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Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-25
Copyright, 1S97.]


 The pen is mightier than the sword. With that civilized weapon Governor Frank s. Black made New York-the Greater New York, so called-the sec ond city in the world. With it's 3,100,00o inhabitants it is about once and half the size of Paris numerically and covers more than thrice it's territory. Berlin and Vienna combined do not equal it ;n population, In 20 years we shall have passed London in the race for suprem- acy and become the metropolis of the world.
 The advantages which will accrue to New York--the Greater New York which now comprises New York proper. Brooklyn and it's suburbs. Long Island City and it's suburbs. goodly portion of WestcheSter county and Staten Island, are more than those of mere pride of place. With a municipal lcgis- lature similar to that of the state sen- ate and assembly we can practically make our own laws, or majority of them, and not be subject to hayseed tyranny. We will have some measure of home rule, which Is practically de- nied us now. At the present writing we are governed by lot of farmers ct AL
  about our needs. All that will be changed after Jan. 1, 1898.
 But there will be greater and more significant change before long. By Jar. 1, 1908, ten years after the birth of Great CT New York, I venture to predict you l will see a new state. That will be the state of Manhattan, and Fernando Woods dream of making New York a free city will be realized. IE ten years the population of New York will be 5000 GOO and will have a greater voting strength than the rest of the state. New York and Brooklyn, which have always been antagonistic politically, both among Democrats and among Re- publicans, will then have a unity of in- terest and their representatives in the legislature stand shoulder to shoulder. Long Island City and the smaller towns, toe, which profit by the consoli- cation, will stand by their big brother boroushs. New York is now mulcted dreadfully by the hayseed solons at Albany. The metropolis pays about two-thirds of the state taxes and the entire rest of the state but one-third. If that is not injustice, do not know what is. The country has been to us in New York--for I pay taxes in New York, even though I am mayor of Long Island City and live there-like the Old Man of the Sea was to Sindbad the Sailor terrible load to carry and d load which would not be shaken off. . Ii we were once free from bucolic dom- nation and had only our own taxes to ray, New York would be the wealth lest. happiest and healthiest community :, in flle world. Taxes on real estate would be reduced rents would be low cred, and capital, freed from the terror of r.stic strikes nt Albany, would open
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-25
.II1z1h Beutou JzGDl1llzu of 7eunessee

"Do you think MT. Cleveland could have been elected president of the United States if 1t had been known that he would recommend to congress that it authorize gold bonds in place Of coin bonds, urge the retirement of the greenbacks so as to leave a clear field for national bank currency and refuse to coin the silver bullion already purchased and in the treasury, to get it in circulation among the people and give the government the benefit of the $5S, 100000 seigniorage on it? Why, if he had announced that as his policy before the election l think he would not have carried so many states.
 And MT. McMillin held up one hand, with the fingers outspread. As MT. McMillin's is the normal hand, he evil dently intended to convey the idea that MT. Cleveland would not have carried five states.
 "But what is going to become of the fragments which have split off from the Democratic party?" I asked. Will sthe gold Democrats do as the Mug wumps did. after the first Cleveland campaign-go into the other party?"
 Some of them will. but for every man we lose we will gain eight or ten We are gaining every day"
 From what quarter?"
 " -+ferom the Republican party and among the young voters"
 aYou look for Democratic success in fSgS. then?"
 "We shall carry the house next year Of that there is little doubt. In addi- tion to our own strength, there is to be considered the weakness of our oppo- nents. Remember what the Mckinley law did for the Republican party in the campaign which followed it's passage. Look at the bill which has just been put through the house and see what it has done to the tariff.'
 Mir. McMillin took up the ways and means committees report, and, begin ming with the chemicals" schedule went rapidly through the comparative statement of duties under the Wilson law, the Mckinley law and the pro- posed .Dinsley law.
 "In all but two or three schedules" |" he said, "the rates have been advanced beyond the rates in the Mckinley law. and the bill as whole proposes an ad- vance of one-sixth over the Mckinley law. In the face of this I can quote interviews with Proctor, Cullom and other leading Republicans in the senate after the election of 1890, all saying that the rates in the Mckinley law were too high. If the people would not stand the Mckinley law, what do you think they are going to do with the people who made the Dingley bill?
 Another thing that is going to in jure the Republicans in the operation of their new tariff law is the fact that they admit it is going to take s10o o00,- 900 to $1f3,0000o0 out of circulation to pass through the custom houses and so reduce the circulating medium. And the Republicans are not going to make any effort to increase the circulating medium. l think that President Me Kinley would like to do it-his pub lished utterances speak for him--but they arc not going to let him do it. Now. even if we admit the contention of the Republicans that there is enough money today, you must remember the
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-25
MAP OF THE GREATER NEW YORK.

