The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-26
GENTLER SECT HOLD A BEE,
WORKING ON a WINDING sREET ron
rHE BlcOY RABY TTCKEE

LhA AACON AA2I IAgAkAs
res . ouesr Little Backyard Fnll Of Poiitl-
clans and The Political Nursery IL
ths OHoist Organ Of the F~action-Arr.
Bacon Taiks I've H~oura-CuttinG Calls
the War with spain = Political Dodge.
It was 8 O'Clock. rhe doors OF the big hall At
Cooper Union had been open for two hours and
the Seventh Regiment Band had footed itself
out OF wind on tho street In front OF the hall.
There were perhaps 600 people scatteredAbout
the hall. They spoke In whispers. The Hon.
Isaac II. Klein tlptoed around the stage.
Boudinot Keith looked morose. John jay
Chapman twiddled his fingers and muttersd.
John" exclaimed John Brooks Leavitt in n
stage whisper. ARE the outside doors open
YETI"
"I-I-I-I-I-I think they are" said Mr.. Chap
man.
1t was to be the frst big meeting OF the Po-
litlcal Nursery. and It certainly dldn't look en-
%cOurngink at that hour. The Hon. Theodore
Bacon was there. He's tho head OF the Goo
Goo State ticket. Temple Emmett was there.
]. Everett Macy was there. Lionel Sutro was
there. and Wallace Macfarlane and Calvin
Tompkins and Oswald Willard and r.. Fulton
Cutting and ever so many influential people
like them, but the zone ana sinew some.
how hadn't got around. There was even
n scarcity OF Cooper Union regulars.
and this In spite Of the fact that on every seat
In the hall there was a copy Of the Political
Nursery. the ORGAN Of the Goo Coos. 1t was
free with the seat. and ordinarily it costs ten
centsa copy. too.
There was q hurried conference in the back
room. Let break what must break. we shall
soon see the way" declared Mr.. Klein. reading
from the motto of the Nursery. We must go
Mr.. Klein ia the boss Goo Goo and that order
settled it. Paul Fuller. Who had been chosen
70 pipe the first lay. gave the signal. The
lights We're turned up There was Q elappipg
. believe it's traditional to make a noise"
ton, There was a "~Tee-he-he."
IT Il mp, privilege to call his meeting TO
ridicpled. It Is discouraged. Even those who
stand for the principles we maintain are wait
Of success. Why should We .waitS"' He paused.
There was no answer. 4 little, later ne said:
d Tehs SSnS Soa. Snd ao t !not t t5Gss T shs. h az.
tinguished educator who, because he failed OF
ELECTION. has forgotten the primary education
OF the nursery, which tells us:
II at nrst you don't succeed. try. try again.
The stan Of the Esening Post which occupied
Faifsr fatro Sas edIaRsl ober;t %W SPp9Rta9asa'f O an Gbs AIR.:
speech Mr.. Widenman said:
We are a healthy. energetic band OF NAV !
was real applause, hard hand-clapping. and ali
that. and MIR. Bacon. who later was re-
fstrod &c as II The R% aTe been OF the Tem nTi5sSsTyb w Ss
S s1dd ,to of the a%ov beginning q mi Of one on t Of the
@oriiuyi salute m u.s. That i Vi repeat Tpe t'R here
sRG sG gOu. k anoSH thst R %e are psl to di you fs
have submitted ourselves to the fate that is
Mr.; Bacon continued. 1t was one hour and u |
half later when the first unpleasant incident Of |
nursery meeting came; EiGhty.one OF the
Speaking. One Of the sieepers started. "sIssy."
Bse ssnEf oaSdEseSd r raeS you f. tGr d I5Ss s RHsw b,mm r,'
he exclaimed. "idont think he's a candidate"
Charles Frederick Adams laughed. and sew
eF TE 81 the s mispess T ISsst uR &ir, Bacon ,,,a h.
thought perhaps he had taken up TOO much
., 81 !SS On r.. n aid :EIa Hvoi0o. and there WasaehOruD
q 2 help i il they are pulline my, coat
aaaFsss Without saying something Of the issues
Times III" snorted nothersleepe waking
hippishaedd.. half Of the hen tve hundred iaSel; Gs Started Tr R SaSSn
The hour was getting late for political children.
,afid d' he 1f Knew A0 TIE T ticket eR'e eouidst VIM Mt' NJ ASiU q
lumber Of other things. Half Of the remainder
81 the .OUU went nome AFTER MI. Adler had 1
1nished. Then came Robert Fulton Cutting.
said among other things:
Doubtless It has been q great war. but I tell
Tou 1t was not the independent spirit Of our
that sought 1t. but It was because the
republican party wanted to have war and de-
a war as the only way by which they
;ould reflect their Congress and President"
After Mr.. Cutting came Candidate Thomas
d. Osborn. Mr.: Osborn said he had inflicted
me speech on New York. 1t began:
Just for . handful Of silver he left us,
Just for q ribbon to stick In his coat.
nd 1t meant Theodore Roosevelt, and he
lidn,t think he ought to infllct another speech.
dc did. however, want to say that the United
states wanted trade with civilized countrieR
nd not with barbarians: therefore talk OF
;eeplng the Philippines for trade purposes was
This put to sleep the greater number Of the
.hildren left. and Charles Frederick Adams,
he bogy mar Of the nursery, was put in to wake
hem mp. He talked loud. and succeeded fairly
veil. but the police had to help him out finally.
md it was nearly midnight when the hall was
losed.
In the issue OF the Nursery that was given
way at the meeting were two columns OF
verse, soul stirring and thrilling. Here
B a piece OF 1t chopped out OF the middle:
Expressed in terms of force. the word reform
Ia like the banks percentage at roulette:
y shoves one way; 1t always tayB one thing;
Il RetB,a hearing where you least suspect;
T. has against It every other hand;
Unprineipled and quarrel with themselves,
The while the bank rakesj in its 2 per cent.
nl,arf.o 4,