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Show CHICAGO LETTER. A Political Caldroa. The jIcKInlcy Hillv Mrs. LcOIc oa Rojally. John L. ia His Sew Hole. A Sorehead Sptalj or TJIali. Ite-marks Ite-marks on the Manifesto. A Parallel. Social correfpondeace of the De'iRtr Wo are cow in tho midst of a political po-litical campaign that for filth and nolsonieness Is unequalled in the annals of electioneering. Economic issues and political integrity cut no figure at all. Abuse and billingsgate billings-gate are the great agents. Carter Harrison appears again iu politics. He welcomes abuse and says he grew fat on It for eight years as Mayor of Chicago. Frank Lawler, tbe Congressman, is the democratic lomluee for sheritTof Cork couuty. If abuse can put a nun ia office Frank will surely be elected. He had been charged wilheVeryofleiife in the whole catalogue of crime. They have even charged hlni with btiug a polygami-t. Frank had two wives but one is dead. He Is now living with the second and is the happy father of fifteen children. So far the republicans are getting the best of the fight They employed em-ployed a detective agency to work among democrats; tho result is that several of the Frauk Lawler statesmen states-men are now in Jail for procuring frauJuleut naturalization papers for persons net entitled to them by law. That tpolitlcal university from which Orlando Powers and Judge AnJerson graduated is now pronounced pro-nounced by patriotic republicans to be the a'jrtu mater, tho bounteous mother of the grandot rebels and rascals, boasters and blackguards, catcrau3 and cutthroats that any school, political or religious, evtr produced. The most bewildering feature of the present political excitement is that the shrewdest prophets are completely at eea as to tho results nest November. Old parly issues are being ignored, and the result is a seemiug disintegration of old organizations. or-ganizations. Farmers' alliances aud trades' unions, slngletaaers, fret-traders, fret-traders, personal lighten, prohlbl-tionl5ts,protectiotiILi,pubIlcschooI, prohlbl-tionl5ts,protectiotiILi,pubIlcschooI, parochial arliool, ftvo religion, Lutherans, CaUiolIcs,Clan-na-gael., Patriotic Sons of America, British Americans the German lauguage, the Kuglish language and a dozen other topics enter into the present campaign. J The McKInky bill is not making much of a nolso after all. However, How-ever, republicans can't tell at present pres-ent bow it will nUeU the elections. Several of the party papers, while professing friendship fur it, take every opportunity of ridiculing and disparaging it. For instance, the Chicago Tribune, while advocating the bill, uses every possible way to bring it Into dircpule. It collects all the bad things hostile and pro-Knglish pro-Knglish papers say of the bill aud publishes them. I liu (d like the bill, simply because Lurope and ripers like the TMune oppose it so. think there mu-t be something good, something American in It; and if war should arise btlwceii our country and any foreign country, coun-try, this bill will make tis industrially industri-ally independent of the whole world. Iu Indiana, Wisconsin and Ohio, even Michigan, the same uncertainty uncertain-ty prevails ns in Illinois. Kansas, aye, blivdiug Kansas it is supposed will flop over to some other side. Hut I doubt it. In Minnesota thcsltufltionisqulte as perplexing as it is anywhere eke When the Farmers' Alliance nominated nomi-nated a full State ticket last July, the affair was looked on as a joke. Now it Is proving too serious for jesting. It Is admitted on all sides that It will poll fully 70,000 votes. The labor unions are all working In harmony with the farmers. Sydney M. Owen, the farmers candidate for governor is a man of unblemished reputation. I'ruin and Donnelly, two well known men, are stumping for the Alliance ticket. They are both potMlar aud are dl-tingulsbcd for tu'MLty of intellect, lirwlu Is n famous criminal crim-inal ltwyer. Donnelly is both a politician and a man of letters thouKh he did not succeed In cooking cook-ing William Shaks'ieareV bacon. Uov. Merrlam, the IteiuUican candidate, Issenou-ly handicapped Cu account of a prison coutript for michlnery whii.ii was awarded to a Scotch firm for S ,IWJ: though an American firm oliered to supply the plant for $10,000. Robert J. Hall, pnsldeut of tho alliance, writing on this incident, eays: "Tho American machinery is known to be a success, yet the State of Minnesota, with its3,0Q0 majority in favor of protection, gives a premium pre-mium of ?,000 to n foreign manufacturer. manu-facturer. This is protection with a vengeance." I believe it was this nlllanco that