To the public schools, which have all ways been my pet hobby, I would pay particular attention. I would have them as near perfection ns possible. would keep on building them and compel every child in New York to go to school until he or she was at least 14 years of age. The more schools we have the fewer jails, the more educa- ton the less crime.
 I would cndeavor to make every pub lie officer serve the city or state with the same fidelity as he would a mer- cantile employer and bounce him if he didn't. I would endeavor to beautify and build up the city in every possible direction, and thus give employment to labor and at the same time increase the value of property for the capitalist
 Tn general T. will say in conclusion that believe in liherality in all things. for. with Jefferson, hold that gov ernment is the best which :s governed the least. PATRICK J. GLEASON.
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PATRICK JEROME GLEASON MAYOR OF LONG ISLAND CITY

if elected it's first mayor? I have no hesitation in answering the question: First of all, great metropolis, the sec- ond and destined to. be the first in the world, should not be governed like! a New England. village. Its varied popu- lation.. composed, as it is, of almost ev- cry nation on earth Hand it's commercial. social and political needs will not permit of it. Blue laws made for Puritans of a bygone century should be abolished. There should be toleration for and a spirit of liberality manifested toward people who have customs and traditions which differ from those of the New Eng lander. .-4.ss.s..~v, ss.s.-s
 would permit the widest, latitude of thought, speech. and saction consistent with. law and order. would permit, for instance, every nnild form of pleas- ure on Sunday, the workman's day of rest, after church hours in the morning. Out of door concerts. beer gardens. ex- cursions and picnies I would hold to be perfectly proper. as well as decent
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theatrical performance or an athletic
 exhibition.
 Next I would stop~every form of po-
 lice blackmail. The unfortunate cyp-
 rian would be protected by the strong
 arm of the law and the -opulent con-
 tractor from police rapacity.
 I would limit vice and protect good
 women from contamination with fallen
 women by keeping them confined to a
 certain portion of the tewn just as ob-
 tains in Paris, New Orleans and other
 big cities. Ihe social evil exists and
 cannot be stamped out, It can be re-
 pressed, however, in the manner men.
 toned. Ambitious reformers like Dr. Parkhurst only spread the evil by their course of action. They drive these un- fortunates from their, regular abodes into flats, furnished room houses and tenements, where they often corrupt
 young girls and even mature married
 wcmen who are poor and discontented
 with their lot. 7s.. v..r.s.
 would permit gambling within cer-
 tain limitations. for men will gamble, no matter how many laws you may pass to the contrary. I would allow poolrooms to make bets with customers on the races, provided they were over dSe, SODel, II u Stdio I iOSS and not public officers or those engaged
 in any hduciary capacity. Every gam bier should know his patrons as gro- cer does his customers. I would give the same privileges to. "square" gam blers who would run honest faro banks and conduct fair games. That is done in Paris, London, Vienna St. Peters burg, Berlin and every great city abroad and could be done here. It would, among other things, stop police blackmail, society blackmail, reform blackmail and every humbug or wick edness of that sort. For the life of me I can't see the difference between the
 man who bets on the turn of card
 and the man who bets upon the price
 of wheat in the New York Stock Ex-
 change. They are both dealing in fu- lures. Y n as
 I would strive to check or extermi-
 nate a number of useless societies for
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-25

