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THE DAILY STANDARD UNION: BflOOKIiYN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, lStM.ElGHT PAGES i flevJl tt he was on the ticket," he dis THE STANDARD UNION. NO. 20 HIGH Sf TOTS ACnOH FlandrauflCo. 3f6 Broome elect, W. Go ft, defended Gardner, and was fined 1200 for "contempt of court" by Smyth, because, knowing; as much law as the latter, or more, he.

Insisted on his client's rights. The publls long ago passed judgment on that ct, and reversed both Mr. Smyth and his decision, for It called Mr. Smyth down frcm his high seat and! sent Mr. Goff to fill it.

With a magistrate on the bench who Telephone Rates $50, $60 and $75 per year, according to number of messages sent and character of service. Full lohg-distance equipment. Write 18j Smith street, or call Telephone 635 Brooklyn. I Bion. Mr.

Gorman, suddenly bad a change of heart and worked vigorously for the bill. This la bow it hiappened. At the late election almost every member of the House Committee on Printing and his colleague. Senator Ransom, of the Senate committee, were defeated for r'e-eleation, and bo since tbe bill is immediately operative Mr. Gorman will bave an opportunity from the 4th of March until Congress reassembles in December next of running the Printing Office.

In that position toe will bave a pull on patronage. Public Printer Palmer, if he wants favors from the Printing necessarily having to do Gorman favors. It is a pretty position for the Maryland Senator, and one -that he will know how to use In rebuilding his shattered fences. AMISEMKMS. COLUMBIA THEATRE.

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KINGS COUNTY RE PUfe LICAN GENERAL COMMITTEE, Brooklyn, December 4, 1894. FRIMARY ELECTIONS for officers of Election District Republican Associations, and for Lelegrates to the Republican Ward Committees for the year are hereby ordered to be held on THURSDAY. DECEMBER IS, KROM 7:80 TO O'CLOCK P. at the places designated and provided as prescribed by Art, Subdiv. 3, Sec.

1, of the By-laws of the County Ccmmlttee. The number of Delegates to be elected to the-. Ward Committees for the year as a seer- tained and determined by the vote cast at the election in November, 184, for the Republican candidate for Governor, has been furnished to the Secretaries of District Associations. This notice Is published as required by Chapter of the Las of New York of 1S92, as amended in 1893, and in accordance with the provisions of the. By-laws of said County Committee.

RETURN OF THE RESULTS of each primary election must be promptly mailed to the Secretaries of the Ward and County Committees on the blank forms provided for the purpose. WARD COMMITTEES will meet for organization for the year 1895 on TUESDAY, December 18th at 8 o'clock P. M. THE NUMBER OF DELEGATES to be elected by each Ward Committee for yhe years 1895-f are ascertained and determined to be as follows, viz. In Calling Up the Sugar Bill is a Breach of Faith.

THE RAILROAD POOLING BILL IT WILL PROBOBLT PASSED IN THE SENATE HEARINGS ON THE CARLISLE CURRENCY SCHEME -CHAM? CLARK CREATES DISORDER IN; THE HOUSE GOR- MAN AND THE PUBLIC PRINT- ING OFFICE. i (Special to The Standard Union.) Washington, Dec, 12. Senator Vest persists in bis purpose to disregard the Democnaltk: caucus. He will probably this afternoon call up the popgun sugar bill, and demand its Immediate conald-ation. As the late caucus prepared an order of business which did not include (tariff legislation Mr.

Vest's move Is a violation of party dictates. The motion to consider -Che bill will be defeated by a decisive vote. Many Democrats will oppose it because tbey think a vote in its favor would beopposed to the decision of the caucus, while the Republicans, probably to a man, will vote against the proposition for they are even more determined than ever that there shall be no tariff talk, and are aware tljat the consideration of that bill will reopen ttoe controversy and immediately, rush the into a state of uncertainty which tariff talk will necessarily cause. It is possible, however, that the motion, should It be made, will develop additional strength by reason of a osire on the part of those opposed to the Nicara-guan Canal bill to prevent the consideration of that measure. Mr.

Vest will simply show his spite and accomplish nothing. Now that the House has nassed the Railroad Pooling bill by a vote of 166 to 110, the question comes up as to Its ate in the Senate. There is probably a decisive majority' in its favor in the Senate, but will the minority resort to filibustering tactics? The bill is not satisfactory to the Populists, and some rabid Senators pose, as anti-monopo-libts and mho claim that this bill is in the interest of the railroads. If their opposition is as vigorous as was the opposition to thej Tariff bill or the repeal of the Sherman law the measure cannot be passed, because the session is too short to permit a long fight. It is improbable, however, tbat there will be any such opposition.

