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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-28
PARTY LEADERSHIP
Shall Wise Generals or the Corporal s
Guard Be Followed?

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to inderse your attitude
upon party questions in this state.
So much has been printed on both sides
of the present dispute that many are likely
to miss some OF the important points at
issue.
1t would be a good thing IL the Repub-
Iican> party workers and voters generally
would carefully consider and answer 10
themselves the following questions before
selecting their delegates to the state con-
vention:
Such men as Taft Roosevelt, Hughes
and Root favor q practical direct primary
law. such as was provided by the Cobb
bill.
Such men as Barnes Wadsworth. Ward
and Woodruff are fighting this reform.
In the first group we have eminent
statesmen. whose fame is world wide and
whose political wisdom has been recog-
nized ard rewarded in the most substan-
tia1 manner by the people of this state.
In the Barnes group We have subordi-
nate party officials, whose experience has
been not in determining questions OF great
public import but in conducting the rou-
tine work of the party organization
Which of these groups Is the safer one
to follow?
Which is the most likely correctly to IN
terpret and correctly represent the wishes
OF the voters in this state?
Which group has the most influence with
the Republicans of this state7
WHY do the Barnes and Woodruff group
urge Republicans to disregard the advice
and leadership of the great party generals
who have so often led us to victory?
What has happened to render their judg-
ment superior to that of these tried state
and national leaders?
Do the Republican voters feel that the
political wisdom of the Barnes and Wood
ruff group is also superior to that OF the
ma icrity Of the Republican members of
the Legislature who voted for the Cobb d.
rect primary bill?
Was it an evidence OF good faith and
sound leadership for these local party Off
Gals to combine their friends with the
Democrats in the Legislature to defeat the
Republican majority who desired the en-
actment Of the Cc'b bill?
These legislators were elected to act upon
such matters.
Barnes. wadsworth. Ward and woodruff
were not elected for any of1ce nor selected
by the party management for any such p1lr-
pose
Should delegates to the state convention
be selected 20 carry out the wishes OF
Barnes ct al. or the wishes of the Repub-
llcan voters?
was a battle ever won by discarding the
generals on the eve of conflict and replac-
ing them with a corporafs guard of non
commissioned officers? This IS an absurd
proposition, but 1t is what the Barnes
Woodruff group are asking the Republicans
to do ANMI PETTIGREW.
New York, Aug. 26. 1910.
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The death Of William james removes
from the field of American scholarship.
research and intellectual activity of the
protounder sort personality Of real
distinction. As n philosopher he was a
pioneer, introducing new ideas and meth
DDS into a vocation which had become
formalized and sterile The teaching of
philosophy in the United States had
long been committed to the theologians.
Metaphysics was considered to be the
handmade of theology and was treated
as such Psychology and ethics were
taught as auXiiaries 10 religious train
ing rather than as sciences i'm them
selves capable of independent growth and
cultivation. The professors Of philosophy
who filled the chairs in most American
universities and colleges up to thirty
years ago were satisfied TO treat pSychOl-
osy. ethics and metaphysics from the
historical point Of view. They discussed
the theories of the great masters from
Plato and Aristotle to Kant and
Scbopenhauer. but they seldom under
took TO develop theories of their own
aud hardly realized that in the field of
research which they took for their
own progress was still possible or orig
inality of thought desirable
Professor james had no sympathy
with that journalistic attitude lie APP
preached the field of philosophy from
quite another direction. His training in
medicine and physiology had given him
4 bias toward experimental methods and
made him feel that all knowledge was iii
state Of fiuX and that no science could
be considered finished. He attacked the
problems of philosophy as he would
have attacked tn" problems of one of
the material sciences. testing all notions
and accepting only those which he
thought valid and reasonable Formerly
authority had dominated in the teach
ing of philosophy. But Mr.. James was
no reSpecter Of mere authority He
stood on his own feet, and while at first
his methods were looked at askance and
tolerated as personal eccentricities the
essential soundness of his position was
soon vindicated and his breadth. force
and originality gradually carried him to
the front rank among American philoso-
pliers. His real worth was perhaps ear
lier appreciated abroad than it was here
for as a lecturer he had been constantly
IL demand at the great European uni
versites.
This is no place 10 pass a verdict on
Mr.. James, life work He was essential
~ an eXperimentalist with an open mind
His philosophical tendencies were all
toward empiricism. LII later years he
called himself a pragmatist He worked
out no philosophical system of his own,
but helped enormously to clarity philo-
sophical knowledge. to divest il of tech
nicaiity and mysticism and to bring Ii
as far as possible into touch with the
impulses and activities of common life.
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LIBRARY CIRCTL4TIOE

