The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-28
POLITICAL NOTES,

30 slHdOw ana paint thy IOlllcb ana Vices hh
thou shalt never. by their will. discover good
from evil or vice from virtue"
Raleigh spoke by the card. for no courtier
bespattered his old maid sovereign with
more kinds Of Battery mud he ended with Ids
neck on the block.
Senator Thonas G.. Plat Of New York was
quite d singer In his early days. Ills favorite
lyric at the moment IL the popular ditty
That's Gratitude" beginning:
Columbus told the court Of Spain this world
was round he knew.
And so they sent him over here In fourteen
ninety-twO;
They thought that he was crazy and they said
He'll surely fall"
But when he brought them wealth and fame
they threw poor Chris In Jail.
That's gratitude. That's gratitude.
They sent him out exploring and he did right
well,
When he got back they put him in a dungeon
That's gratitude. that's gratitude.
He won great fame and died in chains
That's gratitude.
The Roosevelt cocktail. which is the vogue
with many golfers In and about New York.
consists Of part gin and part vermouth shaken
till n good layer OF foamy froth appears.
President Roosevelt's plurality in William
!. .Bryan's State in 1904 was s8.8s2. while
President McKinley's four years before was
1892. In 1893 Mckinley lost the State by
1850.
The Republican ana Democratic orRsniza-
tons OF New York city are to battle this fall
over the following nominations:
New York ~County-Justlce OF Supreme
Court. Sheriff. 3 Judges Of General Sessions.
2 Judges Of City Court, IS Municipal Court
Judges. IS Assemblymen. Al Aldermen.
Queens-Justice Of Supreme Court. I As
semblymen. 4 Aldermen.
Kings County--Justice OF Supreme Court.
? County Judges. Surrogate. Sheriff. County
Clerk. DistrictIAttorney. Register. 4 Municipal
Court Justices. 20 ~Assemblymen. rs Aldermen.
Mchmond-Justlce OF Supreme Court. Dis
trict Attorney, 1 Assemblyman, 8 Aldermen.
What part the Citizens Union and the
Hearst Independence League are to take
in the contest is yet to be told.
The office of Sheriff Of New York county
is a political plum worth $780, 600 a year.
When Secretary Taft was Judge OF the
Superior Court of Cincinnati he had a number
OF cases to ecide that pertained to labor
unions and their contests with employers.
In one case-Moores a Co. VS.. the Brick
layers Union-he sustained the lower court
in f1ning the union for conspiracy to injure
the plaintiffs. He enforced an injunction
compelling Chief Arthur Of the Brotherhood
OF Locomotive Engineers to abandon a SYM
pathetic strike against the Toledo. Ann
Arbor and North Michigan Railway. and in
the great Pullman strike of 1894 he caused
the arrest for contempt Of court Of J. W.
Phelan, one OF the lieuten ants of Eugene
v. Debs. Phelan had organized a strike
against the Cincinnati Southern Railway
and counselled violence.
Judge Taft sentenced Phelsn to six month";
Imprisonment and said:
The gigantic character of the conspiracy
OF the American Railway Union staggers
the imagination. The railroads have become
as necessary to the life and health and comfort
Of the people Of this country as are the arteries
OF the human body. and yet Debs and Phelan
and their associates proposed by melting
the employees Of all the railroads in the coun-
try to suddenly quit their service without
any dissatisfaction with the terms OF their
own employment to paralyze utterly all the
trafic by which the people live. and in this
way to compel Pullman. for whose acts neither
the public nor the railway companies are
in the slightest degree responsible. and over
whose acts they can lawfully exercise no
control. to pay more wages TO his employees.
The purpose. shortly stated. was to starve
the railroad companies and the public into
compelling Pullman 20 do something which
they had no lawful right to compel him to
do. Certainly the starvation OF a nation
cannot be a lawful purpose of combination.
and IL IL utterly immaterial whether the
purpose lie effected by means usually lawful
or otherwise
No. "Macaulay. who was no SQUAD In world
politics, makes one Of his characters a hun
dred years ago say. in my Iearly days lying
had not been dianifed into a science nor
politics degraded into a trade"
Macaulay's mythical character was speak
ing OF an Athenian political environment
1000 years before.
The libraries Of most foreign and domestic
politicians and statesmen are replete with
the works Of ancient and modern authors on
political history, gossip and f1ddle-faddle
generally, just as the libraries Of lawyers
and physicians are lined with old and new
authorities on their respective professions.
Incidents. precedents. the temper of the
people. their wisdom. sagacity or stupidity
are gagged and studied with only one motive
In most cases-future political aspirations
or the maintenance Of power.
For ten years and more. according Ia
Republicans In authority, the Republican
managers OF campaigns-local, State and
natIonal-have seen to 10 that Italian voters
should be enlisted under the Republican
banner. This has been especially the case,
IL was added. In the big cities like New York,
chicago. 81. Louis and Philadelphia. The
importance OF the Italian vote. IL Ia insisted
has become almost vital In many sections OF
the country. IL has grown faster, It Is
added. than any other race vote in the
country.
Upon the adoption OF the Tully apportion.
menr at Albany a Brooklyn supporter OF
Timothy J.. Woodruff. chairman OF tn Re-
publican state @ mmittee. proclaimed it to
be The adumbration Of Odell."
InauIsitlve Republicans at the Clarendon
Hotel last night. Woodrufftes and Dadyites,
talked this way:
What the old boy does 'adumbration
meanf"
1T means Tim is a goner. said a Dadyite.
"Nawl Nawi" rejoined a Woodrufite. 1t
me ans that Hughes Ia a goner."
BEAR HUNT Nv INDIA.
Din Made by Beatets Drives the Quarry
to s~portsman's Rine.