The'flght against the measure in the House was vigorous, and even those most interested in its passage were uncertain until the previous question was ordered yesterday afternoon by a vote of 174 to 100, what its fate would' be. That vote, wbicb was a test one, proved that the supporters of the measure were in the. majority caused them to breathe the easier. Whatever have been the charges made against the Pooling bill, it is safe to say that it was drawn by the House Committee on Inter-State and Foreign Commerce, with a desire to improve tbe Interstate Commerce laws, and that there was no purpose to unduly help the railroads as against the people who patronize them. i The hearing on the Carlisle currency scheme goes on.

Secretary Carlisle presented his bill, which is drawn on the line of his recommendation in the report to Congress, but it does not appear that the measure contains anything additional to his report, or that it does away with the objections raised to it. The hearing yesterday was very interesting, and two witnesses, Horace White and C. C. Homer, had a good grasp of the subject they were discussing. Indications now point to the reporting of a bill on the line of the Carlisle one, and its adoption by the House.

What the Senate will do is another question. Congressman) Champ Clark, of Missouri, who was fortunately defeated for re-election to Congress, has gotten into the habit of considering himself an important personage, because he is applauded whenever he speaks. This causes bim to overstep the bounds at rimes, and to indulge in language more suited to a barroom than the House. He addressed the! House again yesterday, and poured forth a vulgar mass of stuff that was wearisome, while the House, which under the present organisation, sunpaeses anything ever seen before in its disorder, howled and cheered him on, some members placing their feet on desks and laughing at him from amiit clouds of tobacco smoke, regardless of the rule which forbids smoking on the floor, Senator Morrill's speech on Populism, delivered yesterday in the Senate, took exceedingly well, and was considered timely. The venerable Vermonter is regarded with esteem by the Senate, and his ability conceded.

Senator Gorman always looks after patronage. The Senate has just passed a bill which creates a committee consisting of members of the House and Senate committees on printing, which has practically control of tbe Government Printing Office. The bill was passed in the House at the last session and sent to the 8enate, where Mr. Gorman showed very little interest Un it. His indifference caused tbe bill to go over until this ses- pleased many conservatives, whose votes Were turned with every turn in the pance the would-be Mayor made.

Other cities of Massachusetts also turned the Democrats out. In some cases i "non-partisan" movement effecting the change, while la, others the Republicans, pure and simple, did the business. (But the great point is that those Bay State cities Where the Democrats have long held power, are getting rldof them. A Paragraph That Spread Itself. Among distinguished Americans, none Is more modest or unassuming than Gen.

Stewart L. Woodford. At one time Lieutenant-Governor of this State, at an other elected Governor but counted out by the Democratic Rings, then in the zenith of their confederated Infamy, one of the few men, indeed the only living man, who refused what was practically a nomination for the Presidency, and whih, as events proved, made the nominee President, an orator of national fame who, next to Cart Schurz, did more than any one man to sustain a sound currency when the Greenback fever seized the great West after John Sherman had brought about the resumption of specie payments, a Union soldier with a splendid fighting reputation, he is yet a man so democratic in bfca and so widely known and familiar to his fellow citizens that but small store Is apparently set on the fact that he is a distinguished man even among distinguished men. This paragraph and it Jooks now as if the proportions of a paragraph might be exceeded had no other purpose than to note the fact being brought to mind by the other fact of the sailing of Gen. Woodford for Europe on the Fulda tomorrow that Brooklyn makes less ado, to use a colloquialism, about her distinguished sons than perhaps any other city in the Union.

Not that Gen. Woodford is really and truly a son of Brooklyn, because he was born in New Tork, and in his early boyhood days went to the old Seventh ward public school, a circumstance which calls to mind that some of young Woodford's school fellows became sordid Tammany politicians, and died in office, while he, cast in a different mold, scorning the political flesh-pots, went joyously in the hey-dey and glory of his youth into the splendid, army of patriots who offered their lives, that government by the people might not perish from the face of the earth. And so -it has been all through his brilliant career. Duty 'has ever been his first consideration in bis public relations. Many prominent men have had fads, social, economic and but Stewart L.

Woodford's only fad has been pure poll-tics. Tears ago, before civil service reform was enacted into law, he resigned from Congress because he refused to become a patronage peddler. When It Is said Woodford practically refused the Presidency at the time he declined the nomination for Vice-President and Chester A. Arthur took it, rt is not meant that the unforeseen death of the lamented Garfield would have made him President. It is meant the Vice-Presidency would bave placed him in the line' of succession, and that his commanding ability and national repute would have made him the Inevitable and successful candidate of the Republicans later on.