At regular intervals the heads of 0ur
libraries give out statistics of the num-
Der of times the important works under
thelr care are called for. As regards fic-
ttoil these nSureS are of no particular
interest or Importance. EXCEPT as in
dlcatlons of the enduring popularity of
the masters of that form of literary art
IL Is when we come to more serious
work, the literature Of knowledge that
we are tempted to rejoice over the
spread of q serious desire for informa-
ton Indicated by these library reports.
1t IS just here. however that these
statistics. while assuming significance,
become i'll reality utterly untrustworthy.
If not positively misleading. A book
taken out and a book read and in
wardly digested are two entirely differ
ent things IN certain sections of oIr
large cities. especially where. according
TO these statistics. the immigrant is in
dUstriously acquiring information. 1t is
more than likely that the encoura cinrly
frequent calls for serious books indit,lte
rot profitable study but i'll directed am
bition entirely unframed to digest. The
promptness with which works of this
class are usually returned is familiar
clew to the true state Of affairs
Where the serious work is in a single
volume we have M means Of gaugipg
the proportion of calls for it to the num-
Der Of times it is really read with
profit. beyond the answers drawn out
fy an occasional induisitive librarian.
The evidence is direct and lnmistakabIe
when an authors material flows over
from first into a second and q third
volume. 1t is a well known fact that
the first volumes of Darwin and SDen-
Ger, to select at random two names that
are popular among the patrons of our
libraries. are called for with encouraging
frequency; it is equally well known 10
librarians that the calls for a second
volume of either are far fewer and for Il
third very few indeed. This indicates
what really happens: There is an ear
discouraged at once. generally early in
the first volume. by the limitations of
the ambitious but utterly unframed stu
dent-the material is too heavy" for
him. The resull: is waste. yet such are the
limitations of statistics that they will
credit Spencer and Darwin with graft
fy1ng number of readers. Quantitatively
these figures are no doubt trustworthy
quaiitatively they leave us in the dark
as 10 the real educative value of our
libraries
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DIVINE RIGHT N 1910.

Charlemagne was scarcely more alb
solute-in words-than William IL.
Thursday nights speech at koenigsberg
was uttered in the first decade Of the
twentieth century by Il sovereign who
WAS born i'll the second half OF the
nineteenth century. 1t was in tone a
survival or q revival from thousand
years before. The most strongly mon
archicai journal In Germany and the
fayOrite of the military caste rightly de-
scrIbeS II as the expression of Il ro-
mantle medieval idea of the Emperors
non-responsibility to mans judgment
NO Hohenstaufen or Plantagenet or.
Carlovingian ever more clearly sounded
the note Of personal sovereignty and
Divine right than this product If nine
teenth century scholarship, statesman
ship and Christian civilization.
There can be no doubt that he meant
it and means it--at times Indeed. the
time or the place was we'll calculated TO
make him mean it, Twice before in the
same historic place, where Prussian
rulers had many times been crowned,
he had made like speeches. We Ho-
henZolierns take our crown from heaven
alone, and Il take my kingdom by
Gods grace" A man Of romantic inn
aginauon, as he is, of grandiose ambi
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NOTES FROM NEWPORT

