| Show CHICAGO LETTER A characteristic correspondence from our regular CHICAGO june jane 10 1888 peacefully and placidly reclining by the margin of lake michigan and fanned by its cooling breezes one can now review the political events of last week one can also cast a retrospect tive glance that is not entirely unprofitable at crowded heated stuffy st louis jlouis outside of the mere party nominations for president and vice Pred president ident of the united states there are many things that must attract the attention of the contemplative observer la in the convention convention itself the first most notie noticeable pable feature was the poverty of oratory perhaps it was lecause because in a democratic convention more was expected in the forensic line during thelast the Jast 20 years this party barty has had bad scar scarcely ebly any press worthy of the name to support it while the other party has had a powerful well organized sed press support during its whole existence the democratic party had to rely on the rostrum for its existence while hh ie the other luxuriously urious ly reclined ned on oil its tripod in that could always be found an abundance of fluent forcible extempore speakers in this very able manuscript essayists at present both parties are reduced to a common level and that level is the 0 odious at us manu manuscript scrip t WHY Ws NO A how any man who has common sense can ascend a rostrum to address an aVdi audience ence of several chousa thousands md M then pull out a roll of paper to read rad from Is ie what most surprises the aver age citizen why not pull out a morning newspaper ne we paper and read a half dozen of its editorials what a pitiful spectacle it Is to be sure to see sec a man mopping himself with a handkerchief and trying at the same time to dec de cypher illegible writing and also speaking to a vast audience Is it any wonder such speakers are hissed off eff the platform even by their own friends speakers require preparation and it is well known that those these speakers who as orators were the most dilt dill gent and studio studious as and careful calef u I 1 in preparation any man who aspires to be an orator or aveni 7 a te commatas comm m atad abe re h rh emonas I 1 a speaker should rh 3 cai WS manuscript mano script t to the wynns 8 before ascending a island ad let him get his speece speech h by rote and speak it looking lookin directly at his a audience ad bence it he be cant think on his bis feet fee t what wat would 0 ofsan n a adelor iwho who I 1 would read hamlen a fols 8 soliloquy 0 u oh abe stage we a ask 1 I is orator oratory X d cc JJ Ys it is a among lovvron d 4 swineherds swine 1 ardit herds A STRIKING comparison at the unveiling of the lincoln mon moa in this city last fall I 1 went to near bear leonard swett who was advertised as the principal speaker what jasiny was my surprise aye sye chagrin to see this very tall gentleman pull out a coltof manuscript as he time bame to the front it looked like an ail irish policeman executing a di distress tress wa warrant r on a hapless farmer and there is a not an official in the whole world word reads a warrant kind with ma more pomp more show of authority more imperialism than angrish an Irish bailiff or policeman jn truth mrs mr eap m wah his 14 aggressively tall hat anahis frock avow overcoat gat looked the very identity of a dublin bobby at an auction sile sale me aft swett was then life long friend and law partner of abraham lincoln 11 coln and yeto yet he be could not speak at the tomb N of the dead without flaunting his wretched ay ype pe writing ingi mer cenary typewriting type writing at that in the fam of americans why toe the very stones themselves vea could or would speak on abraham lincoln one of the greatest men the earth ever produced yet a bosom friend had ree recourse durse to manuscript shame in truth it was lookyat look a the 1 e I 1 M inister OF the man whose profession is christianity ti digging at his bis mandi manuscript script like a schoolboy spelling hibb his B L A if the man really and honestly believed in christ no BO manuscript would be needed genuine chris christianity honestly practiced furnishes a ira own vocabulary its own inspiration and d its i own manuscript A gospels dospel ife ir in st a pulpit bulpit with a ream of fool foolscap seap in his hand and ou ought ht to be taken and ducked f an fn the horse this is why oratory is declining decay and rottenness ess in a people or nation always begins above religion is the root not alone of oratory bat of patriotism purity morality and intellectuality ity LIBRARY AND READING BEADING ROOM st louis has a very nice and well ordered public school library and reading room in this 0 may well take a lesson in st goulf louis is a towel and washbasin wash basin where a student can clean his hands before handling a valuable book there are very fine tables and comfortable seats scattered all over the hall the paper stands are prettily arranged between long benches so that a reader can rest N while ahl le reading in chicago there ther e is nothing 0 ing when one gets a boo book it looks as if it were a survivor of t the e great fire and had just been beau dug u up oot oat of a basement there are no papers and no ne seats in iii fact the read reading room and reference department I 1 look G IN more like a ball otting booth on election day than they look like resorts for the student and teacher and enquirer st