The Supervisors Praised

New York, 1895

Press Comments on the Re-Election of Clerk Seabury.

The newspapers generally have praised the action of the board of Supervisors in re-appointing Robert Seabury to the Clerkship. THE FARMER has room for but a few extracts.

(Long Island City Herald, Republican:)

Owing to the meddling interference of William J. Youngs, chairman of the Republican County Committee, the board of Supervisors at their annual meeting on Tuesday did not elect a Republican clerk to succeed Mr. Seabury, the Democratic incumbent. Mr. Youngs encouraged so many aspirants for the position to become candidates that each Supervisor had a candidate from his own town, and after taking a number of ballots, with no prospect of electing a Republican, Mr. Seabury finally obtained a majority of the votes. If the county committee had endorsed one candidate a Republican could have been elected, but in that case Mr. Youngs might have been put in a tight place.

(Long Island City Star, Independent:)

The re-election of Robert Seabury to the position of clerk to the board of Supervisors gives good evidence that clean politics govern here in Queens county. Mr. Seabury, although a Democrat, is valued as a trusty and efficient custodian of the county records, as he deserves to be, and the endorsement he has received at the hands of a Republican board must be as gratifying to the gentleman and his friends as it unquestionably is to the general public who favor the rule of business principles in the conduct of county affairs.

(Hempstead Sentinel, Independent:)

The Supervisors have strengthened their interests in the county by the reappointment of Robert Seabury to the clerkship of the board. True the appointment was made in direct opposition to the mandates of the Republican county central committee, who had labored long and undauntedly with every Republican representative in an effort to secure another appointment. That they were unsuccessful is a good thing for the Supervisors. It shows that the board is not entirely under the lash of the leader of the committee.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 10, 1895, p. 1.