Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1878, Page 4

3 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, - KOVEMBER 3, 187E—SIXTEEN The Tribrre, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. TY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—FOSTAGE PREPATD. ally Edition. one year. S1. oriE S5 year, per moni 00 530 Iri-Weel 3-00 Firtsof a year, ver wionti: 5 WEEKLY EDITH One cops. ver y Cluborfour.. Spectmen coples sent free. Give Lost-Otlice sddress dn full, {ncluding State and County. Lemfttances may be made efther by draft, express. Tost-Otfice orér, or in registerad letter. at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Daily, delivered. Sunday cxcented, 25 cents per weck. Dally, delivered, Sunday included. 30 cents per week. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, ‘Corner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, Ill. Orders for the dellvery of Tug TRIBUNE at Evanston, ‘Englewood, and Hyde Parx left fn the counting-room willreceive promi TRIBUNE BRANCH O TnE CE1CaG0 TRIBTNE has cstablished branch offices for the receipt of eubscriptions and advertiscments &3 Tollows:~ NEW YORE~Room 29 Tribune Bullding. F.T.Me- FADDEY, Manager. PARIS, France—No. 16 Rue de 1a Grange-Batcllere. 1. Manre, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—American Exchange, 449 Strand. HeNEY F. GiLLIG, ARent. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.—Tslace Hotel. . G4, A.. F. & A M.— ee-av.. near Carpenter= v. 3, + Tuueral of ourlate Brother, Kinzie-st. depot to Kosehtil sister Lodges fraterually suould e worn. By order e e, JOHN GINOCEIO, Secretary. T) A. M.—The members are respectft 1cnd the funeral of our former brother, ¢ (iute of D. C. Cregler Lodge), at 243 West Wal few doors westof 1ioyue-av.. this (Sunday) : . util. atgas sharp. Carsto osebtil, T LINCOLY PARK CHAPTER. NO. 175 il corner of North Ciark and Centre: Convocation Monday evening, Mov. 4. at ok, 1or busiuess and work ou th¢ K. A. Degree. Visiting Companions courteously invited. Ly vrder of | . A. BEEBE, I I 1. §. STREAT, Secretary. ROME LODGE, NO. 508 A. M.—Spectal Tommunication Tuesds £ for sharp. Hepular Communication Friday e 4 fmnortauce, Every and business of be preseat. Visiidng brethren R. 7. HERRICK, Secretary. EXCELSIOR ENCAMPMENT. L 0. 0. F., NO. 103 (Untformed). — ilall. Twenty-second St between te-st. and Wabash-ny. The Third Degree will he W by-laws 1o bo vored on. next Kri- v. & Visiting brotliers invited. 8y A. H. WAGGENEL, C. P . for worl member s requested to cordlally lavited. o X RENSSELAER GRAND LODGE OF PERFEC- —There wiil be a regular Asscmbly 0o Thursixy o next. Work on the Fourth aud FIfth Degrees. Dy order of % ANOSTETTITONE. T.~. I G M. ED. GOODALE, Grand Secretary. WILEY M. EGAN CHAPTRR, NO. 126, ‘L' A. M.~ Special Convocation next Saturday eveniogz. Nov. at 4:30 o'cluck. Object of meeting. copserring Councll Degrees. Al members requested to be present. Per order 1L P. E. F. NEWELL, Secretary. CHICAGO CUMMANDERY, Conciate, Mondsy eventne, X corper fislsted xnd Randoiph tendance requested. Visiting ichis courteously tavited. Byorderof the Eminent Commander. JAMES E. ME XNO. 19, K. T.~Stated . 4 xT EGINN, Kecorder. GOLDEN RULE LODGGE, Communication Tuesday eve > o'clock. Work on Tnird. Members req Visittng urechren alwass welcome. By order wend. TOTE LODGE. DEGREFE OF HONOR, meetsat the pew Hall, 55 North Clark-st., on Thuridsy evening, Xov. 7, 8 0'clock sharp. MRk JOHN 5. FORD, D. M. W. ST. BERNARD_COMMAMNDERY. 0. 35, K. T. Frated Conclave Weanesday eventug, Noy. 6. at o'clock.” Work ou the K. T. Ordér. Visiting Sir Knights usly 1ovited. By order. S e 34 Wl e APOLLO "COMMANDERT. 2X0. 1. K. T.—Stated Conclase next Taesdsy evening, at 8 'clock, for busi- nest. Visitors always welcome. By arder of the Com- mander. J. R. DUNLOF, Kecorder. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1878. In New York on Saturday greenbacks were isteady at 993 in gold and silver coin. The Turkish troops have been ordered to evacuate Varna, the most important seaport .on the wast coast of the Black Sea. Prob- ably this measure is taken with a view to pacify and placate the Bulgarians. The Surgeon-General's report shows that during the past week there has been 2 marked decrease in the violence of the yel- low fever in all the Sonthern cities. In New Orleans there were 83 new cases, in Mobile 60 new cases, and in Memphis only 22 Qeaths. The friends of TiLpEN admit that he will have & difficult task if he atiempts to prove ‘before the Porrer Committee that he never hud any connection, directly or indirectly, with the cipher telegrams which have been traced so accurately and indisputably to Gramercy Parl — Aount Vesuvius has been for some weeks unusually excited, and there are indications of another great eruption. Still the in- habitants of the villages at the foot of the voleano refuse to take warning and go on, a3 did the people of Pompeii, eating, drink- ing, and making merry. There is a prob- ability that old Vesuvius will soon furnish the world witha sensation of extraordinary magnitude, and people would do well to read up on Lord Lrrron's novel. The bail of Jomx STEWART, an arrested Director of the Glasgow Bank, has been fixed at $75,000,—one of the largest bail- bonds ever executed. In the cases of others more directly concerned in the falsification of the bank's sccount bail has been abro- lutely refused. While justice is thus marche ing steadily and sternly on, it is curious that there is a reaction in public feeling in Glas- gow. and at 8 private meeting of citizens a subseription of $150,000 has been raised for the relief of the stocklolders, who are all lia- ble to the extent of their fortunes, — e Senator Burrer, of South Carolina, has been making bitter partisan speeches in that State during the present campaign. In one harangue st Charleston a few nights ago he compared Democrats who had joined the Independent movement to deserters from the arnty, and intimated that they deserved the some fate that was meted out to deserters; and the Democratic sudience tumultuously’ applauded the sentiment. If one of these Independents had chanced to be in the erowd ot that moment ke would doubtless have fared roughly at the hands of the apostles und adherents of the shot-gun policy. —_— — If the people should vote the $750,000 ‘bonds which the Ring asks for, they would thereby indorse the outrageous extravagance of this year's appropriations, and insuras the expenditure of every dollar and every penny esproposed. - But, by voting against the issue of the bonds, the poople will soy to the Ring: “We disapprove of . your reckless and exorbitant outlay ; we know that it can- not honestly require more than twice as much this year to run the same institutions and departments as it did in 1874 when prices were inflated ; we are not prepared to pay as much tax now as we did then, yet you propose to-expend mores$; therefore, that you cat down'y that you reduco exper W"’fiwz‘ extras, and that yon save out'of. for prosecation of work on the Court-House.,” And the Ring will obey this injunction if the bond-issue be voted down,—not because of any disposition to bow to the popular will, bat because the Ring can serve its own pur- posos better by devoting o portion of the current revenue to the Court-Fouse than by eating it all up in public charity and salaries. From reliable sources we learn that the Democrats have laid their plans to carry the election, if possible, by a wholesale system of repeating and illegal voting at the polls. In nearly every precinct of the city names have been registered as being those of ¢i zens residing at certain numbers, when, in fact, either the names aro fictitious or the street-numbers indicated are at vacant lots. It ishoped and expected by the Democrats thatat least 2,000 illegal votes may thusbe run in and the clection carried for -their candi- dates. Judges of election should look into this matter and excrciso the greatest cir- cumspection in receiving votes that are at all doubtful. One of the hnmorous incidents of tho local campaign is to be found in the ultima- tum issued by the McNaruy ring of the Greenback party, This ring, or perhaps it might be more appropriately styled the claw, consists, according to the closest com- putation, of thirteen men and a boy. - Some time ago they organized themselves into a convention and ratified the Democratic nom- inations with one ortwoexceptions. Since then the thirreen men and a boy have been indus- triously importuning these candidates for money to pay campnign expenses. KEry, DoorrrrLr, and others have “‘come down” more or less liberally, but several of the pooer ones have failed to meet their assess- ments. Now the McNarry claw has given them the alternative of paying or losing its support, After the Republican voters of the First Senatorial District (composed of the First, Nioth, and Tenth Wards) bave carefully perused the solemn affidavit of ex-Ald. A. H. Surr, who not long since represented the Tenth Ward in the Council, if they sup- port Geonge E. Wirrrs for Senator the dis- grace will beron them rather than on him. Mr. Syrra when in the Council was esteemed an honest Alderman, and voted with the anti-corruption members. He makes affi- davit that when he was acting as a juror in the trinl of several indicted County Com- missioners and the notorious CLex Perto- TAT, in the fall of 1876, Georee E. WarTE, then an Alderman from the same ward with said SaiTh, came to him and tried to induce himn fo hang out to the end for acquittal of the rogues, and thus prevent a verdict of guilty on-the part of the jury. The reason WmiTe gave for making this unlawful and infamous proposal was, that ‘“he was on Peuronat’s bond, and his pecuniary 1nterest in the matter was such that he could not afford to have those men convicted.” Mr. Syirm says that shortly afterwards he informed the Hon. M. F. Turey and others of what WaITE said and tried to have him do; and he adds that he repeats it now under oath for the benefit of the electors of the First Senatorial District, so that they might vote with their eyes open as to the character of the man who by hocus pocus had thrust himself upon them for the high and honorable offico of Senator. Tae Trin- ONE has been censured by the *“ machine ” class of politicians for not supporting this man for the important and honorable offico of State Senator. They think that a news- paper shonld be utterly lost to all sense of moral obligations, decency, and honesty when partisan interests are at stake, and that the line should be drawn wide enough to embrace every corrupt scoundrel who may pack a Nominating Convention or bamboozle an Execulive Committee. Tre Tribuse is not a member of that school of politics, 2nd Zoes not intend to become one. THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF CITIZENSHIP. It is humiliating to confess, but it cannot be truthfally denied, that the sense of the responsibility that attaches to American citi- zenship has been dulled and deadened during these late years. Politics has come to be re- garded as a trade in which only adventurers ood bummers engage, and the very men who should most sensibly feel the duty of taking part in the choice of public servants have nc- «uired the habit of scoffing at elections and depreciating the privilege of voting. Itis not necessary to trace down the various in- fluences that have brought about this apathy among the best citizens as to public affairs, but the fact is noted now in the hope that a conspicnous reference to'it at this time may awaken some citizens to a realization of their duty next Tuesday. We are all fond of boasting from time to time of ~Amer- ican citizenship, aud the 1most in- different can find some gratification in the thought that he is one of a self-gov- erning people ; but it is impossible to recon- cile pride of this kind with habitual disre- gard of the first duty and highest privilege of citizenship in a free country. Wae are not self-governing if wa do not chooss the agonts who administer public affairs, and we do not choose such agents when we permit cliques or rings to run our clections, or when knaves determina the result by stuffing ballot-boxes, or when the respectable and responsible citizens surrender election-dayintothe hands of the bummers. The taxpaying citizens of Chicago have been prodded into an sbandonment of the laissez-faire habit, so far as the City Govern- ment is concerned. They were first rallied into a general and successful revolt against bummerism when the latter had exhausted the resources of the Municipal Trensury, and bankruptey and dishonor stared the city in the face. Since that