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Wall Street Yesterday.?The stock
market was excited, and, under the leader
ship of Western Union, advanced from 1-3
to 2 3-8 percent. Gold advanced from 112
to 112 1-8. Money on call was supplied tit
2 1-2 and 3 per cent. Government and rail
way bonds were steady. Foreign exchange
firm. ?
Kelly's Victory over Tilden reminds us
of his victory over Jones for Register and
llackett for Recorder.
The Latest Bond Foboers are in a good
way of going to tho Penitentiary. The evi
dence adduced yesterday show s that the
rogues succeeded in victimizing several trust
ing people, and will probably secure the
forgers a safe retreat for some years.
Oub English Cousins do not think very
highly of the Cincinnati nomination. They
want to know "Who is Mr. Hayes?" and de
clare that his principal "merit is that he is
almost unknown," which, in their matter-of- i
fact way, they consider a poor recommendrv- ?
tion for tho office of President of theso United
States.
We Cohobatclate the Honorable John
Morrissey ! Now is the time for the Honor
able John to take possession of Tammany j
and lead the reform movement.
When Lord Derby asks America to
guarantee the right of asylum by a treaty he
is in the position of tho gentleman who,
when asking another to be his guest,
"stipulates" that the guest will not carry oft'
the silverware. Between governments like
America and England something should be
taken for granted, and one thing especially?
that the right of asylum is sacred.
Thebb is No Disciplinabias so severe as
tbe convert or the recent ally. One would
think, to see how Littlejohn and Dorsheimer
lying around the St. Louis Convention,
preaching "democracy" and "discipline,"
tiiey had been democrats all their lives. On
the contrary, they are frosh from the repub
lican lines, and have not yet worn out their
r?publican uniforms.
The Fibs Fiend.?Hunter's Point was
yiaterday the scene of a destructive lire,
vhich *t ono time threatened to lay the
v hole plaoe in ruins. Fortunately the Long
Island City Fire Department proved equal
to tbe occasion, and by dint of hard work
a icoeeded in subduing the flames, not,
however, before several important establish
ment* were destroyed and damage estimated
at MM buudred thousand dollars had been
d<n? to ths town.
Wu Conobatti ate Hon. Do Witt C. Little- t
J ami He will have abundaut opportunity to
ft aSghten up the aff.uis of the Oswego and
M dland Bail road without tho disturbing in
tfueaoe of the c:uivu.it.
Bowonim* Hvxsiuxi asd Ex-msic.?The
putronagft of the lacrosse players by the
l/ue?B shows on th? part of Her Majesty an
intelligent appreciation of the value of these
1.. nly sport*. Whoever contributes an inno
c* ??? out-of-door amusement to a people is
r re of a benefactor tbau ho who organizes
ail amy. "This is wherii we won tho battle
i?( WatrrluO," said the Duke of Wellington.
}? k:n?; at the Eton boys in a cricket held.
V a( an unment.* advantage baso ball has
!<? m to our own country ! \\ hile the passion
fur it lasted every village had its club and
imj stripling wu running his bases. La
ci ??* ia in this family of gamee?the family
wl ?eh inelndee polo, cricket, l?se ball, and
an. U u a gauie well known in Canada,
bi.t new t ? England, ller Majesty shows
vi<*k>as iaappiwiug >'?
?a Coaourtun tub Comximity upon
the conviction of "Dr." Foot* lor sending
?ioceoe works through the mails. We hope
the Judge will rnakj an example of Dr.
I -ola. Knave* who live by polluting the
si'adaef the rising generation deserve the
MTMHt jHMfehatt
m? Ocvaracr
tfcnrernnr Tilden *m nominated yesterday
nb lli? aet*??nd Ullitl thr lei.??*,r?tie can
didal*- f??r the 1'rtM'liUi y a rwalt fore
shadowed by the tlnfk of ?entiment at St.
