The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-09
POLITICAL \

Politicians Of the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties are making remarks like this;
What q fine old time there would have been
II there had been d national recount bill for
Hayes and Tflden In 1870. and for Cleveland
and Blaine IN 1891 Also for q State recount
In 1892 In Ohio for Cleveland and Harrison.
when Harrison carried the State by t,072.
In 1884 Cleveland won In New York State by
1.ol7. The politicians speak Of the turmoil and
bed S.-laH that would have resulted II Tilden
and Hayes OF Hayes or Tilden, or Cleveland and
Blaine or Blaine or Cleveland had insisted on a
recount bill. State or national. in those des-
perate days Of 1870 and 1884.
William r. Grace in 1880 won in the Mayor
atty fight In New York city over William
Dowd by about a thousand. the politicians
add, and yet there was no fuss. Dowd accept
ing defeat gracefully.
do you know what they ha We in the City
Hall?" cried a ~carttail Soci Hist orator in front
OF st. Marks Church, Second avenue and
Astor place. the other night. They have q
big ROOM. a room made OF sheet iron. and in
that room there are bags Of gold: and the poll
ticians go into that room with shovels. The
room Is hlled with gold and the politicians
shove the gold into big valises and carry 1t of.
That's how the people OF New York city are
treated"
The fore going is a verbatim report Of the
orators utterances. Two old women in the
small audience famed their ARM and one
murmured How awful" Not How awful
wal the statement" but How awful was her
belief In the statement"
Horace D. Taft. brother of Secretary Will
lam II. Taft. says that he proposes to clean up
Connecticut. He spoke at Briston. Conn. the
other day about the wickedness OF the State.
which. he said. vas not quite as bad as that Of
NaVr NArly anI DA-,1 VI -.
cut. New York and Pennsylvania have Repub-
lican Governors, Mr.. Taft asserted that the
wiokedness Of Connecticut was due to Political
machine methods.
1t is asserted that the average politician
! has conveniences and not o nvictions
After the Legislature at Albany adjourns
there are to be a number OF important shifts
in the New York city of1ceholding COM
munity, according to reports heard in Official
circles.
IL Is announced that william r.. Hea rst's
American Society Of Equity. which in the
guise OF a farmers and laborers' organiza-
ton is In reality a part of Hearts, political
machine. Is fighting for supremacy In Kansas
with the Farmers Coopera tive Union. which
is in reality a union OF farmers pure and
simple with tremendous political posi-
bihties. Unable to dominate this vast and
growing body Hearst through agents has
organized his own Farmers Society"
A number OF Mars Henry watterson's
friends in the Manhattan Club, New York
city, say they rather believe he is a ca ndidate
himself and that he wouldn't whisk a hair
OF his few silken locks TO dodge the lightning
stroke OF a nomination.
A Virginia politician advertises for a wife
who is not a chronic scrapper."
In Cambridge. Mass, Afro-Americsns hold
elective or appointive Offices as follows:
A black Alderman. sitting in a board with
ten white colleagues and elected by voters 95
per cent. OF whom are white.
Two negro representatives in the Legisla-
tnre chosen by constituencies in which the
colored vote is relatively small.
Seven members Of the Common Council OF
African descent.
A negro chief of the Are departme 1t, in
which he is the only man Of color.
A black policeman. patrolling streets occu-
pied mostly by white residents. for nineteen
years in succession.
A negro at the head Of the city department
OF bacteriology.
A negro member OF the public library trus-
tees. with all white associates.
A black commander of a white post OF the
UT dll ARMY,
4 woman of nearly pure African blood act
ing as principal OF a gramma school In efash-
ionable district. with six white teachers and
several hundred white pupils under her
charge.
1t is almost universal testimony that the
average render Of politics in the Newspapers
Is very. very tired of Roosevelt and Bryan,
and, moreover, he is on the verge of WEAKNESS
as to Hughes and Hearst. These critics point
out that there has been Il dreadful monotony
in American national and State politics for
the last ten years. People tire. it was added.
OF reading Of the glories or the defects of
any one man or of a little group of men, and
the present temper OF the people, as gathered
from day and night conversations in many
quarters. is to the effect that there is too
much politics In American He and too many
politicians striving for recognition from the
newspapers.