rebellion against Ring rule 1n the city, two or three years ago, thers has been interest enough evinced in the spring elections to retain an honest majority in the City Council, and the administration of city affairs has been orderly, economical, and decent. There is just as much need for o united effort on the part of taxpayers to rescue the'County Gov- ernment from the hands of a more unscru- pulons gang of tax-devourers than ever controlled the City Government. The own- ers of property inside the city limits pay the bulk of all the taxes contnbuted to the sup- port of the machinery known as the County Government. The Ring in control are now satisfied with expending nearly three, times as much 8s was spent; four years ‘ago; but, after exhansting their power to levy taxes, they further demand. the privilege of incressing the -county debt by $750,000 to feed themselves and their greedy retainers. Surely there is enough in ‘this situnation slone to demsnd the personal efforts of every man who owns property subject to toxation. = Whether regarded from apolitical or an cconomic point of view, the election of next Tuesdoy makes as"strong an” appeal to the duties and responsibilities of atizenship as can ever bo made. The political complexion of the _next "Congress, involving this time the financial policy of the nation, will be de- termined by this year's election. Every| vo'er in Chicago has a voice in the choice of a Congressman, and of members of the Leg- islature who elcet the next United States Senator from this State. Two responsible State offices are to be filled. The important position of Sheriff, closely related to the ad- ministration of justice in this county, is also in contest. The County Legislature will be governed by the five Commissioners to be chosen this fall, for they will probably con. stitute the balance of power. The people must determine whather or not the County Board shall be permitted to borrow three-quarters of a million to spend in addition to the £1,600,000 of current revenue this next year. "T'hus the election presents as wide scope s any election which- doos not involve tho Presidency of the United States, and the duty of every citizen to use his influence and cast his vote according to his conscience aud best judgment is imperative. - No private business or consideration of personal con- venience can excuse the refusal to' give the little time necessary to the dischurge of this duty. This appeal should find & special response from those who are accustomed to vote the Republican ticket. It is a notorious fact that the irresponsible classes have possessed themselves of the control of the Democratic party in this county, and that they havo dic- tated for the most partconspicuously unfit enn- didates for Congress, for the Legislature, and the county offices. The Republican tickot, on the other hand, with the exception of one or two nominations like that of Grorce Wuire, commands the confidence and re- spect of the community. The county is Re- publican, and it is only nccessary to bring out the full vote to insure the election of the ticket. This is demanded not merely for partisan “ advantage, but becnuse partisan suocess in this instance con alone avert the dangers that are threatened by the oppo- nents of the Republican ticket, both nation- al and local. Every man, then, who has not lost the last vestige of patriotism must fecl that personal effort is incumbent upon him, and that his duty is not merely to vote him- self, but to urge his friends, associates, and employes to do likewise, BLACKMAILING IN THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE. One of the strongest rensons why Sheriff Keex should not be re-clected will be ap- parent to any one who has read tho inter- view between a representative of Tre Tnis- UNE and o prominent attorney of this eity, which was printed in onr issue of yesterday, relative to the extortionate aud unlawful charges of Bailiffs for performing legal ser=- ices. Inthat interview it is charged that there is not a reputable law-firm in this city that does a large business but has paid extras to these Deputies for performing service in ordor to have the service oxecuted with dis- patch; that during the administration of Sheriff Keex juries have grown worse and worse, and that there are lawyers who own juries, and thus monopolize & certain line of legal business; that these juries are com- posed of the meanest riff-raff of the saloons and slleyways; and that in all cases the Sheriff demands an indemnity bond, which is not according to law, as the law requires an indemnity bond only where the title of ownership of property is in dispute. The complaint which this attorney makes is one that hes become mnotorious ; and the results of such ‘mismanagement and cor- ruption are observable - every day in our Courts. It has become a matter of public notoriety that it is only the: favorite lawyers of the Bailiffs, or lawyers whose power and influence are dresded by the Sheriff, who have been able to got their business ‘prompt- ly execated. It is motorious thnt certain lawyers secure employment because they can fix juries, pack them with professionnl bummers, and control their verdicts. It has Lecome notorious that in certain classes of cases aman is compelled to hire these cor- rupt lawyers, else he will find the jury fixed against him. To get a verdict, it is necessary to employ one of these shysters who can control certain Bailiffs, who in turn have a constituency of professional, salaried, bum- wer jurymen, But, say Sherif Keny and his Bailiffs, why are the names of lawyers who complain of blackmail not given? TFor the best reason in the world.. If they should give their names, and Keny should be re-elected, they would be persecuted to the end of his term. Juries would be packed agninst them. Their papers would not be served with the prompt- ness required by law. Their business would be crippled. - They would literally be slaughtered by the mercenary wretches whose nominations for deputyships Sheriff Kzny has publicly promised to the bummers in case he is elected. 