ADDRESSES ON CITY POLITICS.

Under the auspices of the Political Club, Mr. Arthur F. Cosby '94, recently assistant corporation counsel in New York, lectured last evening in the Fogg Lecture Room on, "New York City Politics, a Field for Ambitious Young men;" and Mr. Frederick W. Hinrichs, who was the Fusion candidate for comptroller in the recent election in New York City, on, "Success and Successes, Especially with Reference to Municipal Politics."

It is the duty of educated young men, Mr. Cosby said, to take part in the affairs of the country and, by endeavoring to give intelligence and honesty their proper place in politics, to do away with the present type of professional politician. Young men should recognize that they must take their share in affairs, learn men, find out what is necessary to be done, and do it. As politicians are professional men who have graduated from a training in practical politics, they are to be defeated only by men who have also had such a training. Young men, therefore, who desire to go into politics should begin by doing even such work as checking the lists of men who register to vote and seeing that men register who might not otherwise have done so. After making sure that all men of the party have registered, there remains the task of presenting the party's case. Although the work of speaking on street corners to floating crowds is hard, it is interesting, and the best of training. Even after this work is done, it remains to see that all men who have registered, should actually vote, and to watch the count of the vote after it has been cast in order to make sure that it is honest. Mr. Cosby then described the career of several well-known New York politicians and showed that such men can be defeated only by the increasing efforts of upright men. The help of all honest men is needed in politics when public life has become so degraded that it is necessary to argue with men on questions of the merest honesty and decency as was the case in New York.

Mr. Hinrichs, in speaking on "Success and Successes with Especial Reference to New York Politics," said that even as a defeated reform candidate, he felt able to say the conditions are still very far from hopeless. The very fact that our form of government has thus far been a failure in the case of cities, has brought forward problems for the educated man to solve. He then showed that the great size of New York makes the combat against evil particularly interesting. Mr. Hinrichs then narrated the history of Brooklyn politics since 1881, as a good example of how upright men with high ideals have succeeded. He told how Mr. Low, a practically unknown man, became mayor of Brooklyn twice, although the city was normally of the opposite political party. After describing the course of politics there until its consolidation with Greater New York in 1897, the speaker described Mr. Low's three candidacies for mayor of New York, and the peculiar circumstances which caused Mr. Low's defeat last fall in spite of the fact that he had given New York the best administration it has ever had.