Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-03-22
( TIE rvESIcG STAR

Special Correspondence of TIE rvEsISG STAR
SFw York. March 81
The dinners of the Free Trade club are UNI
formly excellent and the best that pe!monicd
can afford. with one trifling eNception-that no
champagne is served out unless you choose to
pay for 1t out Of your own pocket Champagne
paws too high a fax for any rabid free trader to
be able to drink il with a clear conscience. Aside
from this trific the Free Trade dinners are ex-
ceIlent and are always attended by several hun
drcd gentlemen who believe in free trade or are
omen to conviction. When the coffee was
reached last Saturday evening the comrany
waited with becoming patience while Mr. f p
Wheeler. the president of the club, gave his
usual little spceCh and then roare.i a hearty wei
come when he introduced the guest of the even
ing Speaker Carlisle The chief use of the Free
Trade club. so far as have been able to find out
Is 10 90 just what was accomplished on Satur-
day night. To give public men an opportunity to
declare their convictions over the housed opS ne
SuprOslti0n being that in the bosom of the club.
among ifec trade iabOrerS, and after eating a
Tree trade dinner ard drinking free trade wines
talttIt no ch&mpagnel the expression of tree
trade sentiment would he more decided than it
might be- elsewhere on the 1OCr of the
House. In Speaker C,.rliSle's case there had been
no mScarul:stUn a. to the effects of n free trade
dinner. and if hi> friends ever doubted his fealty
10 the cause all doubts were set at rest by that
out-and-Out free trade speech. which was heard
with frantic joy by the members OF the club. and
appIaudeti to the echo. | never saw the club SO
OyerjOyed before. Senator NaEce's speech VA
also excellent hut the event of the evening was
the determined manner in which Speaker Car
Isle kicked down any convenient ecOnOmicfence
upon which he might some day be tempted to
perch himself After Carlisle's speech. the Free
Trade club felt that itseXstence and its dinners
had not been in vain
R0oSEvEITs RESOLUTION
When Governor Cleveland signed the Roose-
Welt resolution abOlishin9 the power of the
aldermen 20 confirm reject the mayors nomi-
nations. he seems to have created more of a
revolution than he at first supposed. In the
first place he made the election of a democratic
mayer a certainty next autumn. and in the next
place he improved his own chances for Il re-
election next year. il it is worth while looking
su far ahead. The bill was signed 0i course in
defiance Of Kelly. the first remark of the Tam
many braves upon hearing the news when they
returned sore end weary from the 81. PatrIckS
parade. being words of wrath to the effect
that Cleveland had nailed himself into his own
political coffin But Cleveland knew perfectly
we'll that he had nothing to hope for from Kelly:
he has shown himself by far too excellent man.
too independent of political rule. to retain
Eelly's favor Having incurred keily's undying
resentment by allowing the Roosevelt bill to
become a law, he haa won the esteem and thanks
of the best and most influential citizens of New
York, and if an Independent party shows
strength next November i'm dealing with the
candidate for mayer. the same party may
send Cleveland back to Albany next year.
This, however, Is looking a long way ahead
The more immediate result of the Roosevelt bill
viii b. the election of a democratic mayor next
autumn for nothing is certain than that
the independent republicans who have deter
mined to fight OBrien and the stalwarts i'm orr
state machine. will need all the democratic help
which they can get, and the sureSt way to that
= n democrat fri
and Is known rs Il good man. Such man is ex-
Mayor William r. Grace. and he is already much
talked of Tor the place. Grace went into the
campaign four years ago as John Kelly canGi-
date. and as in the case, of Cleveland he proved
to be far too good man to suit Kelly. He
went out ot Office two years ago. followed by the
thanks of all respectable persons and the exc
cratiOns of the ward politicians. He is an
lTlShman, democrat. an honest man. heavy
Taxpayer. and he has lad two years experience
In the office; his speech at the Cooper Union
meeting To uphold the Roosevelt bill was to tie
effect that he could have done far better work
a. mayor had not his hands been tied by the
aldermen. Nevertheless. he made an excellent
mayor. and freed from aderInanc interference
he will make still better one. As might have
been fUreSeen. the great fight of the wear for
New York will be over the mayoralty. If We
cannot elect u good mayor over the dummy
which Kelly is sure to place in the
field and back with all the power of Tammany
and the OBrien gang combined then We have
simply jumped from the Try ing-pan into the fire
That OErien and Kelly will make a bargain To
elect mayor cannot be doubted and New York
begins To be Uneasy as 10 the result although III
the controller and the president of the board of
aldermen are To be elected. as seems likely now
that these supplementary Roosevelt bills have
been allowed In pass. the mayor will not be so
important a parsonage as he has been; and be-
tween bad mayor dependent upon bad alder
men. and q tad mayor independent of the alder
men. there does not seem to he much choice
r.ltt
funn the same tactics will probably be followed
by the independents namely To nominate a
good man who held office a democrat. and
thereby make sure of the votes of Intelligent
men of Ill parties. The effect which Talnmany's
desperate effort to itself by electing its
mayor may have upon the presidential vote will
probably he to increase the republican vote in
this city. for Tammany Will gladly vote for the
republican candidate if votes for a Tammany
mayor can he gained thereby. and O'Brien will
be sure to make his little deal with Kelly
and will see that his republican Staiwarts vote
sOlidly for the republican President and the
Tammany mayor. OBrien is deep and will per-
haps get his reward from both customers.
TIVE OLEo HAKERS' PLEA
No one would ever have known shat a bless
Ing Oleomargarine is to the community had it
not teen for the attack made upon the cleo
manufacturers 10y the dairSmen. and the an
swer which the bogus butter men have put in
Nv pIohf TIE DtittlCsl character OIL their
duct and business. The cleo experts have had
the ear of the legislative commission this week
and have told a tale To comfort the feelings of
unhappy beings who would not eat olcO if they
foiid help it. but are morally sure that they
have been victims of misplaced confidence for
the last five years. the uieo experts brought
along with them u tub Of oleo and some of the
chemicals used i'll its manufacture. and invited
The commissioners To taste the OleO and say
whether they felt any queer sensations and TO
drink the diluted acids, both of which Invita-
tons We're declined. The chief talker employed
ty the cleo men said that the inventor OF cleo
should have Is statue put up to him. and the
Legislature should be employed in stopping the
sale OF rancid butter rather than of sweet Oleo
without o!eO. said this fluent gentleman good
butter would be- dollar a pound and the
poor would be poisoned by the rancid stuff
forced upon them. As 10 cleo being I'M
healthy. the experts employed on that
eide had never heard Of any one made i'll by
oleo. The strongest proof that cleo was more
hcathful than butter was to be found in the
fact that the people of fifty years ago who never
knew what Uieo was were mostly all dead
whereas the present OieO-ied generation was
alive and well This Illustration. 10y the wav
II fully equal To David Dudley Fields reason for
Withholding damages from Rufus story who
claimed that mis- property in Front street had
been injured by the elevated road which cut off
his light. and by the engines, which filed his
building with gas and cinders. Field told the
jury last week that the road was really bless
in 70 b.sr off a