The sun., 1909-02-28
POLITICAL NOTES.

| NATIONAL committee yesterday AFTERNOON,
and It looks TO me as II we are to have
another four years OF persistent attacks
upon the business interests OF the country.
1t strikes me that the Republican party
is tainted with the snti-oorporation virus.
continued the speaker. and he added
THE decisions In the Consolidated Gas case,
in the American Tobacco case and In the
Wallpaper case tell us that you and the
other fellow cannot do any business to-
gother and must not even look at each
other. Business is at a standstill all over
this country. II isn't the tariff agita ton
that is troubling business so much as IL
Is tho evident desire 70 smash all business
men. Republicans or otherwise. who have
put their money into business enterprises
and worked like dray horses to develop
them. only TO see them stripped OF we'll
earned increment Some OF us Republl-
cans believe that we have elected the last
Republican President in a generation"
| Most OF the legislators. Republican and
Democratic. at Albany with whom one
talks do not believe that the Charter which
William NJ WINS. and his ssociates of the
Charter Revision Commission have drafted
will be adopted this session. The Repub-
licsne are squs billing over the proposition
to do away with the Borough Presidents
in New York city and to oentralize the power
in the Mayor. The Democrats also oppose
this feature in the new Charter.
The Republicans naively tell you that
they wouldn't oppose the features in the
WINS Charter IL they were sure Of electing
q straight out Republican machine Mayor
and the Democrats fall into the same lingo.
Up TO the present time nothing has been
heard as TO the benefits the four million
residents Of the city would derive from
the proposed new Charter or how they
look upon its recomm endstions. II is all a
hsRgie between the Republican and Dem
ocratlc politicians and the advantages or
DISADVANTAGES which are to come to them
If the new Charter is adopted
The legislators. Republican and Demo-
cratic, at Albany are ali at sea over the suf-
frssette movement. They scarcely know
which way to turn. They arc bombsrded
from all sides.
Some frankly declare that they are diffi-
dent about discussing the subject with their
wives, sisters and sweethearts. They have
discovered that many quiet and thoughtful
women in their environments are at heart
absorbedly in favor OF the movement to give
women the ballot. In this way they have
struck many snsgs. II one can speak 20 un-
grsoiously of the feminine gender.
As q matter of fact these legislators tell
over a political proposition Affecting men. |
but they are in deep water over this woman
suffrage movement.
The woman suffrage movement on the |
other hand. according to the politicians. Is |
not being wisely guided,
The women talk good deal. said one OF
the most influential Republican State SEN |
ators. but the majority lack directness
NJ of No ~
They scatter good deal. in other words.
They should get men accustomed to pub |
he AFFAIRS to advise them-men accustomed |
to the ins and outs Of legislative halls. |
Many OF these women are excellent parlia- |
mentarians, but TO win out something more |
is necessary. Many women are prone TO |
rely upon their personalities. fine clothes |
and engaging manners for victory. These
cold hearted politicians care little OF moth
ing for the womens personalities.
"As they say in Missouri. they want to be
shown just where It is to benefit the Com
monwealth. where it is to benefit either tho
Republican or the Democratic party. and
what effect the granting OF the ballot to
women would have upon future elections in
the State. Politics Is cold, hard, selfish
game.
Many OF the women understand it.
Others need guidance. and for this reason I
would suggest that these trainloads OF
women that have been precipitated upon
US at Albany should enlist few chaps who
can show us where we politicians would
come in II we gave the women ballot"
There are a dozen ways Of skinninR a
cat and about four dozen ways Of getting
4 bill out OF the committees at Albany.
There are a thousand ways OF killing q bill
lust as there are Q thousand ways OF pass
ng a bill. The women suffrazettes. even
he most experienced OF them, IL Is claimed
by expert politicians, are not even remotely
'an,iliar with legislative methods so far
Is they concern the defeat or passage
" bills. Some Of the women can argue
III right. continue these politicians. al
hough most OF their arguments are YER
,osc and rambling. Occasionally they get
o the main point OF the issue but from that
lime they are up q tree. SO TO speak. for tho
'eason that they are not familiar with the
workings OF legislative committees and are /,
almost chldlike in their ineIperience OF
PRACTICAL methods to advance their cause I
n legislative way.
A member Of the Republican State COM
nittee Of New York, ambitious and :
was unaware the other evening q
4 these facts: No man can he a Con- :
ressman unless he is IS years old. United
states Senator unless he is 80 OF President r
4 the United States unless be is IS.
Occasionally IL is interesting to observe a
he long haired and slouch hated friends
4 Bryan from the far Western States at
ONO OF the swell New York hotels. In ',
onventiops Eastern politicians have looked a
pom these men as sons OF the soil, pie n
nd modest in their habits. There 10 a K
urious contrast. however. when these ii
ons OF the soil turn up at some OF the IA b
nous New York city hostelries. 81
They then revel in vintage wines: as n
ar agus and strawberries In January or
ebruary are not TOO rich for their souls; q
errapin and canvasbacks are their delight,
nd they are old hands at trying all OF the A
lsidious lioueurs on the list. In fact o.
hey have the abandon of the men about a
own OF Chicago. Washington and New Il
ork city. They are described as pluto q
rats for personal reasons and anti-pluto- Il
rats for home consumption. $
John r. Malloy. reading clerk at several
epubliean national conventions and for h,
dozen years a stout supporter Of Senator b,
oseph Benson Foraker. has been elected 81
Jerk OF the Ohio State Senate. The Re-
ublican state organization OF Ohio was 70
most solidly and viciously opposed to "a "a
alloys election. ~
New York friends of Mrs. Ruth Bryan AZ
esvitt. eldest daughter Of William J. "
ryan, declare that when she obtains
vorce from her husband. William Homer u,
esvitt. now in Paris. she is 10 become