The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-30


purest young men in the metropolis.
Born, not with a silver spoon in his
mouth, but a golden ladle. he has kept
clear Of the entanglements which beset
our gilded youth, and has made himself
an honorable record in public life.
While Mr.. Roosevelt springs from the
bluest strain of our old blue blood, his
family ranking among the highest aris-
tOcracY for the past two hundred years,
1t is an honorable distinction that he
has earned for himself, and one that at
no distant day may carry him into the
Governors chair. Meanwhile Mr. George
must not be overlooked. He is as honest
and as straight as eitherof his compeers
"a man with no stain upon his record
a student of economic questions a
they affect labor and capital; honest in
his convictions, industrious beyond
precedent, surrounded by an army of
earnest workers who think that the cleo
tion Of Mr.. George will be the beginning
of the poor mans millennium, it will
not do to ignore him in this fight. He
is factor, and a powerful one; and
while the union Of the County Demo-
cracy and Tammany Hall is matter
of congratulation to the Democrats,
Irving Hall, which has been left out
in the cold in the deal, is in open rebel
lion, and will throw its influence in favor
of the Labor candidate.
The people of New York can now
cXclaim with Iago: "Whether he kill
Cassie or Cassie him, or each do kill
the other, either way makes my gain"
Whichever candidate is elected will be
a vast improvement on the last two
machine Mayors, Grace and Edison.
Strange are the freaks of fortune.
Henry Wizards magnificent palace on
Madison avenue was sold last week TO
Whtelaw Reid of the Tribune. 1t reads
like romance. A poor German boy
lands in New York without dollar,
and in ten years stands at the head of a
syndicate that could swamp the capital
of the Rothchilds. At the opening of
the Northern Pacific he entertained
over thirty thousand people, and for
months he had for his special guests an
army of noblemen from Europe. But
the gilded bubble burst and Alladin had
lost his lamp, and the Western Crpsus
sank into hopeless bankruptcy. The
palace that had cost him a million to
build, and which he expected to furnish
at a cost of millions more, fell into the
hands of his creditors, and now it is to be
occupied by Witelaw Reid. In 1857 the
Tribune was in its glory. Herace Gree
ley was then in the zenith of his fame,
and one of his trusted lieutenants was
John Russell Young, one of the ablest
and most energetic journalists in the
land. At that time Whitelaw Reid was
regarded as very light weight, and
certain 1t is that neither Mr. Greeley
nor Mr.. Young thought very much about
him. Mr.. Young was accused of taking
the Associated Press dispatches and
sending them to a paper in which he
was interested in Philadelphia. Dana
of the Sun, who hated both Greeley and
Young, attacked the Tribune and Young
most bitterly, and the result was that
Mr.. Young was compelled to leave the
Tribune and Nhitelaw Reid got his
place. From that hour he labored
silently, steadily, persistently, to get
csntrol Of the Tribune, and his oppor-
tunity came when Horace Greeley made
the mistake Of his life and accepted the
nomination of the Democrats for Presi-
dent. Mr.. Reid was placed in supreme
command while Mr.. Greeley was in the
canvass. When he came back he tried
to get an explanatory leader in the Tri-
buEe, but Whitelaw Reid denied its
admission to the columns of the paper
which Horace Greeley had founded. 1t
broke poor Greelcy's heart. In two DAYS
he was raving maniac-in three weeks
he was dead. Whitelaw Reid, however,
fourished like the perennial green bay
tree, and when the rich California banker
ID. o. Mills came to New Yorh, Mr..
Reid fell in love with his daughter and
his ducats and daptured both. His
lines have fallen in pleasant places
since then, and the poor penniless Bohe-
mian of twenty years ago now moves
with his bride into one of the costiest
palaces on the continent, while Willard
who built it and who has just returned
from Europe goes into furnished lodg-
ings up town. As Jimmy Twitcber
says, "Sich is life."
Sol Sayle's payment of $50, 900 as the
forfeited bail Of his defaulting brother
causes quite sensation, and we begin
to think that there is some honesty
mixed up with our rascality.
We are all getting ready for a big
time at the unveiling of Liberty Enlight-
ening the World. With the biggest
bridge, the biggest statue and the biggest
rascals on the continent. L begin to think
That New York is a mighty big place.
BROADBRIM.
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