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Show LIPPMAN'S SPRING OPENING. Mr. Joseph Lippman has broken out of the political retirement which many of his political friends and enemies had fondly hoped would be permanent. He did so at a meeting of Americans Ameri-cans of the Fourth precinct, held at his own proper office, and at which the appointment of Mrs. Martha B. Jennings as a member of the school board was recommended in certain resolutions reso-lutions apparently .from the deathless pen of Mr. Lippman. I There is no legitimate objection to the meet- 1 ing nor to the aforesaid recommendation, but' Mr. j Lippman made his reappearance in politics nota- j ble by strongly urging that his compatriots from ! the Fourth join in firm phalanx to affect the re- moval of Mr. F. L. Hines -as superintendent of waterworks. The reason advanced by Mr. Lippman Lipp-man for this was that, in his opinion, Mr. Hines i was not a sufficiently violent and lurid American " during the recent campaign. Mr. Hines has been a thoroughly competent and consistent official, but even if he were not, one wonders at the audacity of Mr. Lippman in bringing his loyalty into question. Surely Mr. Lippman had forgotten for the nonce the kind of delicate and gauzy political helmet he himself is wearing. People have not yet had time to forget for-get what happened during Mr. Lippman's cyclonic career as manager of the Tribune. They still re-I re-I member his violent attack through the columns j of that paper upon Commissioner Richards, and recall that when that discreditable diatribe made it appear probable that Mr. Lippman was in imminent im-minent danger of losing his Federal position, this same petty politician, not being sufficiently manly to do so through the printed medium of abuse of which he was manager, made an abject apology j through the columns of a contemporary. And not j all people know, but a great many do, that it was as a direct result of this undignified exhibition that Mr. Lippman was dislodged as manager of the Tribune. Mr. Lippman's recommendations should have a great deal of weight with the present city ad-1 ad-1 ministration. They should be embossed in-gold and hung conspicuously in the sacred archives of the mayoralty sanctum. He stands as a grand example ex-ample of the petty politician, who, living in the glow of a reflected light, was too paltry to remain loyal to his benefactors who were supplying the illumination. il-lumination. Mr. Lippman's days as a. puny political boss are quite over. Now that he has slipped from his bogus political pedestal, people wonder how they could ever have been so much alarmed about so little. Just at present, In a political way, his plaudits no longer please his friends and his snarls are but sneered at by his enemies. ' Mr. Hines, by the way, should thank Mr. Lipp man for his adverse criticism, as it has probably greatly strengthened the superintendent with the present administration. |