'Their bread and butter depend upon their profession, and they cannnot afford fo lose their business. If it were not for this,—if it were not that they would be mercilessly hunted down and crushed by the wretches who will be placed upon Kenx's rolls if he is elected,—there are hundreds of lawyers in Chicago who would denounce the blackmailing practiced in the Sherifl’s office, and the shysters in their own profession who are privy to it, over their sig- natures and on the publie platform. Sheriffi KerNy may contend that he does not know much sbout this blackmailing business, but he is none the less responsible for it, becauss he is respomsible for every mau in his office, his character, and Lis oper- ations. But if he knows littie or nothing about it now, while he bas some little super- vision of his employes, how much ean he be expected to know of what is going on in his office when he has a gang of bummers about him, not of his own naming, and not respon- sible to him or any one else. The chief trouble with Sheriff Kery i, that he devotes so much time to politics that he has no time to attend to his business. When Mr. Kemy was & saloon-keeper he gave his attention to his business, and was successful ; but how would he have fared if he had given his niten- tion to something else and allowed a gang of bummers run the saloon ? It may be that the Sheriff’s office is as im- portent as o saloon. It certainlyneeds as much personnl supervision. During the past two years he has devoted his time to fixing things for the next two years, ns- sistéd by Mr. CuxvNINGHasr, who was detailed from the Zimes to aid him. ~ AMr. Cos- NiNGmax is an affable, -suve, plausible, gentlemanly young man, who has carried out his “assignment” to make things smooth in the public prints for Kery with : remarka- ble success, Being a good reporter, his job of keeping the other reporters well posted in nico things about Kexy, and smoothing over little difficulties in the office, has been well done.” .Had Ken attended to his legitimate business with half the faithfulness, zest, and enthusiasm that have characterized Coy- NINGHAM, he would have stood much better before the people of this county. That this extortion should have been prac- ticad for two years is bad enough, If there were any hope that it would be remedied in the next two years, in case KERX is re-elected, | his election might not appear in the light of & public calamity. DBut thereis no such hope. In his Eighth Ward speech he said : ““Idonot want to be Sheriff if I cannof have a Democratic County Board with it.” ¢ The office would not be worth having if Creany and Morroy, and the other Domo- cratic candidates, were not sent into the County Board." Are the people of this county reedy to go from bad to worse? Are they prepared to elect n man_who openly snd publicly pro- fesses that lie wants the office in order to continue past corruption and extortion, and who has openly and publicly promised to hand over every one of his appointments to bumiers ? ——e THE COUNTY-BOND STEAL. The crowning frand (of the local eampaign is the determination of the Democratic Com- mittee to print on their tickets ““ For tho is- sue of $750,000 of county bonds.” This is the kind of proposition which, if it had any merit, ought ‘to be submitted to the people with tickots bearing bLoth ‘For” and ¢ Against,” in order that every voter might easily and conveniently scratch off one word or the other, and cast his ballot according to his convictions. Butthe Democratic mana- gers propose to crowd the proposition down the throats of their voters in the interest of the County Ring. This action ought to in- fluence & good many Democratic taxpayers to vote the Republiean ticket, and those who are not prepared to go this length ought at least to take the pains to blot out the dis- reputablo vote which the Ring is trying to dictate to them, and cast their voice agmnst the issue of bonda. r This question of issuing county bonds is by no means a party question. It afects Democrats, Republicans, Greenbackers, and Socinlists alike, to the extent that they pay taxes. It is an expedient for furnishing the Ring with a fund of $750,000 in addition to the $1,600,000 which the tax-levy and re- ceipts will yield them for the coming year. To vote the bonds asled for will enable the Ring to expend the fnll amonnt of the tax- lovy aud county revenue in maintenance of the county institutions and departments, though it is certain thav from $£300,000 to $500,000 could be eaved out of the gencral expenses for continuing the work on the Court-House if the moneys were econom- ically disbursed. To vote the bonds will cut into the taxpayers at both ends; the general tax-levy will be squandered, and the special fund will be plundered. The property of Cook County will be further mortgaged for three-quarters of a million dollars, and over §£40,000 & year will be added to the annnal exponses in the shape’ of incrensed interest. The members and beneficiaries of the Ring urge that work on the Court-House must® cense unleds the bonds aro voted. This is false. 'The same statement was made a year ago when the Ring asked the psople to vote the bonds, and after the people refused to vote the bonds the' Ring found mesns for saving enough out of the General Fuud for continuing the work. i The same result can be brought sbout'this year by the same means. The County Board have this yesar actuslly appropriated’, the entire tax-levy for routine expenses, and propose to expend, in- cluding the receipts:from fees, not less than $1,300,000, outside of the interest on the present indebtedness' Now, the appropria- tions for last yddr were only $700,~ 000, and those ‘Sf the year before still less. It true that, during these two yenrs, nb;ont $750,000 were ex- pended over and sboye the appropriations in extravagance and Court-House “‘extras”; but such expenditured were illegal, and frand- ulent, and unnccessiiyy, and they certainly furnish no reasonable basis for estimating the general expenses of the coming year still higher. In 1874 the general expenses of the County Government’ were only $i76,000 for the same service on which the Board designs squandering $1,300,000 this year; yet in 1874 the entire line of purchases and wages was 83 per cent higher than now. In 1574 the taxpaying property was valued at $318,- 822,578, or more than’ twice as much as it is now, and property-owners were better able to pny S2 tax at that time than $1 now; yet now they are asked to pay more than $2 where they then paid $1. Could the un- scrupulous greed of the present County Ring be more