The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-26
EX-SENATOR TABOR.

The Colorado Nan With the Sudden NIL
hons-rhe Owner of the Finest Opera
House In the Country---His Domestic
Affairs.
Senator Tabor is one Of the funniest look
ing fellows ever saw, writes a Washington
correspondent to the Philadelphia Press
he is tall; he is stoop- shou ldered; he is
long OF limb and big-jointed; his hands are
IKE the feet OF an ostrich, and feet are like
Terry boat; his lace is dark and sullen; his
nose Is large. his law heavy and sensual,
aud MS mouth is like q soft clam-shell hall
open. There is no intelligence, no quick.
ness, no sagaeity, no comprehension in his
lace, so far as can Judge. He dresses in
diamonds and broadcloth, and is worth. il
Is said, about Sl0,000,000. That's about
All there Is In Tabor worth admiring. He
IL Tree and easy fellow, and no doubt lib.
erai IN the spending OF his money. He is
tne better citizen million times over than
tne millionaire who boards and pinches.
Ills money does good TO the public at
large. He built in Denver the handsomest
anu costllest opera house in he whole
country spending nearly 100000 in its
location and construction, His other
buildings in Denver are also the admira.
.ion Oh strangers and the pride of the beau
~NS itoihtutc. MI. ldDOT Udu
longing for Washington. He made up his
mind he would come to the United States
senate, for had not Chaflee been a senator?
ms hgnt Tor the prize was a funny specta-
cle. There were many poker players who
were candidates, and the boys called
the contest lack pots" What that
means 1 do not know, but | under
stand 1t took about 100000 to open il.
Tabor was elected to the senate for lust
thirty days. He is now out, but he can
nave Hon" put before his name on en-
velopes, and will be known as Ex-senator
TABOR" as long as his money lasts. Posi-
ply some day he may be known as "old Ia
oor' am verv fortunate in having the
Information from an undoubted source that
u was the Intention of the senator from
Colorado to build great hotel here, cost.
ing cool million of dollars, to be known
as the hotel Tabor, and to build an opera
mouse costing nearly as much, TO be known
Us the TABOR opera-house. So when Tabor
drew the thirty days term and Tom Bowen
Squlte as good a poker player drew the six
years term, 1t was a bad day for Washing
Ton. IL is said, and it must be true, that
Iabor's ill-luch in his senatorial as.
piratlons was due to his treatment
OF MS trst wife, who had done
more Tor him than he had ever done
Ior himself His striking good mine
required ABOUT the same amount of knowl-
euBe ana INVESTIGATION as Rip Van Wrinkle
ulspiayed when he left his home for the
mountain. Tabor's wife, like Gretchen.
slaid at home and supported the family
wniie TABOR went to the mountain, At anv
rate, Tabor became rich, and then he was
ashamed OF the patient and gentle help
ment mat had stood by him in hunger and
uestitution so many years. Her hands were
rough, ner lace was brown and wrinkled.
perhaps III the suns and winds of adversely
and she lacked the graces of the parlor. So
did Tabor, but you know society makes A
oiilerence IN man and woman. Her homely
ways, her awkward motions, her incorrect
speech, her ignorance of the polite world
.nese din not suit her suddenly rich boor of
husband: He saw the difference between
ms poor wife and the giddy fools of FASH
10Y, ana, ike anything but a human beinr,
with heart, he sought to get rid of her
He accomplished his object, with a large
expenditure Of money and TODAY she ia In
ap en- iable position. She has 81, 900 600.
and she hasn't Tabor. The noble ex-sena'
TOR may possibly be happy, too. He has
an immense fortune, he has $3.50 night
shirts, he has the blonde-haired belle Of
oshkosh for wife and he has an auto.
graph book of his late brother senators
lie has had the president at his hotel din.
ner-table, and he has for four weeks an.
swe,ed to his name in the senate of the
United States. But, nevertheless and not
wlthstanding, you cannot make me believe
mat MS memory will not sometime 90
PACK TO that sweet time of youth when he
loved and reverenced and felt proud of and
gratitude tor his young Maine bride, who
followed him and succored him in his yaga.
bond .wanderings. If he shall have no
thought OF her, then he is in truth the mis.
cradle wretch his enemies paint him.