tRy Telegraph 10 The Tribune
Newport, Aug. 1.-TWO large social af-
fairs took place here to-day In the after
noon James ]. Van Alien had children's
party at Wakehurst in honor of his grand
son, James III. Van Allen. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Laurens Van Allen The other
was the at home given by MIR. and Mrs
Edward j. Berwind AT The Elms this even
ing AT the Van Allen villa about every
little boy and girl in the Newport summer
colony was present. while the party at The
Ems was. as usual. a large one. nearly
four hundred persons attending.
Mrs Robert Goelet. Mrs Joseph E.
Widener. Mrs. Leonard NJ Thomas. Mrs
Elisha Dyer. Mrs. George S. Scott. Mrs
Edwin ~ Morgan. Mrs. French Vanderbilt
and Mrs Lewis Quentin Jones entertained
at dinner this evening. and all took their
guests to Air. and Mrs. Berwind.s late Il,
the evening.
Luncheon entertainers to-day were Mrs
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tons and of autocratic traditions, when
placed in a scene every detail of which
affords q stimulus to that Imagination
could scarcely avoid an citation Of spirit
irresistbly transcending the limits OF
twentieth century practically. As
fighting man "sees red" he saw imperial
purple.
The episode is not to be regretted.
For while the Emperors words were
not mere 6rHtHm fHImen they were, after
ali. mere words He has been blowing
trumpet blasts Of Divine right for
twenty years and more, and all the time
loyalty observing the constitutional re-
straints and checks and balances of the
Parliamentary system. SO, too, he has
been war lord ali these years-people
once called him the firebrand Of Europe
and all the time has been diligently
and efficiently keeping the peace HIM
self and aiding or compelling others to
keep it. He could not help making the
splendid boast, but he is the last man
in the empire who would think of full
filling it to the detriment of the Father
lend or to the disturbance of its peace
The true Interpretation of the out
burst which, strangely enough. has set
all Germany to talking as though moth
ing of the sort had ever been heard be-
fore from the same source. is 70 be
found i'll the closing words of the same
address, in which the Emperor declared
that he regarded himself as an instlu-
ment in Gods hands Some one may
lightly jest thereat as only another YER
sion of Me ind Colt" but it is really
Il tremendous thing for an earnest man
earnestly TO believe himself the direct
agent Of the Almighty The SOLDERING
power. the steadying influence, the
moral and spiritual elevation which is
Impaired by such a sense of RESPONSE
bility when kept free from fanaticism
must be great and beneficent. SO far as
man is concerned. there may seem little
choice between Il reign by Gods
grace. and Il am the State," But in
the higher view, above the mere con
Germ of man, they are as far apart as
the poles.
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His gifts of clarity and sanity gave an
unusual effectiveness TO what he SAID
and wrote. and probably no other meta
physician has ever had so wide circle
of readers in his own day and genera
ton. Simple in manners. with as wide
culture in the humanties as in the ab-
stract sciences. abhorring solemnity ana
convention, and winning all hearts by
his sincerity and friendliness, Mr. James
was q rema rkable mixture of the scholar
with the man of the world, of high
thought with native humor and manl1-
ness. He was always the man first ana
the philosopher afterward. The place he
made for himself rs a teacher ana
writer was unique. 1t may not he soon
filled. but his influence will continue 10
liberalize the vocation which he followed
and 10 vitalize the thought of thousands
of students and readers to whom ne was
both a delight and an inspiration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-28
THE MAYOR AND THE IERNOR-
SHIP

il is not surprising that the Demo
datic managers turn 10 Mayor Gaynor
:. their best candidate for Governor
All their other possible candidates are
dwarfs compared To him. But unless the
public has greatly misjudgel the man he
will not reinquish tine great task which
he has upon his. hands ia order To
serve the interests of the democratic
party. When he WAS candidate for
Mayor Mr.. Gaynor said he would make
1t his life work TO serve the people for
The next four years" Now. ii is true that
those words are not an explicit pledge To
continue four years in the Mayors Of
fee. and there is cynical disposition
among Democrats in search of Il candi-
date 10 twist the words "serye the peo-
pie 10 mean serve the people here or at
Albany. But the Mayor in other speeches
declared the mayoralty TO he more i'm
Tortant Office than the goyernorship and
second only To the Presidency. He re
l,clled the suggestion that he would skip
10 Albany in nine months or So and
III his letter 10 The committee Of nine
and again IL n campaign speech he
order of Gods providence, in His ruler
ship Of all things. that / he elected
Mayor Of New York City. then ! con-
''Secrate the next four years of my
life 10 the people Of this city.
When he WAS nominated he talked. in
what seemed then like fianlboyant Ian
guaee. Of beginning a new era i'll mu-
,licipal government. 1t is plain now
HAT he meant what be said. He re-
aarded his opportunity with infinite Sc
riousness. When be spoke Of n new era
Il WIS because be had faith in himself
and believed that he could work revo-
hutton IN the government Of this mis-
governed city. and when he called that
task his life work it was because
lac realized That t. accomplish what
be set out 10 do was worthy to be the
life ambition Of any man
We do not look TO see one who re-
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IN THE BERKSHIR5e.
- TeIegraph ID - Trihnrs I


