Life — October 30, 1913 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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OCTORER 3, 1913 “Whale there is Life there's Hop. xo 1618 Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY J. A. Mircnens, Pres’t. A. Mitten, See’y and Treas. ty West Thirty-first Street, New York English Offices NE can hardly call the col- lapse of Sulzer a great trag- edy, because Sulzer never had weight or dignity cnough to furnish the Necessary ma- terials for a great tragedy. He has always..been absurd, and was psurd. But there was a furious <ty about him that kept him in notice, and the great profusion of his protestations of solicitude for recognized as the people acttally produced in time an effect which was valuable to him as a political advertisement. It is the fault of us, as a community, that so ridiculously unsuitable a man should er have been made governor of New York. It is really, more than his that he should have been successfully impeached for offenses that no man of the most ordi- nary discretion would have committed our punishment, We ought to be ashamed, and we are. The excuse that most of us must offer is that we knew only in the most gen- eral way about Sulzer, and though his absurdities were too obvious to he led, we saw that he was fervent prevailing cone and accepted the ances that he was honest Ht is really a. pitiful throwing out of this poor man from a place which he never should have approached, Additional shame inures from the fact that if he had heen more omplaisant to Murphy and are Tammany tool, he might probably have matter. the ier . Cannon Honse. Bre: Bildgs., London, F. C. served out his time as governor and gone out unexposed, It was under Tammany that Sulzer got into Congress and stayed there. It was the Tammany complication in the politics of the State that ma a successful candidate for governor. It was fit enough that having lived by Tammany he should perish by it, but the fact of his revolt won him a de- gree of public sympathy which not even the pathetic disintegration of his je him entire character and reputation has leen able entirely to efface. Tammany has made its demonstra- tion. The lesson has been taught again that Tammany men must be loyal to Tammany or take the consequences. Let us all learn it anew and apply it at once with what energy we can by doing our best to keep Tammany men out of ¢ seems that Richmond P. Hob: running against Mr. Underwood for Senator from Alabama. Somebody writes to the paper to say that Mr Hobson has a g cause in addition to the advantages his peculiar gifts give him in appe: xl chance to win, be- to the electorate in Alabama, he ca command the votes of a considerable hody of citizens who are ready to use wful means to keep him out of the State, Rather than hav home and excite the people of Alaba about prohibition and his other Iv bies, they will vote for him for any office that will keep him in Washington, him come We suppose this assertion is not true to fact, but very likely it is true to feeling. Now that Sulzer is out of commission, Hobson has as good a claim as anybody to be called our lead- ing blatherskite. One contemplates him with a sort of despair—glib, good- looking, energetic; shameless with the effrontery that knows no better; a eredulous, illiberal little mind with all the vanity and self-confidence of the bigot! We trained this person in the naval academy, taught him) manners and a profession. He got his adver- tisement, as will be recalled, in the war with Spain. He left the navy, and for several years has been a Congress- man from Alabama. He scems to suit his constituents, and appears as the lead- ing candidate against Mr, Underwood. Perhaps it is the province of the wild asses to herd the goats, and per- haps Hobson will get to the Senate ahead of Underwood. That would he a very interesting achievement of democracy, but, after all. not than ours in making Sulzer governor of New York. worse HE. strong liking of the goats in the electorate for political wild asses is, of course, a pretty serious matter. In the long run the wild ses do not make successful herders, y even the goats find that But that takes time. The ¢ enormous consumers of the patent out. vats medicines and quack remedies of tics, with which the Hobsons and the Sulzers are always ready to fill them up to the throat; and the politicians, knowing that the goats are shy, whim- sical, voracious creatures, are too ready to nominate wild asses because they seem ava usually work on the theory that the able. The politicians right man to nominate for office is the man who is likeliest to be elected. But the truth is that the man to nominate is the best man whom the voters will have. Tt is wiser te take a chance of losing an election with a sood eandi- date than to win it with a wild The main argument advanced against Mr. Mitchel by the anti-Tammany comicbooks.com