New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-18

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NETWORKS FUTURE
None OF us have yet grasped the full meaning OF
this greater city OF New-York. The movement OF
people from all parts Of the country to cities Will be
immensely accelerated by New York becoming the
second. and soon to be the first. city OF the world
The attraction OF gravitatior is resistless London
and Paris and Berlin and Rome grow with IN
fnitely greater rapdity than any Of the oth'r
cities OF their respective countries NewYork Will
advance by leaps and bounds because OF the IRE
sistble attraction which crowds have for indi-
viduas. NcwYork. cosmopolitan and National, Is
to he not only the commercial and the financial
hut the political the religious the literary ana the
Intellectual, centre OF the continent Its greater
opportunities for success or failure its instanta-
touch with all the world It's concentration
and diffusion Of news and Of business will bring
here not only permanent population or enormous
ness profession and interest in the United states
Appause) More and more every day the business
highest business Is the business Of politics. Blow
after blow from the President or from congress
a night the paralysis or trade ana me s'oppae'
industries. or from Washington can CONE me
business interests OF the country.
These Southern. Western Pacih, Coast. noun
remain in close associatio with their own lociIl-
ties at the same time that they are nomintIly
New-Yorkers. They are open-minded ana iree
from prejudice. Their politics are selfish put IL
IS the selshness which promotes the best IN
terests Of the country and gives the largest ON
ployment TO its capital and labor These repre-
should be n Republican club This organization
has the age. the experience the membership ana ana
the possibilities to make II such n home. IL should
he divorced from everything that is petty or small
local or Individual II should have no care ana
voice in tho selection Of candidates or I'm the or
ganization politics os the ward the city or the
locality. 1t should welcome upon its rolls every
Republican who IL Republican by profession.
faith and practice on National lines our Demo
cratic friends building up club whose avoWed
object Is to have New York city control the policy
Of tho Democratic party In the state and In the
country Our purpose in this club should be broad
II should he TO have this club the representa-
tive and the intelligent representative. OF Repub-
lican opi'.ion OF the whole country-Republican
opinion crystalzed from tho judgment and discus
sion Of intelligent Republicans from every part or
the country. This Is n large programme. but II is
in harmony with that great city which on January
took ito place among tho mighty municipalities
~ ancient and modern times. (Applausel
Our membership should he numbered by the
thousands. should he limited only by the hounda-
res Of tbs Republic Of the United States, and our
organization should be the homa where the Sen
ator. I'll. CONGRESSMAN. the business man, the law
Yer, the artisan and the labor leader from all over
the country find hospitality and conCenial
minds and our Republican club should be known
the National Republican CLUB. Great applause)