!<?r lb* tut two iUyl The Tilden
I ?-??vmm hkd b><D ao complete and so
adfrtly in it bad been conducted
witb an Biu< b quiet efficiency and such
<x?tiruminat* skill for uiuntba previous
in tbe meeting of the Convention,
that tbe l? aft si. rt and leas dexterous can
didal'* bad no rliance when tbe battle
r?|?ei?? L V bat ever elae nniy be said or
thought of Mr. Tiidin, it must be conceded
by frienda and enemies alike, conceded by
detanerata and republican* alike, that he
has pum-d himself one of the ablest and
?o?t antate manager* tliat have ever ap
peared it? tbe politics of this country. Apart
front bis mrn ?<>ud> rtul address and activity
bin chances f>r this high honor were very
?Under. He bad never held an impor
tant office until be was elected Governor
of New York, less than two years
ago. He has never been in Congress; he
baa never ht ld a position of trust under the
federal government; he has never had an
opportunity to nutke himself conspicuous
in national affairs; he lacks the experience
at the federal capital which Thurman,
Itayard and Hendricks have bad opportuni
ties to acquire; and yet. by the sheer force
of his abilities, by his extraordinary capacity
for politica, he haa ochpaed them all in the
estimation of bia own party, and ia selected
by the Democratic National Convention as its
fittest staudard bearer in an election of great
importance. The aelection of a citir.en of
his limited experience in official lite aud
total lack of rxperienoo in federal affairs
over the heads of so many democratic states
men who have had superior facilities for
making a national reputation ia a tribute to
hia character and capacity of which
lie may be justly proud, whether he
wins in the Presidential race or
nob As he is a citizen of oar own 8tate and
an esteemed fellow townsuiau. we have too |
much local pride to be indifferent to his
brilliant success at hit. Louis, and we offer
him our sincere congratulations.
Governor Tilden's nomination U not, how
ever, ecjniviilent to an election, tor this
Presidential election is to be one of the
most vigorous and most closely contested
that has ever taken place in the history of
the conntry. The result is ho doubtful
that the canvass will have all the interest of
a game in which the skill of the players
keeps the judgment of the spectators in sus
pense. The chances are so doubtful that
public expectation will be kept on the qui
vive throughout. It is safe to say that we are
entering on one of the most interesting, vig
orously contested and doubtful Presidential
contests that have ever taken place since the
organization of the government.
in estimating Mr. Tilden's strength as a
candidate we will put Now York aside until
we have weighod his chances in other
States. To be sure New York is the
grand pivot of the canvass, for if Tilden
should fail to carry this State he has no
chance of an election ; but we prefer, to con
sider the efleet of his nomination in other
States l?efore coining to the main point on
which the election will turn. Outside of
New York, in the country at large, Tilden is
undoubtedly the strongest and most popular
nomination the democratic party could have
made. A conclusive proof of this is the
tactics adopted by his opponents at St.
?,onis. The sole ground on which they rested
their opposition was his alleged inability to
carry New'York. Now, he may carry New
York or he may not; the chances are very
doubtful, with perhaps a preponderance
against him, but the form taken by the
opposition to him at St. Louis was a conces
sion by his opponents thut he is the strongest
democratic candidate elsewhere, taking the
country as a whole.
But any estimate of chances from which
New York is excluded is like the play of
"Hamlet" with the part of Hamlet left
out The Presidential election will bo
decided by the electoral votes of the Empire
State, and Governor Tilden will have a hard
battle to fight here against powerful and for
midable adversaries. If he wins in this
State he wins everything; if he loses this
State he loses all. W ith his own party di
vided and his republican adversaries thor
oughly united, with the whole influence of ,
the federal patronage exerted against him, .
and the discouraging effect of probable re- j
publican victories in the October States, be
enters upon an unequal contest, and noth
ing but his remarkable ability as a political
strategist can give him the victory against
such odds.
