The sun., 1890-02-21
OF, THIS rs TOO LoTELE.
HsHIItoniaus or the Four Hunared eoinG
Into Politics 20 STAY There.


Tho fret public step was taken yesterday
In what ls said to be an earnest effort to drag
clubmen and other persons Of wealth Into
politics. The variety Of politics is Republican.
and the persons who are engaged In the effort
are Oliver Sumner TeRll. Julien T. Davies.
William JaV, and few others These gentle
men have formed The Republican Volunteer
Association" which contains committees for
all imaginable purposes. Several hundred
pounds OF circulars were sent out last night to
all the society men In the city who are sus-
pected Of Hamiltonian leanlnEs. Mr.. "eall
has turned his office at 10 Cortlnndt street
over to the workers for the new scheme. Tho
election OF Lispenard Stewart as Senator has
encouraged them and induced them to become
permanent politicians.
Mr. Teal explained the new scheme yester
day. lie snid that the first principle was to get
gentlemen into politics. He wants it distinctly
undcrsto ood however. that while professional
politicians will not be welcome In the nssocia
ton the members will not be averso to doing
regular political work, either personally or by
proxy. whenever the interests Of tho associa-
tion seems TO demand il.
1t is difficult to get the right sor: OF men
into politics. said Mr.. Teall. 80 many OF the
really good mon are TOO fond, after the regular
business OF the day ia o''n-, OF n dinner party,
theatre, or, some other .:.Lusement to care 20
get them started. however, we have no fear OF
keeping the interest up"
Mr.. Teal says the association has nothing
whatever TO do with the Republican machine,
TINT It iS IN entirely indeIsndept body. ana
its management
Politics is science" said Mr.. Teall. and
we prorose to handle 1t as such. without any
touch OF sentiment and without gloves. but
gnRerly, too The circular sent out by he
association says that its object is S TO Gi1 tho
regular Republican organization by MAINTAIN
ing,a bureau OF uolltical information. and to
,a assist In getting tull canvass, tul reglstra'
The circular says that there are "a Assembly
districts in the city LOIS election districts.
and then gives & lot more OF good news on fann the
for each election district, whose duty it shall
Gs to mSSo SanHss fT0 h9He TO an h9Tss con
order to know Just what tho POLITICS ot every
Just how the city is divided in political sense:
al aht tho w SS t FThs IS sad
over 2U,O00 political workers. Here is n sample
Of the kind Of Information the association will
seventh Ess;on S.tIs sssssHt.n.S. fss ana mrs.
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sS"Sn d5s + T. f.a,oP Poiis @
Ede ni one
In the circular the printing Of which is apollo
gized for BY the statement that while the as
sociaton lives no man can honestly decline to
become politician on the ground that he
doesn't know anything about politics. Among
other interesting facts no will be informed
when the polls open and when thev close. and
,net who are running the volunteer assoca-
tion. II a member Of tho association refuses
to somebody to do It for him. There is nothing
surprisingly new about this scheme eXcont tho
smallness OF the sum to be mid the substitute.
The officers are Julien I. Davies. President
| William Iav. Nico- President: II. W. Cannon.
| Treasurer. and lerhert J. Satterlee, Secretary.
There are also nine department chiefs" One
OF these Is called special. and the other eight
| are supposed to be an authority On the politics,
disposition, md standing OF tie Irish. Ger
man. negro; Polish. French. Italian, Spanish
and Scnnd inavian voters Among the men
who hold office in the associ4tion are, Henry
| l.. SpraGuc. John J. Astor. lr. LLOYD Aspin-
wall; ,Lispenard Stewart, William \. Dmer A 4.
| NJ. lalmer. ". J. Arkell Jesso Sultgnan, Ed
ward LauterbaCh. Horace Russell. Z. &. Sted-
man. and Herbert 1; Brown. II will be seen
that there is sprinkllnG Of men who arc not
altogether inrocent OF politics. butits the other
kind Of men that, the association seeks to en-
! list. Alraaly II has 700 momboIS,