Show CHICAGO LETTER junius talks pungently ol of politics CHICAGO MAY SO 50 1888 poor billy bonahan mayor roches jesuit city collector is the maddest ban in chicago today he has beca b een posing all his bis life fe as a professional irishman and a political roman catu olic and as such he was invited to act as vice president of an anti papal meet by a delegation of real irishmen for this act of ef honor and courtesy on the part of real irishmen to a dago irishman mr bonahan feels dreada dreadfully ully indignant the invitation extended to him was embellished with some lines of rhyme which though not sublimely metrical or architecturally symmetrical yet breathe a spirit terribly suggestive to rome here are the lines home rule bale not rome borne rule bale daughters of erin lauy rally hally thursday night daughters of erin rejoice rejoice go litten to your brave leaders voice raise rais e high your shouts tor foi the men at home but censure alone for the pope of rome the dago may sit ait on his hie throne and rule A p peanut stand id with johnny bull B but t eg ireland land wants nt no dago sway away it if the pope dont like it he can stay away fancy such literature as this issuing from the tongues and pens peas of real live irishmen from cork kerry an and donegal the man who would venture to say six months ago that ireland was on the verge of a rebellion against rome would be accounted a lunatic in fa fact c t it would be sufficient grounds for a court of law to appoint guardians over such a prophets prophet la property provided he be had any however it is the case and the most scared dago in ltv today is his holiness leo XUI why leo XIII should be so foolish as to interfere in Ir elands affairs when such men as john and W E gladstone have taken up her cause is b beyond any sane comprehension the kain lain fact is rome never wanted ireno to become a self governing state abe be knew that it was only the bigotry and blindness of english that kept ireland within rome for centuries ireland was never roman catholic until england forced the religion on her by roman influence ana by roman influence england will drive ireland out ont of rom romanism 1 a cism mr billy y will issue u no 0 more anti labor proclamations nor will he be preach any aay more anti mormon tirades at the union league club AN UNWISE equation another very sick man is mr hewitt of new york city his patricks day ebullition of patriotism was a boef woeful ul waste of energy and as a basis for political goli political capital it has proved a sand neap esp the spirits of evil or perhaps of good must have been playing terrible pranks with hewitt bonahan and several others hewitt made a bid for know thinking to imperil im eril president Clev elands chances orre or reelection in new york but now he finds himself the only friend st patrick has were it not for dewitts hewitts He witta witts insane order last march there certainly would be no patricks day demonstration in 14 fact the irish national holiday bids fair to become the ath of march the anniversary of robert bobert emmetts birthday a protestant gentleman an irish patriot and a pure unstained political martyr to ireland and her people kor FOB A presidential YEAR TEAK this has been so far the quietest of any we have had bad in a long period it is only during the last week that we are beginning to realize what year we are in already we have bad a half dozen party national conventions and even these did sot not wake us from our lethargy we have had united labor union labor radical labor parties we have had equal buff suffrage rage and today the prohibition Is beginning its work at indianapolis next week st louis bouts will be all aglow and two weeks from then chicago will fire up notwithstanding all this it is only just now we are getting awake to the great question upon us and it to is probable we will have a warm time until november next of course the OP OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND Is a foregone conclusion ano and whatever excitement there may be in the st louis convention will be over the vice presidency and about a platform touching on the tariff it is probable that an illinois fili nois man will get the nomination tor for the Y V P and it is al also probable that the term free trade will entirely be omitted from the platform this tariff business is a very touchy affair and some seme of the southern men are handling it in a way anat is hurting their party in the north they gobe go beyond pa president r Clev elands tariff r reform 10 am poll polisy py and assign as a valid reason for free trade that it it would take of the surplus away from washington the question then is would this go to england as the republicans say it would or will it go to the united 8 states tes as the southern men say it will northern democrats dont like this phase of the question now new york will be THE GREAT BATTLE FIELD Ell iLD and burchard barchard will cut no figure in the future in fact it is only inane malice that endeavored to make poor burchard a scapegoat goat the old gentleman only said what he be had been saying for the last twenty five years and what every prominent republican as well had bad been saying say even james giaime GI aine himself at present sensible editors editor lood at the matter differently the st louis globe democrat ot of may 19 says the fact that the conkling Coa kling element defeated blaine in 1864 can be readily shown the following gives the republican and democratic votes of wedia onedia county county N K Y in which conkling resided in the presidential resided elections election of 1880 and 1884 and in the elections for state officers in 1885 anda I 1 and 1887 and the plural ties in each