wanted the abolition of the V. S. Supreme Court. If so, it says little for the wisdom or for the Americanism Ameri-canism ot its controlling spirits. Mrs. Frauk Leslie ol New Vork Is here. Iu her lectures she has been telling us a great deal about tbe royal pervmages of Europe from the days of Henry the Eighth to the present. Henry she describes as a duck of a boy when young. He was cultivated, accomplished and so ial. He was physically er-fett er-fett and nienlally bright as a young man. He became a fashionable society giant. Mrs. Leslie forgets to mention that Henry was intend-ed intend-ed fiir the Itomati priesthood until his cider brother died. That Is why. perhaps ho hal so many sociaKgraces, and sucii a humane, generous and amiable demeanour. Mrs. Leslio speaks well of the Prince of Wales but not so well of his nephew, the German Emperor. Iter lectures though intended for the 403 nro attended more by the 1003. She appears on (he platform a very poem In petticoats a painting iu a cloth of gold, or a celestial visitant vi-sitant in illaphauoua draijcry. One wishes she were (Jueen of this realm, but then what would the poor Marquis of Leuville do. I wonder ia he any relation to Lovcll tho widower. John L. Sullivan, Ling of the prlic ring, is also here, starring as a fullllcdged actor. He has nothing to say nhout the royal personages of Europe, though he hobnobbed with the Prince of Walts for n day or two. He draws much larger houses than Mrs. Leslie. The fact Is, the Haymarket theatre Is not oue half largo enough to hold the audiences John can draw. Numbers goaway nightly, not able to get even stand-lug stand-lug room. In the Chicago Tniune of Oot. 10 appears some '-special correspondence" correspond-ence" from Salt Lake City. It says that a sickly boom got up by politicians, poli-ticians, speculators and desperate adventurers now exists in Utah; that these mn, "regardless of honesty or fair dealing, seek by all manner of misrepresentation to draw the unwary into their toils." It also says that Utah as a promised land is a failure for homescckers; that fruit can bo imported from California Califor-nia much cheaper than it can be grown in Utah; that fur six months of the year there is no rain, no dew, no moisture; that irrigation Is both a tedious and expensive process. The remainder of the article Is devoted de-voted to tbo Mormons. who arurbar. acterlzed as stupid, Ignorant, Immoral Im-moral and so forth. It is plain that the writer has not mixed with Mormons Mor-mons in Utah, nor troubled himself to investigate mat'ers personally. The article ends with theso'WorUs: "Tliat specious manifesto of Prcsi-dent Prcsi-dent Woodnifi"a deceived neither Mormon cor Gentile in Utah. It was oot expected to do that. It was to hoodwink the credulous outside the gates." This (arson evidently is sick of Utih. He blames tho Gentiles for bringing people to Utah, and then he blames the Mormons for being there already. He reminds mo of an Incident which occurred here a few weeks ago. A noted dry goods house inserted a flaming advertisement advertise-ment that silk which usually sold at one dollar a yard would be sold next morning for five cents a yard. Next morning a goodly array cf thrifty housekeepers appeared at tho store, but when they learned that Ave cents was a mlprlut for fifty ceuts their rage knew no bounds. They considered themselves defrauded de-frauded out of a legiti -i 'e .osses. sion. So it Is with this Utah sorehead. sore-head. He thought Orlando Powers would give him a farm. Speaking of Ihe manifesto, most if not all our Chicago pairs havo somethinr; to say on It, All the reputable papers take Judge aniys view, and accept it in good faith. The Chicago Tribune dors not. The New West Education Commission does noL IU orator. Dr. Gunsaulus, says that tho manifesto was not delivered de-livered iu good faith. Ho fears that if the question of polygamy is eliminated elim-inated from Utah affairs no ruore money can be collected from gullible gulli-ble Congregationalisms Au editorial from Patrick II. Launau's luper, and evidently written by oue of Ills hired men, is Ixrlng reproduced in many of the disreputable sheets like the Chicago 7Vtoune. Patrick's sheet says that Mormons nro playing the fox, that polygamy was only one of the lesser evils of MorniouUiuJ that after statehood was obtained fur Utah Iiolygamy would Ira again revived, n this strain the article proceeds for fully half a column in length iu talking nliout cradles aud cutlius, cattle ami children and u lot of the silliest kind of twaddle. It reminds nnu of tin omuU.