Like Gen. Harrison, he is natural Presidential timber, and it is good to know that, like Harrison too, he has been successful in life without de-' eerting the high ideals of his youth. In bis' recent dpmsstic affliction Gen. Wopd-tofi had to comfort him and assuage his sorrow a heartfelt sympathy that extended throughout and beyond Brooklyn a. sympathy that will follow bim over the seas and hope earnestly for relief to him and bis from the great grief and desolation that fell upon them when bis lovely daughter, the light of his life, was taken away.

The Methods of Mr. Piatt. fSVe are not yet accustomed to the ree-nition of the "New Tork Evening at" as a Republican newspaper; but it Is a pleasure to see it doing so many clever things in ways of its-own that are admirably efficacious. The able editor of the "Post" has at last done something to rectify the false impress lone it may have made as to Mr. T.

C. Piatt, and has suc-c in placing that active citizen in a favorable light as a "boss." Hereto-' fore we have been assured that the Re publican party never could be trusted. fur it was bossed by Piatt, and Pla't -nas about as bad as Tammany. Now wje have the light on the true inwardness bosslsm. It appears that Piatt has a ireau that supplies valuable suggests ns to the Republican country press.

This has been going on lately, and the "st" gives Piatt's private letter and turo columns of the solid stuff dieeemin-aled accordingly. The letter Is as follows: United States Express Company, Office of the President, 19 Broadway, New Tork, Nov. 26, 1894. (qonfidential.) My Dear Sir, Herewith I send you a statement of fact which, as a personal favor to me, I request that you read carefully. If it meets with your approval, I beg that you will' make such use of it in your newspaper as seems to you suitable.

I d3 not suggest that you print It in its entirety, for In order to-cover the ground fully, it has been made rather long, and perhaps too kmg for your use at one time. My suggestion is that you possess yourself of the salient points in this statement, and uu them In editorials of SINGER Sewing Machines FOR FAMILY USE. The Universal Machine. HIGHEST AWARDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. The Singer Mfg.

Co; ALL OVER THi WORLD. The Place. Where Murphy Wants a baton. AT THE CORNER OF LIBERTY. A BIG PLYMOUTH CHURCH CROWD APPEARS BEFORE THE EXCISE BOARD IN PROTEST THET ARE REPRESENTED BT THE' REV.

DR. ABBOTT THE PROCEEDINGS i THIS MORNING, The Excise Commissioners were promptly on band in Justice Neu's courtroom at 10 o'clock this forenoon, and called the usual calendar. A large audience was present, including many members of Plymouth Church, and residents of Brooklyn Heights. Among them were Gen. C.

T. Christensen, the Revi Dr. Lyman Abbott, the Rev. Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall.

H. K. Sheldon, R. W. Raymond, the Rev.

S. B. Halllday, the Rev. C. C.

Leigh, the Rev. Horace Porter, assistant pastor of Plymouth Church; A. D. Wheelock, Deacon Pratt. Gen.

A. C. Barnes, Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher and a number of. other ladies.

The adjourned case of Michael Murphy, who asks for a transfer a license to establish a saloon at 20 High street, near the Bridge entrance, was the first formally considered. It has. been protested against with petitions signed by more than seven hundred citizens. James C. Cropsey, of Lawyer Patterson's office, appeared, and stated that Patterson was still engaged in fhe Oakes case; but not wishing to ask for another adjournment, be asked that the case proceed, and Mr.

Murphy could put in his case later on, Mr. Cropsey to cross-examine witnesses to-day. This being satisfactorily arranged, the examination was proceeded "with. Dr. Abbott conducting it in behialf of those who protest against the saloon being located at that point.

Dr. Abbott said that there was only one matter of fact to be presented against Murphy's application. The objection was. that there were too many saloons in 'that neighborhood now, and that another was not needed. There was no question of law Involved.

There was no protest agaiiust any particular" saloon nor, against the one proposed because it wis a saloon. Those who made this protest did not do so as Prohibitionists, ,1 as total abstainers, nor as temperance men in any technical sense, but as citizens. Tbey protested on three grounds: First, that there were enough saloons In th neighborhood now. He exhibited a map showing that there were thirty-six saloons now within a radius of two blocks of the Bridge, which, (he claimed, were sufficient for the public interests and convenience. The second ground of objection was that all the approaches to the Bridge except the side of Liberty street, on one corner of which it was proposed to place this saloon, were all more or less occupied by 'saloons.

There were three saloons on the other side of Liberty now. They desired to keep one sidewalk free from them, so that their wives and daughters could pass at any time, day or evening, without any feeling of humility or 'possibility of annoyance. The third point made by Dr. Abbott was that the State counts taeld that feei-ings and wishes of the people residing or-jowniaig property Jn the vicinity of a proposed saloon are to be taken into account by the local Board. He' then alluded to the numerous signed protests, one signed by over 700 citizens all over Brooklyn, and the other signed br real esDate owners near the Bridge, a third toy real estate owners on the Heights, and a fourth signed by presidents of the Brooklyn Trust Company, the Peoples, the Franklin, and the Hamilton Trust Companies, the Long Island Loan and Trust Company, the Dime Savings Bank, (the Brooklyn Savings Bank, and other moneyed institutions.

