Show CRUSADE A AGAINST NIAN RINGS and now canies conies CO well it a crusade crus saile against tle the political rings which risen to curso curse the quaker city and make the country forget the infamy my ot of tammany in this now DOW sensation it will be kemem remembered bared that col forney nr war ar governor cur car tin and their class previous to the reelection of grant began the crande arn ade against the rings of Pennsylva Pennsylvania nimat at the head of which is simon camero Ca moron 0 and that tho the division which this created in the republican publican Ile ranks not only alarmed the party parly throughout the country but actually camo came very near den to the loss of ivania to the administration so great was tile schism and so 83 obnoxious those that greeley Gre cley until just before the october election felt fell almost certain to carry the keystone state which was expected to have such a demoralizing effect upon the administration party everywhere as to ensure in ia november the election of gnats il lustri us opponent upon the tidal wave of a reform anti corruption ests movement but tho the anti ring crusade was turned back by the grant administration journals of the country thundering an abathe 31 hemas upon tho the heddi of the reform leaders or of tile the quaker city dubbing them traitors to their party and not excepting tho the beloved war ivar governor of th the c times which tried mens souls lien who were earnest for reform ref ormand and even those foremost in tho the anti ring move meat were not pap tred to ho he branded as traitors even to carry those leviti matie niala local issues which they an and the Ite republican publican party generally resigned when the actual contest came anti and united once more fur the greater purposes in involved in the presidential election sow now however tho the presidential contest is over the republican journals of the country are reviving the crusade the quaker i baler city rings ringa 1 I an and a tho the new york times though it thundered against curtin and bordey seema ambitious to play a similar part p art in them as it did la in the overthrow ol of tammany it beeks anti and finds in an opportunity port unity to engage in tile the affray through its special of philadelphia one of whom thus writes that there is a ring or a of ringi which completely control the municipal gov 01 philadelphia is so A fact by the Ite publican frad ln by the demo atio crapio deplored by the ibo tied noil not tiei by the tery in who oho comma acon r Lint b a nations liona their a i I 1 distinctly as aj the of smallpox small pox rox or dirty is if only divided tue the extent of thiu operations and t abo 0 proon 1 per divit atin or responsibility among t tho 0 partied r oong them if 1 is I 1 look ott to for int anulli II 11 benc to n 0 ra 0 of athe tho city ve a hod d benoe bot a litt little lerel I 1 a aloan and lem doti I 1 ito to in r m I 1 all regard to tho the Dittl cr tile tho I 1 prows u muzzled pretty by the deablo do obtain I 1 motiram 4 0 of fear r and self the muzzling of the press it appear to bo be through a fear I 1 of law suits fr for libel and there is is earlous sarious cause of fear sis as this correspondent says tho condition of in m ii 14 in id scarly all the same enao HA now york under tammany rule with thu this ex x cal oo 00 in tho battor city be hero r vu L ono Z in gi castio an t b kiib A r 10 tweed iu in there tire a auml er of rings each having its ito individual leader lout but not known to tho the authority of nay any one man that these men call themselves as tho the leaders called them solved democrats is I 1 of little mo niom cut public are always found in the ral gherty gp erty lo 10 ko york they were demo chatfi because that is id i a democratic city cl ty they tre in u that party li Is bore bar heavily in the th majority upon this the new york times announces its willingness to champion tile the cause of reform in tho the quaker city it is perfectly aware of the magnitude and difficulty of the last which has been fill undertaken der taken by the friends of municipal reform in philadelphia and it is ii very far from underrating tho the complexity of the abuses whose free and fall fail exposure in ii a necessary preliminary to that general and widespread feeling of popular indignation which alone can sweep the ring politicians from power and it is in fully fally impressed with the disadvantages under which the local press lab labors orsin in rendering efficient aiato aid to the cau cause e of re reform fortne but libel hivo have 1 I no terror for us not cot even pennsylvania vanill i libel declares tho the power that grappled with tammany it will bo be its first duty to ascertain as carefully as possible the facts bearing upon tho the mis government of philadelphia and then to accept the full for their publications publication ina and then its columns will he bo opened freely to an all who may con littler themselves injured by the statements they are arc not satisfied with the opportunity for justification which i is presented to them they can call seek a remedy |