, 1884-09-28
BY THE BREEZY LAKE.
A Brief Communication From the
''Wickedest City"
Some Remarks on the Political
Aspect of Affairs.
With Chat BY the Way on Spiritual
Concerns.

Special correspondence OF The Leader
CHICAGO, September 25.-About this
stage eff the game the inspired patriot
straddles through mud or dust, bearing a
kerosene torch, wearing an oilcloth cape
and cap and filed with enthusiasm and
cheap whisky. The yawp of the campaign
orator is heard in the land. What Mr..
Benjamin Franklin Butler demoninated.
that fortyjockass-power mud-slinging
machine, the press, is %whooping things
up for one party or the other, and all
things go to confirm the impression in the
breast of every American citizen, that we
are indeed a free and enlightened people.
Here in Chicago, especially, the enthus-
iasm, etc, have been particularly lurid,
even those early in the campaign; partly,
| suppose, owing to the fact hat this city
is General Logan's home; partly on nc
count of Mayor Harrison being the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor, and
because the average Chicagoan can de-
velop enthusiasm on any occasion, or in
any cause, when there is a sufficient sup
ply of stimulants to keep up the tension,
and if | may Judge from the condition in
which most of the partieipants return
home from the political meetings, the
campaign is not likely to stagnate from
any lack Of refreshments of a liquid
nature. The CONSUMPTION. however. of
several pints of average Chicago whisky
by a Joyous and enthusiastic partisan. is
not calculated to render that citizen mind
full of the peace and dignity Of
the city, as 1 can testify from
personal observation not experience.
For instance. the night of the biz Logan
demonstration ON the lake front. some
two or three weeks ago. when $1,000 peo-
pie gathered to welcome that warrior
home from his swing round the circle
down East, and when several persons
narrowly escaped being crushed to death
the scenes in the streets after the meet
ing had dispersed. suggested pandemo-
mum. or several thousand COWBOYS out on
a drunk and paintinq the town rcd
minus the bronchos. of course. They
yelled, they a n and they fought. and |
don't believe that eve the mighty Schnit-
ger or the redoubtable Sullivan would
have cared to tackle that crowd with a
view to filling up the calaboose.
These were Republicans. but the Demo-
cratic brethren, | grieye to say, are quite
as bad. They have not had a chance for
so big a blowout vet: but when Cleve-
land comes here, as he is expected to
soon, l shall retire into my hole and pull
the hole in after me, a Ia the late r.
Crusoe, until the demonstration Is over.
[ want to live awhile longer.
If you can stand the abrupt transition,
l might tell you about the Young Mems
Christian Association here. | am the last
one in the world to speak scofingly of any
religious enterprise, but the way the ma
chine is run here is calculated to excite
the laughter OF the ungodly. About :
o'clock every evening the passer-bv on
Madison street, between IaSalle and
Clark, may observe seven or eight leu
tonic individuals emerging from a corner
saloon, bearing with them the horns, etc,
belonging to a brass band. Arriving in
front of the association rooms, and hay
ing conducted the excited discussion
which seems to be an indispensable pre-
liminary to a performance by a German
band, the leader gives a erunt, then
sounds a short toot on his cornet, and the
orchestra strikes up Hold the Fort"
Sweet Bye and Bye" or some other re-
ligious melody. Having concluded, the
band files off to the corner saloon again,
and then there issue forth from the hall
several solemn young men of the No. G
hat and No. 10 boot order of architecture.
There is some clearing of threats and then
they proceed to MARBLE a hymn, after
which they solemnly march back into the
hall. The German contingent which has
meanwhile been seeking spiritual consola-
y "' 'n0 S0t"ii "ssi" YUM" !" Tux
lIohu anu rehuers 4 selectoh' ana thus