These were supplemented with several; private letters. Later in the proceedings the Commissioners required the Rev. Horace Porter to! state under oath, so far as he was able, the actual witnessing of the signatures. He was able to as to a part, end others present made similar statements. The Rev.

Horace Porter verified the general accuracy of the map submitted toy! Dr. Albbott with its thirty-six black spots indicating the saloons, and gave some further testimony on the lines indicated by Dr. Abbott. Mr. Cropsey intimated that before the case was wholly closed, Mr.

Murphy would also Introduce a map, although he did not challenge the accuracy of the map submitted. Gen. A. C. Barnes, ot H0 Pierrepont street, corroborated Dr.

Abbott's state-mints as to the character of the protest. It was not aimed at consumers, nor even at proprietors of saloons existing there. He sadd. there was little available property for business purposes left at the Bridge approaches, and these should be made to contribute to public convenience by placing stores of various kinds, but he did not tbink any more saloons were needed. W.

B. Boorum sustained Dr. Abbott's view. The Rev. C.

C. Leigh, "who resides at 71 Pineapple street, about three blocks from tine Bridge entrance, and owns property at Fulton and Majn streets, two blocks from the Bridge entrance, testified that every additional saloon was an in-Jury to property in that neighborhood, because "saloons are open on Sunday, The Messrs. Ovington Brothers are for this holiday season offering in their new and enlarged establishment, 38 and 40 Flat-bush by far the largest col lection of choice' Table China, Glass, and rare and beautiful goods of every description for the Drawing-room, that is to be found in Brooklyn or even in what will some day beoome the "Greater New York." The entire stock has been marked down in conformity with the new tariff. The public is cordially invited, with or without intention to purchase, to inspect and compare quality and prices. William Berrl MuRAT HALSTEAO.

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1SB4. EIGHT PAGES. People who do know eomethinff about finance chould not be so severe the Democratic party. Remember the notice that was put up at the cowboy dance: Do not shoot the fiddler. He is playing; ma well as he can." Another awful thins; has happened! A Republican Mayor Has been elected in Boston, and it was not by one of those fractional -Mugwump margins that it is assumed cover the earth with a mantle of virtue -as the waters prevail in the sea.

Bully for Boston! Mr. Cleveland ought to write a letter to somebody pointing; the popgun and other legislation he wants. It needs a letter to make the message definite and certain, eA that the majority of Congress- men may know just how to vote to secure the disapproval of the Illustrious Chief Magistrate. Lord Rosebery says again that be proposes to abolish the absolute veto power of the Lords. But does his Lordship not know that the real question before the British Empire is whether the Lords or Commons are in the strongest sense representative of the people? If he can raise the ismie whether he or the Lords are to go, and manages to stay, he will be a great and good man.

The Interest Father Ducey takes in -police'Veform Abides under bis hat. He is determined to know all about it. We have wondered sometimes whether Father Ducey may not bave surmised that he had a call to statesmanship. Once we thought him best fitted for the -diplomatic branch of public service, but we are mot as strongly impressed to that effect as we were. Senator Voorhees is for closure, of course.

He is a gentleman of executive disposition; and he would not have the Senate without reformers if it is eo that when the Republicans get hold of it tbey make the old institution bum. But the statesmanlike characteristics stick to the Senator. He is against tariff tinkering, and he wants Carlisle to have a little money for rainy days. Hence he is a sugar-taxer. There are differences of opinion among the Republicans of the Lexow Committee as to the better way of fixing up the reformation of the police that has become inevitable.

It does not seem to be entirely prudent to abolish the old force utterly before providing a new one. The army that occupies New Tork has been looting the town, but business orders could change their habits. Mr. Schurz has written -a letter in which he estimates the time required in police reorganization to be about two and two years sometimes are a sort of eternity. Police Oppression Rehikril.