But whether Tilden wins the election or
loses it the country has reason to congratu
late itself on the result at St. Louis. Ihe
vote on the platform, which immediately
preceded the first ballot, was a sure augury
of the nomination * of Tilden, and
it was so splendid ?' victory for
sound ideas on the currency that
a ureat and depressing load of anxiety is
lifted from honest men and true patriots.
We heartily congratulate the couutry on the
tact that both of our great political parties
*ro sound on vital questions. We
give no credit to the manipulators
and wirepullers of cither party for
this reassuring result; the whole praise
belongs to the people. If the dema
gogues could have seen their way clear to
success by indorsing inflation or repudia
tion they would have had no scruples; but
they were conscious that they were sub- j
mitting views for popular indorsement, and
the fact that both parties felt compelled to
aet on the presumption that tue people are
honest, on the presumption that the people
would vote down any platform or set of candi
dates who were not sound on questions
affecting the national honor, is a signal proof
that the great body of our citizens of both
parties are thought by those who have the
deepest interest in studying their senti
ments to be immovably upright on the
vital questions of our initios. >Ve
rejoice that both parties have this j
wholeaome fear of public sentiment. We
rejoice that the best judges of popular
seutinient in both parties agree in the con
viction that any attempt to acquire political
power by pandering to the wishes ot dis
honest men would lead to defeat and dis
grace. With such principles as have been I
announced by the two national conventions
the country ia safe, whichever party suc
ceeds. Both parties have bound themselves
by u formal, solemn pledge to ronton* n
sound and honest currency at the earliest
period when it can be done without a sud
den shook and violent derangement of
| business, and we have no doubt that either
| Pftrty, if successful in the election, will
I attempt to keep the pledge. Our confi
| dence is not founded on the virtue of party
leaders, which would be a frail reliance,
but on the recognition by both parties that
thin is the will of the people. Politicians
are mere tenants of the offices they may
gain, and their consciousness that no party
can stand in this country which does
not conform to the general sentiment
in favor of sound finance and honest
. administration is a hopeful and assuring
| sign of the times. We recognize the great
service the St. Louis Convention has done in
relieving the public mind from solicitude
respecting the cardinal principles on which
the government ought to be administered.
It is a great relief to feel that this Presi
dential contest is a mere trial of party
strength and rivalry of personal ambitions,
and that whether Hayes is elected or Tilden
is elected the country is equally sure
that the government will be adminis
tered on honest principles. No great
i public interest will be endangered
by the success of either candidate. "We
| may, therefore, dismiss anxiety and ap
prehension, and look upon this interesting
i canvass as a harmless struggle between two
equally patriotic parties fdr public favor and
approval. We shall have an honest Presi
dent, a safe administration and a steady
progress toward specie payments and busi
ness prosperity, whether Governor Hayes or
Governor Tilden carries off the honors of the
canvass.
Wr Conoratulat* Ron. John Kelly 1 To
the Boss, more than to any other man in the
State, Uncle 8amray owes his nomination.
We hope some of Kelly's friends will bring
him home on a special cor, well provided
with cooling drinks nnd sedatives.
Amnesty to Communist*.
President MacM.ihon has exercised Execu
tive clemency in the case of some eighty
seven prisoners of the Commune. This act
will do something to calm the fervor of
political agitation among the friends cf the
prisoners, and it is to be regretted that the
President-Marshal did not go a step further
in the road of x'econciliation and make the
amnesty general. Prosecution on account
of participation in the Communist insurrec
tion is to cease, and with the end of
vindictive proceedings on the part of
the government it is to be hoped
that the anger and desire for revenge on
tho part of the Communist radicals may
also disappear. Prance now controls
her own destinies, and those who
desire the continuance of the re
publican form of government cannot do
better than prove their Atnesa for self
government by displaying intelligent mod
eration. A certain class of theorists pretend
to cur? all the evils of hnmonity by the
application of a favorite form of govern
ment, but the experience of free peoples
in nil ages shows conclusively that
misery and vice are inseparable from htfutan
society, whatever form of government it may
adopt. If the French radical republicans
would only keep this fact in mind it would
preserve them from many serious blunders,
and would facilitate the extension of a per
fect amnesty to their comrades who expiate
in prison their rebellion against society and
government.
