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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-06
WHAT is 4 DEMOCRAIE
llnszcer Suggested by Career OF
CoIoneI Hendricks h. UHght.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir. The Tribune Of June q had an editorial On
TIA oo,undrlu What is Democrat: referring
.. ..r,no New York worlds and the Hon w J
prvan.s definitions as 10 what current Democracy
-,aars II might afford relief TO know what
-, r,a,,ocrst,c politician and lawyer Of Luzerne
county, Penn said to the rank and file OF MS
ot,, IN tho early SOS at Carbonate, Penn Where
tbara was a large element Of the population IiA'
had recently been British subjects and rss'oeh's ol
Ireland At a political gathering at winch Oo'o'i'-
Eendrick B. Wright was the principal speaker 1N
axpounder Of Democratic doctrine he opened LIE
address by defining what a Democrat was ana He
said 10 the audience: II you arc asked WY SoI
are a Democrat say IL IS because Thonas Jelle' ST.
80 a Tlan,ocrat because Andrew jackson was
democrat because Martin Van Buren, Is Demo I t
and because am a Democrat foss .I = ~
rrtbune would advise some OF the gentleman VIZ
49,, heen irving TO solve the question TO ADOPT to
nos,tion advanced BY Colonel Wright ana theh pc
come practical statesmen, instead OF 80 - ~
he did, they might Dc hO4o'S4 80 --o $500
II a Wright was admitted 10 the Luzerne Coun-
" bar In 1881. For ten years no devoted hlSeII 70
Sts T1ofessIon ana as an advocate before jury
achieved distinction. In 1s4l he was elected 10 'i
House of Representatives or Fennsy4Ea4lIa; 't So"
1910 and 1s4S In 1874 president OF the Dem
ocratic National Convention. being deiesale-a'-
large from Pennsylvania In 1889 he was elected 10
CONGRESS- by the Democratic party. At the break
ing out of the Civil War, in 1851. q noninauoh og
both parties was rendered him, ana no was e!ec'eu
20 Congress and was an untrlnS advocate %
an undivided Union although lifelong Democrat
In a speech in Congress- replying TO the peace
resolutions OF Mr.. Vanandingham. which was soon
after Colonel Wrights eldest son mao oesii Con
aligned to a soldiers grave he closed with a quota
zion from an ancient philosopher: II should have
blushed If cato's house had stood secure ana nouL
tabaJ IN a civil war" After the close Of the SIth
Congress Mr. Wright retired nom politics. but IN
1S78 without solicitation his part he was elected
IN the Luzerne district to the 18th Congress- also TO
tho 4sth and refused further political honors- he
was always prominent IN ell public works OF state
and nation we'll as IN domestic AFFAIRS until hls
death in 1sSi. WILLIAM IL tuChN"O->O'
Scranton Penn, July 8. 1901
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-06
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Mites, Edith r Catlin daughter of Mrs. Julius
Catlin will be married to-day at ST. Lukes Churcn'
Morristown n. J.. to Stowe Phelps. 1heiI W.
ding will be an informal one, as MISS Cat'in :
family is in mourning, and the HlVItalioiis AA
heen limited to relatives and very intimate irleiuS'
THO bride who Is a sister of Mrs Trenor L. PARK
will dispense with attendants. ana there VII. D
no ushers Ansel Phelps will be mis- nrother -
man. Immediately after the wedding MI rhelpo
and his bride will start on a trip rouhd tne
world via the Siberian Railroad ana they Piaii ~
be hack in New York early in November. MT
Phelps is a son of Mrs. Charles Phelps ana IS q
popular cotillon leader.
,,s caorga OgtIvv Haig sailed for New York
from, England a couple of days ago ana Is oue
here the latter part of next week she Is coiii',6
over to be with her mother, Mrs Astor' at '
latter's home in Fifth avenue. during the summer
Mrs NJ Orme Wilson came into town yeSteIu"S
nv, automobile from her country place at Day
Shore Long Island. and after seeing her nnOlnel'
Mira Aston returned late In the afternoon MI
and Mrs Wilson will go to Newport the latter
part Of the month.
Mrs. Clermont Livingston Best and Miss Annie
Best expect to sail for Europe early next "eeA "
remain abroad for the remainder or the summer,
The wedding of Miss Best TO Elizur Yale on'h VIII
take place early in the fall
Mr. and Mrs. George r. ID. schieffehn VIII leave
Morristown. n. J.. within the next few days anu
go to Southampton Long 4sIalu, "Aei0 -
be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George K Schiel-
felin.