The Court of Appeals, in reversing the decision of the lower court, in the case of CToarles W. Gardner, the Parkhurst agent, who was accused of blackmail. and. to everyone's surprise, convicted, has practically delivered a telling blow against the corrupt oligarchy that has so long held Ifie chief city of the land Ul xnraii, anu prdtuseu- uie must in- famous system of levying tribute ever conceived, a scheme at which a. pira i-- oal Algerine would blush for shame.

the most outrageous cases of police tyranny and misused power 'that had come to light, and did much, no doubt, to draw the Interested and earnest at tention oi roe puioiu; iiu tiitr ujw wui-tnittee to the condi tion of things In New Tork, "the richest city of the Union, and the most fruitful field tof the obtaining of sudden riches by illegal apd corrupt practices Gardner, as an agent of the Society for tbe Prevention of Crime, had exposed the bribery of a prominent police captain), and the turpitude of others in that department, which is supposed to exist for the protection of the people. end the discouragement of the crlmln.il classes, Dircwnion, as nas since transpired, has actually fattened on the projection of these classes, to the discoar-- -agement of the public, thus reversing the natural order of hi ruts. tn revenge? a conspiracy was lormed between; the police and (notorious wo- roan, and by the use of marked money, a web of circurnstantial evidence wis woven about the agent, with the design of railroading him to the Penitentiary. The case was tried before ex-Recorder Ezoj-tb, at which time the Recorder cannot be affected In any way by Tam many influence, either through fear! favor, it in likely that the accused agent will at least get a fair trial. In the meantime It Is another nail in Tammany's coffin, and decent folks rejoice.

will Clevelamd the Sigar. Senator Blackburn's alleged charge against Senator Gorman, of which have heard so much in the Clevelandish papers, ought to be pushed. The solemn charge, the "Times' says, is that Gorman "repudiated and violated a solemn agreement by means of wJiich the House was induced to accept the Senate's Tariff bilL" The solemn agreement was that the popgun poppycock was to(be put throughj That this was nonsense nearly everybody knew at the time. jThe country was sick very sick of Congress and it was impossible for the session to continue. The House had take the Senate bill Just as it was, -or the Mc-Kinley bill would have etood.

The chance that the House had to pass the bill was held by but one The Senate would have killed the bill, if it could have regained possession of it The jwil-son bill was one for deficiencies, an Jt-terly stupid, academic and asrinins bill, also- spotted with protection. jAn-J suppose there was an agreement to pass separate bills. The Secretary of the Treasury protested in his Harris letter, and'' killed the free sugar scheme.) In this he was sustained by the; President then and is now. It is astonishing jthct the reformers are scraping tht3 out of the waste basket again. Gorman proved his case against Cleveland in the open Senate," and the defense of the President by the eloquent Senator from Wisconsin, Vilas, the best that could be done, was a clear case of declamatory feebleness.

If Gorman went back on Blackburn, be was supported in doing it by the President and the Secretary of the Treasury, except as to the i-on t-re and coal taxes, which are not momentous. Mr. Cleveland seized upon them as specifications to sustain poor excuses for the failure of tatiff reform. The "Times" is kind enough to remind Senator Blackburn that lie said in September: "I swear I will do all in my power at the December session of Congress to carry out what was agreed upon, even if it is necessary to change the rules to do so." By this time the Senator knows that his power in the case does not mean business, and that he cannot change the rules, and that the power of his party is at an end. The "Times" goes on accusing Gorman of organizing the Senate against the Wilson free sugar But Cleveland and Carlisle sustain Gorman in that.

They are sugar taxers. and aH their fussing is about fractions, and it is entirely contemptible. WJiai did Cleveland write the Wilson and Catchings let ters for? Was he overwhelmed with a sense of his own or did he have a rush of personal vindictlveness to his pen and paper? The mugwump pretense is that Cleveland was warring against the Sugar Trust. What of the Carlisle schedule and the Harris letter that he sustained? Oh, yes! the One-tenth of, a cent differential I Weil if Cleveland can crawl through a hole of that size let him go. The law takes excellent care of law- yers.

Bamberger ana Meyenrjorg tur-nlsh cases In point. The row in the Friendly Sons Of St. Patrick is just one of the little engage- ments in the Corrigan-McQuald-Ireland fight, and, as usual, the Wliloughby street politicians are on the eide of the Tammany combination. Boston is Rrpnhllmn. It seems thet Boston had a little Tammany of her own; but the Bostonians got good and tired of it, and have, as they say In rural Massachusetts, "stomped" on.

it, and it's broken. It was a cold, raw, drizzling day, with frequent dashes of heavy rain the sort hitherto supposed to favor Democratic voters yesterday, when the municipal elec tion took place; but the Republicans were in earnest, and turned out in force, with the result that the Democratic ticket was utterly routed, even though the Democrats put up a popular man. Gen.l Pea-body, Ipr Mayor, expecting to trade on his popularity. This, however, is a year when personal popularity doesn't count, as against principle, and -the General was heading the wrong army; and even the Democratic strongholds, the "banner wards" of Democracy, went down before the Republican battalions as Ping Tang and Port Arthur fell before the determined Japanese armies; while large gains are recorded in the; Republican wards. Curtis, the Republican Mayoralty candidate, defeats Peabody by 2,008 plurality.