Lenox. Aug. 27.-Cool wea Their brought o
multitude of automobilists into the hills.
and every hotel is filled TO its capacity
tonight. The mercury dropped 70 - last
night, but to-day has been clear ard bright.
with temperature Of SO which made tour
ing a delight Mrs g r Bement. Miss
cement. Mr.. and Mrs. :. V. V. Huntington,
Miss Huntington MIR. and Mrs. r. : Wood
ward and Mr.. and Mrs. ]. a Clement. Of
New York. have arrived at the Hotel Aspi1-
wall
Mrs. David Lydig entertained at luncheon
at Thistlevoctn this afternoon. Among her
guests were Mrs. Schuyler Warren. Ms
Oscar Iasigi. Mrs. Robert W. Paterson. Mss
Emily Biddle. Mrs. John Sherman Hoy~
Mrs. Harris Fahnestock. Mrs. Bobb 10
Peyster Tytus Mrs. David PAYNE Ciriswcld'
Miss Harriet n WelIes and Mrs W. A VI
Burden
Mrs. John sherman Hoyt. who has been
at the Hotel Aspinwau for several weeks
well return TO New York on Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. Munroe Crane. W B Crane'
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. WiImerdirs, and Ass
Wilmerding, OF Pelham Manor. Mrs. Thee
dore J. Chabot and Miss \ Mackenzie q
New York. arrived tonight at the Gurus
Hotel.
Miss Isabel Holden Burhans has sore %
FOmfret. Conn. for fortnight. she VIZ
spend the autumn at the Hotel AspinwaA
Mrs. Robert MacIay gave a small lunsH
con at the Curtis Hotel this afternoon
Mrs. w. :. Kernochan. of New York, a.
rived tonight at the Curtis Hotel i'o"'
Newport.
The Misses Clementina and Sophia Fur
Miss gave a dinner OF a dozen covers
Edgecomb cottage tonight
Miss Jane Sedgwick. of Rome. ItalS' "@
arrived at StoCkbTidge To spend the i''
season with MIR. and Mrs. Alexander ssp7
wick.
Mrs. Birdseye Brakeman has returned :.
her villa in StockbridSe from Derby C''D'.
Mrs. II. A. Cowles. of Ansonta. conn., =
a guest of MIR. and Mrs W. G. Co"ieS
the Hotel AspinwalI.
Miss May Weatherbee. who has eeeh
guest OF Miss Carmen Z NJ MARTINEZ
the Maplewood. IN PittSield. has soh'
New York
Miss Ethel Brooks. who has been az
shore for Several weeks. has joined
Frederick \. Happen at the Curtis Hot0" :.
Mrs. Newbold Morris will entertain -
luncheon tomorrow at Brookhurst COMP as1,.
mentary to her guest. Miss Daisy v Nv
Inns. of New York -,
Mrs. John +. Alexandra and The vs.
Helen NJ. Civilise and Anna r Alexshps
returned tonight TO Spring Lawn Nv
New York
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walked on the street with his middle aged
handsome son.

walked on the street with his middle aged
handsome SON.
Little Wilie-Say. pa, what is vulgar
ostentation?
Pa-VuIgar ostentation, my son, Is lhe
display made by people who nave i np,
money to make it with than we have-Chi-
cago News.
In view of the belief that the early hight
of birds and the premature preparations
for cold weather on the part of chlpmunkS
indicate IAN early and severe wintc5 OF
the United States, the following statement
from another part of the world is interest
ing: For forty years. says writer III
the Vienna ''Neue Freie Presse. Il nave
observed the flight of our steeple swallows
which has invariably taken place on July
81. The first exception came this year.
when the birds did not depart till August
g. More remarkable, though, is the tact
that the exodus then was not general. ana
that a great flock did not leave until Au-
gust II, indicating a later winter than
usual
Customer-I am looking for some fishing
tackle.
Floor Walker-Yes sir. You will find the
corkScrewS in the hardware department.
Philadelphia Record.
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PEOPLE and Social incidents