DIR. and Mrs Francis P. Kinnicutt will arrive
from Europe to-day and will go to their nome a'
Morristown n. J.. for the summer
Mr. and Mrs. George Grant Mason, who are Oc-
cupying the late James Henry Smiths villa at
Tuxedo, will probably decide upon permanent
country home elsewhere. They looking for
York Mason
too long to make every day, and considers his
presence in town necessary in connection with the
business of the Smith estate. OF which he Is the
principal heir.
Mrs. James Henry Smith has decided to purchase
n house I'm town and expects TO find place on one
OF the side streets uptown, near Fifth avenue she
will return from Europe early in the fall and VIII
occupy an apartment at the Plaza Hotel with her
daughter, Miss Anita Stewart. until she finds
suitable house.
Mrs. J. Nelson Borland and her daughters hove
sailed for Europe They will be abroad for the re
Inander of the summer. Her brother J. Wood
ward Haven. and Mrs Haven came down from
Ienox on Tuesday to see them on
Mr. and Mrs. Henry II. Pease are at Ienox.
where they will remain until the autumn
Rawlins L. Cottenet. accompanied by his mother
and sister, sails for Europe to-day and Will remain
abroad for the rest OF the summer
Mr.. and Mrs Daniel T. worden. who are at the
clubhouse at Tuxedo Will go TO Bar Haroor IN
about fortnight.
Mrs FHlborne l.. Roosevelt her return from
Europe will open her seabright cottage and re-
main there until late in the autumn
Mr. and Mrs. Jose F. de Navarro will spend the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-06
ORR IRRATIONAL FOURTH,

- aoas little credit to our patriotism or en-
| Ightenment that Thursdays celebration or our
greatest national holiday should be chromcled
as 1.-The bloodiest Fourth yet" How can any
satisfaction be taken in the perversion or mol
idav 10 purposes of disorder and desTuctoh'
and how can any pride be felt In methods OF
observance which inevitably condemn hundreds
If not thousands-to be shot, burned, manned
and otherwise disfigured and tortured IN pro-
nitiation of the great god Of senseess uproarF
What hideous worship ii is which devotes
+beea victims-most of them children tempted
into neriI by thoughtlesS parents-to the CnlneSe
deitv of punk and lockjaw The sacrlnce Is as
wanton as it Is meaningless; for the eI1ort WLlch
| Is so dearly paid for contributes In no way 10
the appropriate celebration OF the nations
birthday and adds in no conceivable manner 10
ifs beauty. dignity, significance or Impressive
ness.
Amiel somewhere in his diary PHILOSOPHERS
over the conduct of the boOrish and the I'M
trained when brought into contact with natures
heautIes and sublimities. They are uneasy and
overawed and seek to emphasize their own petty
| individualities by singing, shouting or other
trivial upr0ar Can it DO that as a nation we
are not able TO grasp the real Significance OF the
ideas underlying our holiday observances and
must cover our incapacity by mere vociferaton
or a resort to gunpowderf The Fourth of July
should have an intellectual and spiritual signif-
tcance The celebration OF the holiday should
be made attractive by music, oratory and pa
geantry. 1t should be associated with things
beautiful inspiring and Of good report, not de-
graded to the Chinese level of fumigation day
! for malignant spirits. The senseless burning of
powder and human flesh and the propagation OF
tetanus are poor tributes to the men who
signed the Declaration Of Independence and
made the thirteen colonies nation They rep
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-06
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-The American proposal for the
inviolability Of private property st sea was dis
cussed by the committee on Geneva convention
at The Hague; Great Britain Germany and
Russia opposed the plan. - Mrs Josephine
Leslie was arrested in England on charge Of
fraud through letter purporting TO have been
written by J. p Morgan - Peter Curran.
Socialist, was returned at the Jarrow election TO
succeed the late Sir Charles Palmer in the
House OF Commons The civic strike in tho
South of France IS gradually going TO pieces,
many mayors and municipal councils having
withdrawn their designations 80 Japanese in
COrea show irritation over the Corean delega-
ton al The Hague, and II IS said that Marquis
Ito has given Up hope OF retaining the Soreah
Emperor IN power. - NJ Pichon. the French
Minister Of Foreign Affairs, said that the rela-
tions between France and Germany were eI-
cellent and that the Franco-Spanish agreement
was another step toward the peace Of the world.