The. Democratic candidate's plurality last year was 5.000, and the year before, nearly 10,000. The Board, of Aldermen has a Republican majority, and the "Council" shows Republican gains. Worcester, the "Heart of the Commonwealth," has also gone Republican. But Boston has for so long been an iron-bound Democratic city thai this election is indeed a great surprise, even if some lew remnants of Democracy are left- "One more dash" and the Republicans will complete the work.

One cannot expect to accomplish so great a reform as the purification of. such great cities as New Tork or Boston in one effort, but it bound to come. It is recorded that Gen. Peabody, instead of making speeches, conducted hla campaign with bis feet, so to speak: that is, he tried to "get solid with the by attending the campaign dances, but while he pleased the regular party mep, who "would vote lot: the yoiir own writing during the next few weeks. If this request commends Itself to lyour favor, you may be sure that I shall- appreciate all you will do in response to it.

Very truly yours, T. O. PLATT. First Impressions about this are that if this is Bosssm engaged in its dreadful woHc, it dei. a trade that can be carried on quit's considerately.

Of course, we look to the enclosure to fin 3 the poison that has been admlnis-teied to the Republican country press of New Tork. The first words of the enclosure are: 'rAll will recognize that the Republican party in the State of New Tork has now anl incomparable opportunity." lhat is so. Next: "fAfter a long experience with the Democratic party the people in two State elections bave declared their disgust of its incompetency and abhorrence of its corruption. Everywhere in the State they have dismissed it from power." ihe next point is that the noise of tion is lxeard in New Tork, and "it co tries from that element of the Republican party in said city wbicb was represented in the Saratoga Convention by those delegates who opposed the nomination of Go. Morton." That is a question of fact.

There is eo ne noise. The noise is to some extent about Piatt, and there are many accusations. The papers reproduced in th "Post" must be good authority about Piatt, and the declaration ma'ie for him, with we presume, is: "He has declared, as they bave not, what he thinks ought to be done in municipal legislation. Ho is in favor of all reforms that public sentiment, in New Tork City approves. He advoates the passage of a new ballot law more closely onj the lines of the Australian-syetem.

He assures the new Republican Mayor. Col. Strong, of his cordial support in all reforms contemplated by the new city government. He advocates a bill enabling the new Mayor to turn out the (Tammany rascals ani to appoint his own heads of departments, and he promises, to sustain the Lexow Committee in all its recommendations of laws to cure the infamies which their investigation has disclosed." Even if this is from the secret archives of the boss, and has bis confidential approval, it is a good programme. This will not be disputed.

A little further. along there are some words that imply a doubt as to the infallibility of Dr. Parkhurst, and question the wis-de of the politics of the Committee of Seventy. There Is no disrespect toward the Doctor or the committee, but there is the suggestion that there is a tendency not to understand how distinctly, after all, the victory of Nov. was Republican, and was not Mugwump in Its nature.

There is an effort in New Tork to belittle the Republican victory by attributing it to certain side shows, and to go on with tt old chatter that the great city is Democratic, and the great State also. Bat that is not the lesson of Nov. 6, and tl more Republicanism we have in our reforms the better, the more reliable ttbe reformation. The people were Influential dri the late election, and it must not be Mugwumped. New Tork State has be-: come Republican, to stay, and the city can be Repuolicanized to the core.

If Republicans will assert them selves and subordinate all bosses and factions all eqays at committee government and all the martial law fan tasies. Above all, we must not allow the Republican victory to be squandered. The victory was in forty States, and it was the defeat of the Democratic party and all its gangs, all its auxiliary and subsidiary forces, all its false pretenses and vulgar arrogance, and its Mugwump- eijies. Especially the victory of Nov. 6 was over the grossly incompetent and presumptuous, dull and vindictive Administration of Mr.

Grover Cleveland and bis personal Cabinet. The way to down Mr. aatt is to be more Republican than is. THE NEW PHILADELPHIA "IN QUIRER." President James Elverson, of the Phil adelphia Inquirer Company, is formally to open, on Saturday evening from 8 to 12, its new six-story building at 1109 Market street, which is believed to be the largest in the world devoted to a single publication. In its basement are three mammoth presses, one of which the largest ever built has a capacity of 000 twelve-page papers per hour.

The "Inquirer employs in the building nearly 300 persons, and declares its belief that the world cannot afford another set of newspaper offices equal to these. COMFORT IN SHOPPING. WECHSLiBR BROS. CO. ASSURE IT TO THEIR CUSTOMERS.