From Our Washington Correspondent,
 Copyright, 1S97.l
 The Hon. Benton McNIillin. of Ten nessee has not been converted or even chastened by defeat. He says the De- mocracy was stronger the day after Bryan's defeat than it was the day be- fore.
 ''I have no fear for the future of the Democratic party" he said to me when I asked him about the political out look. Why? Because a party whose foundation is laid in the principles un- deriving all successful republican gov ernment in the history of the world is bound to survive. The Roman gov ernment failed because it was based on the centralization of power. The Romans wanted to rule the world from one city, under one political system. making no allowance for the pecul- iarities of different peoples and climes or for purely local conditions. The government of Greece represented the other extreme. When the Greeks, were not fighting Philip, they were fighting among themselves. TheiTs government collapsed for want of CO., hesion. The republic of Venice did not live because of the worm in the boil, the retention of titles of nobility, which made one class of citizens arro-. gant and another envious. Our form of government was devised by the wis est uninspired man who ever lived, Thomas Jefferson. He formed it, and in it he provided for a central power, the federal government, restricted by constitutional limitations; a local pow CT, the state governments, and for an individual power, the liberty of the citizen, which neither of the others could infringe. Because of this combi- nation our government has lived, and it is today the best and most stable government in the world. Jefferson's idea made it SO, and the Democratic party now is the party which embodies Jefferson's ideas.
 'The Democratic party will live be- cause it is the party which has never sacrificed it's principles for the sake of victory, because it has stood firm in the period of greatest adversity Many of us can look back to the time when the Democratic party had but 8 men in the senate, but 49 in the house. It survived that period of weakness. Ii lived through the years when it bore in pop ular estimation, though unjustly, part or the Durden or responsibility Tor the civil war. The Democrats of the north stood by the Democrats of the south in the time of their adversity, and together they bore one defeat after another until, after a quarter of a cen- tury of waiting, after the theft of the presidency from Tilden in 1876, they saw their candidate in the White House, saw him elected to the presidency twice. True, they never realized from these terms of power all they were entitled to.
 ''It is in defeat today, in my humble judgment, partly because it failed to succeed in giving the reforms it prom ised on Democratic lines. We did not put enough of the things we preached in the campaigns on the statute books. MT. Cleveland recommended measures the Democracy had never favored or advocated.
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-25

would see commercial expansion and consequent prosperity in every possi- ble direction. I will live to see that day, and so will my fellow mayors Strong of New York and Wurster of Brooklyn. We want to see how the child we nursed gets along as it grows to lusty youth.
 As I have already announced, I will be,a candidate for mayor of the Greater New York and I stand a good show to win. The. Republicans cannot nominate Q straight ticket and win, and they know it. If they do. Tarnmany and the Mclaughlin Democracy of Brooklyn would capture the citadel of power and all the S37,000.000 patronage that goes with it. That would make good peoples hair stand on end. Fusion is the way to beat them. That is how Strong won in old New York and Wurster in Brooklyn. I can control 10000 votes in Queens county and have many strong friends among the Shepard (reforrn) Democ- racy, the people who beat Boss Me-
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-25

