The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-21
THE SOUTHERNERS THERE
A COLONY OF 10000 BUT DO NOT
STAND TOGETHER.
lin" OSBORNE TAKES THEM TO TASK
He Says They All Ought to Have Stood To-
gether for Democracy. Gordon Battle
and James Lindsay Gordon
Take Fine Stands.
Take Fine Stands.


er; it's only moved farther up town
that's all.
The quality of Manhattan Island will
probably always remain distinctiyely it's
own, in spite of the tastelessness of
Brooklyn.
Then, too, there is nothing that makes
Manhattan Island quite SO naturally
happy as the municipal views of Tam
many trying to do better. If Tammany
is wicked with excessive leaning toward
excessive mundane joy, its first steps
under n feeling toward better life ex-
cite the sympathy of its opponents MS
well as outline a buoyant perspective in
those net perfectly penitent.
al brief, Tammany for some reason fits
New York like a glove.
If there be scenes perhaps already too
prismatic for DR. Parkhurst, they were
well stood off during the Schmitberger
days by situation of pathos without q
remedy.
Certainly, at any rate, New York is
resuning some of its old-time gaiety.
And the great throb that seems to ell
gage the heart of Croker is TO keep
the gaiety within bounds as we'll as the
expenses.
The greatest enemy of Croker must
allow THAT, from expediency, if from no
other cause, he will try, dwelling up ev-
erything, to give New York n good gov
eminent this time-good enough for a re-
endorsement-next time. People. because
Croker may take mp headquarters in AL
bany. need not be looking out for an era
OF debauch. II Croker in his earlier
stages had to live on a lower level of
public policy.it must be remembered that
now that the family of Croker has been
exploited with many columned cuts there.
will be the restraining influence of the
sssassietyn angel that Croker wants to be.
This much is said about Croker. be-
cause he is undoubtedly the leader of the
Democracy of New York city. The de-
nionstration'' of Hill is a mere Hay
ten bluff. and he can be called down on
ii few hours notice Hill comes too late
with the announcement of his Bryan
vote after his antics at THE Nation.
convention, to be twitting Croker with
his absence from the country when put
beside that other fact that Van Wyck's
selection by Croker was based for the
most part on The Bryan record of Van
WICK. And yet there is some talk even
among Croker's friends that he is drunk
with power and that he will run his
course in two years more. That may
most likely depend entirely upon how
Tammany administers the affairs of
Greater New York Certainly nothing at
this moment seems to indicate his wane.
Apropos of this drift, the men who
took hold III the Tammany ticket with
n strong resolute grip are not slow now
In expressing their good feeling over IT.
1t would seem that among the 10000
Southerners in New York, there was an
indisposition to rally toward Tammany.
the majority of them seemingly having
favored Seth Low.
Assistant District Attorney Jam IS
Osborne. formerly of Charlotte.was talk
ing to me the other night on this point
with nnconcealed feeling. He Thought 1t q
lack of patriotism for the Southerners
when away from home this 10 stand
apart instead of together. Surely Thought
he this 10000 could be turned. if organ
lied, into a power that would he feit.
The Irishmen stood together. the Ger
mans the Scotchmen. the Southerners
rarely. Perhaps. Mr.. Osborne failed 10
take into his calculation the peculiar
Individuality of the Southerner which
largely accounts for his uniqueness a
mOng men who are strangers to ham.
Rut all this aside-this young man Os,
borne is not surpassed in force among
the young Southern men of New York.
He has fought his way up speaking on
corners during the campaigns anywhere
SO it was to the people. His idea of
Tammany's right TO be heard above
others in New York rests upon his deep
belief in the people, and if the mass Of
them i'm New York be found outside or
the clubs and corporation counting
houses, they are nevertheless existent ana
must be reckoned with as the great mass
w.o are to get the benefits or ills Of any
government New York may have. lie
rallies the Southerners sharply for hay-
ing been oyer-shadowed by what have
been called the conservative" money
class.
Surely it was time to test ones sin
certify during the last turbulent mayor
atty contest; for to stand for silver and
the masses made one appear eccentric
in New York.
There are two other assistant district
attorneys or better, in New York who
are Southern boys and one might say
Tarbeels too. These are George Gordon
Battle well known, of course, and James
Lindsay Gordon recently made Ass:s.
tant District Attorney. Mr.. Gordon il
cousin of Mr. Battle and was pro
nounced by David b. Hill to be the most
eloquent political speaker he had ever
heard. Mr.. Gordon, though young in
years, has made quite a name as al
affer-dinner speaker also. Only few
nights ago. he responded at the dinner oi
the Holland Society TO the toast of "Tht
Greater New York"
Mr.. Battle is about to retire volun
tarily from the office of Assistant Dis
trict Attorney which he has held fol
some time. his practice having grown sc
as to make it profitable for him to d.
so. 1t was stated to me by friends o.