| Show OUR OLD FRIEND JUNIUS furnishes ene one of his characteristic terl te aal capable contributions HE 1131 TOUCHES UP THINGS roLi POLITICAL AND OTHERWISE IX IN AN INCISIVE AN AND D FORCIBLE STYLE d f CHICAGO nov t 2 20 aj 1888 1898 editor deseret news la letter writing an art act an endowment ot or a natural physical faculty the same as language or locomotion THIS is a faculty acuity that must obtrude itself on very many persons at the present time it is one that to me mei personally forcibly presents itself but in ia my case it is easily answered my letter arn writing is no not t an art an endowment or a bacu faculty ay iy I 1 a am 1 like ike the man in the I 1 play pla y when h u 1 be em wa wants ats to kill he be kills when the h e 1 letter t ter arl writing ting spell corned comes on me I 1 write judging from events both in this conniry coin iry aua in I 1 t latter ITTER WRITING IS LIKE POETRY it partakes of both nature and art the famous or infamous mulligan letters cost coat mr blaine the presidency of the united states that confidential little billet cost lord sackville west an ambassadorship general dudley is ia in a f fair air way to be indicted by a grand jury for his strategic campaign epistle sir charles charlels warren wrote a long letter on the murders and was compelled to resign a bew fer days day after president cleveland wrote a scort snort letter modifying one of his tariff messages and it helped to lose him film the presidency la in view of all these mishaps in letter writing it seems as if a good deal of art to make a successful writer in tact ambitious persons especially statesmen had better not write at all and above all old men who fall in love should never write a line the crop of letters produced by divorce courts affords a most amusing illustration of tile comic side aide of love who cannot sympathize with the poor old fool who nears hears his soft utterances and sentimental whisperings read aloud la open court by a stonyhearted stony hearted lawyer and laughead at by a vulgar auditor ity and this is what occurs every day yes old men I 1 in love and young men in politics bad better not write at all litera scrip la manet anat but I 1 aai am neither a lover nor or a politician neither an old man nor a very young one so here goes fora for a letter chicago still ocoa pies its old geographical position it is still the CENTRE OF GREAT EVENTS last week it received ed carter harrison and clasped him to its bosom after his trip around the world it was also visited by the fIrst sao v storm of the season and it entertained mrs brown potter kyrle bellow bellew and d a confederate general from froin mississippi t chicago still survives sar vives after all its equanimity quani mity was not disturbed even by inspector Bon fields revelations relative to the socialists oci aliste who are to have a general uprising in europe and in A america merica J aly 14 next chillot chief of pat policy je hubbard has on exhibition a riot run rud with a capacity of 54 64 bullets in KU seconds twelve thousand ol of these are ready for action at a moments notice with all this chicago still smiles and moves onward onward we have no labor trouble just at present pinkerton is not in demand and gen palmer the defeated candidate for governor of illinois has retired to vie the peaceful shades of his rura rural home lhome the republicans are jubilant tip tin horns and wooden roosters are the ein emblems beems of triumph election bets are the means of developing a kind of literature and entertainment special to themselves THESE ELECTION BETS are ass assuming um ing a shape so grotesque so 80 ludicrous that it is a question whether the idiot who beasor toe lie reporter who writes a column about them is the most internal fool here it is a yo young u n g salesman ina in a clothing house who ha has to perform some laundry work standing in the show window on the street are gaping gapin throngs hustling hust line hurrah burrah ing and ye yelling ing it takes halt half a dozen policemen to maintain order the proprietor of the store is all smiles his nose corrugates into sr smiles alles for him the election bel bet becomes a splendid I 1 advertisement in time he is T destined to rule the drunken idiots who sar surround round his bis store sod and gibe his washing salesman the good book says nevertheless when that day cometh saith the prophet that they HO more turn aside their hearts against the holy one of I 1 israel grael then will he remember the covenants which he made to their fa fathers theris 11 but it said he notwithstanding our afflictions we have obtained a land of promise a land which is choice above III all other lands a land which the lord god hath covenanted with me should bea land for the inheritance of my seed yea the lord hath bath covenanted this land unto me and to my children forever and also all those who should be led out of other countries by the hand of the lord there goes another driveling draveling dri imbecile trundled along in a wheelbarrow arrayed in a show mans maDs garb and bellowing with all his might his halt half brother is the motive power both are begotten of the saloon and the bagnio on election day they are politicians at other times confidence men they are now courting cheap notoriety and posing as patriots they draw a atre tre mand ous crowd traffic is stopped tile streets are blocked women and a children are pushed and trampled trampled the confederates federated con ot of the wheelbarrow team are active in the crowd purses parses change pockets loose silver is carefully full gathered gatner ed and pooled pocketbooks bo disappear from their rightful places as if by legerdemain in due time the syndicate of politicians and pickpockets pick pockets come together distribute equally while poor tom fool goes gees home to tell his wife she must economize because his pocketbook was stolen in the crowd yonder is another of those POLITICAL FAKIRS he is a bartender in a rum shop because cleveland is defeated he must shave off one of his bis donegam Done gall whiskers lie he made the bet with the landlord crowds came into in to see the political 0 martyr and condole with h him in drink his bis rot gut whiskey and fill his till with good silver the landlord is present presen lr felicitating felici tating himself on his bis good luck and posing as a triumphant aglid r republican publican ican while the liberality of his bis political creed permits him to employ a bandana bandaged democrat thus is manifested the cosmopolitan character of his hid gin mill which gathers its grist from every source and brings fame and wealth to its owner surely we are fallen upon evil times and if the fool killer is not abroad he too to must have f fallen allen into I 1 innocuous desuetude of course republicans are exceed 1 in angly ay iy jubilant it must be admitted that