vividly exposed than by this single circumstance? KERN'S DISGRACEFUL SALE TO THE BUMNERS, Never in the history of politics has there been anything more disgraceful than Kery's abject, humiliating promise at the Eighth Ward meoting that, if re-elected; he would permit the strikers and bummers of the sev- eral wards to select the persons who shall be appointed Deputy-Sheriffs and Bailiffs during the next two years. The Sheriff promises to abdicate his own legal authority and leave to the riff-raff of each ward the appointment of the Deputies and Bailiffs. Here is the report of what took place at the mecting : On the night of Monday, Oct. 28, CuarLEs Ken: appeared on the platform before a meetingof De ocratic voters of the Eiehth Ward, in the Turuer- Hall on Twelfth street, before a meeting called for the purpose of reconeiling the Irish elements of the Democratic party which refused to support Mr. Keny's claims for a re-clection, and were in open opposition to him. He stepped before them and acknowledged that he had given them canse to be digsatisfied; that he had wronged numerous friends by not keeping the promise of oftice he had made them before bis election. Ile sald he had vpromised offices in the ex- pectation that a Democratic President wonld be elected, and that he ana hie fricnds would have tac control of the Federal patronace, which hope had not been reslized. fle sala, further, that in makine appointments he had been obliged to follow his own judzment. a8 no organi- z0tion of the varty had then been cxisting to assist Lim in ‘making these appointments. Bat ail this ehould be chanced if he re-elected. e said: :*Now, my friends, you have an orcanization. You have precinct and ward committees elected by your votes, n Central Commitlee chosen by rour own representatives; to them I ehall look to fill for me the vacancies in my oilice; throuch them, yon, ny friends, shall control the patronage of my of> ice.” Mr. KenN proposes to swrender any further control of the duties of his office to Depauties, Jailers, and Bailiffs selected by the ruffinns and rascals of the ward meetings. To such Daputies and Bailiffs he proposes to hand over the custody of the prisoners in the joil, the salection of juries, the finding of witnesses, and the services of excentions. One can readily understand the Jjoy of the criminal classes when Kerx's Deputies and Jailers are to be selected at ward caucuses, But the man’s Guplicity snd innate raseali- ty are further illustrated by aunother part of the speech ho made ot that same meeting. Here is the report ; . At the same mecting Mr. Krny made another remark, which is commended 1o the careful utten- t10n of the taxpayers of Cook Connty. The Denio- cratic Sheril's candidate said further: **Ang now, my friends. Ido not want you to elect me alone; I want the entire Demacratic ticket electea. and, aboveall, I bescech you to elect your candi- dates for County Commissioner. 7 do nol want {0 e Steriyy if I'cannol have a Democratic County Board withit. The opice would not be worth hat- ing if Cleary and Mulloyand the other Democratic candidates were not sent into the County Bonrd. ™ Keey declares that the oflice would not be worth having unless Cueary and Murzor are elected County Commissioners. Why? How does the election or non-election of these 10en affect him in the ®ffico of Sheriff unless ! he depends on therr votes for allowances which he knows are extravagant, if not dis- honest? ‘This- man Kery has been holding himself up ss an officer who las been honest despife his official surround- ings. He 'has affected to despise his Democratic nssociates in office us com- posed of baser metal than himself. Now he declares that the office would not be worth baving unless CLeary and Murroy, and the other Democrats, nre elected Commissioners. We again ask, Why? These County Commis- sioners have the power to fix the pay for feeding prisoners in the County Jail. The manager at the Bridewell feeds all his prison- ers at a cost of 12 cents each per doy. The Commissioners allow Keny to rob the county to the tune of 35 cants a day for each prison- er. In that allowance there is 830,000 a year clear profit to tho Sheriff, in violation of law. ‘That explains what Keny means when ho snys he does not want the office,—*‘it would not be worth having uuless Creany and Murroy, and the other Democrats, are elected Commissioners.” Let the people, thus advised, go to the polls on Tuesday and vote Kery, and Murroy, and CLeARY out of office—get rid of the whole gang! Snow them under with ballots. REFORM THE COUNTY BOARD. Ten years ago the people of this city and county were robbed snd plundered by a local government known as the Board of Supervisors. - This was a numerous body, including forty-eight or fifty members. So scandalous had this Government be- come that, when a new Constitu- tion was adoptel in 1870, there ‘was an unanimous appeal from this county to rid the peoplo of the political deformity and the personal gang known as the ““‘Board of Supervisors.” The new Counstitution pro- vided for aspecial county government, to con- gist of fifteen Oommissioners, ten of whom were to be elected in the city. There was great rejoicing over the deliverance, and the people of the city took especial peins to olect first-class citizens to the new Board. Both parties bid for popular support by nominat- ing respectablo and responsible men, and for a few years the Board of Commissioners was an honor to the city, and possessed unlimited public confidence. But the plun- derers were not crushed. Gradually they elbowed the respectable citizens out of the Board, and put into their places a different class of men, including soveral who had been the worst members of the old Board of Supervisors. Corruption and dishonesty at once governed the new Board. The whole membership being small, it required only eight to rule, and, several small districts having been created, it was an easy job to elect sev- eral of the worst specimens from outside of the city, and for at least five years the County Board has been governed by an unserupu- lous, dishonest, and corrupt majority. Its record since that diy has been a succession of scandalous abuse of power, rackless plunder of the public, wasteful extravagance, connivance with contractors, partnership in frauds, open robbery under the pretext of voting