Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16
A Woman's Crows---They Fill
More Space than BOOSTERS.
How the Prettipst Woman in All Spain
Has Set New York Baldheads Agog.
Captiyatingly Lovely.
Tie Chrysanthamun Spason-The sights IN
Central Park OF an Autumn Dar, anG
the thoughts Inspired 1hereby'
NEW YORK, Nov. :, 1890.

''The Dutch have taken Holland
again! Mr.. Saxton and the Republic
cans have so manipulated their ballot re-
form bl'l as to most cioriously defeat
themselves! Why, New York is as Dem
ocratic, politically, as i: is So
ciHlly; an. that is putting il
pretty strongly; 1.-the butcher
the bakes ana cuudiestick maker'' 90 as
ETrRari0EsIy 10 the lunch table as TO the
polls Has il ever occurred TO you that
our political parties are mIsnamed? that
the Republican IS The most democratic
person imuginable, and vice versai 1t
!s l0th amusing aud Instructive TO one
accustomed to the overwhelming Demo-
cratic majority in the South, to see
the two parties somewhat equally
pTOportioned, numerically, to hear
Republican attempt to defend
himself. on principle, constitutional i'll
teGr!ty! And il is funny to see old De-
mocracy cutting such q swell, right in
the front room Of Republcanism.
feel about Tammany like / used to feel
about the editorial i've l want to
personify it, to get behind political gen.
eral!tles, 10 social personality. My
''prolitio Imagination pictures real,
sure-enouCh Democratic Party Tam
many, Esq. - some systematically
comprehensive creature combining the
qualities OF hting Irishman and
Southern gentleman! / want to ego
see him, - like loyal subjects do their
queen minister, and say let me con-
graduate you, MIR. Tammany. Moth
ing succeeds like success You may be
deserving of some OF those bad things
said about you, up here, those "fraud-
ulent tactics, - "blank ballots, - in
sertion of Tammany candidates on fusion
tickets, - etc, and that editorial chaff
in the Tribune about the way in which
you are going to abuse the
''sacred public trust, - Gem
ploy the power and patronage of
office, for your own selfish ends, - "en-
Iargiug your own fabric, - '.perfecting
your own machinery, - in short, the in
timatiou Is not obscure, dear Tammany,
that you are pretty liable to butter your
own bread literally, and, ont of ''the
people Is pocket. l say all this may have
some foundation, but, you can t be very
bad out and out because yOu are Dem
OcrRt! See? l notice, that after the
"TribuUe" gets through bowling about
your "tricks, - "pasters, - "false
swearing made up "disables' etc. ,
II goes on TO admit, generously, but the
pretending that TammGny has gained
ANYTHING less than Z triumph. The
union Of forces against 1t was
seemingly compact and deter
mined. The campaign was prosecuted
with energy and enthusiasm. The
cause was st TO inspire good citizens of
all parties 10 work and vote for its sue
cess. The moral advantage was all on
the eide OF new methods and new men In
the city government. And yet, in spite
Of every obstacle, TammGny has won
completely and decisively. In the first
place, there never was piece of political
mechanism more perfectly adapted TO
the purposes for which il was designed
than the TaGmnny machine, and that
machine never worked more efficiently !
than on the 4th.
50 Massachusetts seems to think, and |
Connecticut, and New Hampshire, and |
Pennsylvania
But, you see, there we're just US three |
poor little sidetracked Democrats In our
boarding. house. who, being women,
and naturally absorbed in LILLIAN Rus |
sell, - Otero, - 1.-The Senator,'' and /
dressmakers, and bargain days, we had |
not had much time TO keep thoroughly |
posted on campaign matters. So |
when one Republican after another
came into the dining-room. puff
ing and swelling about the
"'clean sweep they were going to
make, we could only have the dry grins,
aud work our fingers under the table,
according TO the proverbIal 'scssors -
method, Indicative OF the woman ICON
WINGED against her will tell you, we
women know lots Of things, by keen,
penetrating insight, which you men have
10 l.ur lev ho ri at o
In plain words, we were prepared for
the worst! and entire nous, dear GAZETTE,
we were Mt quite satisfied about Tam
many, any way; you see, all those awful
things about him III ths Trib-
uue and Press, and, TO say
nothing of the perfectly IN
'mentiouGble things known personally,
and directly to each one o. our boarders!
Dear! It was dreadful!-The "liquoT
men bribery the SO 200 presents TO
god children, - the quilting of unnation-
allied lrishmeu, the fattening and tam
ing OF Italian yotersl- So, when they
pinned US down too statistically on Tam
many we just owned up, like little men,
that we "did mt know but If :hey
wanted mayor as wns a mayor, g non
liquor, non-stealiug, out-and-out South
ern gentleman and Texan, We would like
Fort Worth! and when they objected,
saying they did not know he was in the
race, we told them he wasn't, but we
had a right 10 nominate him If we
wanted to; that we women would have
10 know all about politics in a few years
and might as well be praoticiug
on New York municipal affairs, which,
according TO their own statement,
couldn't lie in worse mUddle! There!
80 things rocked along pretty shoulder
lugIy volcanic, till the morning of the
81 h. We went down late 10 breakfast,
hoping to escape the ''croVers, but,
b. ess your life they were all late too! and
the most subdued, hen-pecked, drabble-
leatherea, non-crowIng roosters you ever
saw! They ell ordered dry toast, and
complained of headache, and for fear We
were going TO crow little ourselves they
took the floor 10y fussing with each other!
CIsn't that remarkable inclination
on the part of beaten partisans?) |
They every one jumped on one poor little
New Jersey man who voted the prohibi-
ton tiCket--in a manner perfectly can
nibalisticl He was q '.watcher,' 1t