The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-05
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
Correspondence of the Democrat.
New York, June 26th, 1888.

apportionment bill will pass the
Pennsylvania Legislature this sea-
son. The Republicans are still hug
ging the delusion that Pennsylvania
is a Republican State, while the Dem
ocrats justly claim the recognition
to which they are entitled by their
AS neither party
will yield affairs will undoubtedly re-
main in statue gao.
The liquor question is the rock on
which the Republican ship will prob
ably founder in Ohio. The'tempe-
rance fanatics have pushed matters
so far on the platform of the conven-
ton that there is scarcely any means
of exit. and the party is now commit
ted to sink or swim with the liquor
plank. The Republican organs of
that State are now trying to console
themselves in advance over their
possible, if not probable defeat by
saying that even if the party would
go down at the polls, it would be in
a fight for principles which are bound
to triumph in the end.
The County Democracy and other
factions have again made a coalition
against Tammany Hall. "What does
it amount to?" 1 asked of a promi-
nent Democrat who is in O position
to judge accurately. "Nothing at
ALL" he replied. sit is nothing but
the last expiring gasp of the rifraff
of the Democracy. They have no
principles with which to go before
the people. All they want is Office
and with the control that Kelly now
has over affairs, they might as well
begin fighting wind mills as to fight
against their doom. There issnot q
man of standing among them"
Now that Buffers chances for the
Presidency r assuming a little
more definite aspect, the south arises
in all its strength and vigorously op-
poses such a step. Said a Virginia
Senator to me the other day: "The
Northern Democrats cannos afford
to heap such an insult on the South
as to shove Butler forward. The old
feud is dead and forgotten, but the
widows, the sons and daughters of
those that fell cannot forget or for
give the actions of some men when
they were in power. The nomina-
ton of Butler would insure the cleo
tion of the Republican candidate"
Now that the idle season in the
dramatic world is here in all its glo-
ry, OF rather d~ullness, the question
of whether a man ought to marry an
actress, again forms a topic of con-
versation in places wherever the he
roes and heroines Of the mimic world
and outsiders congregate. There is
scarcely q doubt that if a man leaves
his wife on the stage he soon to the
world and even his intimates loses
his identity, and becomes nothing
but the husband of his wife. Still
thisk the main reason why marriages
of this kind have Jared so poorly is
because actresses and singers as a
rule are picked up by apologies fol-
men who would fain to be supported.
You take nine cases out Of ten of &C
~tresses husbands, and you will find
that they are either broken down
swells, brokers and business men who
have failed, Indifferent actors and
professional men who are either toe
idle or too indolent-or tooLgnorant
to succeed in their self chosen walks
of life. It stands to reason that mat
rimony under such circumstance
can be anything but blissful. Now
all the troubles of these people be
come public. On the other hand the
happy welded life of scores never
seeks notoriety and therefore seldom
quoted in opposition to what is &C
cepted as a well developed axiom.
1t was only last Sunday that, I rar
across O case which proves my poin'
admirably. was going to Manhat
tan Beach when just before the boa
started up comes q little caravan
First came two little boys and a girl
then the mother, then another boy
about thirteen who carried a bundl'
of wraps and last of all came The
stately figure Of a well known justice
who was once a State Senator. Til,
little lady his wife, is an Italian an(
was once a ballet dancer. Anybod,
can see that by her smile and he:
walk which is noticeable from tn
way in which she plants her heels
; o gait developed by the habit o
wearing heelless slippers. Year
3 ago he fell in love with her while sh'
was on the stage. People laughe'
at his folly, but he married her, ant
now everybody who knows him mus
say that he has never done a NOR
sensible thing in his life. She is
e model wife and a model mother
Like all politicians he was rattle
loose with his money, but after hi
marriage his wife took charge of hi
finances, with the result of maxim
him not only rich but a man He
8 children are admirably brought W
they are well behaved and we'll edit
Gated, the only fault to be found wit
t them being that they speak with a
e Italian accent. True, she wears tn
%breeches, but the judge does nc
e seem to mind it in the least. In fac
a he rather seems to enjoy it in a
amused kind of way. He is a gres
e big man over six foot and broad i
e proportion, while his wife is a littl
e woman scarcely reaching up to hi
e shoulders. AS he walked along b,
e hind her he reminded one of q chill
8 leading a big Newfoundland do
d which could at any moment asse,
itself by the slightest exercise of il
strength.
Ed Stokes, lam told is going
open a barroom near the new Pr
duce Exchange, which is intende
to eclipse even his famous Hoffma
% House Cafe. The place he is to ope
. is en- immense establishment, cove
~ ing nearly an entire block, and it