-icnt cstrlch in Fnucis Wil-ou' ne x comic opera, the "Merry Monarch." The ostrich knew it all at first, but he got left. It is thus with Lanuau's literary Ulackstone; when polygamy was relegated to the past, his stock in trade was completely lost and lie is now a stuffed bird. Here is the story of the comic Ostrich: In an African desert once there dwell An of trich woadroni vrlsc. Who carried Itis head ao proadlv hl?h It almoit touched the tktes. lie had liscd so loos and had seen 10 macli. Ho srat vain a vain coold Vc, And this wonderf al bird Was often heard To remark romplacenllr "if joa eek for information. Or detire an eipllaauon, i'm a I'nmmtng fonnt of trudoni that re-i re-i ponds to crerj call. For assorted gilt cdxed fcnavrlelge I iu discount any college ; I'm a simple little ostrich, but I snoir It a'L" There sras aaeelbJc wror-ir with his veil-111 veil-111 J plan, I mach regret to saf ; For ther snaked hint oat of his hiding place Without the least dclij. Tbef plncked his long tall reathers oat. Till he tras a sleht to sec; A nd thej clipped his si in jrs It Ith Shears ani (Mars Thoegh it hart confoait-Jedtr, Then ther. shipped him o'er the ocean. And todar it yoas'e tbe notion At a seooad rate mmeam ia this neighbor-hovdtoeall; neighbor-hovdtoeall; Yea will see a slight pitbeur. For trll't lalea apologetic. Stands the simple litue ostrich, sloKed.vrbo knew it all. When one comes to study the tlradts of those who do not accept the manifesto as Judge Ztne did, it looks as if they felt aggrieved in some way or that they felt themselves them-selves defrauded out of a legitimate Inheritance: It reminds one of the eual times In Ireland. In those days if a IComaii Catholic owned a horse worth 10-1 dollars, a Protestant by offering 25 dollars for the hore was by law entitled to it, and could procure It by law. John Mitchell relate several anecdotes of these time, one of which is cloaely piral-lei piral-lei to the case ot the Utah editorial jurist; A man named Geogehau owned some very fine hor, but he was well liked by his Protes'aut neighs bors, and none of them would avail himself of the Ian. You must understand un-derstand that in Ireland there were fairmlnded Protestants even in those days. Hut one avaricious wretch came In among them. He noticed Giogehan's horses and wondered won-dered why Some Protestant itld cot already pssess them. He informed in-formed his friends that before twenty-four hours he would own the horses. Oue of tho Protestants informed Geogehau, who straightway straight-way repaired to a magistrate (the person who informed him), and took the oath renouncing transil)-stanliat'Un. transil)-stanliat'Un. This was all that was required to puthlmonansqiiitlty with Protestants. When Mr. Smart curio arouud fr the horses and to present 25 dollars for each one, U oehati toll him to go to Old Niek. Mr. Smirtdid not go to Nick but went to the magistrate, who pruccted poor Ge-sgihan. Tills magistrate showed Geogclinn's pre-cautaltou. pre-cautaltou. Mr.Smart left swearing wildly and denouncing Irish Catholics Cath-olics as frauds vagabonds ani per-lurers. per-lurers. A peculiar feature cf ihe people; who originated aud executed those penal laws was that tho recantations recanta-tions aud oaths of the Irish were not received in good faith. It was not alone sulllclent to take all Ihu oaths required but one had to change his name, to Anglicise or teutoulze if, and to disavow all kinship kin-ship with Ilomtui-ts. This was done in older to humiliate the unfortunate un-fortunate victims as much as possible, pos-sible, and to cause them to let their property go sooner than undergo such degradation. It was In this way so many Csltlc names asumed shapes never dreamed of iu nomenclature. nomen-clature. Muldoon became Medill, Shanghnesy lucanie Chauncey, Ilrosnlhau became Urushliigham, an i so on. Whcu a fairmlnded man under-took under-took to protest against the Infernal work of the bind of carpet'ajgers tlia.1 domineered and tyranlzeti the unfortunate I rsh, he was subjected to all kinds of Insults. When D.-an Swift undertook to defend the Irish the carpetba.r.ers actually attempted attempt-ed to ride over him oa the streets of Dublin, if a judge or other ofllcial ventured to show anything like fair play or justice ho was soon recalled or silenced by this noisy band ol boodlers. And iu place of suppressing suppress-ing Romanism they actually pro-mgated pro-mgated it. If filrplay wereshown. Ireland would todiy be as clear of Catholics as S-vcJen Is After the conduct of James at ihe Doyne the Irish Were so sick of Home aud of Stuarti-m that, if left to themselves, there was no need of penal laws nor of transubitautla'.ljii test oath. Jl-'.s'iirs. Ciiicauo, OcLSOtli, IE9J. |