DOMESTIC.-There was much speculation In
Washington over the route and time necessary
for the cruise OF the batueship fleet to Pacific
waters - Rear Admiral Brownson, chief OF
the bureau Of navigation, called on the Presi-
dent at Sycamore Hill. - Rear admiral
Evans, on board the connecticut, declared the
idea Of war with Japan silly, and said that re-
pair work on the ships was not beng hurried
narfrnept at Albany informed public officials of
the municipalities in the Oswego watershed that
hereafter no sewage shall be discharged into
any water Of the OsWego River without pre-
lfplipary treatment - DR.. H. K Hoy, finan-
cial hacker Of the lash burning" invention Of
an Altoona, Penn. cobbler, distressed at the
failure Of the process killed himself at Altoona.
CITY-Stocks were strong. - The Demo-
cratic leaders were planning apportionment
measure that would insure them a majority in
the next Senate at Albany. - 1t was said
that the Inter Metropolitan would apply 10 the
Public Service Commission for permission TO
build 2 third track either the Second or Third
avenue elevated line - Inc fuDllc service
Commission will hold its first open session to-
Gaz- il .YGs announced. - a drunken employe
of Richard Carulan made murderous attack
on him Al his country estate. - Coroner
Shrady ordered an autopsy on the body of Mrs.
Catherine Mcbride, whose death followed an
,aT.e-- ION 1f5ayraH ~ SUGDiCiOllE
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Com
pany sold TO Kuhn, Loeb & Co. 100000 per
cent collateral trust three-year notes. -
The preferred stockholders Of the American Steel
Foundries Company. IL was learned, were pre-
pairing TO force the directors. If necessary, to
resume the payment OF dividends
THE Observation-Disclosures for to- day:
Ehowers. The temperature yesterday: High
est, 81 degrees: lowest, 61
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-06

while posing as party workers have served under
a retainer OF special interests careless alike Of
party principles or Of public justice, passing
from the stage. The people demand leadership.
and parties need effective organization to adj
vance their principles. But the time is rapidly
passing when any one can long maintain posi-
ton of wide political influence who is under sus
picion of maintaining double allegiance.
Governors show greater sense of respon-
sbility to the people. Legislators are not far
behind them in acknowledging the impossibility
of a double allegiance.
Efforts TO dominate legislation for selfish pur-
poses and attempts through the forms of pOpu-
lar election TO place in office those who in the
guise OF executing public trusts serve private in
terests are less successful than heretofore. The
people have become intolerant of such traitorous
representation.
The insistence upon higher standards for the
performance of public service by corporations
created by the people and empowered to do
certain necessary things for them is part Of
the same spirit. Let lis all hope that this spirit
will make progress till we have what the Gov
ernor who thinks it shame TO be IN idealist
predicts:
We may look for steady improvement in the
public service, and its civil side-in The senti-
ment of honor and of disinterested fidelity that
may attach to tit may rival what has long
been onspicuous in connection with our military
and naval organizations.
Now for this development Of the spirit of the
age-this determination of the people to attend
strictly TO their business of maintaining equal
ity before the law-the country has to thank
President RoOsevelts administration and a
later conner, Governor Hughes's own admins
tration. SO that no one may misunderstood
us the Governor, the people that the
Governor has in mind includes everybody, rich
and poor, saint and sinner, public and public
service corporation. 1t is not synonymous with
the Peepul, which and then exercises its
voice and which includes only everybody with
a grievance. The people under Governor
Hughes is not the name of q class.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-06

resent a sad deterioration. just as the modern
din and riot of a New Years Eve represent a
painful decline on the public's part in imagina-
tive power and in capacity to grasp the inner
significance of our feasts and holidays.
1t is time to protest against the vulgarity and
boorishness as well as the disorder and reck-
lessness Of our latter day Fourth of July cele-
brati0ns. Some complaint was made when
sports began to overshadow patriotic Obser-
vances on that holiday. But sports have their
rightful place on the calendar of a great open
air holiday like Independence Day. They are
wholesome cheering, beneficial and not out of
tune with the spirit of the occasion. But to
turn the Fourth into mere carnival of fire
works, discharged under conditions OF the great
est possible discomfort and danger, is to make
the holiday pestiferous well as empty. Prob
ably fifty persons were killed and twenty-five
hundred injured-many of the latter most seri-
ously-in Thursdays orgy. Houses were set
on fire and the laws against carrying and using
firearms were defied. Death, suffering and law
lessnesS should not be the distinguishing ele-
ments of Fourth of July celebrations. 1t would
do much TO restore the true character of these
celebrations if the promiscuous use Of fireworks
or explosives of any sort were strictly forbidden
and sternly penazed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-06
EouAuITY BEFORE THE LAW.