Christmas shoppers are especially delighted with the arrangement of the counters and sections in the great establishment of Wechsler Bros. Co. This excellent display greatly facilitates the work in a round of shopping in these times of rush and flurry. The rain oi the past two days, than anything else, suggests the um brellas which take up a big section of the main floor, to the left of the Fulton street entrance. Wechsler Bros.

assortment in handkerchiefs is the biggest in years. One of the show-windows on Fulton. Street has been turned imto an exhibition of handkerchiefs, arranged to represent a large bell. No one ever had too many handkerchiefs, and at Christmas everybody hopes to have bis and her Jtock replenished. A hundred and one beautiful and use-ul things are suggested in the dozen counters within one hundred feet from the umbrellai section.

'Some of these things are gilt and silver photograph frames, fans of lace, chiffon and feathers, made in frames of ivory, pearl, tortoise shell and bone; taces, including some pretty collarettes anil jabrts; gloves for men, women and children, some cf them fur-lined iand trimmed; dress patterns, linens, skirts. Christmas cards, perfumery, cutlery, art embroideries, albums, silverware and Jewelry. The book "department, on the balcony Root, has been 8orai of the recent books for children include "Tre Brownies at by Palmer Cox; Tl Oentury Book for Young Americana." A work by Mrs. Frank Leslie, which Is interesting, is "Beautiful Women," illustrated in colors. Prayer books, hymnals and all the standard works of poetry.

Action and travel. In new bindings, are Included in this book depirtmenfc- There Is also a display of illustrated books for children on the main floors. Useful presents, like furs, mlts and cloaks, will be found on the second floor. The third floor is devoted to furniture, and at the present time a- special sale in desks is in progress. The prices never were so low.

I Wechsler Bros. toy department never was ao targe as tt is this year. The stock of toys and dolls is equal to an exhibition, bo bring the children and let toem endoy it with. you. Carriage Builders.

We ask an inspection of our productions of all styles of pleasure vehicles for Town and Country, confident that all Intending purchasers will find the stock un- equalled in variety, form, quality, and price; fully sustaining our reputation established for more than a quarter of a century. Variety of Second Hand Vehicles in Good Order at Low Prices. and men, women and children are going in and out all the time." Commissioner Welles Tou are a pretty strong temperance man, are, you not? Mr. Leigh I am, decidedly. Commissioner Welles I thought so.

Mr. Leigh If they were law-abiding citizens (referring to saloonkeepers), I might not have the objections I do, but when they trample on the law every Sunday I tbink it's a positive nuisance anywSiere. Mr. Cropsey -Tou don't claim that an additional saloon would In any way de-. teriorate the value of your property? Mr.

Leigh It would not do It any good. Gen. C. T. Christensen was called, and, in addition to endorsing Dr.

Abbott, opposed the saloon on the ground that he regarded it as a reinforcement of the liquor traffic in a location affording great temptations for young men; Dr. Rossi ter W. Raymond emphasized the point of keeping at least one path to the Bridge free from saloons Residence property in these times had become much depreciated in value in that vicinity, but some bad hoped for relief when the new approaches to the Bridge were built. If the proposed saloon was placed on their only approach to the Bridge through Liberty street, it made a. most material difference witb their comfort and convenience.

The Rev. Dr. Halllday and one or two others made statements, and the bearing was closed. TOW TALK AND DOINGS. Vlealt, wintry December day; Wind and aleet Pneumonia.

There Is a "horse" on the Philadelphia Post Office. Some time ago a postage stamp rm In that city sent a letter to their New Tork branch on which was a two-cent stamp of the 1869 issue. This stamp is familiar to all who remember the war, it being used directly after the "late unpleasantness." The letter was returned to the firm with the endorsement: "Revenue stamps cannot be used for postage. The funny part of the affair lies in the fact that our Government never refuses to accept any stamp of any previous Issue, and that stamp referred to is, and always will be, rood, for postage. Among the most frequent complaints that are made to Commissioner Welles against of the police force is that of failure to pay debts.

Judging from the severe remarks made by the Commissioner at the last trial day to some delinquents of this sort, it is clear that he holds a man who tries to beat his creditors in the highest contempt. A section of the Book of Rules relating to non-payment of debts by members -of the force was read to one delinquent, and he was informed that if complaints of that character continued, dismissal from the department would follow. Complainants, how- ever, were also informed that they would bave to get judgment In a civil court before making a complaint against an officer who disputed the debt, as he had no time to waste in settling disputes of that character. When the claim was established, however, he would then see that the delinquent paid up, or got out. STYLES IN CLOTHING.

JOHN S. McKEON HAS THE LATEST AND BEST. John S. McKeon's clothing store is at the corner of Bedford avenue and Broadway. Wbiile located In the Eastern it Is a store patronized by people in every section of "the city, as the wholesale department is, patronized by the leading retail houses of Brooklyn, New Tork.

Philadelphia, Boston, and other great cities. Mr. McKeon is an artist in bis line. His styles are the latest and his moth-' ods of doing business the best. Like all other firms, a big Christmas trade is on.

