The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-18
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nave q fortune or mora than ten millions
That suits me down to the shoe strings. But
say. l guess all the noodles are not In tn
New York Board of Aldermen, hey?"
Mayor Mcclellan Of New York city in tn,
opinion Of wise folk hit the nail SQUARED!
on the head when in speaking OF a proposed
investigation Of one Of the city's department.
he said.
Il am glad to have any Of the city depart
rnents Investigated. and the more thoroughly
they are investigated the better / shall b'
pleased. No Investigation can do any harm
and II any evils are discovered the discovery
will enable the administration to reotify
them"
Grover Cleveland having sold his farm
at Princeton because II was Improbable
1t may be Of interest to recall that William
Jennings Bryan's farm just outside Of Lincoln
10 one OF his richest assets; also, that Cleve'
land. twice President OF the United States
10 worth 5000, 900, and that Bryan. twice de.
feated for the Presidency. is worth $500 900.
and that his fortune is increasing year by
year. Who was the better business man. II
10 asked, Cleveland. the Sound Money Demo-
crat. or Bryan. the Sixteen to one-er?
Folks are turning over In their analytical
minds the recent gathering of Socialists and
Investigators Of Socialism" at the country
homo Of j. g. Stokes In Connecticut. One
who ls aware Of the financial standing Of all
present said yesterday:
There wasn't one In the bunch whose
yearly income does not range from $1,000 to
100000 q year. 1t 10 commended by some
that Socialism Ia but another name FOR COM
munism, which calls for @ sharing with all
conscientious followers OF the fruits Of toll.
Do the swallowtail Socialists who attended
Mr.. Stokes's seance share their incomes and
accumulated wealth with the wretohedly poor
Socialists Of Paterson and Chlcago9"
Henry H. Rogers. vioe-president Of the
Standard Oil Company. is something OF q
politician, 1t is remarked. He votes at Fair
haven, Mass. his birthplace. Recently he
took a hustllne part in the local option battle
in his native village. and the erog shop inter-
ests were walloped by 500 to ia.
Representative James or Jim M. Griggs.
recently selected to be chairman Of the Dem
ocratic Congress- campaign committee. has
been successfully school teacher. newspaper
man and lawyer. His friends call him Grim
Jiggs."
Grover Cleveland and James G. Blaine. the
two great Presidential rivals Of 1884, began
life as teachers in institutions for the blind.
Patrick Henry said that we had no lamp
but experience to guide us.
Nearly forty years ago there was a famine
In China and the New York Chamber of Com
merce raised a fund of seo 1000 which was
sent to China for the relief Of the sufferers.
In return the viceroy Of Marking sent to the
Chamber a tablet with an inscription which
was never translated till the other day. when
one Of the Chinese commissioners now in this
country said It read:
There may be a difference In races; there
exists a universal brotherhood"
The late Thomas B. Reed as Speaker Of
the House Of Representatives in the Fifty
first and other Congresses was %"czar." die
tator" and bad man generally with Demo-
Gratis and political hybrids because he made
a quorum by counting members Of the House
present and not voting. With the illness of
David B. Hill 1t is recalled hat Reed. in de-
Tending his act, announced to the House that
he was but following in the footsteps Of Hill
when Lieutenant-Governor Of New York
State and presiding officer of the State Sem
ate. Part of Reed s speech was:
"One OF the first places in which the oues-
ton was raised was in the Senate Of the State
OF New York. The present Governor of New
York was the presiding officer. and upon him
devolved e duty similar to that which has
devolved upon me to-day. He met that duty
in precisely the same manner.
The question there raised was the neces-
sity, under their Constitution. of three-ffths
constituting a quorum for the passage of GER
tain bills. and he held that the constitutional
provision as to a quorum was entirely salts
fed by the presence of the members, even II
they did not vote, and accordingly he d.
rected the recording officer OF the Senate to
put down the names as a part of the record
of the transaction-that is. to put down the
names OF the members Of the Senate who
were present and refused to vote. in pre-
cisely the manner in which the occupan Of
this chair has directed the same thing to be
done"
Recently when the Pure Food bill was up
Senator Foraker didn't seem to think that
Senator Tillman was competent to, instruct
him on the subject OF fusel oil in whiskey.
Tillman was Governor of South Carolina
during the whiskey agitation in the State
which resulted in the dispensary law.
Excuse me. Senator, said Tillman to Fora
ker, speaking OF himself as Governor of his
State at the time. Il was head barkeeper
down in South Carolina when the dispensary
system was inaugurated, and / know what l
am talking about. am not much of a sharp
on the taste of whiskey. but l know all about
the making OF it,
Miss Marie Rose Collins. daughter OF the
late Mayor Patrick A. Collins OF Boston,
has been appointed a member OF the Prison
Commission by Gov, Guild of Massachusetts,.
The new census shows that New York State
has within its borders 5000 Indians on reser-
vations, of whom l.472 are in the Cattaraugus
Reservation, in the western part of the State,
1 200 are on the st. Regis Reservation on the
st. Lawrence River, and SOS in the 0nondaga
Reservation near Syracuse.
Horace Greeleyis ~favorite poem Of his own
make was:
Mans a vapor,
Full OF woes:
Starts a paper
Up sho goes.
When William Mckinley was a Congress-
man living at the Ebbitt House In Washington
he liked hapjacks and ate them with bis knife.
In 1896 a political critic told the napjack
knife story. hoping to injure Mckinley. In
stead the iRcld emit was regarded as but ex-
hibiting another Of McKinley's virtues by
the homely lived and wholesome folks Of
the backwoods district in many States.
Some tin whistle politicians have been
asked to remember that when a man once
begins to lie the Devil makes big demands
on him."
vice-President Charles Warren ~Fairbanks'a
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