Omaha daily bee., 1888-11-12
TANMANY IS TRIUMPHANT.
The Labor Element Voted For
Grant and Ignored CooRan.
SOCIALISTS SIT UPON SHEPARD.
A. t. Stewards Millions Have Melted
Away, hut Judge Hilton Secured
Some OF Them-He Bcggared
stewards Iiiegitimate Son.
The Cause OF Cooean's Defeat.

miserable showing made by CoOgan is
sufficient evidence TO me that there
never can be n real party based upon
labor. l believed until Monday last
that he would poll 1OO, 600 votes, and he
did not poll 1000 votes, yet he repre-
sented labor in his own heart mach more
truly thar Henry George. The truth
is, however, that the way parties were
divided in New York made it bad policy
for the labor men to vote their own
ticket since it would simply have given
the mayoralty to Hewitt. He, though
n good man, is such a crank, and has
said so many foolish things about for
eigners that it seemed TO every foreign
born citizen a paramount duty to smash
him. The New York World, which is
recognized by labor men as keenly sym
pathizing with them, pointed out the
danger of voting for Coogan very siren
uously n few days before the election,
and hen l began to realize that labor
would not be victorious on Tuesday. 1t
is not certain either that it was good
policy to name a labor candidate for
such a position as the mayoralty. which
demands something more than good in
tentions. New YOrk's mayor must be II
man who knows everything about mu-
~nicipal finance, and who can smell out
suspicious contracts and protect the in
terests of the taxpayer. Now, honestly,
it must be owned that Coogan had
served no apprenticeship to that trade,
whereas Hughle Grants a master work.
man at it.
GENERAL NEWTON TRAPPED.
General Newton has but one course to
pursue. He must resign. After hav-
ing written that Grant was not Il gen
tleman, or words to that effect, it is i'm
possible that he should remain in Office
under him. The consequence, there
fore. OF his peevish burst of irritation is
that the whole control of everything in
Manhattan Island has fallen once more
into the hands of the Tammany organi-
cation. There can be no doubt that the
personal campaign waged against
Hewitt II Newton with regard to the
contract system was got up for h a ex-
press purpose. Newton occupied an ex-
ceptional position, and had he held him
Tammany, though eager for his scalp,
would hardly have dared to take It..
Tammany must try to be popular, be-
cause there is a past that must be re-
deemed. People rave not forgotten the
days of Bill Tweed, when the public
works department was a milch-cow for
the ~Tammanyites. Not a few citizens
will feel rather nervous over a return in
the direction of such possibilities, and
had Newton been capable of ~self-re-
straint there would have been q marked
expression Of dissent if his removal had
been mooted. But Sheriff Grant has
been personally insulted by both Hewitt
and Newton. Hewitt told the reporters
that Grant was an ignorant man who
could not spell, and Newton in an elo-
ouent periphrasis said that he was nota
gentleman. The consequence is that
he must go. Personally, 1 am glad of it,
believing him to be immensely over
rated. When he was Major Newton he
the mouth of the Mississippi, and
testified before a congressional COM
mittee that it was impossible. And on
that occasion he took the liberty of in
sinuating that civil engineers were not
as gentlemanly as army engineers.
COLONEL SHEPARD'S GROWING FOLLY.
The editor and proprietor Of the Mule
in Distress, Colonel Elliott F. Shepard
is running Abraham Hewitt very hard
for the position of boss crank of New
York City. He has an ambition to be q
public man, to let the light shine before
the world, to mould public opinion, and
to make money out of it all. Perhaps
he will, perhaps he won't, or as the
Irish say in their delightful Gaelic Ian
guage, "nabocklish," which is a word
not to be translated. but which can best
be expressed by winking the left eye
violently, sticking the tongue IN the
left cheek. and pointing gracefully with
the numb of the right hand over the
left shoulder. He took it in his head to
convert the socialists of New York by
an address in the Labor Lyceum.
modelled upon his eloquent o%utpour-
ings to his Sunday school class. He
went there and was sat upon vehe-
mently by strange men bearded like
the pard," who tore his meek little
speech into q thousand shreds, and her
enlightened his mind by n few pithy
home truths, which this son-in-law of
William H. Vanderbilt had never heard
before. He had spoken ~three-quarters
of an hour, and seven socialists divided
the same time between them, and each
one wiped the floor with him. 1t was
not n difficult task for he announced
himself as n socialist Of the order OF the
Carpenter of Gallilee, and the mon
strous humbug of such n declaration
from a millionaire inspired the bearded
men who are prone to consider the
Saviour as a good Sansculotte. They
tainted him with his fine house and his
fast trotters. and asked him il it was not
written, THE foxes have holes and
the birds of the air have nests, but the
Son of Man hath not where to
lay his head" The next thing Colonel
Shepard did after this humiliating fail
ure was to apply to tho Down Town club
for membership, and he was promptly
b~lackballed, although it is composed OF
business men, all Of whom have the
greatest respect for money in the alb
stract. But money in the concrete OF
Colonel Shepard is something ridicu-
lous, for IL is a power ~paralyzed by
folly.
NO MORE CAR STOVES.
Chauncey M. Depew, who has his
merits as Il railroad man, has a very
bright secretary named Duvall, from
whom / get occasional points. / asked
him whether the New York Central
would abolish stove-heating in the cars.
Instead Of answering me he dived down
his head and began looking for some
thing in adrawer of his desk. / thought
| was to be shot for springing a chestnut
upon him, but he reappeared with a
card in his hand. There" he said,
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