The sun., 1890-06-07
xoUrG ArRN coMINe TO EHR 11oNE:
n Remarkable Change IN our Recent
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pearancs Of strange new faces tits Rsuhjeot OF gen
erAl remark by men who may be said TO have grows
gray In experienced that they lock about them In anJ
meeting they discern but few familiar faces and observe
scores OF Only Of late has this thing been
manifest and the circumstances which have brought II
absut have been suffered 10 bo passed almost
The Governor Of the State the Attorney General the
Secretary Of State and the Treasurer-the four most
important State o'Cals-are ali OF them. young men
Not IL So The leader OF the Democrats In the last
Legislature william ,. sheehan Of Buffalo, s but 81
and the leader OF the Republicans in tho Senate j.
soAt Fassett 10 but 81 He was appointed to his nrs
once, that Of District Attorney OF ChemunE county
when he was but 2s, by Gov. Robinson, while Mr
eheehan was nrst elected to the Assembly from the
First district Of Buffalo when year younger.
New York city is represented in the State Senate
by yeunG men TO greater extent than at any pre-
vious time in lie histsry. Senator Roesoh is IS
Senator Ives 81, Senator Cantor 80 Senator Ahearn
~, Senator stewart 35 and Senator stadler ~ Tho
Oldest member OF the delegation IL senator Brown,
who 10 ~, and will be 80 Christmas Day next New
York city has the youngest Mayor that IL has had for
twenty nVo and most OF the important county
onicors-ReRstor County Clerk. Corporation Counsel
and ChAmborain-are Young men. The average are OF
tho judges s less than used to be- and those appointed
to l vacancies arising in any Of the been
without exception young men, such as Messra Holmo.
GieEerioh, MoKehn and FitZsmoua
In each OF tho political organizations similar trans
formation has been gradually going on and during the
last year or two It has been greatly accelerated II
promises to increase with still greater momontu In
the near future for the adoption OF the Electoral
law will establish conditions OF leadership and re.
Quire qualifications not needed in the statesmen who
have hitherto ruled the roost
The transformation itself however has not been due
10 this but rather to the changed relation of things
which dates from the local laber movement In 1885,
which brought hundreds of new men into political
prominence and to the tariff controversy of 1887 and
1898 which served drAwt the ranks OF the Repub
lies n q m mi Demo.
before that and OF them Irish Americans,
who had little concern In measures growing out OF civil
war reconstruction or the struggle against slavery
but who ardenty interested In tho economic ques.
tionS which the tariff controversy brought forward.
The Democrats gained yeung too, but fewer
than did the Republican, and OF them theorists
and professional men whose interest in politics Of
OF the amateur order.
Although the labor movement OF 1896 served to fur
nish the impetus for the change of mon which 10
marked IL did not develop any young men who have
since continued prominent
In the downtown districts OF the city number Of
young have come into prominence, In political
way. OF lato. Frank r Fitzgerald, the Tammany Hall
leader In the First Assembly district who holds Of
the most lucrative oices in the city Government that
OF Register, Is but 80 years Of age The Assombyman
from the Second district Timothy D. Sullivan ia but AZ
Matthew Hapln Jr, who Is one OF Michael Murphy'B
active leutenants the County Democracy side
is but 30 years Of age, and the County Democracy
leader from the adjoining dStrict Che Tifh) Michael
7. Sharkey, 10 no older. Most OF the downtown com.
rnttoeB OF both Democratic factions have majority of
young men, and in number Of instances the sons of
district leaders hitherto prominent taking the
places OF their fathers.
On the east side the state OF Attain exists an
greater degree Tho representative Of tho east
side district in tho State Senate total population 10
l5o.ooo 10 John r Ahearn. who is 81 years OF age
tho his predecessor and opponent at tho
last election Thomas F. Grady Edward +. Reilly who
lAa tha NrTpn
b. while Judge Goldfogle Civil Justice of the district
10 only older The active work OF politics in
the Twelfth district Ia done by it's young men Mr.
the Assemblyman, ia 35 and Giegerich
whom Gov lI appointed as Judge OF tho City Court
10 of the same age so is Joseph NewborEer. Chair
man OF the County Democracy organization In tho
twelfth.
