Editorial Briefs

New York, 1895

The only excuse the Brooklyn Times can offer for putting in the mouth of the Rev. Michael Dennison blackguard words that he would not be guilty of uttering, is that the reporter may have been drunk when he wrote the article. That would not surprise any one who knows the reporter, but no respectable newspaper would entrust its work to a reporter of that kind.


It is too late now to take proceedings to remove Excise Commissioner Bauman from office. The people of Jamaica will turn him out before he can do much more harm.


The people have before them a fresh instance of the peculiar way the District Attorney's office is conducted. The Excise Commissioners of Newtown were indicted long before the case for their removal was brought in the County Court. There have been courts and courts, but the indictments have remained in the pigeon-holes. The civil charges have been tried, Judge Garretson has passed his judgment, Governor Morton has approved the judgment, and County Clerk Sutphin has bounced the commissioners out of office. Now the District Attorney remarks languidly that he will "call" the indictments for trial in April. If the civil proceedings had not been successfully prosecuted, would these indictments ever have been tried?


One of the recommendations of the Grand Jury has been complied with. The stone breaking fraud at the County Jail has been abolished by the board of Supervisors. Good.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 8, 1895, p. 4.