The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-15

value. and undoubtedly wanted to use them in
| furthering his own political aspirations. de
recognizes as friends only those bound to him by
| the closest business and personal ties 80
| Thompson tricked Edison into appointing Squire,
| and thus cheated both Grace and Kelly In en-
deavorIng to rivet Squire by the letter IN when
/ Squire bound himself to run the Office as Maurice
| b Flynn directed, Thompson overreached botn
| FLYNN and Squire, and really overreached
himself He entirely too smart No Sane
politician believes that Squire was cheated lnto
| the belief that the letter was afterwards de
stroyed He was forced to act as he subse-
| duently did, independent of the existence of the
| letter. Grace was snearing his department OF
/ its patronage by reducing his supplies through
| the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and
| he went to Albany to invoke legislative relief.
| The authorities there were inmical to Grace and
| favorable TO Tammany. A Republican Legisa-
| ture coouetted with him, but Grace and the
| newspapers raised such howl that it dared not
extend to him the power he asked He made
promising combination in the Aqueduct COM
| mission, however. but in securing it was forced
| to decapitate Thompsons friends in the De-
| partment of Public Works. This threw
| Thompson into fearful rage. He was broken
| in health and soured by the ingratltuoe
| of the man whom he had MADE
! President, when Squire touched him with red
| hot iron. The smell of his burning flesh filled
| the atmosphere He roared like a wounded non.
| Squire laughed at him. He undoubtedly knew
| that Thomson held the fatal letter, but he also
knew that it's publication would not only kill
himself but the goose that was laying the golden
eggs on which Thompson was subsisting. That
goose was Flynn. Squire trusted to Thompson's
regard for the goose, and still held the hot iron
to Hubert's flesh.
In his distressing dilemma Thompson turned
| to Grace City Chamberlain WINS, once a clerk
of the house of William r. Grace 81 Co., and
now member of the firm, appears to have been
the negotiator. Thompson agreed to force
SOURCES resignation if Grace would appoint
either Of the three men to Office. The Squire
| letter was probably shown to the Mayor as a
guarantee that Thompson could do as he said:
As soon as Grace saw Thompson's hand
he played his own cards to win, independ
emit of Thompson's feelings He refused to
make the desired appointments, and in doing so
gagged his man Alright. Thompson was so mad
at Souire's continued fourishing OF the hot iron
that he foained at the mouth. In his fury he
swore that the fatal letter should be made pub
lie, even If it sent all three of them to State
prison. In the height of his indignation he gave
it to WINS without Flynn's knowledge. Wins
says that he first saw the letter in last Decem-
Der, and that Thompson finally gave it to him
on July 49, He took it apparently with fear and
trembling, fully conscious of the respons bllty.
His revelations are almost disastrous to HIM
self and friends as was Thompson's action.
He admits that while he was occupying the
most responsible financial situation IN the city
government, he was hobnobbing with the men
who were robbing the tax payers. It will not do
to say that he was PLAYING the detective for he
dickered too much. He evidently cared more
for the interests of his master, Grace, than for
the interests Of the CITY,
He brings down the district attorney in his
wild shooting, and seriously wounds Judge Gid
erseeve He shows that the former entertained
proposals from Flynn, who foresaw the coming
storm, and wanted to control it. WINS smrches
Gidersleeve by showing that, instead of rebuk-
ing and exposing Squire for writing the letter,
the Judge contented himself by advising the
destruction of documentary evidence of the cor
L. klaE ~iGl
ment of its terms. 1t is not the first time the
Glderseeye ernine has been soed. He was
once accused of farming out the patronage of
his court for the benefit of relative.
So much for the fair fame of some of the men
who were instrumental in sending honest work
ingmen to prison for unknowingly breaking the
law by boycotting noted law-breaker.
The most pitiable effect of Hubert o. Thomp-
sons action, however, has been the decAptation
of Collector Hedden It was evident that the
President thought that Thompson was running
Hedden's Office as he had run Squire's. and posi-
bly, he may have suspected the existence Of doc
uments similar to the Squire letter. ZIsKA
Theatrical Matters.
New YORK. Aug 13-The quiet manner in
which Mr.. Henry Irving and Miss Terry came to
America the other day, limiting themselves to
one interview each paper and disavowing all
professional intentions. has, to quote one of the
reporters, "deepened the sacred bonds that unite
them to art in this country" The sacred bonds
alluded to are United States, but the feat of
deepening them suggests depreciation. and
don't believe Mr.. Irving had any such idea. He
thinks too much of the United States and her
bonds.
/ was present for few moments when Amer
lea, in the person of It's reporters, welcomed him
to our shores Before the first phalanx could
open its mouth. Miss Terry tossed her head and
said. as she held her admonitory hand up: II
know what you are going to ask me. How is
Dixey doing2 What does Fostescue look like?
Can Wilson Barrett act? and how do / like
American
Then there was a general laugh.
It was extremely interesting to notice how this
extraordinary woman can play second fiddle.
With that instrument she is the greatest artist
on earth. Her reverence for Mr.. Irving and his
art when there is crowd around is the most
touching and winsome thing ever saw. If you
even intimate when he is present. that she is an
actress down go her eyelids The stem of her
neck threatens to let the lily of her head down
on her breast. She looks up at Mr.. Irving AS a
camelia might look up at the statue of Jupiter
Tonans, and every eloquent feature says: "Can
you, oh, can you speak of my acting in his pres
ence?"
And, as a rule, you can't
But in his presence you can always admire her
acting
somewhat rashly, last week, betrayed the
fact that Steele Mackaye had written great
play called Anarchy" Yesterday Steele
Mackaye came to me pale and languid "What
have you donel" he exclaimed. felt guilty at
once. but was willing to apologize. 1t seems that
he has been deuged with letters from all over
the country giving him good advice; and the gen.
eral tenor of this advice is: Don't let somebody
else get your play away from you this time"
/ don't know how many men are walking
about New York to-day who have made fortunes
out of Mackayes work, but it is certain he is
walking about without having made fortune
himself. believe Mackaye Is poor, but heard
Mr. Nate Salisbury say that there was good
million dollars in Anarchy" A good and popu-
lar play makes great deal of money. But the
problem always is, who is to make it, the author,
the manager, or the start shall go up some day