The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03
GOTHAM GOSSIP.

ne e TOt6CttOHtStS uUU I6puOGtCuUS
of Ohio at Logge,heads.-7he
Randall Scheme an p Pennsylvania.
-New Yorkers Becoming Mil
Misunderstanding the Beer Sell
ers.-Hypocritical Societies.-A
Project to Suppress Sunday News-
papers.-A Suicide flushed up
Little Nay Moving.-Doacnwasa
Tendency of Real Estate.-Ihe
Opening Day of the Brooklyn
Bridge Ficed.
New YORK, April "a, 1888.
"There is a widespread feeling
among the Ohio prohibitionists,"'
said an Ohio politician to me the
other day, "that the Republicans
mean to sell them out. This feeling
of course has not the effect of max
ing things pleasant. 1t strikes me
that the Democrats now have an ex-
cellent chance in that State. Let
them name q strong man and play q
game of their own, not remain on the
defensive. The Republicans are too
closely idt ntified with the protec-
tionists that they can comfortably
stand such a loss as the wholesale
detection OF the protectionist vote
will cause them"
There is still hope that the diff
culties between the Pattison, Cassidy
and Randall Wallace wings of the
Democratic party may be settled,
but it is growing weaker from day
to day. Randall finding that there
is very little compromise in Pattison,
is leaving nothing undone to square
himself with him, and if possible de-
stroy his opponent. Randall is a
dangerous man for his party. 1t is
rule or ruin with him. He is John
Kelly or a larger scale.
If we New Workers do not soon be-
come millionaires by being forced to
save what we earn, it is not the fault
of the Police Commissioners who
now are anxious to execute the laws
with Spartan rigor in order to be up
held as models of excellence, until
they have been reappointed. With
every gambling house closed, every
policy shop raided, every public re-
sort of disreputable womanhood and
manhood harassed into a state of
quietule, it was but fair to expect
that last Sunday the sensational
preachers would get up and thank
God for the fact that the Police Eoard
had knocked the evil one out in this
town of Gotham. But the pachas
of the blue coated forces went ever
further than that. Last Sunday was
a miserably bleak and dreary day.
The rain came down in q steady
downpour and there was a misery
astride for those who had nothing to
DO but look out Of the windows
Walkin was out ofthe question. In
the afternoon pater familias who
works steadily all the week thought
perhaps that he would send out fol
a pitcher of beer to relieve the mo-
notony, when to his surprise he was
informed that no beer was to he had
and that the proprietor of the saloor
in the neighborhood who had beer
dispensing "bock" in blissful conf
dence had been arrested. Late or
Saturday night the Commissioner:
issued an order to the Superinten
dent, and he communicated it to the
Inspectors and Captains, command
ing in the strictest terms that ne
beer or any other beverages must be
sold on Sunday. These WORTHLESS
Isaw at once that the order meant
business, and carried it out to the
letter. The result was that those O.
the New Workers. who are not ricl
enough to keep a stock ofsometEine
to drink in the house we're COMPEL
ed to forego even the innocent re
freshment of a glass of beer. Thu:
it comes to pass that when the wratl
of the gods at Police Headquarters
is aroused the good must suffer
equally with tie bad.
The prime movers at the bottom
of all this hue and cry are the hal
dozen or SO societies have set them
selves the mission of making this
city a sort of Zion's camp. Ever.
law, be it ever SO absurd is dragged
out from the must and dust of obi
WON and its execution forced. Wher
the dog lay in the manager so tina
the horse could not get his food, i
annoyed the horse very much ant
although the dog got nothing partic
ularly for his labors his position CAV,
him a great deal of satisfaction.
There is another movement on foo
row, which will prove even NOR
harmful. A, number of clergymel
are seriously agitating the question
of s~uppressing the publication o
Sunday newspapers. They hopet
that under the new penal code tn,
issuing of them would stop of itself
When they found that this would
rot work they applied to the Polio
Commissioners, and Justices, VIII
veiy fatty refused TO further tn
wishes of these bigots. l uuderstan,
now that a society is to be formed t
attain the desired object. The al
legged ministers of the Lord who al
at the head of this movement CLAIM
that Sunday newspapers keep PEG
pie away from that religion and TIL
cdurches. The religion which the,
teach and their services must be YER
poor indeed if s. slight a cause ca,
induce people to stay away fror
them. Talk about the Tyranny O
%autocracy in most of the countries Q
Europe. The religious tyranny whic.
. these armies of narrow-minded
small hearted bigots banded togeth
!, Ell, would exercise is ten times worse
! Wall Street last Thursday morn
ing was shocked by the announc
ment that Mr.. Hatch, of the famou
banking firm of Fisk & Hatch il
Nassau street, had committed sui