Show OUR OUK CHICAGO berrer lerrer the election over the kind ol of meu men under the banne ot of the winner democrats who disgrace their party the pitiful porteus pox teas aud and SUs 1119 contemptible work ete NEWS special S correspondence CHICO CHICAGO april alth 1887 our city elections are over but the strikes have hava just commenced johna john A rocke is elected he was supported by the law and order men john fin orty the man who advocates blowing up up the london house of parliament is a prominent roche koche man frank lawler the man who wanted jay gould strung up to a alamp lamp post is also a roche man mike mcdonald the bondsman of the bood lera lers and pinkerton denlis a roche man bodfield the notorious police officer Is a Ro boche cheman man in fact roche had everybody preachers prostitutes gamblers brewers and millionaires nelson had morgan and schilling on his side and they killed him the socialists must take a back seat la in the labor party in future THO MEANEST and most paltry obert in the whole economy of the animal world is a chi capo cago democrat in fact it is blasphemy to call the political reptiles of this city democrats doolittle is one Hs he presided edat at the MauJ Alac Niece anti mor xuon mon meeting me etina here some two years ago lie he helped to murder his party even tile men whom carter harrison built up deserted dimand prostrated them selves selves before roche koche hoping to retain their heir paltry little offices even the millionaires fillion aires and silk stockings whoop president cleveland appointed to office here had bad not bac back kooRe joae enough to organize of a party they are respectable ane honest men but devoid of grit and devoid of pluck they had a fine chance and have still to banish forever the scalawags scala wags who have been posing as democrats and disgracing the party and the country they have not lone dene it and it is probable they will not the condition of affairs here is such that it is enough to drive a person to live in st louis THE RELIGION of st louis Is already profiting by the s e wage of chicago toe ane religious 1 e editors of the largest of chicagus Chic Chi agoa cagos sub suburban villages are waltr drinkers this accounts for the nar marvelous intellectuality ity characteristic of the st louis literary religionist we have 1 been favoring st louis lanis with an unusual amount of sewage during the i past three months cwi owing ng to the falci ency and activity of pur our pumping works work i at bridgeport and i a perusal of the st louis evangelist proves that our sew I 1 age is more phosphorescent and more brain producing reducing cing than the proverbial in in the columns of this very edifying Christ christian iau periodical one can smell the chicago river and the fishy nature of some of its correspondence i is ia suggestive of a protracted if not pere perennial lent it is the organ of S home branch of the presbyterian re ligion but of which it is difficult tor for an aa uninitiated person tp to dete deter ronae mijae there are some dozen branches still clinging to a TOT tottering TiRING STEM and the evangelist represents some branch or perhaps all with the stem included one column takes in the fid adlers anther the anti while still another is devoted to the purgatory crowd in this way attention can be devoted to all the branches rn and d stem also thes united the disunited the northern the southern and aad in IA a word all the presbyterian little sideshows in existence the great biffl J culty cully is to find and the stem this religion 3 reminds one of an irish begg armans fl coat there are so many patches that th the owner himself cant tell which represents the original the presbyterian review beliew ascribes the ithe foundation of 0 the sect to st patriek patrick and an enthusiastic thusia historian historia a named hamilton has written a book to prove the st patrick theory heaven knows poor st patrick has suffered enough and has had his bis due share ot obloquy without saddling that infernal mixture i called presbyterianism on him and I 1 forone PROTEST AGAINST IT in the st louis evangelist a caption i entitled western wanderings by For porteus teus attracted my notice I 1 bamin am interested te in the west and with attention aft alert I 1 peruse anything pertaining perta inin 9 t to 0 it I 1 first find and this porteus in co colorado I 1 jan 6 1887 among tive novel readers and dyspeptic poets and pouring out his soul in fervent apostrophes to majestic mountains and stupendous ca canons lions under date ot 0 jan 17 marscall Mar pass is described in describing the ascent porteus says days you are told of passengers on OB the first coach shaking hands with those in the last coach as it doubles back 1 I dont think tom thumb and minnie warren ever accomplished the feat I 1 ayne ne bat leng ing armed people could do it jan 20 canon callon is 1 scribed ascribed as it looked by moonlight at 2 am the description is enlivened by a parody afi on carter harrisons famous saying that hangings hannings hang ings were ged generally performed with a rope and AN IRISHMAN j at each end ot ol it january 27 the j great american deseret is described and abe first intimation is given that mormon land is the objective point of i For porteus teus he says in the desert M mpr rmon J meia iaea and