The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-10-24

as drove the Ring thieves to exile or to
prison.
/ The County Democracy has "shied its
castor" into the ring, and deiiantly asks
Iammany TO tread on the tail of its
coat" If there ever was a time when
Tammany refused an invitation of this
kind OF an entertainment, | have no
recollection of II. Tammany came up
10 the meeting of the County Democracy
on Monday, and has been wearing q
beefsteak on its left optic ever since
for II got terrible black eve. War has
been declared between the factions, and
1.-THE County Democracy has staked its
all upon the issue. If IL is beaten in the
coming election, il goes out of sight as a
politcs4 factor, and no man prominent
in its organization, from Hubert o.
Thompson to Fatty Welsh, need expect
chance at the public crib for the next
ten years. Irving Hall is ground to
pieces between the upper and the neither
millstone, and when the boiling is fin
ished there will not be enough of IL left
to make respectable Sixth Ward afti-
davit. If Tammany Is defeated in the
square fight which is forced upon it this
fall, the Oldest Democratic organization
IN the United States goes down in ruin,
never 20 rise as debating power in
Democratic politics again. Tammany
Hall, in which the Democratic Ark of
the Covenant was supposed to be kept,
has rot the first spark of Democracy in
its composition; it is an Autocracy pure
and simple; one man commands. and
all Il le rest obey. Any question of the
Cars power, or right to obedience, was
punished by instant decapitation, and
all the relatives of the poor wretch
might just as well have been pariahs or
lepers. This condition of servile and.
absolute slavery has awakened bitter
ness of antagonism which will only be
satisfied by the political destruction of
enc faction or the other. OF late years
Tammany has been a most unreliable
factor in Democratic victories, and this
sense of insecurity has made many men
who have been identified with the party
all their lives prefer ignominious defeat
to an existence which is the price of de-
grading and intolerabe slavery. In any
event, the people will be the gamers.
The political hacks who have dominated
our politics for the last two decades will
have to step back, and make place for
better men. 1t will compel all parties
to raise the standard of their nomina-
tions, and perhaps bring us to good
government at last.
While the stock market may not be
regarded as the pulse of trade, there is
little doubt that it is the sciatic nerve,
and we watch it with considerable
anxiety. There is no very good reason
why stocks should advance. but, never
theless, they have gone up at rate that
has made the bears heads swim, and
which has in the past three weeks
brought many of them to grief. When
an operator like Henry n. Smith goes
down, all the world hears of it.; but
nothing is said of the petty gamblers
who have dropped their all, and then
sunk into poverty and are never heard
of again. | know a dozen who went
under the same day Smith failed, but
their names never got into the papers,
though their ruin was absolute and ire
parable
The appearance of two celebrated
American actresses in New York at the
same time is sort of challenge for
supremacy in which the public has
taken very lively interest. Mary An
derson comes back to us, flushed with
foreign triumphs. She has been noticed
by Royalty, petted by Lords and Dukes
and Marquises and Earls and Counts
and dudes and all sorts of people. 1t
would not be at all surprising if this |
young lady from the Blue Grass region
had her stately head tufned and came
back to us looking down on her poor
relations. Certain ii is that she is not
IN Inf
She brings back an English company to
support her, and while they have not |
put up the sign on the Star Theatre, |
NO Americans need apply" the fact |
stares us in the face that there are none
IN her company-nor is there likely TO
be any during the present season. Her
return creates no .5iErOre, and the critics |
agree that while she looks well and |
speaks fairly, making love to her is like |
hugging an iceberg.
AT the Union Square appears Miss !
Margaret Mather. who is as different
from Miss Anderson as it is possible for
two women to be. Without Miss An
dersons physical advantages, she has |
the divine fire of true genius, which |
Miss Anderson never had. When Miss |
Mather speaks it thrills you like an |
electric shock. You may admire Miss |
Anderson but she never moves you. In
the performance of Miss
Mather YOU forget the theatre and the |
actress; you sec only the character be- |
fore you and the woman. Mary Ander-
son is always Mary Anderson--is always
an actress,-not always good one, and |
never a great one.
The season opens auspiciouSly for
both Of these ladies, but Miss Mather
carries the sympathes of the town; for
while she does not taboo an English ac-
tor or actress, believing art to be uni
versal, Americans have chance, and
her instantaneous recognition by the
public and the press has made her sue
cess assured.
The obsequies of Cardinal McCloskey
have been one of the remarkable fea-
lures of the week. 1t has proved be-
yond doubt that the world mcves ]
Never in my memory has the dt....i OF a
priest caused such profound and heart
tclt sorrow. 1t is not because he was
priest, but because he was an upright
man. In all of his long lfe-open to
ne sunlight, watched by jealous eyes
no spot or stain. Happy servant of the
Lord, to have lived such life. Happy
people, to be blessed with such teach
ar. Thousands upon thousands passed
he body MS it lay in state, rcpea,ingt the
words OF the liturgy, blessed are thew
who die in the Lord" BRoAnBRIM.
FROM WASHINGTON