The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25
political NOTES.

LITTLE Napoleon OF Democracy OF Benning-
ton county. Vt. Mr.. 0rvis has the reputa-
ton Of having voted f6r every Democratic
candidate for Governor Of Vermont. not one
or whom was elected Still. Mr.. orvis says
that he 10 not at all discouraged. He was
President Cleveland's postmaster at Man
chester. and two, OF his cherished political
| relics are the commissions Of his grand
rather a. postmaster OF Manchester under
Andrew jackson and John Tyler. F
Mr.. 0rvis 10 sturdy In his belief that the
Government should be returned to the people
az In the days OF jefferson and Jackson.
He Is also OF the opinion that for years past
the drift has been distinctly toward an I'M
constitutional political psternalism. and that
this drift is even more marked to-day than at
any other time In the history OF the republiS.
Mr.. Orvis In considered by his neighbour
and friends as one OF the keenest political
students OF the Green Mountain State. He
is rs and risky as a kid.
Nine years ago John whalen, the newly
elected Democratic Secretary OF State for
New York. owned an insignificant cigar shop
in the village OF Norwich. Chenango county.
This was referred to last night by Republic
cans with something like q sneer. They
totally forgot that the late John Palmer.
for two terms the Republican Secretary
Of State. was a house painter at Albany.
Democrats say that one Of the most dis
| hppOluJcu v neil lclIOWr ~ NnHTlcS w. bulktt
Of oswego. and they go on TO assert that
Mr.. Bulger. forgetting his speeches Of other
days. tumbled heels over head into the
Hearst camp and into the Murphy camp.
believing that he was to be nominated at
Buffalo for. At-torney-Geperal. Mr.. Bulger in
more than one Democratic State convention
has roundly denounced Tammany, and de-
clared that IL was the bullheaded Democratic
| opponent of the country Democrats of the
Empire State. and was not to be trusted on
any occasion where sound principles OF
Democracy we're concerned. But Mr.. Bulger.
according to Hearst men and to Tsmmany
men. accepted at the last their promises and
was fooled.
Then, too. 1t was pointed out that Mayor
Sherman Of Utica was practically in the same
boat with Mr.. Bulger. for he too relied upon
the Hearst promises and the Murphy promises
to be made the Democratic candidate for
Attorney-General in return for the support
he could give the Hearst-Murphy comblna-
ton at Buffalo. The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
was promised. II was said. to twenty-one
Democrats at Buffalo.
Joel W. Burdick Of Albany enjoys the dis
tinction OF having played in the first and only
| game OF golf with President Mckinley. This
| was a foursome az Bluf Point. The other two
of the foursome were the late Vice-President
| Carrot A. Hobart and former United States
Attorney-Genera Griggs OF New Jersey.
The question has been asked. Why do so
many country politicians throughout the
United States. Republicans and Democrats,
resort to profane language in boosting along
their political discussions with friends and
neighbors, and oftentimes with complete
strangers or passing acquaintances2 This
matter has been submitted to a number OF
country politicians, and their retort was that
| most Of the bad language they used was
gathered from their contact at State and
national conventions with politicians. Re-
publicans and Democrats. from the cities.
BENJAMIN B. Odell. Jr, Of Newbursh. sc-
cording to his critics. hopes TO keep himself
before the public for the next two years by
doing the maybe act"
The new and altogether Questionable po-
Htical utterance is heard from friends OF
Charles f. Hughes that a Republican State
Senator has no more right 70 practise his
| profession AS a lawyer on the floor of the
Senate than a United States Senator has
to put through all sorts of schemes. for doing
which Joseph Ralph Burton Of Kansas is now
In jail.
The State Tressurer's Office at Albany
has a record OF payments TO Republican State
Senators for services as lawyers before the
numerous commissions Of the State. and
there has been heard a report to the effect
that this business must stop, for the reason
that in numerous instances grave scandals
have been imminent.
MANY politicians are like many actors
said an old timer last night. They always
want to be in the limelight. They always
want to be in the newspapers. They always
want to talk. Many Of them claim credit for
what others do. Few understan nd the value OF
silence. Most Of them d%enounCe the news
papers, and then turn out at sunrise to see II
the newspapers mention their names. Many
Of them will send a collea que who has honored
them and trusted them to political oblivion
by the basest methods and shudder and
crinse when a newspaper tells about it."
President Roosevelt's friends declare that
the Republican party in most OF the states will
be thoroughly reor ganized by the time the
Republican national convention assemblies in
zoos. The President. It is insisted, believes
that tho younger men in the party should
come to the front.
NO, no" insisted the late James G. Blaine to
his friends in 1888, when they urged him again
TO step forward as a candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for President, and Blaine
added: Il led my party TO defeat once, four
years ago. and that should be enough"
Yet Blaine In 1892 allowed the use OF his
name at Minneapolis in the triangular fight
between Harrison. Mckinley and himself in
order to defeat Harrison for denomination.
The Blaine forces and the Mckinley forces
Joined hands In that convention against Har-
rison. The effort was futile. Mokinley's
luck in not being nominated in 1870, was fire.
uuently spoken Of in later years. for the reason
that no Republican could have been elected
against Cleveland in that year.
Hughes" remarked an old time Republican
machine politician in the Amen Corner at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night, must
be Governor for fair this time.
what / mean to say is that Hughes must
be Governor himself. and must not have a
kitchen cabinet to worry and fret him with
interested and bad advice. Hughes. you'll
laugh when l say it. should not bother HIM
self at all about patronage, but should make
the best Governor the State has had in many
years.
Even we old political ma chinists know that
patronage now doesn't carry much weight.
Most Of the places are in the civil service.
but outside OF that fact the voters are looking
down on public officials who use patronag e TO
boost themselves OF their mrty along. We
must pay more attention to the voters and less
TO the Office seekers. and yet l have been an
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