Wi Congratulate Hon. Erastus Brooks!
Hia editorials supporting Tilden will com
mand the resources of his experienced in
tellect*
Afbaid or the Light.?Sir Stafford North
cote said in the House of Commons on Tues
day evening that the British government
deprecated-any discussion of the question of
extradition. The reason ia that the discus
sion would show that Mr. Cross and Lord
Derby have forced England into a false po
sition; that they have entirely misconstrued
the question; that upon a mere suspicion
and in the interest of large commercial
houses in England who are believed to have
knowledge of the defrauding of the reve
nues, they wantonly destroyed a useful and
beneficent treaty. This is our conclusion
after a careful reading of the English Blue
Book. If the English government is at
tacked on this treaty it cannot hold its
ground. Tho common sense of both nations
looks upon the disruption of this treaty as n
calamity. We do not want our shores to be
come the asylain for English murderers and
thieves. The English feel the same way
about our criminals. In sacrificing this
treaty Lord Derby made a grievous blunder.
No wonder his government deprecates any !
discussion. If Lord llartingtou is wiao h?
will force it.
We Congratulate Peter li. Sweeny!
Peter B. can pursue those :esthetia studies j
which he has found so fascinating in his
Paris life. He is said to lutve two millions '
of dollars, which it would l?? well to have
transferred into French and English aecuri- .
ties.
Cabinet Changes.?There is a general but
erroneous imprehsion that President Grunt I
has made an extraordinary number of 1
changes in his Cabinet. Leaving out of the
reckoning the original appointments, he ha* j
made but fourteen chang*** in nearly eight
years. Mr. Lincoln made seven changes in
four years ; General Jackson made thirteen
in eight yeurs; General Washington eleven ia
his eight years; Mr. Jefferson ten ; Mr.
Madison eleven; Fillmore made ten in his |
four years' administration, and Tyler seven
teen. It thus appears that the Cabinet of
General Grant has had al>ont th?- usual
stability. Mr. Fish, Mr. S?ward. Mr.
Madison and Mr. John l^niney Adams are
the only Secretaries of State who served
through eight years. Mr. Monroe made
fewer Cabinet changcs th.in any other Presi- i
dent, only three in eight years.
We Congratu late William Henry Hurl
bert ! He can throw all the brilliancy of his
genius into the canvasa as editor of the
World and lead the way for reform.
Th* War Cl*a< la the Bait
From the decided tone of oar special de- j
sp ?<-h.-s it im evident that a few days at j
ntmoKt will witness the opening of hoa
tilitic- Uetwe n Set via and Turkey. It
aeeans ont of the power of the SerruM
to withdraw now, and the three Em
j pires, with England and France, have
apparently resolved to view the open
? ing of the contest merely as spectators,
deeply interested ones it is true, and, with
the exception of Prance, each wishing for j
the moment when a sodden blow might be I
delivered on the favored side. It is u curious i
fact in this quarrel that not one of the pos- j
sible contestants among the great Powers |
has any sympathy with the tottering |
Ottoman Empire, yet England may soon be
found fighting on its side from the hard- |
motives of her policy as an Asiatic Power. ]
If Russia takes, sides in the field against
Turkey it will be partly from sympathy and j
largely in pursuit of material gains both in
Earope and Asia. It will be so difficult ior 1
Austria to take part against the fighting
Christians, and so dangerous for her to move
at all unless on an understanding with Ger
many and Russia that the single temptation
of England will not avail to place her on the
side of Turkey. With Germany alone her j
pact would resemble that of the lamb with
the wolf, and a pact with Russia alone would
scarcely compensate for the danger that
would threaten her in the German provinces
of the Empire. The exigencies of her posi
tion would, therefore, tend to keep her
neutral unless she could come to an un- ,
demanding with both Germany and Russia.