bomea bome it harnessed harne aged I 1 luw beasts of burden to handcarts hand baude carts arts have tolled toiled on toy fox weary weeks and months through valleys deep aud and over moun bairs high across alkali plains and sage dotted deserts until they reached the valley of utah and the shores of salt like labe the lush lash of necessity driel driving ank them forward a fanatical zeal inspiring them olward 11 then follows a tirade of rabid abuse against the mormons cormons Mor mons and a choice assortment of billingsgate epithets applied to the leaders of their religion ioa what a study the foul motioned and vapid minded porteus in a palace car in issa going aib oib g out to plunder the hopeful faithful ful earnest industrious indefatigable M mormon orn who pulled his bis hand handcart eart in 1847 over tee desert and made for himself a home and A TEMPLE feb ad spanish fork is reached and aad here porteus in at attempting the sublime affords a fine illustration of bathos he says 1111 it 1 I could I 1 would describe my feelings as I 1 entered this purported and of ott t pretended paradise this positive this most polluted spot upon the escutcheon of our country this stench inthe in the nostrils of all who are pure and holy this upon the civilization of the nineteenth century this excrescence uce upon t the he body politic that laughs at law that jests with justice and denes defies a powerful government just taink of it a horde of blasphemous debauched bu buca cancers from other landy lands hurling defiance in the face of a nation strong wherever a chicago man reads this he will be reminded of our glorious river there was wa a chicago chicag 0 man once prostrated by t ay iy sickness a away wa y up in iowa somebody applied a ROTTEN FISH to the patients proboscis and he ha was heard to exclaim pathetically 0 delightful lightf ul river 0 charmi charming fig stream 0 sweet chicago will I 1 ever see thee again this is evidence that our pumping pum pine works at bridgeport are doing something grand for st louis but how did porteus leave the condition of utah while yet at spanish fork it strikes nip me he plagiarized plagiarizer this paragraph from that distinguished distinguish eci soldier tax gatherer major general hollister Holli ater porteus still pursues his way and a little inside of spanish fork the says the evidence of thrift and industry appeared on OB every band as w wo C swept along orchards and vineyards looked healthy and the cottages comfor comfortable will porteus explain how industry thrift and comfort became the MARKED attributes of it blasphemous debauched foreign bu buca cancers porteus meets vast flocks of seagulls birds held sacred by the cormons Hor mons he be says 4 wing owing to ton a miraculous supply of 0 provisions obtained through them in a time of famine this shows the mormon moi is not destitute or devoid of gratitude but we are here reminded of the base ingratitude more strong than traitors arms so BO characteristic of porteus mormon feeds him deals with him patronizes him and ana your porteus in return stabs vi vilifies lites and abuses his bis mormon benefactor while your gentleman is J partaking t op tal i ty of a mormon household householde be if noting in what way best beat to malign vilipend vili vilipend peng and blacken further on in this letter porteus says he derived this his information of utah from major L with whom he 1 traveled in 1871 dhere there are three degrees of Vs Is known as in magnus agnus major maximus that is great greater greatest now porteus might have c consulted maximus L rather than than major I 1 L the GREATEST LIAR incises incases in cases of this kind should be consulted rather than the greater liar or the great liar but perhaps porteus reserves the superlative for himself and I 1 must confess he deserves it tor for a were more smooth tongued professor sor of the mythical never yet visited utah he talks of bf a river paved with bones and he hurls burls that tar terrible mountain meadow at us he tells of a L scotch family who wants to leave utah but teare fears the vengeance of tho the cormons mormons Mor mons halves WIves no name because as he says isome som evil eye might spy the written word orda 1 and give it away he then indulges in ia an apostrophe tz 0 o the world in general inee to come and a ad exterminate mormons cormons and mormonism mormonism anspro and promises m immortality to the statesman who can beat tucker and edmunds in the number of feb 10 porteus has become rev W porteus and ls is now HOW located in a salt lake hostelry Y it has been A PUZZLE to me lor for a long time why such a crop of reverends existed la utah I 1 wondered how the theolo gica factories could produce with such now I 1 understand the whole matter one has 0 only 1 to relieve himself of a piece of declamatory vituperation against the tha people of utah and he is forthwith promoted to a doctor boctor or a rev bev in st louis porteus becomes a colonel in mo a waft man who shoots shoo taa dozen squirrels is promoted to col salt lake preachers gna awl st louis colonels are magnificent developments of chicago sewage beware the rev W porteus does credit to his divine prefix in his letter of feb 10 he wades into mormonism in the usual beadle and hollister Holl Hol istir listAr style etyle he believes in the solomon