| Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER 6 vanity rate fair a description of chicago darts aimed at cleveland fall broken ahe abe municipal political machine catholics becoming republicans Republic ants Presby presbyterian terl mission work ian an expensive luxury etc NEWS special correspondence CHICAGO may ath 1887 about f oty forty years ago a writer named thackeray a y visited vanity fair and left on en record a description of the place which barmo harmonizes Dizes very closely with tie the chicago of today to day he says there is much eating and drinking making makine love and jilting bilting jil ting laughing and singing smoking cheating fighting dancing and fiddling addling there are bullies pushing about bucks ogling egling tile the lomeii women knaves picking pockets po linemen on the lookout quacks bawling in front of their booths and yokels looking up at the tinseled dancers and poor old rouged gouged tumblers while tile the light fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind yes THIS is CHICAGO not a moral place certainly carta not a merry one though very noisy took look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business and tom fool washing the paint off his cheeks before he be sits down to ta dinner with his bis wife and the little jack puddings behind the canvass the curtain ertain will be up pi presently and he 61 W will 11 be buining over head and he heels els and crying how are you this is exactly our chicago and our mayor is the tom fool arid and our actors and buffoons the aldermen and office seekers the ahe tinseled dancers and rouged gouged acro bats our preachers and editors the lawyers and rum sellers are the light lingered gentry who pick the pockets of yokels c kels who buy newspapers capers japers and believe ti ve what they say there is neither mirah nor merriment in ia our chicago though there is great nol not seand clamor and boisterousness there is neither morality nor religion though there are PREACHERS AND PEELERS in abundance there are church edifices here but dance houses are more popular I 1 in perusing chicag n newspapers the iw impression is obtained that we had bad here a signal triumph for law and order a bhart time ago and that all places of vile resort are now suppressed it is also supposed that our late city elections proved the political integrity of the masses and that anarchy and sedition were forever banished from our shores the fact is that the contrary is the case and vanity fair never presented more thorough scoundrels nor wore more conscienceless consel 1 en celess quacks than doss does our chicago fair it now transpires that our mayor was elected on a kind ibid of commercial basis that is he brosti buted hig to other political prostitutes for their votes and what i more sickening and saddening than an all this tais the organs org uphold the unholy contract among the aldermen there is considerable dissatisfaction not from disgust at the mayors contracts but because some offices are given to persons OBNOXIOUS TO THEM the tribune justifies the mayors ac tien because huoh is the custom it says all presidents since john quincy ada adams m 8 including jaclson Jack sou have done ake the sa same me thing A great majority of the chicago aldermen secure tho nominations by means of trades and deals before the conventions it it is an ail almost universal Arne american rican practice I 1 in politics 0 hrics from the lowest to the highest office they all do it and the self right harise cism exhibited at the committee meeting will ill not deceive anybody anybody commile that tha lias has the fc 1 lightest haest knowledge of 0 practical politics I 1 if f mr coclie made butone but one promise or created but one political debt before his nomination he is the luckiest man who hs been elected to that ollice office in many a day furthermore the tribune makes the charge that PRESIDENT CLEVELAND followed this universal american practice but tile the poor old rouged gouged acrobat of the tribune n abune lies most internally and aad most meretriciously the very fact that cleveland incurred the displeasure of the political harlots of the country proves that he not enter eater into any contracts of this nature in his cabinet are men whose fidelity to principle to party and to country has never been questioned even in all his appointments the political strumpet has beell studiously ignored it is true that in a few cases he appointed buffoons but t they hey are now happily relegated to obscurity add even in their appointment a very useful lesson is taught they were appointed to car pet bag positions ani toe manner in chieh they conducted themselves proves plainly that mhd democrat is not naturally a carpetbagger carpet bagger powers pe the utah appointees appo L eis a good illustration tra tion he made such an idiot such abass an ass of ef himself that he disgusted t even the carpet themselves A republican would never never act as he powers did he would 0 o more deliberately libera tely MORE MOKE hypocritically more to work he would profess the most moat devout regard for law and j ustice justice while e exerting eve every ry pow power arid and fa faculty alty in his system to trample tarle on both and further his own ends that new me mexico judge affords another good wits illus if