It remains to be Been what tension the pres
ent friendliness between the Czar and the ;
Northern Kaiser will bear. What England
can do to detach the Teuton from tli*- Musco
vite will be done. A whisper of an under
standing between Disraeli and BUinarck
came to us last Sunday from Paris. That
this has effected more than a promise of n?a- j
trality on the part of Germany and her good
offioeB in the kazue direction with Russia ,
during a war between Turkey and the Prin
cipalities is not now apparent. If this j
understanding has been reached it is ob- j
vious that a similar pledge has been ex- ?
tracted from England. The neutrality, |
therefore, of all the great Powers seems as
sured for the present.
Since the struggle of Greece for her inde
pendence fifty years ago no comparatively
small war has attracted the absorbing atten
tion which all Europe will bestow upon the
Slavs of the Dannbian Principalities striking
against Mohammedan thraldom. It is on the
part of the Servians d war of ideas?the ideas
of race, religion and country against a Power j
that, despite four centuries of sway, has re- j
mained a foe and an alien. They cannot |
fail in their struggle to attract the sympa
thies of all Christendom, and not a single
sentimental regret would follow their final
victory over the debased and debasing Power j
that overthrew the remnant of the Byzan
tine Empire. The question of the ultimate
direction of the struggle is so crossed and
barred with selfish interests, in which all
the Powers have their share, that it is not
likely the end will come without a contest
that may shake down many a Power beside
Turkey.
Wk Congratulate Hon. Horatio Sey
mour ! He was not compelled to acoept the
painfal duty of resigning the nomination.
Now that the Presidency is off his mind he
can give his whole attention to our domestic
fisheries and agricultural pursuits.
"The Right op Asylum."?When England
wanted the famous Bank of England forgers
Spain gave them up. Yet there was no
treaty of extradition between England and
Spain. Nor did America interfere, although
Mr. Fish might have said, that in the ab
sence of a treaty stipulation to the contrary,
every citizen was entitled to the fullest right
of asylum. But, as was well said at the
time, the Bank of England was the prose
cutor, and the bank showed that her power
could go over the earth. This right of asy
lum business is utter quackery; It might
be discussed with Turkey or China, but not
with an enlightened Power, because every
enlightened Power accepts it. Spain did
right to give up the Bank of England
forgers, and Mr. Fish did right to consent
to the surrender. Yet if Mr. Cross had been
Home Secretary the forgers would have es
caped, under his foolish sensitiveness about
the right of asylum.
We Coxor.ATPLATE Hon. William Allen t
He can enjoy the repose he has so richly
earned in a long and useful life and tell
stories about his smoking corncob pipes
with Andrew Jackson.
The Bioht to Iva???In the Bet-order's '
Court a young man nnmed Kccnnn was yes
terday tried on the charge of manslaughter, !
he having stabbed one Bichard Bell during
a brawl provoked b; the latter. Tho accused !
admitted the killing, but claimed that he j
was justified because he had been llrst '
attacked. Kjerpt that the deceased man i
had made some insulting remarks to |
Kecnan's wife the fight between the men wan
an ordinary row. The jury took a lenient
view of the killing and acquitted the prisoner, i
From this derision Recorder Hackett felt j
compelled to express his dissent, on the !
ground that tho mere lact that a man has
reeeivi-d a blow from the hand of another ]
cannot be considered as sufficient justifica- j
tioii for the hasty use ot the knife. This is a
sound position and will meet the approval
of all intelligent citizens. The knife at best j
i? a cowardly weapon, nnd juries should be j
careful not to encourage its hasty use.
Ci* Th.oex Cabby New York??The ;
Governor is retried by one of our Albany i
correspondent* as saying that he can carry !
