Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-10-25
CHICAGO LETTER.
A Political Caldroa.-The Mckinley
Bilh-Nrs. Leslie on Royalty
John l.. in His New Role.-A
Sorehead Speaks Of Utah.--Re-
marks on the Manifesto. - A
Parallel,

spes,al correspondence Of the DssrEEr
NEWS
We are now in the midst ola po-
ltical campaign that for filth aud
noisomeness is unequalled in the
annals Of eleetioneering. Economic
issues and political Integrity cut no
figure at all. Abuse and billings
gate are the great agents. Carter
Harrison appears again in politics
He welcomes abuse and says he
grew fat on it for eight years as
Mayor Of Chicago. Frank Lawler,
the Congressman, Is the democratic
nominee for sheriff OF Cork county.
II abuse can put a man in Office
Frank will surely be elected. He
had been charged with every ofiense
In the whole catalogue Of crime.
They have even charged him with
being a poIygamist. Frank had two
wives hut one is dead. He Is now
living with the second and is the
bappy father Of fifteen children.
50 far the republicans are getting
the beet Of tie fight. They en-
| ployed detective agency TO work
among democrats; the result is that
several Of the Frank LAWYER states
men are now in Jail for procuring
/ frau julent naturalization papers for
persons not entitled to them by
law. That political university from
which Orlando Powers and Judge
Anderson graduated is now pro-
nounced by patriotic republicans 10
be the alma Hiaier, the bOunteous
mother Of the grandest rebels and
Tascals, boosters and blackguards,
cateraus and cGtthrOats that any
school, political or religious, ever
produced.
The most bewildering feature OF
the present political excitement Is
that the shrewdest prophets are
completely al sea as To the results
next November. Old party Issues
are being ignored, and the result Is
n seeming disintegratiOn OF old or
CARNATIONS. Farmers alliances and
trades unions, singletaxers, free
traders, personal Fighters, prohibit
tionists, protectiOnists, public schools,
parOchial schools, free religion,
\ Lutherans, Catholics, Clan-na-gaels,
Patriotic Sons Of America, British
| Americans, the German language,
the English hnglage and a dozen
other topics enter into the present
campaign.
The Mckinley bill is not making
Z much Of a noise after all. How
ever, republicans can't tell at pres
ent how it will affect the elections.
Several Of the party papers, while
protesting friendship for it, take
every opportunity Of ridiculing and
disparaging il. For instance, the
Chicago Tribune, while advocating
the bill uses every possible way 10
bring il into disrepute. 1t collects
all the bad things hostile and pro-
English papers say of the bill and
publishes them. | begin &c like the
bill, simply because Europe aud
| papers like the Tribune oppose it so.
| think there must he something
good, something American i'm IL;
and il war should arise bstween
our country and any foreign cOun-
( try, this bill will make ps industri-
ally independent Of the whole
world.
In Indiana. Wisconsin and Ohio,
even Michigan, the same uncertain
ty prevails as in Illinois. Kansas,
aye, bleeding Kansas, it is supposed
will flop over to some other side.
/ But | doubt il.
In Minnesota the situation is quite
as peTplexing IS IL l. anywhere else
I When the Farmers Alliance nomi-
mated n full State ticket last July,
/ the affair was looked on as a joke.
/ Now ii is proving too serious for
! testing. Ii is admitted on all sides
that 1t will poll fully 10000 votes.
/ The labor unions are all working In
harmony with the farmers.
Sydney NJ. Owen, the farmers
candidate for governor is maa Of
uublemishei reputation. Erwin
and Donnelly, two well known
men, are stumping for the Alliance
/ ticket. They are both popular aud
/ are distinguished for sulilsty Of
/ Intellect. Erwin i n famous Grim
| inal lawyer. Dcnnelly is both
/ politician and a man Of letters,
! though he did not succeed in cook
ing William Shakspeare's bacon.
Gov. Merriam, the Republican
candidate, i seriously handicapped
Gu account OF prison contract for
machinery which was AWARDED to a
| Scotch firm for 1900. though an
American firm offered TO supply the
/ plant for $1,000. Robert J. Hall,
! president OF the alliance, writing on
this incident, says
"The American machinery Is
/ known TO be success. yet the State
I Of Minnesota, with Its 3, 900 majority
I in favor Of protection, gives a pre-
/ MUM of s. ,09J u a foreign manu-
l facturer. This Is protection with a
/ vengeance
1 believe it was this alliance that
wanted the abolition Of the q. 5.
Supreme Court. Ifso, it says little
for the wisdom or for the Ameri-
cahism OF is controlling spirits.
Mrs. Frank Leslie OF New York
/ Is here. In her lectures she has
been telling US a great deal about
1 the royal personGges Of Europe from
/ the days OF Henry the Eighth TO
the present. Henry she describes
rs a duck OF a boy when youag.
/ He was cultivated, accomplished
| and social. He was physically per-
feet and mentally bright rs a young
man. He became n fashionable
society giant. Mrs. Leslie forgets
to mention that Henry was intend
ell for the Roman priesthood until
1 his elder brother died. That is
why, perhaps, he hal SO many
social graces, and such a humane,
generous ami amiable demeauuur.
Mrs. Leslie speaks well Of the
Prince Of Wales hut not 50 well Of
his nephew, the German Emperor.
Her lectures though intended for
the 400 are ATTENDED more by the
1909. She appears on the platform
very poem In petticoats, a painting
in a cloth of gold, or a celestial vi
sitant in diaphanOus drapery. One
wishes she were Queen Of this
realm, but then what would the
poor Marquis Of Leuville do. | |
wonder is lac any relation to Lowell
the witower.
John L. Sullivan, King Of the
prize ring, is also here, starring as n
fulliledged actor. He has nothing
to say about the royal personages Of |
Europe, though he hObnobbed with 1
the Prince Of Wales for a day or
two. He draws much larger houses 1
than Mrs. Leslie. The fact Is, the /
Haymarket theatre Is not one half I
large enough to hold the audiences I
JUhu can draw. Numbers 90 away |
nightly, not able To get even stand. !