they have gained a splendid victory and toey must be credited with having worked ifor it everything that unity organization industry and wealth chuld do has been done it is marvelous to think how bow the factions and individual followings loU owings in the party had been welded and blended in this campaign 4 not a jai ai was observable anywhere even the chicago tribune came back and worked to the bitter end alger blaine sherman and other convention celebrities all worked and contributed libe liberally r a 11 ly aKi oay clarkson Clarks and dudley 0 of f t the h t aanal Ional committee worked as one kersell Ker soll as a stump speaker was s areld d to the rear and Finer tyL employed employ in his place the expenditure for oratory gry and literature is estimated at 1 I 1000 just fancy documents were sent ent out from the new york headquarters and fully as many more from the washington congressional headquarters speakers of little less chalk local note received per speech and john finerty 0 of f this ger city ty received as high as per speech i independent of 0 that every little detail was attended to that would help the party THE MURCHISON LETTER was not perhaps a very honorable transaction however cleveland could not do otherwise than send lord west to the east that letter aletter was a most important affair it placed cleveland in a most unhappy plight and it placed poor west in the position of a grand rand idiot part of the republican capital was that money was supplied b by england to help to elect cleveland that thai the milts mills bill was a cobden dab club measure and that the south true to izsold tory instincts favored billsbury butrand and balfour the west letter coming as it did gave a kind of confirmation firm fir ationo jo j o the republican thunder so cleveland had bad to fire the lord or jr lay himself open to a charge of absolute treason the letter did not change one irish vote but it made thousands of farmers vote for Hirris harrisan qu and pro lection tec tion THE FARMERS WERE approached in a very al manner they were told lold that free trade meant the transferring of all industry to england and there the market for wheat and meat was to be sought they were told that p protection meant toe tae breaking up 0 of english manufacture and the e establishment a at home of vast in d du tr al centres bentres with home markets aney were told that the mills bill meant free trade that german and randall protection democrats were shelved while watterson and bis big following were free traders anyhow to the farmers farr aers of the north harrison Har owes his bis election and not to tammany or hill or prohibition in fact tammany did splendidly for cleveland in 1884 maryland I 1 gave cleveland a plurality of in a total vote of in 1888 it gave him a plurality of ea out of a total vote of P ft there was no BO tammany hall in mi maryland 51 01 r no liquor no labor no negro no chinese complications complication then what caused the falling failing off ain in democratic ranks THE TARIFF PURE AND SIMPLE ghorman Gf orman of maryland is and was a protective democrat though in favor of tariff revision at st louis he be was shelved and henry watterson who is a pronounced f ree trader made chair man of the platform rm committee mug bumps attribute the defection to the appointment of higgins and thomas to federal positions of vast emalu ments the maintain that these two appointees were corrupt politicians and that was why cleveland lost ground this is a fallacy the same causes worked in Mary maryland ladd delaware the Virgin virginias las that operated on the farmers of illinois wisconsin michigan and aad new york and these causes were fear of absolute f free re e trade henry Watter watterson soil and roger Q mills tire are pronounced free traders Clevel cleveland ald endorsed both in fact embodied them in his bis letters letter 8 and messages s alq and though the mills bill is far fr from being a free ree trade measure yet from the known politics of its found the farmers saw in it a sure stare road rd ie de and tw this they could not t 8 onam I 1 fixer nd ji is the over i h a I 1 11 randol ri tl ew and pluralities for C vib in ti I 1 cities to be accounted for surely if protection benefits any class that tha class krould be the laborers tradesmen mechanics and factory operatives Is their acceptance of cleveland to be attributed to 9 tree trade certainly not though newspapers and politicians maintain nain taia the tree free trade theory it la ia a well known fact that all labor organized dud and unorganized was opposed to harrison the charges mide made against him relative to the chinese and dollar a day for working men story was literally believed in by the majority of workingmen la in all the cities except pittsburg and la that city mr blaine was looked upon as the republican candidate IN CHICAGO the democrats made a clean sweep yet two thirds of chicago democrats are protective local causes helped cleveland here palmer the candidate for or governor raised issues ol of a local character w hicls entirely overshadowed the tariff issue this city cily is so honeycombed with human sharks in the way of shyster lawyers bogus detectives and blackmailing pollyp agencies that the people in their desperation would do anything to get rid of 0 the evils so when palmer raised the cry of pinkerton it was the shibboleth for voting out the many excrescences of the body politic in chicago independent of this the novelty ot ol a state issue took hold of the people and eyes were turned to springfield rather than to washington Wash logton but it must mast be admitted that Clev elands popularity had bad increased vastly in Cal calcagno cago during the last two years his later appointments gave universal satisfaction fuller tor for the supreme court raised cleveland abr cent in the estimation of th people and newberry for the post office to succeed the cranky judd and his bis faction wilbanks co W was as quite as satisfactory a performance for mance san francisco went democratic but we all know the chi chinese nese question and not the tariff was t the e issue there all milwaukee and St stlouis Louls went republican the only industry of any note in these two cities is the manufacture of lager beer and that needs no protection vet et its workers went tor for harrlson harrison the only conclusion to be drawn from the 1888 elections to is that the united halted states as a nation DONT WANT FREE TRADE and will not have it that southern statesmen it if they want tariff reform should keep in the background if instead of the mills bill this same revision measure read the andall randau bill or the gorman german billand lland bl was introduced from illinois or new york rather than from te texas it certainly would have swept tx the e co country autry tor for cleveland and tart tariff reform JUNIUS |