extras, and an addition to the annual public expenditure in the way of subsidy or gratuity to contractors and others sufficient to divide $100,000 among the majority of the Board in payment for their votes. Threo years ngo, Messrs. Parrick CLEARY and Micaazs Murroy were elected Commis- sioners from the city district. They have made a three years’ record, and what that record is msy be judged from the fact that they were the unanimous choice for re-elec- tion of the scalawag class, of the plunder- ers of the County Treasury, of the claimants for extras and gratuities. They will get overy vote of every bummer and vagrant who lives upon the public. They will get every voto that can be dug from the slums and the pest-houses of crime and vagrancy, pauperism, drunkenness, and vice. They are the candidates of the party of plunder, robbery, and peculation. Every man who expects to rob the commaunity by bribery and corruption will vote for Cueary and Movr- Loy, whose election is regarded in such cir- cles as essential to the system of plundering the County Treasury. . The defent of these two Commissioners may not reform the character of the prevail- ing majority in the Board, but it will be a valuable aid in sodoing. Next year four oth- er city members ‘will go out, and if CLeARY snd MuLroy be beaten this year, a like suc- cess in the interest of public honesty next year will be sufficient to revolutionize the Board and restore it to the confidence it en- joyed some years ago, and malke it what was intended it sbould be, a Board of honest, re- spectable, competent citizens, acting for the public good. To reform the Board the work must be done in detail;: the poople must elect honest and respectable Commissioners a5 tho places become vacant. Ouly two places are vacant in the city district this year, and four will ba vacant noxt year. Se- cure the two members ip 1878, and then the chango of four more in 1879, with the repu- table Commissioners holding over, will give an honest majority in the Board,—somothing it has not had for veverel years. THE EVOLUTION OF RASCALITY. Mr. Cranies Darwiy has speut a quarter of & century in the effort to substantiate his theory of the origin of the human species according to the doctrine of Evolution. His account of the ‘‘Descent of Man” gives Genesis the go-by, and treats oar great pro- genitor Apax merely as a mile-post, and a poor one at that, to mark the progress and development of the race, and not as the putative father of all the varions tongues tribes, and nations of people that have swarmed upon the face of the earth since time began. As might be expected, such a radical theory, striking at the very founda- tions of all the old philosophies in regard to the origin of mankind, met with violent re- sistance among the learned men of the time, —many of the scientists and nearly all of the orthodox religionists taking strong ground in opposition to the idens advanced by Mr. Danwiy. But the new theory looked so plausible, and there appeared to be so much direct and circumstantial evidence to support it, that it soon found able and eloquent advocates in such learned men as HERmERT SPENCER, Pro- fessors Huxtey and Tyypany, Jous Stuant M, sod many others eminent for their scholastic attainments among the foremost thinkers of Europe, and by nearly every man of note and advanced views in "America. True, the late lamented Prof. AGAssiz entered o inild protest agninst ‘‘Darwinianism,” as he understood it, but it was rather from the standpoint of one who was warmly attached to the fable of the Garden of Eden and its religions and traditional bearings than the espression of a man who was dealing solely with the hard facts of scientific inguiry. Mr. Darwry had spent fifteen years in the profoundest study and most critical investi- gation of his subject before he ventured to print & word in support of his opinions, and not then until his personal friends had urged him again and again to make them public. Wken he did so, n thousand other men, as learned, logieal, nnd industrious as himself, came promptly to Mr. Danwin's support, making new suggestions and bringing other ovidence to strongthen and uphold the new- born philosophy. ; As a famous inventor, like ArRwriGHT or Episox, often gets valuable hiuts in regard to his machines from workmen less skilled and endowed with the inventive faculty than himself, so Mr. Dinwi's disciples have been of immense service to him in develop- ing and rounding out his great system. Among all his coadjutors, probably Mr. Dar- WIN is more indebted to Mr. Heeperr Srex- OkR than to either of the other distingnished scholars who have taken up the Evolation theory aund applied its principles to the progress and devclopment of society nnd governments 83 a concrete-whole. He has shown how the State began at first by com- pacting varions isolated tribes,—the tribes being composed of numerons familics, and they in turn represented by differsnt house- holds having individual and separate hends. In his * Synthetic Philosophy,” Mr. SreNcer has traced with great patience and research the evolution of the marriage relation, and has delineated with masterly analysis how ‘woman has grown from the mere creature of man's lust and conquest—the slavish object of his passion and the unresisting recipient of his unreasoning cruelty and revenge— into a civilized being who is conceded to bp Heaven's best gift to man, his equab in intelligenco, and his superior in all moral and domestic excellence, Ho has also, ina series of articles recently published, been applying tho theory of Evolution to ceremo- ninl government, and has given a minate and elaborate history of the origin of many of the customs and habits now in vogue among civilized communities, such asshaking hands, making presents, the form of salutation, ad- dressing those in authority, obeisance, and. so forth; and, entering the domain of the intellect, ho has endeavored to illustrate, as Lord Bacox and Sir Wrnnrast Haxirtoy did beforo him, how idess have advanced and become crystallized, so to speak, into the characteristics of peoples and nations. Mora recently Mr. Bary, in trenting of the funec- tions of the ‘‘Intellect and the Senses,” has found it convenient to adopt the Evelution theory, even in the subtile analysis necessary for his delicate work, and by so doing he has added - something supplementary to Mr. Danwiy's great philosophy. And now we confidently look to Mr. Spexcer, or Mr. Baiy, or Prof. Jony Fisze, to give the public some new light upon “The Evolation of Rascality.” -That ras. cality—refined, educated, sagacious, and eminently respeciable—is keeping fully nbresst with the progress and development of tho race in all civilized countriesis a proposition that no well-informed reader of the daily newspapers will .deny. In fact, society has **evolved ” so much of that sort of thing during the last half of the present contury that tia Christian, the statesman, and the philanthropist have good reason to be seriously alarmed at -the prospect before us from the moral point of view. The im- minent danger to the social fabric does not spring from the fact that the vicious and criminal classes inerease numerically as fast as the better and more desirable portions of society, but the serious aspect of the case is that Rascality has seized upon some of the best material, and is to-day adopting all the higher methods and instrumentalities known to our superior civilization to accomplish its devilish purposes. Only last Sunday morn- ing, in broad daylight, in one of the prin- cipal thoronghfares in New York City, a bank was robbed of over $3,000,000 worth of properly, and no clew to the thieves has as yet been discovered. It was the boldest robbery that has been comumitted id this country during the present century; and, when all the circumstances are considered, it must be admitted that to plan and executo such s stupendous theft, and elude the ahmost omnipresent vigilance of the police, requires a cournge, self-possession, knowledge of affairs, and executive ability of the highest order., The men who rifled the Manbattan Bank must have graduated at some university of crime with the highest honors of their class. Others like them abound in overy Iarge city, and ** The woods is full of them.” Chicago has had her Spexcens, her Mrenses, her ANGELLs, her Eowaroses, and her other accomplished rascals, who are so conspicuous in their badness that they may be said -to stand in the samo relation to other thieves that Jrx Fisg, who stole the Erie Railrond, did to the poor wratch who purloined aloaf of bread to avoid starvation. That miserable class of small sinners who infest the stums of largo cities, and are run into the police stations, to be sent up for a few doys as “ drunk and disorderly,” are as white-souled innocence pemsonified when compared with the gigantic swindlers who prey mpon so- ciety by robbing savings-banks, or by organ- izing and running bogus life-insurar ze com- panies that “ devour widows’ houses” and consume the heritage of the fatherless. Recently threo men were confined in the jail of a neighboring city at the same time, and all charged with serious crimes. One was o physician of well-established practice, was a local politician of some note, had been & member of the State Legislature, and aspired ot one time to bo Mayor of the city. e was afterwards convicted of counterfeit- ing, and served out his term in the Peniten- tiary. Another confessed to have murdered his own child, begotten out of wedlock, bat escaped the penalty of the law by breaking joil. e was a graduate of the State Uni- versity, a member of the law class, and one of the most talented members of the institu- tion. The other was a newspaper-writer of conceded ability, the author of a popular book, and a thoroughly-trained business- man. He was convicted of forgery. All three of these culprits were graduates of the best educational institutions in the land, but had turned their superior training to a bad acconnt. All three were married, so that dowestic restraints were added to the ad- vantages that are supposed to arise from in- tellectual culture. Turning to the cases of HaTHAWAY, Cmack, and others at the East, who have become champion operators in wrecking joint-stock companies and gob- bling the assets, we find that they improved npon our Western rascality by adding godly lives, the prestigo of good names, and the assurance of previous correct conduct, to the graces of scholarship and the rc_ning iuflnences of the bestsociety. So, too, was our faith shaken in the integrity and honesty of our brother man by the disastrous failure of the Glaosgow baunk. Scotch Presbyterian- ism had its rcut in the same soil that pro- duced thoso stalwart and heroie Covenanters who farnished some of the rare stuff of which Chaurch of other people’s money, and Weretgg pious to rend a newspaper oa Mondny cause part of the work on it haq beex g on Sunday, and who were cuuspicno\!s‘f“ their “ previous good conduct,” Were, shi" wrecked in the storm of temptation 83 ren ily a8 the most undevout beggar who ey, 5 uttered the Pharises’s prayer on tbe‘llu::: corner. b It is often ensier to make g corract digo. nosis of a disease than it is‘to Preseriba efficient remedy.. It s 50 in this case, o cality i beconiing omnipotent, snd, wia our State prisons are full of little Togues, th: big ones either elude the grip of the In’w o defy it altogether. A sound policy suggasty that we try and prevent as well a8 Bm» this foul blotch upon the cheek of societ; 2 Have we not made a serious mistrke in (;uyr system of universal education by forcing the intellectual, and wholly ignoring 1. moral part of the student? We hay, ““bounced” the Bible from the commoy school, and the Principal who mildly repeaty the Lord’s Prayer asan opening exercise iy the morning, has become the laughing-stock of incipient materialists and advanced think. ers, who have exchanged the Sunday-seligo] for opera bouffe, and have a better know]. edge of base-ball and draw-poker than they have of church craeds and eatechisms. Sore. Iy and rapidly we are drifting away from the old Iandmarks established by our fathers; ° but a liberal infusion of their stern integr ; and unimpeachable morality would be g wholesome specific for the ethical dry-rot that we are now bemoaning. " We have often wondered that the musieal’ children of EGRIPIDES have not discovered thy possibilities for rhythmical composition that lig in marriage notici All newspaper men haye been compelled to zdmire the fortune and the” fame acquired by the accomplished editor of the Philadelphia Ledger in the line of obituary ng- tices woven into familiar verse, aad, as