New-York tribune., 1885-07-17
VALKs AND TALKS ~ THE CITY.

General Carr and Governor Hi have been both build
ing fonces In this vicinity. Some Of the political
gos.ips say thai General Cars friends have formed an
alternative and defensive alliance with the friends OF Ira
Davenport 10y which the str INCEST man at convention
Is to have the support OF The oh r. fend- and
second place o tho ticket be given to the weaker
Dwight Lawrence said to me the other day that he
hoped to SEQ tho next Republican state Committee or
ranizcd with b. Cornell as its chairman. He regards
tho Ex-Governor tho best In the party aud
would like TO see him placeI wherc MS organizing
faculty can be OF the greatest service
Travelling theatrical work Is not the plcasantest in
the world surprised to hear yesterday that
Michael 5trogon Conpiny has retired to conduct
hotel at Cornwall-on- the Hudson.
Theodore Roosevelt and James W wadsworth may
both be candidates thc Republican State Convention
for the nomination for Controller was told yesterday
by Chairman smith, OF the Democratic sState Executive
Committee that the plans had been laid to nominate u
Nuevump against Mr.. Roosevelt. In ca,e he had nc
cepted renonnaton to the Legislature last year The
Mugwumps were angry with Roosevelt" said Mr. smith,
sbecause pportcd ane although he had given them
reason to expect that he wonld boit with them. We
.h"uId hay iai both "A - smocrat and Mugwump In
the against him II for nothing else than TO see tho
fun"
In recent talk with one OF the projectors OF the
broadway street nc he SAID ." II Is curious fact
that some of the who have been mado rich by I'M
proyed methods Of transit AMI by public improvements
have Invariably opposed all such projects ME- Emo
who OWLS the Fifth Avenue Hotol is an cI.
,lnple lie opposed the elevated road, he opposed
fhe o'd Rroadway street line He opposed the
Twenty hrd-.t line. He opposed the new line llo op
nosed having Fiftl-ayc lie opposed electric light io
opposed the steam stem lie opposes everything Bt
lie never gets mad enough 10 soil Out shd ny slhlpy
holding on TO all these things has ncressedand swcled
his wealth"
The land question will presently assume great pro'nn-
enee In this country by Of the large tracts unjer
one control which bought and held by foreign
ers aud OF which the Maxwell grant Is 1t Is the
same question with which the older nations have
for centuries Nathaniel Page. OF Washington
the other DAY gave some thoughts ON this matter.
France before first Napoleon had less tnan 100000
Land -owncrs The great revolution broke up the aris
tocracy and to-day there arc between 1ooO.OoO ana
900 900 landowners There are no fences IN France,
aud the tracts eight acres IN size. The
result Is n ygregatrd and beautiful landscape every
where. "A frugal and cOntcDtcd and wcalti-rrmIuclng
neoulc In buying hundred acres OF land III France II
L neceasar, to aii the from fteen to twenty
uve deeds from difeTent owners. In England inc
vast areas owned by the pectge are constant enn OF
discuesiOn aud opposition among tue people Just rs
msn grow n Intelligence" said Mr.. Page, they become
rnstomed 10 their rights anu In knowing their right 10
fc and the productions OF nature they viii demand and
s.eure H. Henry George has shaken England thongn
wc know little about It, His addresses are never
reporlcd In the English Iress, showing the rear hey
h,yc of hIs doctrines. He IL doing great work In
wing attention the land question do not agree
with his ba.. theory that the land should be he ny tue
Gny.rnneut believe that u hetter for men 10 nave
nrnnrrty i'm land Around the home there grows from
n.~ocation a strength that becomes the power anu
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