he ay were a republican judge his first move would be to pick a quarrel with mr dorsey and then appoint of dorsey doraey to office we have another mild kind of imbecile here in chicago who was appointed minister to persia and who also made a buffoon of himself before a few months he Is here now posing as one of the better class of democrats for republican organs and politicians the mountebank of the tribune huelit to know better than stand outside his bis booth proclaiming f fellowship between john quincy adams and grover cleveland 1 ane he latter will take a place in history as the one who first openly and boldly trod upon the universal american practice of the political prostitution CONTRACT SYSTEM the loss of the republican party in chicago at present is george K R davis ex congressman and one of toe the shrewdest and most sagacious machine politicians in the country it is to him the transient triumph of his party must be attributed last fall he succeeded in nominating distinctly amerlean american candidates for office this move held the puritan and church elements in the baity and made a solid nucleus then katpy he e proceeded r to jive give small places to irishmen a aa germans deputy sheriffs town offices constables b 1 and police places were given to small politicians his theory is to ignore the sub bosses in irish and german circles in the mayoralty contests he endeavored to carry out the same plan but bat mr roche I 1 not ha having v ing the firm faith iq in americana american s that davis has entered into the contract system and chartered three irish irl sh bosses john finerty miles kehoe and col quirk and this is what wha causes ALL THE TROUBLE at present finerty was promised the kehoe oil and quirk gas gap unfortunately the best laid planson plans of mice aud men gang aft atta ulee erlee the collector under harrlson harrison was a listher bonahan he Is al 41 bekind kind of political jesuit when harrlson harrison retired from the contest mr honahan issued a proclamation to the faithful urging them to vote for mr roche george R davis and aad all the tae prominent american republicans insisted ids isted on the retention of after the election this caused finerty to kick it was feared that finerty would pu pa wish some documents he hell held and he be was given the oi oil 1 to placate him then comes the kehoe kick it is not settled yet et let him kick they say colonel au quirk rk is a fitting tor for his party was the quirk party and he has held it aloft fur for the last twenty years these are the kind ot patriots who elected roche and who hurrah for blaine and damn cleveland 1 dr L lorimer arim er can well boast of the parity of his party with SUCH MATERIAL in it conahan is considered a great acquisition he is a lay bishop corrigan while posing aud holding office as a democrat he was in treaty with the blaine and roche factions is an irishman but he is known better as a romanist he is toe the mouthpiece and tool of the roman church in chicago ch and his presence among the pa puritans must oc occasion c aaion strange comments recent revelations go to show that the roman church Is tending towards the republican party corrigan in new york and yand all the prominent romanists Romanis ts throughout country are booming pronounced republicans it is hard to account for this the party was always opposed to romanism and did not wish to be considered in any way affected toward it perhaps ps Romant romanism sm sees in ia the triumph of aroe e republican party the destruction of the AMERICAN REPUBLIC and as Roi romanism would be sure to profit by such destruction the sooner she sees it accomplished the better tor for her four yearb of blaine baine and his political strumpets strum pets would most certainly bring about the abolition of republican government in this country people at a dist distance anee from chicago will think that dives brothels and gambling houses are all suppressed they are re not A list of some saloons was made out and turned aver over to the police for investigation police were fixed and all but 60 50 have received licenses as usual the bartenders of the objectionable 50 will receive licenses and the old proprietors will become the future bartenders this is the republican method of reform of course all thesel dives and gambling hells supported roche and lie he cant go back lon ion his constituents any dive that shows labor proclivities will surely go the police are ordered to sit on him and extinguish him without trial before judge or jury squire or barrister grinnell the present prosecuting attorney in the county has made a COMPLETE ASS of him himself he poses also as the better class of democrats he has been ur urged edon on by republican papers and politicians to prosecute the bood lers and to do away with anarchists he is a thickheaded thick headed pennsylvania dutchman and in one of his bis rambling rigmaroles of speeches he said there was not an honest jury em paneled in cook county during the last four years his opponent r mr alexander sullivan a republican politician a blaine roan man a kind of bonahan romanist then asked why seven men were doomed to death by one of these dishonest dia honest juries and with the connivance of mr grinnell grinnell could do nothing but grin and now he has succeeded in making an absurd