The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-20
POLITICAL PADS.
An Explanation Of What they Are
aud What They're 6eOd for.

Perhaps yea do not believe in Political
fads. Don't les uS try to explain then.
Let "a 1ssogaizs them. The Aandannn
fad is here. Il ID enough 10 know that
Mr.. Thurman, the Democratic nominee
for Vice President, uses . bandanna
handkerchief, and to remark that New
York has famed cat With red silk. TIE
furnishing stores literally hlaEs with
them. The bsEaars on Tventy-third
Street all have signs up, "Bandannas.5
The men % the Manhattan AID tEa
HOFFMAN House carry then in thsk
side pockets. The eaper II 30 pail them
out and flourish them at tAS slightest
provocation; to walk down Broadway
With the red dag in the hight hand
haunt1ngly. and then make . show sti
Tiping the face with it a. intervals
Later IN the conpaign We shell see pro
cessions On the sane stresAevsYy man
wearing pocket handkerchief.
How these tricks Of AoRely loeal
life roll back On the metropolis, Years
ago when General Harrison vas To
popular favorits they had . leg eabfn
on Broadway, and the political heaHx
OF that day teok 10 drinking hard
cider. Whatever brings 10 this eesnae-
politan and heterogeneous town tie
inbred and distinctive cale1 snd shRI-
acter Of . locality 10 SEIZED. upon, Be-
cause We have no local aol0r OF ahaH-
acter ourselves. There was sla Jssk,
Whitcemb came down fTonz 8vaR7eE,
In tae New Hamshire Aills, brinxink
with him che homespuA and granite Al
that hard, homely and indomisahh
race OF giants. and New York fsR
desperately in love with hin, honerod
from the opera, the siTcus, the balIet,
and rushed en- mssss, night after night,
70 see this old New England tyre,
There's Buffalo Bill. al idsl througk
all the summer, making Erastina o
fashionable resort with his unsophisti-
Gated wild West.
The tendency Of the vAele Of social
America is to gst to New Yorh and int
the swim. The Fifth Avenue is lined
with bonanza kings who we're chief
tains on their native hsaths, buL who
have been lost sight Of here. Broadway
at 3 O'Clock 10 q panorama Of bellies
from every school districs in abe Union,
and who were never quite satisfied tin
they reached the metropolis and were
lost in the Roman mob. We digest them
all, reduce them to the uAiform COM
plexion OF ladies AID gen tieMsn, and
kill every bit Of distinctive lesal eharae-
ter they had. If We want someone EAo
is unique, Independent, unconventional
with lot OF the sand Of conviction and
stub and twist OF personality, whore do
we 20 for hiM To the HeRman Hogse?
To. the Union League Clab7 To the
Seventh Regiment, Do We look
into the uniform glitter and polish
OF the pageant on Pifsh Avenue.
or dive into the shallow sea Of
selhshness on Wall Street. or search
among the peas in the ped Of a fashion,
able church? Nonsense We lock
along the Wabash, and up ameng the
giant trunks Of Maize, or part the blue
grass in Kentucky, or follow The 9rsi1
made BY some boy whe went barefoot
TO the village school, and studied his
Bancroft and his Virgil on Ais stomach
o. nights before the blsanS pine knots
in his fathers chimney.
There is . genuine Iovat Admiration
In the American heart for its Scion
Shingles, its Joshua Witsomks. its Walt
Whitmans. its Blainss, its 'Thuruane
and its Clevslsads, and all itg hardy
types OF character, VIE, nursed ana
hammered outside OF the Vanity Fair.
nave preserved rs . souvenir of our
Golden Age something of the infexible
homeliness and honesty OF eur fathers.
Mr.. Rosenquest, of the Fourteenth
street Thestre, tod me the other day
that he intended to open his season In
september with q new American plaV
called Blue Jeans" Great Seoftl
what a lot Of Significance that name
will have for millions of successful men
whose fathers and grandfathers along
ehe Ohio. the Wabash, che Suscue-
hanna. the Nuskingum and the Onm-
berland. dug and drndgsd and foughk
and prayed and left their fibre and
their faith behind. They were the salt
OF the earth. They wore hOmespun.
Their hands were horny. but their
hearts were stout. Put that type of
man on the metropolitan boards, and
the giddy ephsAsrs of oar town pauses
In admiration of . staunchness and a
distinctness that are not engenderad In
Vanity Fair. NYM CR1EKLr,
A Sound Legal Opinion