The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-24

to the worst days of the Ring, and nothing
will bring us on to solid ground but just
such revolution AS drove the Ring thieves
to exile or to prison.
The County Democracy has SHE'D its
castor'' into the ring, and detlantly asks
Tammany to tread on the tail OF Its
coat, If there ever was a time when Tam
many refused an invitation to this KIND OF
an entertainment, have no recollection OF
it. Tammany came up to the meeting OF
the County Democracy on Monday, and has
been wearing beefsteak on its left optic
ever since-fos it got terrible black eye,
War has been declared between the factions,
and the County Democracy has staked Its
all upon the issue. If it is beaten in the
coming election, it goes out of sight as
political factor, and no man prominent III
its organization, from Huburt O. Thomp-
son to Fatty Welsh, need expect chance
at the public crib for the next ten years.
Irving Hill is ground to pieces between the
upper and the neither milestone, and when
the boiling is finished there will not be
enough of it left to make a respectable
Z, sixth ward affidavit. If Tammany is de-
feated in the square fight which Is forced
upon it this fall, the Oldest Democratic or
ganization in the United States goes down
in Democratic politics again. Tammany
Hall, in which the Democratic Ark of the
Covenant was supposed to be kept, has not
the first spark of Democracy in its compo
sition it 5 an Autocracy pure and simple: !:
one man co1 lmauds, and all the rest obey.
A..y guestl III of the Cars power, or right
tu utediens e. was punished by instant de-
cap:tat:ou, and all the relatives of the poor
wretch might as well have been pariahs or
iepers. This co ndition of servile and abso-
lutte slavery has awakened a bitterness of
antagonism VIII ci, will only be satisfied by
the political des truction of one faction OF
the other. Of late years Tammany has
been /. most rnreia bIe factor in Democratic
victories, and this sense OF insecurity has
made many men who irlve been identified
with the party all their lives prefer igno-
minious defeat to an existence which IS the
price of degrading and intoleral,le slavery.
II any event the people will be tie gamers.
The political hacks who have dominated
our politics for the last two dec.s des will
have t. step back, and make place Tor bet
ter Ken. Ii will compel all parties tV raise
the standard Of their nominations, az d per-
Iia.,s bring Us to good government at. last
While the stock market may not bercgard-
ed as the pulse Of trade. there is, little doubt
that it is tie sciatic nerve, and we watch 1t
with considerable anxiety. Thel els no very
good reason why stocks shoul advance,
but, nevertheless, they have &C ne up at a
rate that has made the bears' he ads swim,
and which has i'll 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 not l.n is
said of the petty gamblers who have drop
ped their all, and then sunk into Loverty
and are never heard of again. l 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
irrerarable.
The appearance of two celebrated A meri-
can actresses in New York at the same time
is sort of challenge for supremac.7 III
which the public has taken {; very lively
interest. Mary Anderson comes back to
| US, flushed with foreign triumphs. She mas
been noticed by Royalty, petted by Lor DIS
and Dukes and N1arqnises and Earls az d
Counts and dudes and all sorts of people =
! It wcrld not be at all surprising if this
yoan,. lad, from the Blue Grass region had
her stated, head turned and came back to US
looking down U con her poor relations. Ger
tain it is that she is not the Mary who left
US two years ago. She brings back an Eng
lisE company to support her, ard while
they have not yet put up the sign OIL the
Star Theatre, I" No Americans need apply
the fact stares US in the face thet there are
none in her company-nor is there likely
to be any during the present season. Her
return creates no juore, and the critics
agree that while she looks we'll and speaks
fairly, making love to her is like hugglng
all iccbory.
At tie Union Square appears Miss Mar
ga:ei Ms:tier, who is as different from Miss
Anderson as it is possible for two women
to be. Without Miss Anderson's physical
advantages, she has the divine fire of true
genius, which Miss Anderson never ha6.
When Miss Mather speaks it thrills yon
t~Ic
Miss Anderson, but she never moves you.
In witnessing the performance of Miss
Mather you forget the theatre and the ac-
tress: you see only the character before you
and the woman. Mary Anderson is always
Mary Anderson-is always an actress-not
always good one, and never great one
The season opens auspiciously for both
of these ladies, but Miss Mather carries the
sympaties of the town; for while she does not
taboo an English actor or actress, believ-
ing art to be universal, Americans have a
chance, and her instantaneous recognition
by the public and the press has made her
success assured.
The obsequies of Cardinal McCioskey
have been one of the remarkable features
of the week. It has proved beyond doubt
that the world moves. Never in my mem
ory has the death of priest caused such
profound and heartfelt sorrow. 1t is not
because he was priest, but because he
was an upright man. In all of his long life
open to the sunlight, watched by jealous
eye-there was no spot OR stain. Happy
servant of the Lord, to have lived such
life. Happy people, to be blessed with