The Declaration of Independence established
the ideal OF the American democracy, equality
before the law and governmental protection OF
each and every one in the enjoyment OF man
kinds inalienable rights. The writers OF the
Declaration may have overstated the case for
human rights and failed 10 discriminate be-
tween that equality which man can guarantee
10 man and that equality which Nature at will
youchsafes or denies 70 We know that some
superior persons, realizing this overstatement
and learning that II Gprang from an exploded
French theory, have felt q little ashamed OF
the Declaration-as If its writers had antci-
pated the spread eagle spirit Of subsequent
Fourth Of July oratory and as If the precedent
for pyrotechnIcs on the Fourth had been set
tn the Declaration itself. But they need not be
ashamed and they need not acquiesce in the
argument that because men are not equal
mentally or physically there can be no equal
fly anywhere. The one sort Of equality, as we
have said is Natures business. The other is
mans business, and when man-that is, the
American mans attending TO bis business we
shall have equality before the law. When he
is not we have the growth Of privilege and In
equality, and superior persons sneer at the
rhetorical old Declaration Of Independence
while the meek look askance at 1t, as If it were
an ancient. shabby and extremely old-fashioned
relative OF theirs.
Well, we are GLAD to see the Governor take his
text from the Declaration without any apology,
and while recognizing that the Fathers as
eumed too large a task when they put the
whole of Nature within the puIvfew of that
instrument, still point out that the preamble
voices the ideals Of popular government to-
day. The Governors speech inquiries how man
is attending TO his part Of the business or
maintaining equality. and the Governor COD
cI,ides that he is doing it better than ever be-
fore Mr. Hughes interprets the governmental
tendencies Of the country to-day. Of which Presi-
dent RooseVelfs administration and his own
administration are significant expressions The
,,eonle are insisting more and more upon that
equality before the law for which they created
the government An aristocracy has been said
20 be the most natural thing In the world;
7rotably IL Is the most natural; but government
s. q constant war against Nature. We create 1t
10 guarantee us something Nature does not give
Ms. and it stays the uplifted club Of natural
man and ends the primitive natural morality
az might Having outlived In the early days
~ the republic a landholding aristocracy, the
neople would not see stockbolding ar1stoc-
racv take its place The Governor finds the
democracy more insistent than ever before
tpon an undivided responsibility Of parties and
officials TO Itself:
Political leaders who have performed the func-
tom OF clearing houses for legislation, and who
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-06
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY,".


WASHINGTON July 5.-COOnel EchOls has arrived
in Washington from West Point and will serve
best man at noon tomorrow. when the marriage OF
Major Joseph T. Crabbs and Mrs. r F. Bernard
will take place. Mrs Bernard and her mother.
Mrs Camp. gave dinner at their apartment, 81
the Decatur. tonight. when Major Crabs Colonel
Fchols and a few friends present Chaplain
Pierce Of the Washington Barracks. VIII oflciats
at tho wedding tomorrow, which Will be an unpre-
tentious affair. account Of the tnvsldisn OF
Mrs Camp. ! small breakfast Will follow the cere-
1nony. and i'm the afternoon Major Crabs and his
bride will start upon a short wedding journey.
Rear Admiral William Sheffield Cowles IS making
a visit to hts family. at their summer plaza at
Pennington, Conn. He will return 70 the capital
on Monday.
The Admiral OF the Navy and Mrs. Dewey closed
their K street residence to-day. and have gone 10
RichfieId Springs for the rest OF the summer
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Francis NJ Ramsay and
Miss Ramsay leave the capital on Sunday for
Portsmouth. -. II. where they Will remain until
fall Mrs. Ramsay is cOnvalescing from a long H.
ness
Pay Inspector and Mrs. Samuel Lawrence Heap.
whose marriage took place last Saturday at the
country home OF the brides parents. have returned
TO Washington from their brief wedding journey
They will go TO Gloucester. Mass. early next week
10 remain for the summer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-06
uNpLuokEp PIGEONS IN NEW YORK

New York Correspondence, Pittsburg Dispatch.
Every one who has been to Venice knows the
travelled in Italy are familiar with these birds
through paintings and photographs of them But
no artist or photographer ever seems 10 have cared
10 mako pictures OF our own three hocks OF pigeons
that are quito as old the buildings with which
they are associated in the thoughts OF New York
ers who keep their eyes about them in their wan
uresque OF these locks Of pigeons is the one that
Fathers at Amsterdam avenue and Goth street.
