The Supervisors' Clerkship

New York, 1895

The newspaper comments and the speech of the people indicate pretty clearly that the Supervisors have done the right and the popular thing by re-electing Mr. Seabury clerk.

The comments of the Brooklyn Times are not flattering to Boss Youngs, and the Times is a stalwart Republican paper, too. The Republican County Committee is censured for not agreeing on a candidate for the clerkship, but that was the way the Boss set the pins up, and that he could set up such a job shows how weak the committee is. Boss Youngs wanted a chance to foist his own man, Dr. Wright, on the Supervisors, and he thought he saw a way to do it by putting up a job to elect a Democratic chairman in exchange for votes for Dr. Wright, and he was only prevented from succeeding by the good conscience and strong courage of Supervisor Underhill, who stood out against the deal. The censure bestowed by the Times is well deserved.

The Long Island City Herald, the leading Republican paper of the county, stands right in line with the Times in condemning the wrong and harmful methods of Boss Youngs, and the independent newspapers, too, come squarely to the front in support of the Supervisors. What the several newspapers say will be found grouped together in another part of this paper, and is well worth reading.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 10, 1895, p. 4.