New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-14
ID. US CHEER JEROME.
He DepIorcs Lack of Educated Po-
LticaL Leaders.

District Attorney Jerome was the CHIEF speaker
at the banquet at the Murray Hi Hotter iaS'
night which ended the three days sixty-nlnth Gun
vention Of the Delta Epsilon fraternity lie TOOK
educated men TO task for their lack OF interest
and activity in politics. and depored the lack OF
able leaders in good government movements
Charles f. Hughes Brown. 81, presided and the
other speakers. besides Mr.. Jerome. Amherst. 81
whose subject THE Duty of the Citizen" were
the Rev. DR.. Orrin p. Clifford. Brown. IA. The
Fraternity: Edward VI. Bassett. Amherst. 81.
and the Rev. DR.. COTtlandt Myers. Rochester. 81.
1.-THE College Graduate" The Rev. DR.. Ezra s.
Triple Syracuse. 81. took the place OF Elijah b.
Sherman MiddIebury. 60 to whom had been as
signed the toast ''Heroism and Scholarship" Dr.
f Benjamin Andrews. Brown. 20. chancellor Of the
University OF Nebraska was to have spoken on
Living versus Preparing to Live but he had to
start for his home. being indisposed.
Among those at the guests table were Chan
ceIor Henry NJ. MacCracken. Of New-Yorlz Uni
versity who was present special guest. not
being a member of the fraternity. There were
many women In the galleries. District Attorney
Jerome did not arrive until the dinner well
under way He greeted with the ID. Z"
YELL ending with Jerome"
DIR. Clifford took much satisfaction in the fact
that the fraternity was not a secret society. and
referred to Mr.. Jerome the defender OF the
faith Of the D. u He stands for justice and
open life-nothing covered he said
Chancellor MacCracken said he had learned that
he was a D. U. by marriage. His only daughter
being married to a D. u. I'VE may well take for
national affairs the motto Of your fraternity.
Justice the foundation" he said.
The chairman, in introducing Mr. Jerome. said;
You have found New York In the last throes OF
virtue. Out Of the ruins there emerges one great
figure. the hope of the good. the terror Of the
CRATER and he. the hope of NewTOrk City, is a
Delta L. The who talk and who can
act. the who stands for righteousness in our
civic life. William Travers Jerome
After the cheering had subsidized Mr.. jerome began
saying that the thing that impressed him most
strongly at present the need Of leadership. He
continued:
Do you think that Tammany leaders hold their
power merely by accident? That Croker got his
power that way? 1t because he a strong
man. and, If he had been educated man with
lofty ideals. he could have achieved great good for
this city. But the leadership have got to have
And, if IL is not to be the leadership Of educated
gentlemen, It will be that of like Sullivan
But in the United States 1 don't see for the last
fifty years much of the sacrifices of educated
gentlemen. 1t is not mere question OF politics
1t is a matter Of elemental decency. When l look
the men who represent US in Congress, il seems
to me there Is an obligation resting educated
For my part don't like TO be represented
IN Congress by man like Tim Sullivan. There
time when New-YOTk was represented in
Congress by men who, when they rose speak.
had something to say. That is the fault of the
OF ducattOn- They in much the position of a
man who welches on the racetrack-