Jumping On Boss Youngs

New York, 1895

He is Warned Against Displaying His Boss Platt Collar.

In an editorial in Wednesday's Brooklyn Times, a Republican newspaper, Boss Youngs is handled in the following caustic fashion:

"The Republicans of Queens county are beginning to ask themselves with some concern what is the reason of the superabundance of mention of the name of William J. Youngs in connection with Platt levees and Platt caucuses. There are Republicans in Queens county who are proud to wear the collar of Mr. Platt, but there are not enough of them to elect a chairman of the Republican County Committee, and Mr. Youngs would never have reached the position he holds, and from which he derives what of influence he possesses, if it had been supposed that he would give any aid or countenance to the attempt to make Mayor Strong's policy in the matter of appointments a party question."

"Mr. Youngs may gain a passing smile of favor from Mr. Platt by misrepresenting and betraying the Republicans of Queens in this matter, but nobody knows better than Mr. Youngs, from his own experience, how frail are any hopes built on the favor or the promises of Mr. Platt. Certainly the Queens county politician makes a very poor bargain who exchanges his chances of advancement at the hands of the Republicans of his own county for the passing blandishments of a would-be boss."

"Mr. Youngs is of age, and has a right to choose his own course. But he would do well to remember, and Messrs. Fairbrother and Vacheron would also do well to remember, that the Republicans of Queens county are very much interested in this matter, and that they will have no use in the future for any of their representatives who misuse the trust conferred upon them to throw the firebrand of factional discord into the Republican party."


Mandamus Applied For

Counselor Wallace has taken the necessary steps to compel the Commissioners of Charities and Corrections of Kings County to receive into the Penitentiary the tramps and vagrants committed thereto by the justices of the peace of Queens County. On Monday Counselor Wallace obtained from the Supreme Court an order directing the commissioners to show cause on Saturday next why a peremptory mandamus should not issue in favor of the authorities of Queens County.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 1.