1 in a thin vessel. 1t will eat it's way l through and destroy the vessel in time
 You cannot keep all these powerful in- l terests united. You cannot carry on l campaigns on a $14 900 900 or a S15 000,- 900 basis of poodle expenditures regu-
 larly. You cannot corrupt the voters of the country continually, directly or by indirection.
 | es''dt has always been possible for the l Republican party to mark out a terri
 tory in which it would fight the politi- cal battle. It has cared nothing for the states west of the Mississippi or south 1 Of the Potomac. The Democratic party has fought it's fight and kept up it's or ganization in every state of the Union. The time is coming when the great power will go from the east. The west is the future home of empire, in my opinion. The Democratic party has never cultivated or tolerated sectional ism. The Republican party always has. But I think the division of west from east has come to stay. The west and the south, with what votes they can get east, will control the next election, and they will give their votes to the Demo- cratic candidate.
 "Who will he be? He will win, who- | ever he be. Of course nobody knows
 with absolute certainty. Most of the
 Democrats who left us last year will
 come back into the Democratic party
 and vote for it's candidate"
 tIf the Democratic party has been so consistent, why did it never declare for l free coinage of silver before?" | Because the question of gold mono- ] metallsm was never raised before. For mo re m 1 tion about the coinage of the two met als on an agreed ratio. Since silver was demonetized the Democratic party has voted again and again for free coin age in the house of representatives There have been Republican votes for
 it and Democratic votes against it, but the bulk of the vote for it was Demo-
 cratic, and the Democratic votes in op-
 position were few"
 What is going to become of the Pop
 ulist party? Do you recognize Speaker Reeds classification of it as a part of the Democracy"
 Many of them left the Democratic party because they thought it was not sufficiently friendly to silver or did not stand squarely for free silver coinage. Now that they find this was an error l look for large number of them to | return to Democracy. Thousands did so in the last campaign"
 "What will be the outcome of the drift of southern Democrats toward l protection as represented by the dele gations sent here from your own state among others and by the Democratic votes for the Dingley bill?"
 Some individuals may fly the track in the future as some have in the past But the Democratic party in the south stands today where it has stood in the past, in favor of low taxes, low tariffs, and opposed to paternalism, op- posed to high tariffs. It is a mistake l to suppose that protection sentiment 1 is growing in the south. It is not as l strong there today as it was in the l days of Sam Randall. The southern 1 Democracy on this subject stands l where Jefferson, Jackson and Polk l did-i. e.. in favor of levying taxes to l support the government and not to en- rich one citizen by taxing another" GRANT HAMILTON.
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Unless all signs fail the coming mu- nicipal campaign will be the most inter- esting in the history of New York city. In the first place, 1t will be the first in Greater New York, and that fact of it. self will give it great significance to the politicians. One side is as certain that it will win as the other is that it cannot possibly lose. Of course somebody will be disappointed, and the independents say that that somebody will be both of the old line parties. The Citizens un-
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the prevention of everything under the sun and compel the police and other constituted authorities to attend to these duties. These societies do more harm than good. Their irresponsible underlings interfere with people who are sworn to uphold the law and in many instances defeat the ends of jus tice. They frequently, too, open field for blackmail, as witness the case of "Detective' Frank Gardner, Dr. Park hurst's right hand man.
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president before MT. Mckinley" said MT McMillin. q believe we shall suc- eeed, because l believe it is not possible to keep up the pressure under which the Republican party was working in the last campaign. You cannot keep up a permanent organization which includes all the railroads, all the trusts, all the banks, all the life insurance companies.
 all the fire insurance companies. If you hold it together long enough, it will rot itself out. IL is like some powerful acid
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fact thatTthis country is growing all the time eand the Republican party is not making any attempt through con- gress tos~prpvide for the increase in population. We will not only carry the house next year, but we will elect a Democratic congress and Democratic president in 199e.
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It's purse and enter every field or en-
 terprise where a fair profit would be assured. This, of course. would open to labor thousands of avenues now
 closed to it, and the fearful misery and Restitution now prevailing among the masses would speedily vanish. With the general employment of labor we
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Where are you going to get your strength in a c61test on the lines of the last? The Republican party had not only an electoral ajorfty, but a majority of the popular vote" 1 sug- gested.
 ''Yes. but MT. Bryan had more votes than any man who was ever elected
Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-25
Y Mny0y Pukuck Jeyouze Gleusou