spaulding theory of t the e RO book 0 k of mormon ormo naud and abu abuses ses eg in ra u d i I 1 a e nt 1 language r wor worthy t hy of el his CarL stian M training guage t the 0 prophet kroph e t SMITH feb 17 we find and the key W forteza has attended divine service at the tabernacle he says the seating capacity odthe structure is about mormons cormons say but truth is not a cardinal virtue with a mormon saint he not only feeds on lies but has a bonde wonderful r ful facility for felmina fulminating ling them he goes on then to t 0 disparage the speakers speak era and calls president taylor a perjured villain a ticket of leave man and aal the editor of the DEs das NEWS is characterized as a Ibi mormon lormon from the hairs on his bis bead to the sails bails on his toes in an fact porteus deserves another stripe for the capacity of obloquy he be has displayed in n this article As to the th beating seating capacity of the tabernacle he be has not stated size his typical men and women should be he has already mentioned tom thumb and minnie mianie warren as persons who could not shake hands across the curves at the marshall pass it strike me in the tabernacle could suat estimating by tle the reva porteus Por teu TYPICAL feb mr porteus fortus gives a verbatim report of a ward testimony meeting and it plainly proves he be Is the maximus I 1 L of america he lp in dulses duj es in further furt heib abuse and says IT the a rulers in the mormon church have always been a sordid set a cunning craftiness an overweening cupidity linked with the baser passions ae 6 mave have been their characteristics all the way along ittis language entitles porteus to some more honors he ought to get a waddle letter to his name and another degree degre degretto eto to hits hid ghostly aly prefix he ought to become M more ore rev W IT F Por porteus telis he fie also says the woman that Is satisfied with a small fraction of a husband must be easily suited yes yep in truth she must be different from the average av rge st louis or chicago woman the idea mr ar porteus entertains of woman is that she should be the highest development of carnal animalism in fact a chicago woman who cant be suited with a half dozen whole husbands mr porteus must have termed his WOMAN from aholas and ibah those two daughters of one mother mentioned lu in the W chapter ch apter of ezekiel march ad mr porteus makes a kind of religious appeal to america in par and the world wo rid in general for the extermination of mormonism niam march he gives a few of the mythical tales found in ia all antl anti mormon literature he mentions in aa elder S and a family wanting to leave utah march 17 we have mr porteus bathing in salt lake and he really grows eloquent over nis nia bath he talks about abo at having 11 careered over the atlantic cruised on the pacific crossed th the german ocean Ocea naad and coasted in ohp abe adriatic but he found no equal for salt lake anywhere mr porteus must be a veritable ablia water dog paul boyton boytan must baur bis diminished head bead in future just fancy a st louis Pr preacher kreicher eicher careering I 1 in Is a two wheeled wheela wagon over the atlantic cruising la a cruis cral keen skeen lawn lawa on the pacific crosing the german ocean on OB a bicycle and coasting boasting in a rubber suit in the adriatic THIS IS GRAND yea but mr forgeus you ou must try niagara 14 a barrel ad and the chicago river in a mud scow it you want to keep abreast of nautical ft pir fogress ogress it is a wonder you did not manage to dance a jig on the irish that you were near st patricks day march 21 24 is devoted to a laudation of the gentiles of utah and a sermon to te the preachers to get the mormon child reu ren into the schools of aholas abdolah and ibah march 31 3 la Is devoted to a characterization of the various sects in utah and little panegyrics on hollister golden airl barrows rows Bradl bradley eYt lynch leonard acmillan macmillan wac Millan macniece and professor millspaugh this Is 8 a 46 formidable array of theological talent but how bow comes hollister there he is usually ment ionea with a MILITARY ranging all the way from corporal to generalissimo perhaps oe old jezebel entitles er titles him to berend also mr porteus preached in the church and he has a word of copatric otisa for dr JM acMillan and another for dirty jack the villain A good boef ideson mr porteus as style 0 le of laudation can be formed from his is estimate of himself he says I 1 it t may be the color of the bl blood of bishop porteus late bishop of london in my own veins that gives a peculiar tenderness to the tie that me to the 19 episcopal church the tinge is there pm sure notwithstanding the fact that some of my ancestors have been the most pronounced kind of presby te rians I 1 mean dyed in the ahe wool scotchy as the Covenant ere ers blue to the backbone psalm singers for centuries now this is the VERY quintessence of modesty some persons of a cynical nature may say it is egotistical bombast inflated aggrandizement downright but it Is not it is simply an irish potato stalk of famine times the vine is a little bit rusty and the root is rotten so with the arteus porteus family what is 4 above ground is rusty and blighted what is below is decomposed Ro 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