New York by fifty thousand majority. We i
liavs no doubt the Governor thinks so. He
e.irn? d New York onee, nnd it is the most
natural thing in the world that he should
eipeet to do it ngaiu. lie is in the honey
moon of the nomination nuptials, uud must
be allowed the illusions natural to a candi- j
date in that condition. But New York is a
peculiar State. \Vb< n Tilden carried it the
repnblican* were divided and the democrats
were united. Now the republicans are
united and the democrats are divided. This
is s Mint well worth considering
I
Th? Mat la Blaiat'i Cm*.
Colonel Forney writes an article, calling
on the "Confederates" to cease their war
upon Mr. Blaine, now that he is ill and
has lost the nomination for the Pres
idency. The country shares Colonel For
ney's sorrow for the illness of Mr. Blain^
and trusts that he may soon return to public
life with restored health. But at the same
time it is not fair to charge the Confederates
with the "war upon Blaine." Mr. Blaine is
in this position:?He tampered with a
witness under subpoena. He offered this wit
ness a consulate to leave the country anjl
suppress oertain evidence, and when this
offer was rejected he took forcible possession
of this evidence and still holds it in defiance
of the House. If the House asserts its au
thority it will either censure Mr. Blaine or
expel him. Now this is a cold, passionless
presentation of the oa.se, which a gentleman
as skilled in parliamentary law as Colonel
Forney must see. The uproar about the
Confederates was admirable as a flunk at
tack in the House. It was fair ammunition
in the hunds of a fireworks orator like Inger
soll, of Illinois. l)ut it should not deceive
Colonel Forney. Mr. Blaine is in an unfor-'
tunate position so- far as the House is con
cerned. Nothing but the sympsithy of the
House can save him. The position is of his
own seiking, and the poor Confederates,
who will have enough to bear this summer,
should not be charged with it.
Wk Cong eat djlatb Major General Winfield
Scott Hancock ! It will not be necessary for
him to resign his commission in the army.
It is a high commission and not to be
thrown away. Then, if the new democratic
administration can have a bill passed retiring
Sherman and Kheridun, Hancock can be
commander of the army.
Ilavt tli* Prapl* Any Rights Which
CorporMtlona are Bound to Respect!
The people are watching with great inter
est the nifco between the street railways and
the strain railways before the Superior Court.
The owners of the street cars are exhausting
every agency to prevent the building of the
elevated or underground road. The burden
of the argument is expressed by Lawyer
C'hoate, who. all the time no doubt looking
as wise as an owl, informed the Court that a
steim road would be a "special injury" to
the horse cars, because it would draw
off their travel. We trust there is no
judge on our Bench who will listen for a
moment to this preposterous proposition.
It is the old argument against progress,
and experience shows how absurd it is.
The effect of the building of the Gilbert
road would be, not to destroy the franchise
of any street railway, but to improve it.
There would be fewer cars, but they would
run more comfortably. There would be
none of those sardine trips which we see
morning and evening. The horse cars are
needed for short journeys and will always
be useful, and if well managed will yield
a revenue to thfeir owners; but the city has
outgrown the capacity of the horse cars.
They are not intended for long distances,
and experience will show this when we have
rapid transit
Gbaxkbct Pake is the politioal Mecca.
But there are two Mohammeds there resi
dent?Greenback Cooper and Hard Money
Tild?n.
Tit* Wkliknf TkltTM.
It does not surprise us to learn that strong
efforts are making for the pardon of Avery,
the former chief clerk of the Treasury;
McDonald, the St. Louis supervisor of reve
nue, and others, now in prison for defraud
ing the government. One of them was sen
tenced on Saturday to two years' imprison
ment in the County Jail. His punishment
is a nominal one, something like that of Boss
, Tweed. This leads us to Hay that our laws
in dealing with bosses are badly adminis
! tered. If these persons had stolen a ham
they would have gone to prison for twenty
years; but they used their authority, in
j flnence and position, not alone to make
money, for money they had, but from sheer
avarice and to rob the government, and they
must be pardoned. We trust the Presi
dent will deny the appeaL Pardon
would be a stain upon his administra
tion. It would do his party harm. It
would confirm the suspicion that he thrrtr
Bri? tow out of his Cabinet because
he had been a reformer. The higher
the social and political position the graver
the crime. The punishment should be
i oqnal to the gravity. Mercy would dishonor
itself to interfure.
