The times., 1898-10-19


New York territory. OF late years the
New York Bar Association has been run
as close corporation: it has arrogated
TO itself the right to sit in judgment on
the members of the legal profession and
to say who should and who should not
be entitled to recognition, 1t has refused
admission to its sacred portals to every
one who did not come up to the peculiar
standard set by n select committee of five
or six old fogies, and no applicant ever got
in who was not willing to acknowledge
the awful superiority Of the association
This fact has been so well recognized of
late years that no lawyer with any self
respect and independence would permit
his name to be offered for membership
in the association.
The Bar Association of New York has
even gone so far as to attempt to eNer-
else more or less supervision over the ju-
dietary of the State. Judges have been
| threatened with the terrible curse of the
| associations condemnation If they dared
go contrary 10 its mandates. but. happily.
the majority of the judiciary of the En-
| pire State have had too much character
and independence to give any serious
| heed to the silly pretensions of the asso-
| citation. Regardless of the merits of the
| controversy that has arisen between Mr..
| Croker and the association, the general
| opinion of New York lawyers is that Mr..
| Croker will be entitled to the thanks of
| the community II he succeeds In sup
| pressing the small coterie of fossils who
| have undertaken to act as the censors OF
| the New York bar The movement to or
| ganize a new bar association that will be
| a truly representative body can hardly
| fail to succeed. Every young lawyer
and hundreds of those who have grown
| gray in the practice of their profession
| will hail the movement with JOY. Mr.
| Croker could not possibly have taken n
more popular stand with the masses, who
| hate and despise the narrow and selfish
| bigotry that has for many years con-
trolled the so-called Bar Association of
| the metropolis.
Col. William A. Stone. Senator Quay'a
candidate for GOVERNOR of the Keystone
State. is not meeting with what might
| be called a Tremendous ovation in his
| tour of the State, judging from the re-
ports that come from his meetings. In
number of places Within the past week
| he has been interrupted in his remarks
| by cheers for Dr.i Swallow. the Indepen-
dent Republican Prohibition candidate for
! governor. At one place in the northern
| part of the State his meeting was broken
| up, and he had TO call upon the police to
| maintain even the senblance of order.
This cannot be very encouraging to Col.
Stone and his friends While Col. Stone
| Is running as the Quay candidate his
friends are urging him TO cut loose from
| Quay and try and save himself: in other
| words, to trade off votes for members of
| the legislature for votes for governor.
| This Is a game that need not be alto
gether one-sided. end the outcome may be
that both Quay and Stone will go down
to defeat together. 1t is conceded by all
hands in Pennsylvania that DR.. Swallow
is going to poll a very large vote. a year
ago he ran for minor State office on the
Prohibition ticket and TO the amazement
of the machine politicians he received
more than 10000 votes.
The Hon. Joseph c. Sibley is making a
strong fight for Congress in the Twenty
seventh District OF Pennsylvania. Mr.
sibley was overcome by the Republican
tidal wave of 1896, but he has come up
again smiling and his friends are con
fident that he will be elected. Mr.. Sibley
is one of the ablest advocates of free
silver coinage in the Democratic party
| and If the Democrats control the next
House and Mr.. Sibley should be elected
he VIII be one of the prominent leaders
of that body.
Representative Joseph W. Bailey, of
Texas. who Is said with actual seriousness
TO regard himself as the coming Speaker
of the House of Representatives. denies
the report that he contemplates purchas-
ing stock farm in Kentucky, and in
tended devoting his attention to stock
| raising. The story was probably started
hv fri Of I,
Statesman as a joke.
DR.. Chauncey NJ. Depew has broken out
in a new place. Our Chauncey." as he
loves to be called, can be depended upon
for something out of the common during
every campaign. His latest discovery is
that the defeat of Col. Teddy Roosevelt
for governor of New York will be regard
ed by the courts of Europe as a condem-
nation by the people of this country of
our war with Spain. Dr. Depew. of course
knows all about the courts of Europe, but
he has evidently forgotten that there were
quite as many Democrats as Republicans
among our volunteers and that the Demo-
cratic candidate for President in 1896 holds
a commission as colonel of a volunteer
regiment. If DR.. Depew is not careful he
will lose his position as court jester.
The announced program of Senator Han
ma and the Republican leaders to send
President Mckinley on tour through the
Eastern States just as soon as he returns
to the National Capital is most significant
1t shows plainly that Mr.. Hanna's scare
talk has not been altogether for the pur-
pose of increasing the contributions to his
campaign fund.- but that it has had a real
foundation. If the situation were not des-
perate 1t is not likely that Mr. Hanna and
his associates would resort to the doubtful
expedient of turning the President of the
United States into a campaign spell
binder. The propriety or the President
lending himself to any such undignified
proceedings hardly admits of argument
However, the Presidents Eastern trip
will be given the color of an official jour
ney devoid of any political significance
He is to be taken first to Philadelphia to
participate in the peace jubilee which will
be celebrated in the Quaker City on Oc-
tober q; then he, will visit Vice President
Garret A. Hobart at Paterson, N J. From
Paterson he will ,go TO New York as the
guest of Secretary Bliss, who will give a
dinner in his honor at the Union League
Club. From New York the President is
expected to go to Boston to be entertained
by the Home Market Club of that city.
Then the President will journey out to
Canton to cast his vote. Speeches will be
made at all the stopping places. The
scheme is perfectly transparent. Mr.
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