The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23
HON. JOSIAH QUINCY.
PRES. ALEXANDER CUMMING SECURES Ex-MAYOR OF BOSTON

To Speak Next Wednesday Evening
 Under Auspices of the Yale Law
 School Political Club at Hendrie Hall
 on "MunicipaI GOvernment''--Is Cele-
 brated Massachusetts Political Leader
 and Descendant of IllustriOus Pa
 triOts.
 The Yale Law School Political club announces an address upon "Munlclpa] Government by the Hon. Josiah Quln- cv. mayor of the city of Boston from 1895 to 1899. The address will be given at 8 o'clock in Hendrie hall on the even ing of Wednesday, March 2S, 1906, and | it is stated by Alexander Cumming the president of the club, that 1t Will De open to the public. After the address a reception will be given MT. Quincy at the Union League club by the members of the Yale Law School Political club and of the Union League, to which men prominent in business, political and so- cial circles have been invited
 MT. Quincy was born in Quincy Mass. in 1859, was graduated from liar ward in 1880, was admitted to the bar' served in the Massachusetts legislature four years, has been chairman repeat edIy of the Democratic State central committee of Massachusetts, was man ager of the literary bureau of the Dem ocratic National committee in the cam
 paign of 1902, was first assistant secre-
 tarv of state under Cleveland in 1895, was mayor of the city of Boston in lS95- s9, and on october 3, 1901, he was nom
 mated by the Democratic party for
 governor of the State of Massachusetts.
 MT. Quincy was the hero and in every
 way the dominant figure of the State Democratic convention of 1902, and se-
 cured the adoption of the platform } which he had himself written. rms
 pIatform devoted itself to what MT , Quincy declared to be the real and vital
 issues of the day, giving principal
 prominence to tariff reform and the
 regulation of trusts, and specifically de- manding reciprocity with Canada
 These issues have since become the !. Watchword of both parties i'll Massa- ., chusetts.
 The antecedents of Josiah Quincy
 harmonize with his career. He IS de-
 seconded from Edmund Quincy, the y founder of the American family or e Ouincys. who landed in Boston on Sep tember 4. 16SS, coming from AckWich, in Northamptonshire, England, and
 who was a man of substance a magis- e trate, and of high place in civil, judicial and military service in the colony The It Quincy family is closely related by mar v riage to the Adams family, famous as
 having furnished two presidents in the ,t earlv history of the United States His v great grandfather, Josiah quincy tl'tz- l. 1S64), was the only son of the lawyer :. and patriot, Josiah Quincy, ir., young r est son of Colonel Josiah Quincy son ol n Judge Edmund Quincy, son of Lieuten- @ ant-Coonel Edmund Quincy, son ot Ed l. mund Quincy, the founder of the fam $ fly. His grandfather and great-grand J. father were both mayors of Boston, th'
 latter being president of Harvard COT D. IIege and a member of congress; and ol ,- his mothers side he is connected witt ,e the family of Bishop Huntington, whil' Id his individual history has been largeE Ie that of a professional politician in tn xt highest sense of that term, TWent! t. years ago he helped frame charter 10
 his native town of Quincy.
 ,s Trained in university and by travel f- well furnished in mind, alert, methodi oa cal. accustomed to estimating men an to familiar with political life, he is a pro J. digious worker, the author of his oWl it addresses and messages, cool an l. steady under pressure, open to ideas
 rapid in judgment, concise in expres
 sion, and wonderfully expeditions Ill ae - tion.
 Most mayors come to their office fror
 commercial or professional life, Wher
 the mass of mankind have been habitu
 ally viewed as subjects of protit-mak
 ing. MT Quincy is not one of America
 "self-made" men, and has never deal
 with his fellows as economic agencle
 Their primary aspect as human being lC with physical, intellectual and mora
 endowments is, therefore, the obviou L one to nm, duu IL ls Hllel O9tlA5 AiA Nii
 connection to know that his last annu' les message as mayor of Boston was chief
 devoted to the social aspects of munic if pal government.
 +o Alexander Cumming, president of tl ,mr m Yale Law School Political club ht +o beenever fortunate in securing so bri
 liant and distinguished speaker ,o+ the Hon. Josiah Quincy. Other speal 'aw CTS during the present year have bee "' the Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary mo the Treasury, who spoke upon "Evol' @ @,,n tion in Self Government on Frida fard December 15 1905, and the Hon. Me ne vile E. Stone, general manager of u tr9 Associated Press, who spoke on Frida ,oI, January 26, 1906, upon 'The Infiuen ,o,, of the Newspaper in American Life"