In that portion OF the side which situated
he Bowery. tho rate is about the same The Senator
who represents 1t in Albany, George p Roesch is 85
His opponent at the last election who has since died
vas two years older. Tho most active Republican in
he Eighth Assembly district John Z. Brodsky is a.
Iohn Fenne OF tho County Democracy In tho Tenth is
%. Tho stecklers Charles Louis. and Alfred, tho |
'ammAny leaders in tho Tenth, all of them young
men. In the Fourteenth, SuEer tho Tammany As.
emolyman 10 81 and the two most popular Democrats
utsdo of TammAny Hall In the district Kunzemann
nd Smith, are both young mon.
The west side Of the city west Of Broadway and ex
ending to the North River has as its State Senator
ispenard Stewart who 10 IS. The Republican Assem-.
lyman from the seventh. Francis V. King IL but IS
he Assent blyman from the Fifteenth district Hafner
50; his predecessor, Hermann 10 % John B. Nc
oldrick, ono Of the TammAny Hall leaders, reading
Of the organization and the Clerk Part H. Of
he Supreme Court is young man, although old in
otcG. John P. TAane, the secretary of the County
omoorAoy In the district 10 29
Judge James Fitzgerald of the Court of General
eSsionS and leader In the east side districts
bovo Fourteenth street for several yearA 3 The As
'mblymAn from the Sixteenth. Walter Byrne is 81.
udRe HtzSmonA appointed to the bench OF tho City
ourt few months ago from the Eighteenth district is
). One Of the most active and popular County Demo
rats In that district In committee made up OF young
ZEN chiefly, 10 John Mcclure This years AsSemblyman
ON tho twentieth district Stein. is but 20 years of
70 Nearly all Of his predecessors In that ONCE wero
iddle.aged mon. John y Carroll. who has ucceeded
I-sherin F1Ack as TAmmany leader In this district is
'unE man. He has young mon. chiefly, for lieuenants
.nator stader who represents the district in Albany
older lie 10 a. but 10 not an active party worker
1arleB J. hcGeo the Chief Clerk OF the District
ttorney's oicO, 10 81 He is from tho Eleventh dis.
lot the AsssmblymAn from which. william HoAx
1t Is however in tho great and growing districts up
wn to which, through the expansion OF the city's
pu'Aton young men are moving. that the greatest
ange In the personality OF political leaders is shown
10 two state Senators who represent this part OF town
Albany. Eugene g Ives and Jacob A. Cantor. are 81
ID 80 respectively Tho most active Republican in the
strict, Theodore Roosevelt. Il D. His successor as
and now Judge OF the international
urt At Cairo Ernest Crosby Ia 81. Percy D. Adams
Republican candidate for Assembly In tho Twenty.
rd district in 1898 and $50 ig 81. John H. Gunner
Republican leader of the Twenty second district Is
John Connolly. tho Tammauy Assemblym from u
Nineteenth district 10 81. Vernon NJ. Davis who b
presents tho County Democrats of the Twentythird {
sembly district at OF their meetings and who is
spokesman of that organization In the Harlem ter
ory Ia 30 years OF age He is Assistant District
Iornoy r'
iayor Grant himself Is n youuR man, and since the
10 OF his nrst election Alderman In lsS2 he has not
y advanced rapidly into his present position but has
m instrumental IN bringing forward prominently a
&c number OF other young men between tho axes Of c
and 35 In the number Of those is included, both q
IN his own district Iho Nineteenth ana from tho y
enty hrst which Adjoins IL several Young msn who u
y he said TO have lsapsi into sudden prominence ~
ire is william H. Clarke, Young man counsel 10 /,
Corporation; Thomas T. Cram, young man, #
imberlAin OF the city Aud custodian OF lis funds b,
mel r. McMahou. n young man Folio" Judge: John ~
sexton young man. Under Shern under FiAck aud q
klss; Daniel EnElehard young man, Mayors ~