The record-union., 1894-03-10
DOINGS IN new YORK.
Ex-Mayor Hewitt's Speech to the
Southerners.
Interesting Gossip About the Bench
Show and the Coming Rae
Ing Season.

Ing Season.
NEW YORK, March 4.-Life.has been so
full here during the past fortnight that
my special inquiries have accumulated
notes, from which use can be made only
for brief summaries. The passage by the
State Legislature of the Greater New
sealed upon it, February 18th, was an
important step toward an interesting
end. But that aroused little interest
here, much less than the dog show or the
formation of the Turf Club or ex-Mayor
Hewitt's little speech to, for and of the
Southerners.
Of all these and other topics I may
touch on, the remarks of Abram S.
Hewitt caused the greatest stir. This
would be incomprehensible to anyone
who does not know the man who made
the Observable ms. For it was the speaker
nd not the speech that gave the words
their weight. And the fact that a man
can rise to position in a community of
strong men, where his character as
mere private citizen can win anything he
says such earnest and widespread atten-
Null, Is SOu10IuluS W I6COIu.
Hewitt is man of good family, and Of
connections noble in the American sense.
He is old Peter Cooper's son-in-law. That
made it hard for him to become some
body in himself. 1t might move him
into society but it could not make his
words important He is rich, and busy,
rich manufacturer. Excellent things,
but they are not the reasons sought. He
was in Congress for term and was the
Mayor of New York, to whose terms
men look back with respect. But Hewitt
is out Of Office, stripped of all authority.
His Mayoralty only served, like his
other work, services and attributes. to
disclose his fearless honesty and inde-
pendence of character. lie has been his
tather-in-law's successor in business, in
benevolence and in Dutch self-respect,
and the last is the quality that makes
him an exceptional citizen; that together
with his plain common-sense and reliance
on facts. Highly educated, he is also al
most always practically right.
When, therefore, Mr.. Hewitt was asked
TO respond to the toast, 1.-THE National
Credit" in the place of Secretary Car
Isle, at the dinner of the Southern Society,
men leaned forward TO hear what he said
and the next day those who were not
there read what he said, with as much
interest as though the Secretary had
spoken. He referred to Carlisle, to the
national credit, and, as was appropriate
to the place and the men present, brought
out the connection of Carlisle, the credit,
and the society with the South. Some
people think the President of the ban
Quet erred in calling on Hewitt, for these
are some of the things he said:
''Mr. Carlisle is not the only one by
many OF the Southerners who have made
themselves valuable. New York is full
of Southerners who are doing its work.
But perhaps New York's gain is the loss
80, - ~
has lost what 1t had in the past. When l
compare the Southern Representatives
now in our legislative hall with the in
tellect9al giants of former days, who
thrilled Senate and House with the thun-
ders of their Southern eloquence and the
splendor of their power and statesman
ship, am forced to the belief that the
brain and soul of Dixie has either left
that sunny land or is devoted to other
pursuits than craftsmanship.
1.-THE Southerner of to-day is not what
your fathers were. They were men of
college training, of disciplined minds.
men of high ideals, with the knowledge
that gives power and love of study and
research, and the familiarity with history
that are the foundation Of ali true states
manship. Not so the men of the South
to-day. The Southerners of the present
may be divided into three classes: the
men of brains who have come North;
LDOS6 VINO udN6 on db AOLl6 anu Ut
voted themselves TO industrial develop
Inent because they were too poor to come
North; and those others who, being fit
for nothing else, have turned their atten-
ton to politics. And what is the result
OF the performances of this latter class ?'
After describing the efforts of lone
Southern man" TO coin the selgnlorage as
an attempt ito coin vacuum" he pro-
,ceeds:
"Other representatives Of Southern in
terests have suecumbed to the fallacy
that the appointment to the supreme
bench is a local question to be settled be-
tween the President and some local poll
tician. l had supposed that appointment
TO the Supreme Court was a matter of
national concern, to be filed without ref
erence to locality or partisan preJud1ces,
and not to be made football for ward
politicians to kick from one end Of the
country to the other. Go and tell your
Southern people that Calhoun and Ben
ton and Rives and the grand old South
erners of former times would have aban-
doned their Senatorial honOrs and would
have gone back home in sackcloth and
ashes rather than to have degraded the
great commission which they held from
their States into servitude to mere petty
politician, without craftsmanship, with
out breadth of power or intellect, without
character, without the right 10 speak for
the great State of New York.
81 know your Southerners in Wash
ington. | know them to be honest, truth
full gallant. But l also know them to be
ignorant. It is the only word that fits
blank, Grass ignorance. Almost in
solid body, with few honorable excep-
tions, they gave their votes to the silver
bill. That is the work of your South Of
to-day. That is Southern statesmanship
at the end of the nineteenth century.
That is ignorance; that's what is is-ig-
noranee that goes forward with the dam
gerous strength Of Its own CONVICTIONS
There is no fool like the fool VINO rushes
in where angels fear to tread"
Now this draft of men referredlto by
Mr.. Hewitt is to be followed up by big
draft of cities, towns and villages. In the
form in which the Greater New York
will become law, il contemplates adding
to the metropolis the following places, to
the list of which l add the present esti-
mated population with area in square
miles of each:
Area in Popule-
place so. miles. ton.
New York City.................... $3.50 4'SV4,a9S
Brook oklyn.....,..........,......... ES.S9 SoasSOo
latbush..--.............. o.0S 4<ioSo
i iatlan 4S'aS 5i%S5
Cl&Y5sen AO'oO
New Utrecht. ..............s.'. 10y -ot1so
Richmond County............... DIS Oo'4O@