Short Editorials

New York, 1895

Reform

The Standard did not succeed in swindling the county, but B. Frank Wood has turned reformer. He showed his interest in reform by going to Albany and lobbying for the rascally Commissioner of Jurors bill that is intended to provide a fat office for a ruffianly politician and impose a burden of $10,000 a year on the people.

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THE FARMER did not say that B. Frank Wood had parted from the Standard. Mr. Wood himself wrote an article for the World, and put his picture in it, in which he himself said that he had left the pauperized sheet, and we merely reprinted the World's article as news matter. If Mr. Wood wanted to lie about himself it is his affair. It is true that Mr. Wood has bought some Standard stock at 30, but he has not paid for it, three-year notes not being cash. The paper is being run under false pretences.

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George Downing of Oyster Bay is Boss Youngs' candidate for clerk of the board of Supervisors. He shouldn't receive a single vote.

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The editorial in the Standard of April 13th, denouncing the Republican board of Supervisors, was written by William J. Youngs and then typewritten to hide the fact. The Supervisors are not going to be bossed by Mr. Youngs and he knows it. But what do decent people think of a Republican state and county committeeman who heaps abuse upon a Republican board of Supervisors?

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If the Standard is prosperous why did it try to swindle the county? Every Supervisor is a witness to the fraud that was attempted.

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No one ever believed that Judge Garretson favored the robber Commissioner of Jurors bill. He was lied about at Albany, just as the Supervisors have been lied about to help the scoundrelly bill along.

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Should Put Himself in Pickle

Assemblyman Vacheron has become sensitive since he was sent to the Legislature. * * Poor Vacheron! He should put himself in pickle. — The New York World.

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Returning to Democratic Faith

We are told of time wonderful help Sheriff Doht could be to the Republican party in Newtown. He was so popular there that he could carry it for the Republicans every time he took an active part in an election. When he was elected Sheriff, an office estimated to be worth at least $30,000 a year, it was supposed that Newtown would henceforth go Republican. Well, Newtown had an election the other day, and the Democrats swept the field. — Long Island City Herald.

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Every citizen of this county who knows Samuel S. Aymar will sympathise deeply with him in the heavy sorrow that oppresses him. Mr. Aymar is an honest and upright man, always able to look his fellow citizens in the face, and with an excellent reputation as a public servant, having been President of the Village of Jamaica, an internal revenue collector, President of the Agricultural Society, Secretary of the Masonic lodge and of the Arcanum, and a useful man generally.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 26, 1895, p. 4.