Short Editorials, No Headlines (May 24, 1895)

New York, 1895

Sunday's Brooklyn Eagle had a news paragraph saying that Republican leaders would protest to the board of Supervisors against the appointment of the Glen Cove Gazette as an official paper representing their party on the ground that the Gazette is not a party at all. There must be some mistake about this. The Gazette was appointed by the Supervisors at the request of William J. Youngs, the Republican leader, and he ought to know the paper's politics. The Gazette is an excellent paper, with a good circulation and lots of independence, and the people will get more value for their money than if some impecunious, dying organ had been appointed. The selection is creditable to Mr. Youngs and the Supervisors.

Note: The "impecunious, dying organ" is a slam against The Jamaica Standard newspaper, which The Farmer considered dishonest, even criminal.


The Republican County Committee did right not to accept the resignation of Chairman William J. Youngs. The committee undoubtedly took the view that he should not be allowed to escape responsibility for the bad record he made at Albany last winter and this, and have the public censure fall upon the head of the innocent person who might succeed him. It was a sly move of the Boss, but the committee seems to have anticipated him.


We presume it will require a murder or two to arouse District Attorney Noble to a sense of the brutal prize fights that occur periodically at Ridgewood. Even murder might fail to do it.


The welcome given to Assemblyman Madden by the people of Long Island City was deserved. He made an intelligent and conscientious representative. He returns to his constituents with a praiseworthy record, locally and generally, and not under the cloud of an indictment for bribe seeking and bribe taking. Democrats should rejoice in this, and undoubtedly all honest Republicans appreciate it.


Boss Youngs would be better pleased to have Edward N. Townsend in the Senate than John Lewis Childs.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 24, 1895, p. 4.