Next 10 this in point OF size and age Is the flock
that dyreiis IN the New Haven end of the Grand
Central station, while the youngest one Is that
which makes its abiding place In the building Of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AMI
mails. at Madison avenue and 18th street There is
n small flock that makes It's resting place in the
calvary Church. on West 9th street, and curiousy
enough this church is the only one of these pigeon
homes that makes any effort TO protect the front
of it's building from the birds. There are two gar
goyles projecting from the tower Of this church.
the pigeons from resting there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-06
AWlY TO ELM COTTAGE.
Fairfield Gets It's Second InstalmeHt
of Fresh .1r Girls.

The gatemen at the Grand Central Station got
another OF the Tribune Fresh AIR Fund contrasts
yesterday. when two parties OF children passed
through the gates. one bound for Fairfield, Conn.
and the other returning from the same place after
a TWO weeks visit Eech company contained
twenty-five little girls
Elm Cottage the home where the children are
entertained. IS supported by the churches of Fair
field The Rev +. = Child Is the leader in The
work there which has grown so that a new and
more commodious cottage has been built recently
for tho children
about the delights OF the place. and the company
which came back yesterday we'll laden with
Wild strawb erries flowers and other evidences or
happy vacation. one little girl bore in her hand
bunch OF the luscious berries stil clinging 70 the
stems. She explained thai she was taking them 10
her mother. who i'll The missionary who
sent the children away two weeks ago said. after
looking her party over that some OF them must
have gained at least twenty-five pounds in weight
a trip TO the scales, however. proved that The
largest SaiR only ten pounds. and that II
varied from that down to three pounds
Letters are constantly being received at the Office
of the fund telling of the good done by the Irib-
une Fresh Air Fund Here is part OF one that
came yesterday:
Last summer Kate and Richard. who had re-
Gently lost their father. and whose mother Is
Woodworking woman, were enabled 70 set 10 the
country by the Tribune Fresh Air Fund Katie was
an especially delicate child She had tainted twice
in day. believe. from sheer weakness. just
before she sent away. She came back almost
robust. and has quite lost the beneficial re-
suits OF her visit Last week, however. she had q
bad fall and IS again IN need OF fresh air and sun
shine Her basement home is dark VIII you
kindly give the two children the great happiness
OF two weeks In the country2'
AS long al enough money IS provided the Fresh
Air Fund will try grant all such requests and
send many Katies and Richards whose baSsInenf
homes dark into the sunlight for two weeks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-06
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT
TBy Telegraph to The tribune


Nevport r l. July 5.-There was a rnr,s =.
social affairs in Newport to-day. Among the hos.
esses at dinners this evening Mrs Louis
Lorillard Mrs. James B. Haggin Mrs f a
Slater Mrs ]. Stewart Barney and Mrs A la
fear Norrie Miss Charlotte PeI. Mrs. B. F. Yo.-
KUN and Mrs. Z. Livingston Ludlow entertaina,
at luncheon this noon.
Dr. and Mrs. George Pepper Norris gave chin
drens party this afternoon in honor OF their utt.
SON
Mrs Alfred c. Vanderbilt accompanied bv Mis-,
Pauline French. returned to-day from the Vandsr-
bilt camp in the Adirondacks 10 inspect the I'M
provements that are under way at Oakland Earn,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Oakley Wander Peel ara tba
guests Of Mrs. Ogden Goeet at Ochre Court
Commodore and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt wh,
spent the Fourth in Newport. returned to Nev
York to-day on the flagship North Star.
Oliver Hazard Perry. of New York. is the guest
Of Mr.. and Mrs Hugh D. AuchinclOss for few
days.
Mr.. and Mrs a. Gordon Norrie. Of New York
have taken Miss Ellen F. Mason's cottage Brent
Lodge. for the remainder Of the season.
Registered at the Casino to-day were Stuyvesant
Fish, Mrs. Henry Lawrence. Philip o. Mills. ].
Vickar, Henry Spies Kip. F. c. CarIey Goodwin
Hobbs. Albert Charlier Cyril Hatch. J. H. Mas
son. IT., and Granville Fortescue.
r Nelson Buckley of Philadelphia. accompanied
by John CatlwalIader Rowland. arrived to-day on a
steam yacht for the season
Mrs Harry Payne Whitney and family arrived
this evening for the weekend
Mrs I Townsend Burden and Miss Evelyn Bur
den arrived for the season this evening. Other
arrivals to-day were Miss Gladys Mills. Ogden L
Mills. Egerton l. Winthrop and Willing Spencer.