spectacle of himself and of of helping to acquit both the bood lers and the anarchists UTAH MATTERS are still attracting atten attention tio the christian how hour a paper claiming omaha denver chicago and new york for its places of publication has given quite a portion of its space to mormonism in its recent issues its editors are all preachers they ar are e davis of denver boyd of omaha and hall of chicago and hall no 2 of new york it seems to be a kind of off official leial organ tor for the presbyterians rians of utah it contains a report of an official kind on the work of the presbyterian church among the scandinavians of utah this report is signed by H A newell PT bobjack Boh Bob back G A bruce it is quite a lengthy one it says the immediate conversion of the mormons cormons must mast not be looked lor for that it will take at least 30 years to convert them that the edmunds tucker bill will not kill mormonism that mormonism RESEMBLES presbyterianism in the spiritual and temporal orders of its priesthood but it says the pres byte rians have their ministers and tet teachers chers from apostolic times t through the while mormonism has its Kel and priest hoods through human bumar agencies for example it says in a group of three persons in the mormon church one of them is an overseer over the other two it might have added in a group of three in the presbyterian church one of them robs the other two and that is how both churches resemble each other the cardinal principle of one is vigilance of the other the report goes on to state that mor monsure mons are disloyal that the and blohm are overworked and should have two wore more scandinavian preachers one for sevier and one for sanpete San pete that a quantity or 01 literature in foreign tongues is wanted for utah it says the most gifted and ho men are needed here toe the people are willing to be instructed instruct et from the holy scriptures but they are arc not willi willing jg to receive it as other people without a masterly and clear exposition position ion 11 this sounds like sense there er 8 I 1 is a no use in sending any more RELIGIOUS VAGRANTS I 1 or pensioners to utah mormons cormons are too intellectual forthe for the dishwater of the average missionary it further says that there are 24 ministers and 03 teachers of the presbyterian church in utah and that there is a Sa libath school enrollment of 1800 children this is a very poor showing for the we send annually to support this church judging from these figures figr ures the presbyterians rians of utah are making no headway among Mor these preachers and fl teachers with their own families milies la and those of their domestics domestico ought to furnish the 1800 children on paper dean swift had bad a congregation of seven persons at one time in ireland but they were all in his own wn household his eta coachman and cook aad five cla children ildren made enough to draw a salary and all lived on oil the deans salary it would be ALMOST AS CHEAP for the presbyterian church to maintain these persons and their families here in chicago as to send them to utah except they are invalids and utah is good for consumptives ives and inebriates the christian hour has a commissioner in utah his first letter appeared april 1 1187 iak he arrived there on saturday night but be says he saw nothing strange the city was orderly and quiet most of the stores closed and saints and gentiles undistinguishable gui he says we have not space nor time to enter into a discussion of the nature and workings of mormonism we were not there long enough to study it for ourselves so as to be able to discuss the question qa estion in telli gently and we do not believe that any anyone one not even a congressman or senator can form any correct or comprehensive opinion of 01 mormonism unless they spend years in IH its midst this is a CANDID ADMISSION and honestly and bluntly spoken yet in the same article and in the next paragraph is surely the devil has even excelled himself in organ organizing I 1 zing and propagating the mormon ob church it is something more deceptive and vile than we americans can imagine or believe to exist and flourish in this christian land of freedom surely the writer who would be guilty of such criminal loosen looseness essof of thought as to say bay that he was utah long enough to understand der stand mormonism and then make such absolute statements as to what it is must be either a fool an imbecile ora or a fraud he is worse than grinnell he must be another pe pennsylvania n vant I 1 dutchman whose brains are 71 where the sheep of thabet carry their fat he also says that the edmunds tucker bill is like water poured upon a ducks back as far as mormonism is concerned he also talks of disloyalty and yet he says a white clay bust of president cleveland stands beside one of BRIGHAM YOUNG the hour of april 8 1887 has another long article on utah it says say at we have ons one large and prosperous rous churchin church la salt balt lake of which the rev kev E R G is the effiel efficient lent and beloved pastor and yet in ane next paragraph he states stater that this large and prosperous church has an ini ibi debt edness of the hour makes a special appeal for funds for the church and appoints itself cA collector lector it gives five reasons ahk why should be |
