The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-02
IS NEW YORK DELIRIUM TREMENs?

.rerF8 - E-v york viewed lI some as
poets. II L. said that There are more
Irfshmeu in Ne" EoElE than la Dublin.
more Italians than in Rome, more
Jews than ia Poland. more Germans
than in Berlin. more F~renchmen than
than in any city except Paris: more
negroes than Ira the most populous
south African city and more
PEOPLE % almost every nationality
( than in the chief city Of their own
country. This IS somewhat overdra"n
but the population is cosmopolitan III
/ that il is made UP q all tongues and
/ tribes. New York too. il said TO be
! provincial in that il knows and cares
little about anything west Of Jersey
! CITY. its newspapers regarding a Ne"
York event with half . page Of scare
heads. while the same event across
the river in Jersey i dismissed in Z
! paragraph.
In the october Atlantic" 4. T. san
born contributes a fresh ana interest
ing article on New York After Paris"
hat pictures New York in its sensa-
tionaIism. saying it has "Iatterly taken
10 reckoning time by It's sensations.
like village gossip" and adding:
When one counts the number
Of murders, kidnappln@S, dD4uctloilS
and MARTA! scandals which have
held the front Of the stage i'm quick
succession: the number Of d~emagoSueS
who have advertised themselves INTO
office, the number Of leaders wearing
the naio of rcfOr!ntrS who waited Tor
the psychological moment TO arrive
before they ~espOused reform the
number Of fortunes that have been
piled up by the exploitation Of 'eE-
pOsure'; when one recalls the SOrl|,
s~pasrnodic efforts to establish a CEN
sorshiD of the stage and compel sun
day observance the society REVEALS
from which sinners without invitation
are excluded; the p~reponderant role
of profanity in police reform. and OF
theology in maintaining race-track
betting; when one recalls, further, the
ease with which the public has been
stampeded for mutually antagonistic
men and measures, for the most un-
righteous and irrational cauSeS;-Whcn
one considers all this, and more to the
same general effect, ii is impossible
not to be indulgent to the person who
atfirms that New York is suffering from
one of the worst cases Of extreme ner-
VOusneSS on record. and tina having
formed the sensation habit, 1T can
no more get along without it's daily
sensation than the dope-fiend can get
along without his daily dope. Walt
Whitman's memorable query. But say
Tom, isn't it. (NeW York; "a sort of
delirium tremens?' appears almost
d~ismayinGly pertinent at this time"
Last week afforded an example Of
the New York way Of nominating can
didates for Governors method that
would not be tolerated in any State
where the people really have voice in
nominations. The Republican and
Democratic Conventions met on the
same day. Both were at sea. In the
Republican party there had been the
most bitter and acrimonious war be-
tween tWO rival Observation-Disclosures
Odell and Governor Higgins. Nobody
pretended hat either was contending
tor honesty or party principle. The
contest was exclusively to say which
hould dominate the party. Odell
had gotten rich Through his control of
the party and he wished to retain his
hold on the machine so he could con-
tinue to get rich cream. He had forced
Higgins on the party, and, after get
ting in, Higgins aspired 70 De the Boss
on mis- own hook. And. of course
there was a falling out between the
two bosses. Higgins had been un-
grateful to Odell-of course and just
as Odell had refused to do the bidding
OF Plat who discovered him
and mad him Governor. 1t
is the rule in boss-gOverned
States that the Me Too" of Today
becomes the Boss of Tomorrow. But
Higgins cOurted Roosevelt and made
q secret promise to the Fedora office
holders that, il they would help him
down Odell, he would not accept
q denomination as Governor. He then
Won out in the primaries. But when
the convention met nobody was in the
for the Governors renomi-
nation but he was under bonds and
under fear of defeat SO that another
had to be found The hun
dIeds of delegates q no more to do
with the selection than SO many auto
nations. They talked of this man and
that, started Il boom for Black and
and Bruce, and went through
all the motions of a s~elf-goVerning con-
VentiOn that could nominate the can
didate. But in their hearts all the
a~utOnatOn delegates Knew they were
waiting for orders. But in the mean
time they We're having political deli
rum trenlens, bowling and shouting
and waiting for the sensation without
no New Yorker could be happy.
the psychological m to make
the announcement dramatic and SEN
a close friend of the Presi-
goes into a telephone booth and
calls up oyster Bay. The delegates
wait outside breathlessly for the word
that shall be the command. Finally
he friend emerges from the booth
and tell the automaton delegates that
while the President, of course, does
wish to influence their individual
action or control their judgment, he
Is strongly of the opinion that the
convention ought to nominate Mr..
hughes. And forthwith every little
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