contest rep beep dem plurality 1880 1946 rep 1884 30 dem m 12 rep bep aw 75 aso 0 1 beep p 1887 aee beep these figures tell where and how blaine was defeater defeated atef other papers attribute blaines de feat to the party aad still others to the delmonico Bel monico banquet but the st louis globe democrat has still another reason it is prohibition botlon and it is pure prohibition the republican party fear f ear most in new york next november the st louis gioe demo crat of may says the prohibitionists however who are to meet on the hela held the balance of power in 1881 in liew hew york new jersey and connecticut tient gave the electoral votes of those states to the democracy and elected cleveland president ahe prohibitionists as well as the democracy appear to be confident that the vote of the party this year will be equally decisive the possibility that this assumption may prove to be true will gi five vp a gen general eral interest inheres t to the action accio a of this body this year vear the future of the rep republican party HANGS BY A HAIR HAIB if defeated this time prohibition becomes the party ot of the f future all will depend on the choice of the chicago convention such a man as allison of ef iowa or sherman of ohio or rusk busk of wisconsin would certainly disrupt the party blaine would certainly make a great battle but if lie he throws his strength to gresham greaham it will still be a light fight and blaine will be a factor in the politics of the present as well as of the future MR MB BLAINES LETTER to whitelaw reid field absolutely forbidding the e further promulgation ot of bis big bial Bla mefa eab name as a candidate for the reau republican b ican party nomination fa for r president is 8 a welcome epistle to the chicago B lai of 1884 the chicago tribune is especially jubilant over the letter this journal accepted mr biarne BI Bl alneA aine florence letter in its literal rendering and for this was accounted a kind of traitor to blaine now that the magnetic state statesman adheres to his bis florence let ter and is furthermore compelled peremptorily to emphasize its literal interpretation to his tool fool friends who persisted in characterizing it as a bit of political strategy the chicago tribune grows heroic in its treatment of honest tames the tribune knows that as a campaign orator mr blaine will prove a veritable sampson for his party and in the event of success a place as secretary of state would be lust just the thing now that he has travelled extensively in Europ ehe certainly would be well fitted for the place GRESHAM AND DEPEW blaine categorically out of the presidential raea race judge gresham is unquestionably the most eligible man as a party candidate though a public man near nearly lyal all his life he is the least known of the public men of today in this lies his strength an aggressive campaign cab be entered on with safety V if judge gresham did entertain opinions on any of the great issues of the past or the present like washington irvin Irl Is dutch philosopher he has kept them to himself he ills has never bever written a mulligan letter it is said that he when a young man denominated denominate a the germans a greasy lousy lonsy dirty tribe of dutch datch 11 well this can be gotten over he meant the pennsylvania Dutch Dut chand aud they must vote a protection ticket anyhow even it if bu bou langer himself were to be the nominee nomine of the protective tariff party with gresham and depew the republican party would make a wonderful fight depew though a railroad monarch Is very popular his wit geniality Senia lity and humor render reader him so democratic emo cratic in action and demeanor that even the average working man looks upon him more as a brother than he does on mr powderly or on mr arthur mr de dedewa I 1 recent tilt with gold goldwin win smith sin Is rather a factor in his popularity in new york this is not because the matter which brought out the little tournament was an irish one but in new york all rich men are accused of a kind of offensive philo anglicism and mr depew has ingeniously cleansed himself of this charge with this team harmony harman in the acty can be better main maintained taine it woun would hold Blai nite and mu prohibitionist and man and agnostic in the party to there ere are nb ab two other men who could reconcile its jarring elements they are so tar above the other fry that political jealousy would be out of the question the chicago herald a democratic paper says of gresham he is it in fact better than his party his HIB hands have ave never been soiled in the slums of politics nor has lie sought sought preferment by base or indirect means if f it were not that the hand of death is on the republican party they would follow his leadership gladly he is their only hope but they will never see it and so will rush to their destruction when the herald berald penned this blaine was then the assured nominee of the party outside of blaine all the OTHER NAMES MENTIONED as prospective nominees are below even the mediocre in intellectual status herein lies the danger to t the e party toe the lower a mans spirituality or intellectuality is ie the more jealous obstinate and perverse that man is he ignores the will of a decent majority aeu even of his own creed and becomes a law unto his blinded sell self sherman allison Alli aon ingalls alger Rusk Rask Harrison and in tact fact the whole lot are mediocre men gresham la is not certainly a star in the mental firmament but he has a good temper sagacious understanding and a common sense a strategy begy in fact he knows elou enough not to stand out under the rain to spite his bis neighbor whom he may happen appen to dislike JUNIUS jumus |