The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
Cutting Remarks.

At the opening of what promises to be hot campaign R. Fulton Cutting, perenially the whole thing in the Citizens Union, seems to have put his friend and fellow reformer Jerome out of the running by tagging him with the "Cits" nomination, and the bad boys of the big parties are laughing in glee mot altogether in their sleeves. No man contributes a more diverting note to the political chorus or a more pie turesque figure to the campaign pano- rama than Cutting. He Is in person what The Evening Post Is in print, the gentleman in politics" but as a prac- tical politician he Is funnier and fun nier. When some one congratulated Roosevelt early in his political career. on having carried the primaries three times in his district and beaten Bar ney' Martin, the district leader, out of his boots, he grinned and said: Well, it's something you can't do as dude. V That Is an essential truth that Cutting has never found out. ..-
 When he goes into the hurly- burly of the East or West Side of an even inE in the heat of the campaign, to damn Tammany and preach the gos- pei of reform, he goes in evening clothes. with shiny topper and an em- blematical purity of shirt front. The Tammany ranter at the opposite curb is mounted on a truck and probably saving the air with shirt sleeves. Cutting is more apt to have one of Jim" Hyde's tanyn coaches, with Now and then the decency of New York gets tired of ring rule and jobs and police protection. and throws Tammany down hard. That Is Cut ting's hour of glory, and the vindica- tion of the claw hammer In politics, but 1t Is usually brief, and for the next few years he goes on earnestly playing a lone hand. But takes him self seriously, and he likes the game 1t Is so different from "Parchesi"
 Bas the "Sign of the Bishop"
 MT. Cutting, by the way, was one of the principal packers of the Sub way Tavern" known everywhere to the cynical as The Bishops Ginmill." After a year and half of effort to stem the current of criticism and slack business, the Subway" is to become a Broadway saloon. The new proprietor says the man with the biggest thirst be torn out and the bar pushed up to the front of the establishment The experiment now abandoned cost sixteen thousand dollars. Bishop Potter, who brought down storm of denunciation on his own head by dedicating the upon which IL was founded is a sound one, and a multitude of sane people are of the same mind. What killed the Subway Tavern was that 1t was the only place of It's kind In America, and therefore focused on itself all the
 ridicule, condemnation, rlbaldry and curiosity which the experiment eX- cited.
 If instead there had been a capital of $200,O00 and fifty places of the kind had been started instead of one, all of them would probably be paying to- | A rk, al eF NNz~.. hn The place was in the midst-not of working district, where it's purpose would have been best served, but of the tough and dissolute neighborhood of Chatham Square, handy to all the | life of the Bowery, only a block or two of Cherry HiI within hail of Null berry Bend, convenient tO Five Points and al the very portal of Chinatown | This whole quarter Is infested with gangs, and with tremulous "bummers who instead of a poor mans club
 want "morgue" and look rather Tor the seductive sign, All the Kentucky
 whiskey you can drink for nickel If the experiment had been made in a section populated by German, French | or English workingmen, 1t would have prospered, and could nave been ex- | tended successfully.
 The sightseeing rubberneck wag- puS biuubHt NuelI IOduS OL strangers to the Subway Tavern; Summing parties made way station
 of 1t, and the plain patrons over theii decent beer got tired of being Stareu
 at by Tom, Dick and Harry and theil humorous women folk like freaks ln
 museum. Joseph Johnson. the man man
 sger, is man of pluck and ls bralns
 he made conscientious effort to pCoNe | the theory. It cost him time ana mon ka
 ton, and newspaper writers Whose | co-laborer he had been for years seep'