The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19
A SAN FRANCISCO SCANDAL.
Senator Fair and His Hopeful Son-The
Go-as-You-Please Morals of the
Elder Fair,

San Francisco Special.
The excitement of yesterday over the re-
ported attempt of young Jimmy" Fair to
lay his senatorial pa out in the cold embrace
Of death has somewhat subsidized. To-day
Colonel Fair denies that the boy is in town.
and says he has been at Paso Robes Springs
250 miles south OF here for a week. Mrs
Fair confirms this, but declines to say any
thing further about the difficulties in the
FAR family. The scandals thus let loose are
not new by any means, and until the sensa-
ton of yesterday were not openly talked OF,
put 1t is known that the Senator and his
family have been more or less at loggerheads
Tor couple of years past. The trouble con-
ssts chiefly in the somewhat open way
that slippery Jim" of the millions
violates the teachings Of the seventh COM
mandment While the Senator was run
ming the Bonanza mines and lived
In Virginia City, New, these shortcomings
were to degree concealed, but since he has
c5me out in the world, and especially since
he went to Washington, the Senator is al
legged to have displayed the cloven foot in all
its moral hideousness. Coupled with count
iessinhdelities, the hurley Senator is said to
be especially abusive and neglectful of his
wife, who is most estimable lady, but one
who does not show disposition to suffer in
silence. She is portly lady, with flashing
black eyes, and will of considerable horse
power, and when the Senator gets caught in
some new peccadillo she has a way OF sultri-
flying the air about his head that leads to
sulphurous remarks On occasions like this
the Senator himself turns accuser, and
charges the good lady with unseemliness OF
conduct, which all who know her believe to
be false. When the Senator gets very wroth
and very reckless Of speech, he even intimates
that John Mackey has more influence about
his (Fair's) house than he has himself On
one occasion, just after the Senator had
taken his seat in Con gress, Mrs. Fair went to
Washington Unexpectedly, and there found
1T is alleged, that the Senator had set up a
little establishment, which, though small
might have been the envy of Ismail Pasha
ex-khedive of Egypt All it needed was q
half-dozen eunuchs and chibouk or two to
make 1t harem complete. This was an oc-
caslon in which the gossips say the excellent
lady rose equal to the emergency She didn't
say anything to the Colonel just then, but
she laid her plans, and in few days, with
the aid OF trusty friend and several pounds
OF moral dynamite, she invaded the seraglio,
and the inmates fed to New York with the
feetness of wild young gazelles of the plains
The herceness of the explosion broke the
Colonel all up, but he fell back on
his ancient privilege of abuse, and
adopted a new course too. He shut
down on Madames base of supplies. The
plaster up her lacerated feelings. The Colonel
swore he wouldn't give her a cent, and he
didn't. Then she said he needn't; she would
borrow all she wanted from his friends She
had some money, and with that she started
with her children and servants Her money
took her to some poin: in Nevada. There
she tackled the first friend of her husband
she met, and got money to bring her home.
With such relations existing between the
parents. it is not surprising that the son,
James, Junior should be a little hard to
manage. OF course, boylike he stands by
his mother, and he has before shown dispo-
sition to espouse her cause in a muscular
way. He is wild youngster, and seems to
aim at the distinction of being known as
terror" Some time ago his father, to sep
arate him from some evil companions of the
female persuasion James is a chip off the
old block, sent him on a tour around the
world, with one Joe Marks as tutor and con-
pagnon du voyage. Now Joe, himself, is a
Fchap that forgot to go to bed years ago. He
knows how to line stomach with chicken
livers and champagne better than a brick
layer car lire an oven; and as for the fair
sex, he can scent the bouquet of mile heurs
clear across the Alps. The boys laughed
when Joe set sail with young Fair as chap
erone and moral instructor. But little is
known here of the tour. The ''old man"
drew checks till even he got tired, and then
called the boy and his "tooter" home. Since
then young Jim has kept his excuses pretty
well out of sight of the public, but unless
change for the better comes he will hardly
reflect credit upon his illustrious sire, or
take very good care OF the fortune that awaits
him.
The Colonel and Mrs. Fair are now sep
arated. The lady, with her family, resides
in the San Francisco mansion, and the Sena-
tor has taken up quarters at the Occidental
Hotel.