The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-10-28
OUR NEW l0Rh LETTER.
" lat PEOPLE ~ TIiE METRO
POLIGiS CRY TALK afBot 4.
Nr. Page Takes Il Good -\atur,d View
of I Ehlng>--A Suggestion About North
Carolina that Might Paw.

rested for brlbluE tae Aid erm.u t0 grant
Il; and they and the Aldermen all seem
likely 10 70 O. the peulleutiary whore
they ought 10 be. Yet the broadway rail
road. which could he got only by bribery
after All effort of twenty wears. Is one If
the greatest benefits that has b.eu dome
the city for many a day In the mani
ci: Il contest everybody has lost his head,
and the campaign Is actually wa-cd on the
Issue II whether land only snail be taxed
and strcpt-c,trS shall ha free though. Of
course, the Mayor has no more 10 DO WIth
liking scheme for taxation iii New York
thar YOU haze. Meanwhile the great Bar
tholdl statue has been set up, and there
viii be a great time here next week when
it is formally Dedicated Besides these
more or less stirring events. women are
applying To re1ister and mean To vote or
break a trace if women wear traces, about
which ! am not informed. And the ne
SrocS are kicking ~ great row because
q .trog seller up town, since he has got
rich refuse, to sell drinks 10 cocied Gus
TONERS. And civil right, are To the fore
along with Ill the other questions ana
crank7 Mrs. Laugtry no longer create,
4 rag, and in the commercial world there
has net in recent years beeu a more hope
ful feeling
All these facts (and ii IS al iucongruous
grouping1, you Will perceive add 10 human
activity and give the town something t.
do and something to talk about. And 50
many new things engage attention and 80
many old lliuLS take uncXueCted turns
that there is a general ar of expectancy
enyci0png Manhattan Island. Nobody
would be surprised At anything Tho man
who secs the humorous side of all This
hustle and inconscquent Worry Is the
man to be envled. suppose you had come
down from another planet and knew moth
ing Of what men on the earth do or hoN
they delnern themselves and you were to
happen to see the children Of he graded
school iii groups playing a dozen games
some marbles, and some ball, and some
''base," and some croquet all running
about without any sense or system that
You could discover, and all excited about
something the nature of which You could
not make out Wouldn't il be 4 RAJ her
amusing spectacle If You come to Now
York ANA can remain calm aud Keep Nour
eyes and ears open now, YOU WI.l see quite
as humorous a sight The theories that
have entered local politics. the unneces
sary fears the frantic conduct OF men who
have been calm all their lives; the eN3g
gerated headlines Of all the newspapers
it is a strange show There is no great
reason in il, bat it is infinitely amusing to
watch it.
OF course when the municipal election
is past. the town will forget its unnatural
excitement in few hours; and the same
vast misery and nerve breaking activity,
the hurry and the prodigality will regain
their natural proportions. And the social
evils which the great city cNaggcrafes and
illustrates viii be with Us yet. To have
coal IN the bins is of greater Importance,
perhaps, than it all; and that coal costs
s. a ton is Il more important fact to many
a human body than who sits in the City
Hall or who gets rich in Wall street.
Politics that means anything here
there is no such thing. There are really
no issues of National importance. The
Democrats of New York at least the
Tammany organization sympathizers as
heartily despise the President as a rascal
ever hates an honest man who has
exposed h. rascality. The Republicans
have really lost their vim and grip and
are YET distracted by the horrible fear
that the burden of 1884 still rests on
them: and so it seems. Mr. Blaine has
undoubtedly done his chances damage by
his superfluouS activity in Pennsy ylvania;
but his damaged chances are better than
ANYBODY elsc's \ wise man does not veN
himself greatly now. He goes to the opera
if he can afford it. He reads the poets, if
he has the faculty of getting the greatest
solace He waits. For if it We're ever
more startingly true at one time than at
another that no man knows what the NOR
row may bring FORTH it is 50 now. Con
slider such fact as this The great city
Of New York is about to send to Congress
a lot Of men to represent lis metropolitan
interests who-except Mr.. :. ). Cox are
the merest nObodies. lfpolltlcs be judged
by political results, as all things must be,
here are the results.
For number Of years one of the most
popular pieces (for It can hardly be called
a Llay) that has been on the stage in tht
North was ',Joshua Whitcomb. 1t w;t>
nothing but Photographic representation
Of New England country life. Old Joshua
WhitcOmbs house has red peppers behind
the door. He winds up the ola clock II
the corner. The snow falls outside, Will,
the old folks play checkers by the big open
| fire The young folks sing the Old song
| and do courting on the sly In fact thu
! household is transferred to the stage and
| the old home feeling which all the descen
| dantS of the New EnglanderS have by
memory or by tradition appeals direct
! " to them. And the play made for it,
/ author and players and managers a hal
million dollars Now old JoSh@a Whit
comb has given place to continuation O
the same accurate Photographic; and tht
new play is called The Old Homestead.
1t makes the same appeal 20 the same feel
ing, and it fills houses and is continun!
to make lis owners and players rich
Now, no less profitable and tender ard in
teresting a picture could be made of 0lt
country life in North Carolina Pay
There's a fortune in lt-outsde of Nortl
Carolina For, if North Carolina coun
try town were accurately represented OF
the stage the most interesting people would
swear that they were ,'slandered. The.
would rise up in wrath and swear tha
they didn't talk that way. But they dc
and because they do, they are charming
If Photographic representation OF Hills
boro were put on The stage well, or o
Pittsboro, or of any old town that yet ha
old time characteristics and sensitive pco
pie in it, (for sensitive people are but tn
touchy old grandmothers We all like il
spite Of their prodigious egotism and con
tnual grunting). 1t would touch the heart
and the risibilities of all creation.
W. II. P
CAN men. who call themselves Demo
Gratis, vote for man who is deep dye
Republican against a good Democrat mere
ly because the Republican has done ther
a few little perSona1 fayorS2-rk kinStO