New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-10-19
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK,
MEN AND THINGS, THE COUNTRY ROUND
v,IR PERSONAL MOTIFS AND NOTIONS or BROAD
WAY IOuNGHR,

hi,oranhv and almost literature the PLAIN people by
their efforts at the bar Mr.. Blaine went 10 N'st Nv
Lancaster his connection. Mr. Ewing the gr'"ios' "'e
perhaps In the state who IN prosperous career anu
cop,d hes,oyy his sons well in life. blanc beongeh o
par,nacc whose patrmony spent In eood living anu
good nature But Republican e1naii'y Ill" "o"o,'
in that day brought tho sons oil rcspec'"oe Pc'Po W
rcther on the same plane without the le's' ros"' "
their future prospects Mr. Ewing wOud st 4"
the breakfast table and turning TO his daughter now the
wife Of General Sherman would tear OH apiece OF her
bread and awaking his preoccupaton would say
with gentle smile Daughter. Will divide the ast
ernst with Won" Blaine and the Ewincs ana Sher'na's
went together Columbus, not far distant 10 SEQ INC
State capital in its glory They made close bargain
with the landlord to know what the bin would be- ana IL
delighted him to the boys nanccrlnS with hi the
friend of their fathers These Incidents we're relate" W
me in Lancaster two years by one OF inc i'"i't'
perhaps The same who has entertained Mr b'''"o'
would be nice reception for Sheer ana eneaE 10 20 o
10 Lancaster and tell the descendants OF MT hwnS "
Blaine vas a corrupt man, thief and mar IheSe t"o
men without country w0uiu icei ~ Z" ''' " WV
bad struck them 81 once.
Twas reading but lately the principal history OF
,ste Of Kansas and there find that when OLD Governor
Rerler an honest Pennsyv Democrat hah peeh up
ponca Governor OF Kansas through his friend buchanan
with the idea that "a Northern dough faces gehoray
did I'm those times an woul ike to do again he woh
,sss, to sit on freedom and give slavery free pass aer
he had been slapped the face by Missol precursor
Of schurz and James boys denounced by all inc A
minisiraiIon press in the country, ana iuaue !" po
ashamed Of all his az olosie for slavery they found no
way to niurc him much by claiming that he hld an
interest In corporation in the Territory Ihc!
harped on this the Republican renegade does now day
after day, ana pointed to Franklin leroe anu DaN" w.
Atchison who the Grover Clcveands oil that Day
nc the honest types Of who never took any interest
I'm tho development any they belonged to except
Of
kinds of DEVELOPMENT the Democracy IL traditional H.
Poor old Rceder who had given his whole HE 10 the
Democratic service and had never known anything ahont
slavery till he to Kansas and to Missouri found nc
could answer ythng but the charges o dshoncNy
These the only charges against him which were an
moving there not point III them except that
like an American citizen halling from mechanical ana
manufacturing state like Pennsylvania he had not becn
the last man subscribe to some OF her industries ana
communications so the old battle to make slavery Ma
tona AMI crowd freedom to the wall has oIened this
year Just where it left the beginning of the Kansas
epic.
Old John Brown the unsenh suicide who battered hts
shoc fami, to pieces against slavery. and gained no
victory except in his example was In his da accused Oh
Iascat, by both tho rharisec@ and the MwiSils Iho
Phar,secs alleged and they have hut recently repeated
the ALLEGATION In ono OF the sensational reviews that
Brown had got possession Of his SharTo- iiles ~ IN
evasion which amounted to larceny " has been nrc'H
say Of his hugrapleis tn explain iust ABOUT the
title to those arms which he took to larpors Ferry
ponn aspnr atlnn IN Massachusetts which hd ITSELF but
encouraged him ~ 80 to- the front had the title to the
arms Ihrae arms had rendered service In kahsaa aud
hal been takon to iowa renegade IN Browns organ
nation wrote hhnni nous letters very much "i tho
pattern ~ reform journalism now To- Forbes OF MnHsd
shuaoits aud othcta Whh had rdd iot tho arms THIS
icnrgafo was named tnhoa also The elite OF iios"n
beoann afraid that iroWn would foi them into trouble
40 thny wrote hI letters commanding that ho return tho
arins. Ito went and fought hla hallln win hoh'
Twenty four years after his death TINS charge has b''h
through against him by u ea and he ranks amongst the
ohbors" of eaNesropper history Iha' Is |" say, ho
rank there II prig had anything TO do with max
ing history Then the pu'licans attacked brown ne
cause he got consignment, OF wool them and formed
great scheme compel the Eastern manufacturers to
grade wool ANA pay higher rate for IT, aud falling IN
that shipped the wool 10 Europe, accompanying him
self and had 20 sell i, lor less than cost This broke poor
Old Brownup he TO North Eliza aud lived there
several years and drifts used TO come through
his roof aud weather boarding. and his sons wives with
their young children would wakcn up and find the snow
ON the floor bigger than their straw pillow. So when
Brown Inper Ferry he was not much afraid OF
nor taking cold
Mr.. Edward Everett Hale remarked last week: And
say 10 YOU if this habit abusing public men Is to cou-
tnue for another twenty-five years, We shall nave no
Republic left shall have 10 men OF honor nor OF
ability willing to enter public service those terms
DR. Norvin Green, President Of the western Union
Telegraph Company, who il almost urons Democrat,
recently said concerning MIR Blaine: like Blaine ~
well AS anybody know in public life His word Is
rood lie does not hold suoh majestic IDEAS OF puhiic
honor that you never get near him, but Womb
rather take his word than the word OF honor OF good
many public lie is fair and Equitable, is not harsE
In his Judgments o. life. and lie would make first rate
Aid
10 vote as have always done, for Il Democrat
The pulps Of the city of Ncw-York might as well be
acant for four years if at head OF tins civil and
moral state have man who appears not 10 nave
kept one single commandment though lie was the son OF
% clerIyma There a time when the Presbyterian
clergy who preceded his father in that kirk, men like
John Knox did not hesitate 20 rcbukc the Queen OF scot
land for her a,nours and finally raised against her
and drove her the kingdom and changed the entire
National poty Of scotla@i that it il now England
under another name
There seems to be an idea abroad that BY giving this
country over the remnant of slavery and lsnorancet
must crsorce revolt during the next four years and sup
nor po,iiical organization which has scarcely pub
lie man acquainted with affairs In it and which has no
other platform than the pump We to reward small
AMI purbiini minority in the NDTth foI having given
away our manufactures. our general public pocy ana
all the Progress have made, because immediate cod
water will not become the upple OF everybody
So far from Prohibition getting anything Ike the
benefits IL expects In the Northern states will by the
destruction OF the Republican party be allowed to
simmer down among the questions which concern
theoogians and the different schools OF medicine The
theory that by breaking down the manufactures Of the
limited States We are all to become temperate IL as
ridiculous AZ suupuse that by breaking down all the
Government that existed in France about hundred
snare y thu co,ninou fin ole of the people should not be
human blood.
The greatest misornes Of Nations have resulted from
the access sion Of sensual and unpIincipled rulers The
Gothic monarchy In spain broke all To- pieces because the