louis has a good reading room library gymnasium and bathrooms bath rooms roams specially for the use of railroad men chicago has nothing but the and the dance hall ball but st louis has a very black eye right in the centre of her cl city ty not two blocks from the union depot there are fully thirty acres of buildings shanties liggenes pig geries genes etc entirely DEVOTED TO immorality immobility if depraved degraded abject humanity in its vilest and most repulsive state is wanted to be seen go within these dreadful thirty acres abandoned women in every color and in every shape are here plied piled promiscuously the dance hall and aad the saloon or dive is frequent f re quent in a city like st louis loais depending for existence on anthe the rural folk who come in for festive and holiday purposes F what effect these 30 acres have on the territory contributing contri butine these rural visitors can be better imagined than described this 30 acre lot spreads physical and moral rottenness abroad PLATFORM DISCUSSED the st louis democratic platform is new being freely discussed there is if one thing admirable about it and that is its clearness perspicuity a and d on the great issue of the te hour hoar tariff reform it has taken this as its main plank and next november will tell the story cleveland and thurman will prove a formidable te amaud republicans must not alone show a united front but they must put forth their most available men thurman lias has been so be praised by the republican party papers during the past four years that a compilation pi lation of of editorials published in pamphlet form fram those newspapers would make a fine CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT tor for the democratic party pa A y it is possible that such a pamphlet is now BOW in preparation As to cleveland there can cant t be anything new about him the republicans exhausted all their filth in 1884 some miserable creature was distributing a filthy pamphlet relative to cleveland in st louis but so mean odious aud and contemptible was the affair that though now w proved to have emanated from a republican party 13 source yet the party condemn and disavow it PARTY FACTIONS the factions in tee republican party are becoming more hostile to each other itis it is said that gresham men wont ally with blaine men and aad so on the chicago tribune which is first last and all the time for gres gressam ham bam is not at all pleased with its former friends pat egan and pat ford the republican pats dont take kindly to gresham gresham is a poor man and an honest one and the purely political pats like poverty in the abstract but not as a factor in politics WHAT DEFEATED BLAINE it now transpires that blaines great i popularity with the irish was not b by y means of the religion of his bis mother but by the gravel dragged up by an achors laid to windward the chicago tribune of jane 10 says four years ago on the eve of the election a special BP ecial fund of so it is re reported p 0 r ted was raised to make a deal with john kellers kelleys Kel leys tammany crowd the managers put pat it in the hands of johnny obrien and some others of like ilk k tor for dis distribution tr ii according to the public and contradicted nn statement of corbliss col bliss these then worthies divided the entire sum between themselves ellch each coining on out t some richer and not a dollar of the amount was ever used in any manner legitimate or illegitimate to gain a vote for blaine thus the money I 1 contributed in the behee that it would aid blaines elgo election tion really went solely to the enrichment of dishonorable ward bummers inNeT ert this WAS the Bu burchard that defeated ilaine blaine this explains the pat ford and pat egan enthusiasm they now tAr threaten eaten to desert depart the party unless alger of the nomination alger has a barrel As the campaign progresses grosses it will be found how much 0 toe the I 1 pats and their friends RI P As matters now stand the chicago tribune iw bune and several other gresham papers apers are 11 likely ely to go over to cleveland d in the ev event nt of gresham not getting the nomination this is a life and death struggle straggle for the republican party defeatist defeat Defea at this time will certainly kill it victory will not prolong it its life but will give it a new birth under another camp name and with new adherents united it would snake a vigorous fight and with acceptable clean men ma may ily possibly achieve a victory its view of it the tariff is not considered unpatriotic b by many democrats its policy of abolition brition of internal revenue though not advocated as a party measure finds davir T the ah 66 pension e slon list and Q G A B R bugi ne iff is becoming brew I 1 ning noisome and as the in I 1 venusto is the source of supply 9 tor or these parasitic growths it is probable that ahat its ts abolition may he be taken top for no other reason chanto than to stop il a mercenary patriots fighting commenced has bas in dead earnest within the republican party and june or ww will tell 11 a significant tale at all events whatever party gets into power next november the next four years will be the most eventful in the history of this republic JUNIUS IT was wis aumorea rumored about town today that adiian a man had been shot at B Bing ingham bam but a t telephonic eleo honic inquiry for particulars lars resumed in the statement that nothing of the kind had occurred |
