Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-09-17
louisville Courier-Journal.)
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Near a whole city full,
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With apologies to Hood

With apologies to Hood.
Life publication somewhat
analogous to what might have been
the offspring of marriage between
punch" and the Saturday Review"
in the plamy days of those London
publications-tha is, a cross betwixt
a philosopher and a satirist-is per-
turbed bv the lack of New Workers
in New York Since most of the
great cities of the world have suf-
fered from the same complaint the
circumstances does not seem impor-
tant, or surprising. The writing in
Life" however, illustrates the self
consciousness which exists among the
Inter Urbans equally with the Inter
Reubens. The pending election of a
United States senator is the occasion
of our brilliant contemporaries anna
BILE disinquiet We quote the whole of
this as follows:
"Mr. McComb, from Arkansas; Mr..
Bacon, from Boston, and Mr.. Calder, of
Brooklyn, are candidates for senator
from New York.
"The only one of these three who is
a native of New York is Mr.. Calder,
republican, born in Brooklyn, builder
of houses there, who has served two
terms in congress, but is otherwise un-
distinguished SO far as general knowl
edge goes.
"Both of the other gentlemen have
better claims to political eminence. Mr..
McCombs has been chairman of the
Democratic National committee; Mr..
Bacon has been secretary of state and
ambassador to France. He has been a
resident of New York for twenty-five
years except when holding federal Of
flee, has been prominent in banking
here, and has cast in his lot with this
city. He is much better known than
Mr.. Calder, and a more interesting and
suitable republican candidate for SEN
atOr.
"McComb is not obscure. He has
practiced law in New York for fifteen
years, and is well-educated man and
a well-advertised politician. He is not
unfit to be senator. But what ails
the state of New York that it can no
longer breed its own senator's?
els it that we must look for the lead
ing New Workers nowadays, especially
in New York City, among the men
who come here?
''That seems to be the way of it.
Senator Wadsworth, to be sure, is of
New York state family, and so was
Senator Root. A good many of the
Tammany statesmen are native New
Workers, and there is doubtless a crop
of native Jewish statesmen coming on.
But the old native New York stock
does not show up very we'll in politics,
though still potent in business. But,
happily, very able men come to New
York"
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that mo one was ever born in Tex
as and still the beading citizens" of
the Dakotas are born elsewhere
York-but it, is odd that the city of
tive sons of genius; not one that we
can recall since Washington Irving;
indicating that when the Tammany
metropolis wants truly great man
resort must be had to an "Arkansas
Traveller" or some son-of-a-gun from
Boston"
The curious provincialism - e,f
thought, not of speech, or manners
the lack rather of perspective than of
pportunity-whichh has been remark
ed of the jewellers in great cities, such
as London and Paris, began with the
skyscraper to show itself in New York.
When Beecher preached and Greedy
Numbered the average New Yorker
was not wholly self -conscious. He had
country west of Jersey and south Of
the Narrows. He almost had convic-
tions. The elder Bennett, like the
younger, was cosmopolite, who thor
oughly understood both America and
Manhattan Island. Between the bat
terry, which was without a sea-wall,
and Union square, which had a wooden
paling round it, was huddled he
terogeneous collection of brick-and-
mortar housing a people who. albeit
"proud of our city" and otherwise
Astounding in public spirit, were yet
not unmindful Of the region about; of
other cities; and, with proper asser-
ton of local superiority, feeling a
sense of competition, and now and
again even a pang of jealous rivalry
Today, shut in by miles and miles of
steel and stone-perhaps obtused by
the vast accretions which these inn
ply-the scepter of Lombard street
passing to Wall street.-the splendor
Of Paris slowly but surely rising above
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