Laushlin. If Tom Platt and his Re- publican friends would indorse me, I would win hands down and the hungry Talnmany tiger be kept from the public crib.
 Now, how should a great city like the New York of the future be governed, and how would I go about the business
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Diepenbcck started out to make a reputation as a painter on glass, but abandoned that line on account of the fragile nature of the material.
 Gainsborough has rarely been sur passed in the technic of his art. It is rare to find one of his pictures cracked or impaired. a7
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ion is already in the field, and it is very hopeful, as it points to what was done by the committee of 70 of about 2lA years ago. But there are to be more citizens organizations, and it is pretty safe to assume that when election day rolls around there will be at least a dozen nnayoralty candidates for the vot- CT to choose from, and that more than half of these will be on a ticket the caption of which Will contain the word Citizen" or Peoples" in some sort of combination. What the effect of this unprecedented condition will be no one on the outside Is yet prepared to predict.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-29
THE RuMoR DIsCRED1rED.
Spain's Treatment of Miss Cisnero
Not Communicated tn Rome

Spafn's Treatment of Miss Cisneros
Not Communicated to Rome.
The report sent out from this city to the
effect that the papal delegate in this coun-
try had sent communication to the vat
lean "imparting some startling intelligence
concerning the Spanish treatment of Sen
orita Cisneros," and making an appeal for
certain action by the pope, is denied by Dr.
Rocker.
Monsignor Martinelli was credited by a
Philadelphia paper with having advised the
pope that the sentiment in America for
Cuban freedom Is not confined to the lingo
element, but that ninety-nine out of every
hundred citizens of the United States re-
garded the Spanish rule in Cuba with hor-
Tor.
1t was also stated as a part of the COM
munication that great losses to the Roman
Catholic Church in America are imminent
unless 1t can be shown that the power and
influence of the American bishops have
been thrown upon the popular side.
When the matter was called to the at
tention of DR.. Rocker by a Star reporter,
he said he knew of no such communica-
ton, nor Of any other on that topic. having
been sent from this country to Rome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-29
WASHINGTON WINS.
Next Convention Of N. z. Association
to He Held Here.


A telegram has been received by Henry
F. Blount, chairman OF the local execu-
tive committee of the National Educational
Association. announcing that the next con-
vention Of the association, to be held the
second week in next July, will come to
Washington. The dates are July 8. 10, IL,
II. Ii and IA.
This was the result of a meeting of the
executive committee Of the association in
Chicago Saturday, held to consider the
claims Of the different cities putting in a
bid for the convention. These were Los
Angeles, Cal; Salt Lake City, Utah, and
Omaha, Neb.
1t Is expected that the convention will
bring between 1900 and 10000 persons to
the national capital The association num-
bers among its ranks a majority of the
leading teachers and educators of the coun-
try 1t is national in its scope and it's an
nnal conventions bring together large
number Of delegates. These people come
from every state in the Union, and it is
estimated that in this manner and In the
matter Of money expended by the delegates
IN the city an immense amount of business
will be thrown directly into the hands of
merchants, hotels, etc.
The board Of trade deserves the credit of
bringing the convention here. Colonel
Biount was placed at the head of the gen.
eral committee, while Mr.. Thomas W.
Smith was In charge of the committee on
finance. The executive committee of the
education association was invited to Wash
ington. and during their stay while looking
over the ground that committee was enter
tanned in royal style. The educators were
very much impressed with Washingt ton,
and for some time past 1t has been known
that the chances were largely in favor of
this city. The local finance committee met
with encouragement everywhere. Business
men. merchants and others were only too
willing to contribute. The guarantee fund
necessary for the convention was soon Sc
cured. The committee on railways and no.
tells secured satisfactory reduced rates. and
Wasningtons claim for the convention was
far ahead of that of the other cities.
Committees will soon set about arranging
Tor the accommodation and entertainment
of the visitors here.