The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-20
IT RULES THE WORLD.
Money Better Than Politics
for Steady Diet.
BOSS sHEPHER'S EXPERIENCE.
"Past Records Count for Litt1e II One
Has o Bullying Bank
Account"

Money Is better than politics
for a steady diet" said Boss Shepherd
the other day to friend 80 they stood
in O Broadway cafe and carefully
examined some fine cut glassware.
Then the paiY went out into the bright
June sunlight and mingled with the
gay premsnAders on New York's Rot
sen Row.
1 doubt II one person knew him. Not
soul recognized him, and yet q dosen
years ago he was the worst talked
about man in Washington. He was
SiaSsed as Q second Boss Tweed, and
marvellous stories were teld Of bis Tsck-
Jess expenditure Of pablio Moneys. He
came into ProMiHeAee during the
halcy0n days when General Grant vas
President. He began life az plamhsr,
and made and saved a little
money. He was In enc or two skirnishes
in the late unPIsaSantHsss, and
was handwriting, industrious fellow
when Grant picked him up and made
hiH governor. How he and Grant b =
came friends is net known, but they
did, and the President and the plum-
Der pulled together in double harness
az veil as Barfy Ross and Aldins, Van
derbilt'B famous horses.
At that time the District Of Colum kla
vas in about as bad . condition 81 il
well could be, and General Grant was
anxious 10 appoint . oSnmission 10
clean its streets, lay cut its parks s1d
repair its sewage system and high
ways. In casting abSRb fer mea to
make up the commission Shepherd Yae
hit upOn. he was nominated and CEN
hrmed, bat not without . ssuahhls In
the Senate. He feaAd himself ct the
head Of the commission fer the sX-
psnditHrs Of vest sans. He set 10
work 10 make Washington hosM lins
q rose. II was most magnificent
system that he insagurAtsd. Streets
were opened, Cutters cleaned, small
parks laid cut aAd new bUildiRgs
erected. Money AsWod freely. II
Shepherd had owned the AiRes Of Col
Katha he soSa net have been ne,e
ProfuBS In dispensing money. Dollars
were ~ plsAtifal as che leaves In Val
lambHosa. Hundreds Of men were put
to work and tA0 city grow as IL by
magic. For few months things vent
GA gwinningly. Then his eAemiss be-
gan to attack hin. Ne was given the
Roubriqust eff "The Boss" He was
arrogant, and refused 10 listen to sug-
gestioAs OF advice. He had his own
plans fer the work and would hear from
no oas. Stories Of corrupt deals were
started, and In year Boss Shepherds
name became anonymous for al that
was bad. Mothers rocked their truant
children 70 sleeS singing imprevised
slatehss of songs selling the terrible |
things that Boss Shepherd had done. |
The property owners of Washington |
rose up in their AiEht and tried to hurl |
him rom power. but - strongly |
was the Boss intReRchsd that they |
hundred milli0n dollars were spent. It |
Was an snernouS sam, and terrified
the old fellows Who believed In Jefier-
sonian limplieity. Still Shepherd was
all-poWeTfuI. No nan could obtain O
place in the District Government with |
out his Endorsement, and his nod OF /
wink Was as powerful 50 q maQieian'S |
wand. Bat public Opinion was growing
stronger sTsYy h0uH, and in the very !
heydGy Of his power AID glory he was
dethYoned. Washington breathed
easier, and visitors to The capital came
away with stories Of the eity's YegsnsrA-
ton. Washington was decked like
beauty on her wedding morn.
Shepherd retired 10 private life and /
took up the business Of plumbing that /
he had neglected while he sat on his
gilded throne and spent Uncle Sans
tangled. He went int bankruptcy, |
but bis creditors, believing in him,
gave him the management OF his
property. He tosk OF his eeat and
went to work and paid sE every dollar
he owed. Then he turned With longing
syes to Mexico. Reports Of vast wealth
stored Ia mother earth reashsd him,
and be took himself there % blithe %
schoolboy OF for an cutting. He pitched
his tent At Chihuahua and began to 0x-
plore the almost inaccessible mines Of
Bat0pilas. This 10 @ mining district dis
covered by the Bpaniards in HOO, re-
ported to contain silver in fabulous |
quantities. IL was task that would
have dismayed . score Of giants, but
Boss Shepherd went to work with
6esolRte, indeed q vast wilderness. But |
the mountains, the rocks and the ra-
vines had no terror for hia, and for
many months he had men and mules at
work. and enc day the richest OF silver
ore was discovered. The highway TO
wealth was cleared at leap. and the,
dethrOned monarch soon found himself
famous ard wealShy.
It would be tiresome to the reader to
tell Of the dangers and difficulties en-
countered and overcome, but they have
no equal since the days when THE
Pathfinder" set out on his perilous
journey. It would require volume to
do justice to that portion of the story
and it would read like page from q
new arabian Nights"
The main point Is that Shepherd has
made vast fortune. How large it is
not even he himself knows. His check
for IS, OO0, 600 would be hcnored to-day
by any banking house in the city where
he once ruled and which he left In such
haste and with such an odorous name.
The ex-hoss 10 often seen in Washing
ton these days and he ruAs over to New
York frequently on husiness errands.
Public opinion in the national capital
has changed somewhat, and instead of
snubs and jeers be is now greeted with