Editorial Briefs

New York, 1895

The Supervisors are to a man opposed to the Commissioner of Jurors bill — the latest $10,000 a year job of Boss Youngs and his tool, Assemblyman Vacheron. The Republican County Committee must be in favor of the job, for they have passed a resolution approving Boss Youngs' work at Albany. It is in order now for the committee to pass a resolution censuring the board of Supervisors for their opposition to the job and to the Boss and his tool.


With the board of Supervisors solid against the rascally Commissioner of Jurors bill we think Senator Childs will deem it wise to strangle the measure. Six of the seven Supervisors are Republicans, but they are not the political tools of Boss Youngs. The people must have respect for such men. As a Democratic paper THE FARMER is proud of Supervisor Everitt's stand against the job.


The Long Island City Herald, the leading Republican newspaper of the county, is showing proper respect for the sentiments of its party in opposition to Boss rule and jobbery by severely arraigning Boss Youngs for his efforts to pass laws to provide offices for heelers and make the people pay them big salaries. The $10,000 Commissioner of Jurors bill is one in point.


The Standard makes another attack on the board of Supervisors, and all because the Supervisors would not allow the Standard to swindle the county out of $225. What a criminal sheet it has become.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 19, 1895, p. 2.