Believes the Supervisors Will Do Their Whole Duly

New York, 1895

Yesterday's edition of the Long Island City Herald, an eminently respectable Republican newspaper, contained the following tribute to the board of Supervisors;

"The annual meeting of the board of Supervisors will be held at their rooms in the Court House in this city on Tuesday next. It will be a meeting of unusual interest and importance not only to the people of Queens County but to the Republican party, as a large majority of the board are members of that party.

"The Herald feels warranted in making the prediction that the Republican members of the Board of Supervisors will not be swerved from doing their whole duty to their party and to the people by any pressure that William J. Youngs, the party boss, may bring to bear upon them. It is as plain to them as it is to the Herald and to every intelligent Republican that unless Mr. Youngs is held in check the Republican party will be defeated in the county at the election in November next. His tactics are of the kind that never have been and never will be endorsed by Republicans.

"Mr. Youngs is incorrigible. He always prefers to take the crooked and dangerous path rather than the broad and straight one, which is the path of safety. He would rather be the associate and leader of political freebooters than of men who believe that honesty is the best policy in politics as well as in the business affairs of life. Mr. Youngs could be a very useful man to his party because he is a tireless worker and has other qualities which it rightly applied would secure him the respect and confidence which he has forfeited by his "pernicious activity" — and his lack of sincerity.

"The Republican members of the Board of Supervisors, however, know Mr. Youngs so well that it is not necessary for the Herald to raise a danger signal to caution them. We believe that they will do their duty without the slightest regard to the approval or disapproval of Boss Youngs. If they show that they have the right metal and will not be cajoled or in any way controlled by that gentleman and his following of hungry office-seekers, they will before long have the hearty endorsement and support of every Republican who is a Republican for principle and not for spoils. The Republican members of the Board of Supervisors have already shown that they are not afraid of Mr. Youngs, and all we ask of them is that they stand firm in the position they have taken."


(From the Oyster Bay Pilot:)

* * Youngs will never be satisfied until he receives the nomination for state senator and some of his enemies are unkind enough to say that he is the real instigator of the quarrel between Senator Childs and Assemblyman Vacheron. It is alleged that he is responsible for the Vacheron candidacy for the senatorial nomination, and like the settlement of the quarrel alluded to in Aesop's fables over the possession of the oyster, at the proper time he will step in and settle it by giving Senator Childs and Assemblyman Vacheron each a shell and appropriating to his own use the oyster."

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 26, 1895, p. 1.