr Chapin acted on the best judgment of the friends of honest money in not resigning while that question was pending. He did intend to resign in time to enable a special election to be held in his district, this month, but the intention was rendered nugatory bv not takincr full form until it ils too I lnte nw tn orrler Kileb sneeinl elnetir.n Tito delay was an unmeant error, due to overtrained policy. The area of misformation about Mr. Chapin extends, every time any paper speaks of him as a candidate for United States senator in reserve or in the open or in any way.

He retired from the house simply because congres.