the ng. tices of deaths and weddings are always place] together in the mewspapers, It {3 3 wonder that - the funeral-pall and not the marriage-bells fy. spire the expression of the immortal myse, Here i3 2 new field to be cultivated by some one richly endowed with the Promethean fire, and the Schuylkill Sepublicun of a recent date cop. tains a specrmen of what may be aone in taly line. Here it is: s BROWN—McGUIRE—At Heckschérsville, on ths 13th inst., by the Rev. J. Waism, Mr. Jayes' Browy, of Forestville, to Miss Axxiz McGoims, ©of Thomaston. ; Oh, ANXIE, thou hast left us, : 'hy place 13 hard to iz : ‘The bue that has berefc us 3 1s JaMEs Browy from Forestville, The first commandment don't forges, Increase aud muitiply: May life ve Jongr and lo 35, how Is tiat for hig Judged by the nighest standard of excellence, it must be admitted that the last line is not- quite up to concert piteh, but it may be thattbe eifted orator will plead the liberty of poetfc }i- cense aod say that it was necessary to sacrifice the sense in order to secure the proper measure, In these days of materialisticideas, and thetotat absence of the mystical and supernatural, which have ever been essential factors in ancient po- etry, and the limiting of poetic efort to the barren domatin of the actual, it is stranze that some master-mind, like the sweet singerof Michigan for instance, does not seize upon this grand opportunity to achieve distinction and eminence. — Mention has slready been made of the fact that the Rev. Hexny WaRD Beecaee had been elected Chaplain of the famous Thirteenth Regi- ment, and last week the novelty of seeing the noted preacher in uniform broke up tae monot- ony of the day, and added a new interest to tha review. ‘The band—thirty-cight stronz--was also out in a new uniform that cost $2,000, and disputed the honors with the distinguished Chaplain.. .An eye-witness says Mr. Bercnea rode a spirited roan horse, and wore & cocked " plush hat, over which danced a heavy black plume. One side of the hat was fastened up With a rosette, the other with a beaded velvet cross. The crown was encircled with asilk cord, with gold knobs for ends. A high-breastea black coat of military cat, black pantaloons corded with velvet, and mouse-colored gloves, completed the dress. Mr. BEECHER Wworé 8 Captain’s epaulets, and carried a showy sword at his side. His iron-gray curhng locks, wkica seemed to have been treated to pomade, hung over his coat-collar. As he appeared in sicht the soldiers hammered the]floor with their mas- Kets, as if they felt very proud of thelr eloquent Chaplain, and the band struck up Anzz's favorite song, **As Pretty as a Pictore,” whith was no doubt considered appropriate. —— Mr. M. H. TILDEN, who ‘has represented Taz Cuicaeo TRIBUNE at Memphis during there- ceut terrible yellow-fever epidemic, reached his home in this city yesterday morning, and was heartily welcomed by his brother Chicazo journalists during thé day. Mr. TiLDES'S dis- patches and letters to Tne TRIBUNE have beea widely read, and not only gave satisfaction to his employers, but were greatly apprecisted by the people of ‘the plague-stricken. city from whence they were sent. Un the mornfog of Mr. TILDEN’s departure for Clicago the Mem- phis Appeal sald: Mr. M. H. TiLbEY, correspondent of Tuz Cit- ©AGO TRIBTNE, loaves this morning for his home, where, no doubt, a hearty welcome awsits him his friends. We bave already bomne testi- mony 1o bis heroism during the evidemic and bis hearty sympathy for our people, and it only re- mains for us to thank the editor of Tux TRECNE for sending him to us, and- for the generous coa- duct of that paper toward our city and refagee cit- izens in Chicago. A preatand powerful organ of pablic opinion, its intluence was cxerted for us without stint. and the utmost stretch of kindnesd was manifested by the sialf of the paper towsrd the Memphians gojourning in Chicazo,” affording them at all hours an opportunity to learn the news from home 1n advance of its pablication. Weare deeply indebted to Tug TrisuNE for this unususl courtesy, and stand ready to reciprocate should op- portumity ever offer. ————— . The Board of Commissioners has the power to tax and to expend. It i3 authorized to1e¥f " atax equal to all the interest on the debt due before 1870. In addition it has the power {0 levy a tax cqual to 75 cents on each $100 worth of taxable property in the county. It hss power to expend ull the revenue from thes sources, and some $300,000 revenue derived . otherwise. Out of this revenue there ouzkt:0 be a surplus of half a million dollars, to be ex- : vended o the Court-House. But tue'Commls- sioners have added $300,000 to the appropris- tions for salaries and other expenses, in order to create a necessity for the fssue of bonds We appeal to the public, no matter what else they may neglect -at the clection on Tuesdafy 10 70 to the polls and vote azainst CLeant and MuLLoY. Spare the community the re-election of these two men. Vote for STEWART aud Conury, and vote agafust the fssue of Court- House bonds: It is every man’s duty to rescus the Board of Commissioners from the hauds . into which {¢ bas fallen. ————— s After pleading TiLDEN'S case béfore the . Electoral Commission, and coquetting with IM‘ Greenbackers and Democrats by acecpting 8. promiscuous call to run again for the United States Senate, MaTT CArPENTER has suddenly . discovered that the Republicans are going 10 carry Wisconsin next Tuesdar, and th _h‘ l-'l safe to get down off the fence. Accordivglse D is now in Milwaulkee making speeches in the different wards, confessiniz his political sits “ that are as scarlet,” and beseeching the Re- publicans to take him back, The Wisconsin Republicans will do well to put MaTT on probs; tion. » —————————— Dow't the Exccutive Committee’ wish 10% n a little Jess of the fish- worman kind of backbone when they were deab- fng with the First District Sematorship? Thef aliowed the *coparcencrs.” (igoncs VIITE™ maertyrs are made, and it had got to be the synonym of all that was honest, trust- worthy, and discreet in the public mind. But the men who gave liberzlly to the and DAVE CLARK, to snub, insult, snd foo/ them, and to place them in a most humllhu\_’; 5 lizht before the entire comuunity. WHITE £V them to give him a false certiticate of ** 1o z larity™ in the nomination on the arguued