An? Now thb Timet informs us that Dors- j
heiiner?the wise, the gracious, the sunny
Dorsheimer, whose voice is a symphony and
his smile a persuasion?has become "arrogant
and overbearing." This is all on account of i
the weather. Then we hear of nose pulling ;
and angry encounters on the stairs, and '
bosom friends like Kelly and Wickfaam in j
public controversy. The moral of it is, j
never hold conventions in midsummer, or,' if 1
it is nocessary, let them be held on Pike's
l'eak, or on one of the Thousand Islands,
or in Sitka. It would not surprise us if this
holding conventions with tho thermometer i
ninety-live in the shade were aguin to divide '
tho democratic purty.
After All Whit Does It Asiorvr To?? :
The sun will shine ; the grass will grow; we j
shall huve wheat and corn; taxes will in
crease; we shall pay our car fare whether we !
have a seat or not?all the same. We shall
have onr Fourth of July, our fireworks?all I
| the same. And in a year from now we shall
j be in high feather over the new administra- '
, tion, pointing ont its shortcomings and call- j
1 ins for reform all the same. Why not keep i
i cool about it, remembering the stat e of the |
thermometer And seeing what has befallen
: poor John Kelly, and knowing that the *
world will go round and ronnd all the same
i in spite of St. Louis and Cincinnati ?
A Hixt to Keli.t's Friends.?The friends 1
of the Bot>s should keep cooling lotions about
hiiu. A towel dipped in ice-cold water and
i applied to the back of the neck has been
known to produce beneficial results. The
climate of St Louis is too harsh. The Boss
should be brought home in a speoial car and
taken at once to ex-Senator Norton's clam
cottage on Conev isiand. The sea air will
i restore him.
P*?Mftr?al? sb4 H?rii*?fU
It does not surprise us to learn thai tha
friends of Governor Hart muff, of Pennsyl
vania, complain of his treatment at Cincin
nati, They say, and with justice, that
Hartranft was a better general than Hayes,
that he has proved to be as good a Governor,
that he was the choice of a great State, and
that if Pennsylvania had been trae to him
he might have won. On the contrary, it
was with difficulty Pennsylvania could bo
induced to give him one ballot. Delegates
who had been pledged to vote for him aroso
and publicly repudiated the pledge, ami
but for the firmness of a few friends his can
didacy would have been a farce. If Penn
sylvania had voted for Hartranft ns Ohio
voted for Hayes, first, last and all the time,
he might now be the nominee. There is
much foroe in these complaints. Hartranft
was badly used in his own btate. But so
long as the republican party. in Pennsylva
nia is under tho rule of a ring like that
which sways Philadelphia it will send pur
chasable delegations to conventions. Penn
sylvania, one of the first of our States, an
empire among commonwealths, and this
year ot all years laurel laden with honors??
Pennsylvania was of no mors importance in
the Convention at Cincinnati than Texas.
Governor Hartranft may complain with rea
son. The Philadelphia delegation stabbed
him.
We Congratulate Hon. Joel Parker 1
He will not be torn away from his turnips
and watermelons down in Monmouth to
worry over the Presidency. Monmouth
cannot spare Farmer Joel.
Baby * Farming In New York.
The discovery of six helpless infants in
various stages of starvation and all sharing a
horrifying state of filth at the home of a Mrs.