Many mothers with little sons defer until the happy Christmas season the transforming of their little boys from frocks into trousers, and for those mothers who contemplate such a step, the stock of miniature suits at McKeon's offers a wide variety. There are the junior suits, with an entirely new coat I the sailor suits, and trie cute Httle reef suits, made with a sailor collar. If Ihe fond mothers want their little men- to be in "the fashion they must buy them a top reefer made of red Astrakhan bound with wide mohair braid and trimmed with black knit buttons. Another pretty style in the top reefer is one made of dark blue beaver trimmed with Astrakhan and bound with the wide mohair braid. Ulsters and double cape coats for Httle boys are also worn.

The men's department is complete in suits made after the latest cuts. The -first, or main, floor is the retail department. The second floor is devoted to the wholesale, the third floor to the cutting, and the fourth floor to piece goods. John S. McKeon's mottoes for this season are: "Our prices the lowest." "One price, no deviation," "Our styles the latest." PERSONAL.

KING. Gen. Horace Porter pays the following handsome tribute to Gen. Horatio C. King: "I was delighted to read in The Standard Union bis thoroughly admirable address on Slooum.

Nothing better could have been put into the same space. There is so much bad taste exhibited in such addresses, that I am glad to compliment the author of one so excellent as this as to good taste and interesting facts." GROSS CRUELTY CHAROKD AGAINST IN8A5TE ASYLUM OFFICIALS. Vancouver, B. Dsc 13. The report of the Royal Commission on the new Westminster Insane Asylum troubles was presented in the Legislature yesterday.

It Instances many acts of surprising cruelty, which have aroused the strong Indignation of the House. A complete reorganization of the. asylum management ts shown to be necessary, and. Medical Superintendent Mentley, who has been suspended, will probably be prosecuted. MADE THEIR VISIT.

The Board of Supervisors made their annual visit to the County Buildings, as equlred by law, to-day II lit 'a if ss; 'a? So igi-r i-f IgS 1 li II 2200 4i 2 II I 3t 9 3 li' 1 2 18 4 II 1 1W9 22 5 Jl 1 2 865 1 II 2 2 5 227 4 7 4 8 Ml 83 8 ll 2 2 6 2626 51r 9 21 11 3 6 259 67 1D 21 1 2 5 2323 49 11 1 ll 2 4l 2117 43 12 1 12! 11S5 24 13 2 1 3 27SS C4 14 11 ll 31 29 15 2 1 3 61 2972 55 18 2 1 31 '6! 3230' (a 17 2 2 41. 8 4.1411 15 1 1 ll 3 1442 SO 19 2 2 8 2994 S3 20 2 1 6 S14I 21 21 3 5 10 5074 102 22 3 2 6 10 5200 10S 23 4 3 8 15 7722 154' 24 1 1 2 4 2067 41 25 2 2 5 9 42157 87 28 2 2 4 3S11 80 27 2 1-2 2ftfi3 53 28 2 3 11 5726 114 XI 1 1 1224 4 SO 1 1 2 HI 13 1 1 634 14 Fids. 1 1 423 49 40 83 172 86S78 1754 iji Quart of. ijj jij Oysters iji yields 36 per iji cent, of nutri- iji tion. You get just four ii times the nu- iji jij trition in one jjj package of ijj Tf i jij FlTi Oatmeal I ji BENJ.

F. BLAIR. President. JOHN K. KEAL, Secretary.

SPECIAL. KOTICRS. FOR TOUR LAMPS. Tiemann's Lunar Oil. GROCERS.

SEALED CANS ONLY. FOR TOUR ROOFS. TIEMANN'8 IRON PRESERVATIVE. Faints. Oils.

Varnish, Benzine. Alcohol. Eta. Everything; In the Paint Line. J.

H. TIEMANN. S3 Fulton st. SPECIAL I NOTICE. COMMISSIONERS OF Deeds.

City Crffrk's OffiM, City Halt, Brooklyn, rvewmber 4. 3X94. PUBLIC NOTICE Is hereby friven to all persons desirous of appointment or reappointment as Commiasioners of Deeds for the yvars 1S95 and 189 to Ale their applications at the City Clerk's Offloe. Room No. i.

City Hall, on or before 13 clock M. on 6aturday. December 1K4. 12-5-9t JOSEPH City Clsrk. riNAXOIAL.

LOANS WANTED 31,000 ON houses worth 33. PX) each; substantia! carpenter and tnason. for reciting prices, lnoulre Mr. UAt, -irty-Iou' afternoon. HARVEY (JAUG: ARREST OF TUB CLftV5 SWINDLER IN CH4 Chicago, rec li Samuel a.

of swindling a score or more ness houses out of several worth of goods, and who ha. lie omen and constables lor under arrest..