The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-12
NO YOUNG MIN NEED APPLY
At tho Gatherings OF the Republican Dis
trict Committees.

At tho Gatherings or the Republican Dis
| trict Committees.
When Mr.. Kilaen Van Rensselaer,. defeated
Republican candidate for Alderman In the
Twenty-third Assembl district at the last
election, got together a few neighbors and
| friends at his residence in West Seventy ninth
street few nights ago his idea was to initiate
| q movement for getting new blood" into the
Republican party In New York. There are
1000 election districts in the city. and Mr.. Van
| Renssolaer's plan contemplated revival DO
| ltical tea party in each. his own being the
first. The Republicans. inert and inactive for
| SO long period every year. were to get to-
| gether and talk the situation over In each dis
trict. Committees were to be appointed: cam
| wasting was to be done. The Democrats were
| to be fought with their own weapons. and
| there was to be q high time generally.
| Any person who has ever attended o meeting
| OF Republican district committee in New
| York hos. II at all observant. been impressed
| with tho fact that its members present most
substantial appearance. Cutaway coats are
| worn by many: tasteful scarfpins watch chains.
and finger rings are general. and good
sprinklinR OF those in attendance have de-
! cidedly professional cast OF countenance. law
yers. physicians, architects and business mon
predominating. There Is usually moro ele-
gance at a Republican than at a Democratic
| meeting. Democrats are rs rule cordial. do.
monstrative, and unconventional. They have
| less professional look than their Republican
| adversares. and they seem better fit for the
hard and hustling work OF hand-to-hand city
| politics Among the Republicans there are al
ways to BIO found young men In plenty young
men sprucely dressed. Intelligent. matter-of-
| fact, prosperous: some OF chem wearing eye
! glasses. and many having side whiskers.
| 1t was the expectation OF Mr. Van Rensse-
| laer. as Of other ambitious Republicans. that
tho discredited and dlapidated Republicans
might be regenerated and reconstructed
/ through strong infusion OF this new mate-
rial but this hope has bcen sadly dashed.
| The Republican wheel horses have no objec-
ton to the young men they do not resent
| heir atten dance at meetings or any other
! manifestations OF interest or enthusiasm m. but
| they do insist that the Young men shall re-
main. as far as honor and recompense are
concerned high privates in the rear ranks.
| Across the path OF the young Republican in
| vincibles as they delight to call themselves.
| has fallen the sombre. stold. thick-set figure
| OF Jake Patterson his square head fringed
| with bristling gray hair and his fat.
round ss set Of by sHHby
butchers apprentice, and. succeeding to the
! went into politics and has been for twenty:
! two years q leading Republican. He is still
politics. pieke UP on the busy east side in and
about the TurnHnll and lowerAvenueA. through
which the MuIIigan Guards marched in their
first memorable outing. are repugnnnt to cal
OF the VARIETY
new ,blood. He believes rather that there Is a
sis his sGs' IT the S NE S
t R1s' up ruth essSS turning d@Sn nean
while all the young Repu6lif;ans N who
y cd no nsf
!most OF them are Federal holdovers) fayor
n1 81 hoi is prey hs the o
that is necessary &c. Is plenty Of agile shutting;
the case IS not satisfactory to- the Young Re
ers are obdurate. They have the machinery"
WHY K Kilt vs S snss has
had no better luck on, his side OF the card
on i his. ~ Both have struck snags. Both are
temporarily. i not permanently. side-tracxed.
he uP 4e e od wheel
horses in New York city to accept the prof
tered alliance OF the young inyineibleSf; or to
has fallen. Is extremely dIstaste to the up;
|
| upon tho next legislature. A Senate as we'll
as Assembly is, to be voted for this year. and
unless the RsspSSenns make good
Carrying the state in 1884 might as we'll be
abandoned. for, even with the Republicans
tory would be barren one with n Democratic
one quarter Of the whole number. are to lie
elected from New York eGity. and all eight, from
,h W b Ths
| pretty tough burden on their hands. ana ono
Ono hundred and twenty eight Assembly:
mon are to be elscted THU, year. and thirty OF
Notwithstanding the stimulus OF a Presiden-
tiul fight, and despite the large expenditure OF
| money and the possession Of much patronage
Assemolyman in New York. though polling
nearly, 100000 votes Tor Harrison; An Off
never to
that the New York city Republicans will bo
able to do any better this year. though for OBJ
pected that sixteen Democratic Assemhlymen
with thirty from New York, Will give, the
bly,. in the eighty districts outside Of
New r3 YNrk and Broosyp the bRsGGu6li-
| troll OF the Assembly. and as fully twenty OF
the upstate distri are securely Dem ocratic.
ate into a FOOLS errand affair. seeing that no
tight the Democrats would be certain Of sub
those counties OF the State in which the
Of s whc6 hey s
S Vista to New YORK as @ the
change but Just where, how. and at whose
| instance 1T is To be inauGurated is not very,
clear and is becoming more obscure daily.