r. l.. Beecknsn and Mrs Oliver Gould
Jennings.
Senator Nelson w A1drich. who was hers
for a short time to-day. gave luncheon
at the Newport Fishing Club In honor OF
J. Pierpont Morgan. The guests included
Senator George Peabody Wetmore Edward
j. Berwind William c. Rocker. Thomas =.
Ryan, Elisha Dyer. r. T. Gammell, Edmund
]. Curley. George 3. de Forest. General J.
Fred Pierson. Ogden Mills and James ].
Van Allen.
The Newport Ciambake Club had one Of
its regular bakes this afternoon
The most encouraging reports were re-
ceived to-day from all the Newport cot
tagers who are III.
Registered at the Casino to-day were o.
De Lancey Coster. of New York. who e
visiting I1orillard Spencer: Mrs Henry
Marduand of Bedford. y. Y. a guest %
Mrs. Roderick Terry: F. S. Croker. Of New
York. who is visiting Forsythe Wickes;
Alexander Keogh. Of New York, guest %
r c. Havemeyer; Ruth Morgan, John Alsop
and II. Aldridge. of New York. guests og
Nj and Mrs. A. Gordon Norrie; Miss Anna
Short and Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Potter. ir,
of Woodmere. Long Island. guests of 3Ir
and Mrs II. o. Havemeyer. jr-: Norman
De r. Whitehouse and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Haven Abbott, of New York. guests Of
Mrs William T. Bull. Edmund J. Curley
a guest of George b. de Forest; a II. Bar
ney, who is visiting J. +. u. Lanier; jim
Rutherford and y. r. Eustis. who are Wis
iting Charles De Loosely Oelrichs: Sherman
Day, of New York, who is visiting John r.
Drexel: A 3. Turner, T. A Turner and T.
K Taylor. of Boston. guests of Edward J.
Berwind John c. Darragh. Of San An
tonic Tex. and Jean Du Bos. Of Paris
Another cottage rental for the coming
season was announced to-day. Mr.. and J1rs
Peter D Martin. who have been absentees
here this season, have leased the Colonel
Edward NoreI cottage, on Ochre Point. for
1911
While attending the house warming at
Mr. and Mrs. T. Sufern Tailer's on Friday
night Richard Peters slipped and fell while
dancing. As result he walked to-day with
a decided limp.
The Newport Country Club held its an
nuaI meeting at the Casino to-day and the
following officers were elected: President
Edward ]. Berwind; secretary and treas
urer, George w Bachelor. jr-: directors.
Mr. Barvind H. A. G. Taylor. James Still
man, Robert Goelet, Robert W. Goelet Al
fred G. Vanderbilt and Fl. o. Havemeyer
jr. Messrs. Stillman, Taylor and R w.
GoeIet make up the executive committee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas T. Ryan and Mr..
and Mrs. John Barry Ryan. Of New York.
arrived here to-day
J. Pierpont Morgan left on his yacht the
Corsair, this evening
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CRITICISMS OF THE COLONEL.

The critics Of Colonel RooSevelt-they
are in full chorus now, a small put emil
nently select chorus, with the complaint
that he has nothing new to say. AND
then they make that criticism perfectly
destructive by saying nothing new
themselves. They repeat the same old
criticisms that have been heard ever
since the colonel emerged from relative
obScurity Just to show, we suppose,
how great a store they set upon orig
inality and freshness. He utters plati-
tudes. He has not outgrown the Ten
Commandments. He uses the first per-
son singular pronOun TO a degree that
offends persons of taste. He is inSin
cere. for his critics wot of actions of
his that are inconsistent with his words,
and inconsistency is an indisputable
proof of insincerity. He loves popular
applause. He is a dangerous agitator.
He does not think deeply.
We suspect these criticisms will have
the same effect they produced when
first heard nearly decade ago. They
did not deter the colonel then from
furthering in his own way the policies
and causes in which he was Interested
and it is absurd to suppose they will
deter him now from contributing in his
own way to the success of what have
come TO be called progressive princi-
pies" He would have to go about il
in his own way or not at all, and if he
had any real interest in the reforms
and IDEAS with which his name has
been associated and which President
Tafts administration has developed so
effectively he could not be expected to
abandon them now. And the criticisms
will not deter the thousands who are
now throwing their hats in the air in
his honor. They never did. and it is
too late to suppose they ever will.
Still. there is reason enough WHY the
criticisms should be uttered. They af-
ford great comfort to a select class of
persons. for not to approve, or to give
only Il qualified approval. to the colonel
Is mark of distinction. It sets YOU
apart from the common herd. with its
love of moral platitIIdes and its in
capacity for distinguishing between
them and deep and original thought.
Those who have not had an opportunity
to test themselves for a year and half
now enjoy the sense of their superiority
TO the common run of mankind
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POLITICAL GUIDANCE.
tor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: William Barnes. jr.. of Albany,
nronounces the movement in behalf of
direct primaries Populistic- Is Mr..
Barnes a better judge of Populism than
Governor Hughes. exPresident Roosevelt
and President Taft?
The question this fall seems TO be
whether the Republicans of New York
State will accept Governor Hughes, Mr..
Roosevelt and President Taft as their po-
ltical guides or Timothy Woodruff, Will
lam Barnes. jr,, w. l.. Ward and Speaker
Wadsworth. l have been so situated as
to take fair measure of at least two of
the last named gentlemen, and It seems to
me that there is hardly any ground for
compa rison between the two groups of
men HENRY GRAHAM
RrnoklYn. Aug o. 1910