New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-31
INAPPROPRIATE INACTION.


II is not often that we are called upon
TO protest against taciturnity. shrinking
modesty and an inTincibly retiring dis
posision in the world Of politics: but the
sileIice of SIR Thomas NJ. Osborne
Saratoga League and its inveterate
avoidance of the public eye cannot De
nassed over without comment. 1t exists
ito take appropriate action''-we have
il on the unimpeachable authority or
its chairman in his last. public utter
ance. drawn from him. we suspect, by
the irresistible force of circumstances.
But actually il devotes all its ener-
gies to inappropriate inacticn. occasion
calls loudly 10 IL ever and again. but oc-
casion's voice is unheeded. Since the
triumph of Murphy in the Democratic
State Committee and the bowling of Con-
ners's uncultured head before the tide
of a Democracy filed with new zeal
for grammar and manners. II has sought
successfully an impenetrable secluslon
IT has withdrawn itself from the public
ear and hidden itself from the pubic
eve. as elusive as a comets tail. Is 1t
seIf-compIacent over 9 reformed De
mocracy. auickened in its conscience re
garding double negatives and open
plumbing table habits? If so. why does
it conceal its Joy over this moral awak-
ening?
Above all. why does il keep still!
The nature Of politics abhors silence
AS we have said, occasion calls loudly
for the conscious repositories of the De
mocracy's moral sense who have put
Lindley Murray beside Jefferson as
Democratic guide. The legislative ses-
sion has closed, and Mr.. Osborne S
league maintains its inappropriate inac-
ton. 4 special session is coming, and
MIR Osborne's league applies no spur TO
its party. The league had a direct prl-
mary measure before the Legislature.
introduced by its official spokesman.
Senator Grady. It was a bill rejecting
the awakened conscience OF the party,
and it gave 70 the people control over
many kinds of nominations in all parts
of the state except that part of the state
in whose nominations Mr.. Charles 7.
Murphy is personally nterested-there
nomination BIZ Murphy was as direct
nomination as the awakened conscience
of the party demanded. This bill had
the fate Of a founding deserted upon
cruel doorstep. The lea que took no
appropriate action for its support or
sustenance. and it died early of hamilton.
Its function Of taking appropriate &C
tion required the league to shed at least
one tear, one public tear. we should
say. but its grief. If il showed any,
was manifested in impenetrahle pri-
vacy Furthermore. after this bereaye-
ment the league permitted the Democ-
racy's representative at Albany to enter
into a compact with William Barnes.
in. a Republican. to deny TO the people
authority TO make their own nonina
tons not only in air. Murphy's end OF
the state but in all other parts thereof,
u monstrous outrage upon the reawak-
ened conscience of the Democracy, if
there ever could be one. Still the league
was unmoved, 1t emitted not the faint
est sound of disapprobation. 1t merely
wrapped itself in deeper silence and
the conscience of the party, which it
has taken with it into seclusion, was not
even heard TO squeak.
If party could live by grammar alone
Mr.. Thomas NJ. Osborne, the man who
when ''Fingey'' actually does get out
/ has made one negative do where two
hardly sufficed before, might make an
admirable candidate fer Governor.
What a champion he would be of the
parts Of speech