MoCloskey, a professional baby farmer, shows
that this slow but sure system of infanticide
can exist in New York. We are glad to say that
the inquiries of the police into this woman'i
antecedents make it appear that even in the
poorest localities her horrid practices failed
to be tolerated. That she was allowed to
move from one house to another for several
months without attracting the attention of
the police is a sad comment upon the indif
ference of people to wrong so it does not
involve their own reputations or is not com
mitted before their eyes. We hope to see this
woman severely punished. Crimes against
human life committed by the cradle side
belong to barbarism. The helplessness of
the little sufferers cries out to our common
humanity. The age which has fertilized the
goodly work of St. Vincent de Paul until
the care of the foundling has become one of
the moBt tender and important of the chari
ties of all creeds is ready to take .strong
measures to stamp out a revolting crime,
more heinous because more fiendishly pro
longed in its torfures than what is told of
the abandonment of infants by the Chinese.
Such wholesale baby-farming establishments
as were discovered and broken up in Eng
land are not likely to exist-in America, foi
various reasons. The abandonment of even
six children to Mrs. McCloskey's tender
mercies must have arisen through gross de
ception on her part, and gross carelessness,
if no worse, on the part of the mothers or
guardians committing them to her sinistei
care. We pity such mothers. The good
work done by the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children in this case gives it m
fresh title to publio esteem.
Wb Congratulate Hon. William ^<nS
heimer, Lieutenant Governor of New York!
He has won a great victory. Uncle Sammy
should resign the Governorship and thus
give Dorsheimer a chance to have his por
trait painted at the expense of the State.
Dorsheiiner is a handsome man and would
make a fine picture.
Boss Kelly in Stat*.?When Louir XIV.
arose in the morning he was surrounded bj
noblemen who vied with each other in dis
charging the offices about his person. On?
enfolded him in the royal scarf, another tied
the royal cravat, a third perfumed the royaJ
handkerchief, a fourth pulled on the royal /
boots, and so on. We are reminded of thii
as we read of Boss Kelly entering the St
Louis Convention. On one side Free
Sinythe carrying his hat, Sam Cox on th<
other carrying his umbrella. Then cam<
Olncy with Kelly's cane, and Schell with hii
green bag. Behind all came Tom Dunlap
and Denis Quinn with a supply of fans. Ajs
the Boss walked up the aisle thus surrounded,
and saw before him Hewitt and Smith Weed
and other rebels, his aspect was terrible.
How sadly Wickham must have felt, remem
bering that it was once his office to carry the
liat, and that now he was out in the broiling
sun!
Hoxoas to Matob Wickham.?The ladiea
of Sorosis held a picnic on Tuesday. We are
informed that the occasion of this gathering
wan to celebrate the election of Mayor Wick
ham to bo one of the vice presidents of th?
St. Louis Convention. As is well known
the Mayor lias been the candidate of th?
ladies for the highest office in the gift of the
people. If tin Convention had declined tc
b?-ar Misa Cozzeus the other day it was th?
Mayor's intention to have thrown himself
into the breach. But the chivalry of the
gallant Watterson interfered. Watterson
little knew the man he suppressed; for, as
Colonel Tom Dunlap informed one of ouf
correspondents, Wickham'* speech on th?
woman question would have recalled th<
days of Demosthenes and justified the en
thusiasm v itli which on Tuesday the Sorosis
ladies toasted His Honor in lemonade and
ice cream. The secret of the Mayor's popu
larity with Morosis and kindred asuoriat ions
lies in his rare personal beauty, his i>oetical
temperament, his musical voice, his love foi
the beautiful and the true.
Wfi CONOBAT! LATE Honorable Augustus
Schell! This venerable journalist ean sup
port. Tilden in a series of able, pathetic and
retrospective articles that will add to th?
attractions of the CanUnnial year.
Homoks to thb 1'kma ?The Convention
has shown its appreciation of our nobW
calling by the honors it jmid to two great
democratic editors, Augnstus Schell, the
editor of the Tammany organ, and Uenry
Patterson, the Kentucky publicist. The
i speeches of Boh ell and Wattsraoa read Itta