The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-17

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T. DE WITT TALMAGE.
the story seemed plausible enough. With
that rare caution in money matters which
has long been shining quality in Mr..
Sage, he not only held a mortgage on the
tabernacle to secure his loan, but realizing
the evanesence of all earthly things, and
particularly the liability of tabernacles to
burn, he also asked and received a mort
gage on Mr.. Talmage's life, requiring
nothing, l believe, on his immortal
soul. With the life insurance policy
payable to him at the termination
of Mr.. Talmage's existence, at a
rate of interest which was satisfactory, Mr..
Sage felt reasonably well secured, and
probably has had nothing to do with put
ting the financial screws to the tabernacle
congregation. But from whatever source
the pressure came, all money matters are
now happily adjusted, and Brooklyn tab
ernacle is nearly $500, 900 ahead of its in
debtedness. Mr.. Talmage came to Brook
Ign twenty-three years ago Sin the rough"
He has had a fiery ordeal, but he comes
out of it transmitted into pure gold. Less
earnest and psrsevering preachers would
have succumbed long ago to the burning
of three tabernacles and the other discour-
agements he has met with during his So
journ here. And Mr.. Talmage is still
young man, as good men go, and well
equipped to give the devil bad quarter of
an hour. l used to regard him as o great
blatherskite and sensationalist of the most
offensive school, but l have come to re-
spect him as an earnest, able Christian
worker, who means we'll and who is able
to do much good.
The Man Who Defeated Cleveland.
A misunderstanding North of Ireland
man, who is known by sight to very few
Broadway promenaders, has attaching Just
now to his portly personality that livellest
ofall ''contemporaneous human interests"
the forcefulness of leadership. By the re-
suits he has accomplished John Y. Nc
Kane is an actor of national Importance on
the stage of public affairs. He has, to
begin with, the interesting equipment of a
mysterious middle name. 1t is something
Of a distinction itself to be named that
way. More than Croker is to New York,
or Gleason to Long Island City, or Me-
Laughiin to Brooklyn, or McDermott to
Jersey City, is McKane to Gravesend,
where Cleveland was defeated in 1888, and
where he may be elected in 1892. Cleve-
lands plurality of !, 047 votes in the state
OF New York in 1884 came from Gravesend,
the citadel of the great county of Kings,
which in 1883 showed falling off of
about 5000 i'll its Democratic vote. That
falling off is believed to have been the
work of John Y. McKane. the keeper OF
the citadel. He was Democrat in 1854:
a Republican i'll 1883. Now, in 1892, he is
not only Democrat, but an anti-Hill
Democrat, possessed of distinct personal
grievance against David b. Hill, and
likely to leave no stone unturned in an
effort to roll up big Democratic pluralities
for Cleveland or Cleveland man if he
gets the chance. Now, who says John Y.
Mckane Is not just now a peculiarly inter-
esting figure in the public arena? Nobody
IN Washington City knew much about
Mchane until he marched at the head of
the procession along Pennsylvania avenue
at Harrlson's Inauguration. Since that
time repeated efforts have been made to
bring about a personal meeting between
him and David b. Hill, who calls him
John" Mekane has persistently re-
fused to treat with Hill. And the sena-
tor has very persuasive tongue. Nearly
forty years ago, this leader in American
politics, one of our potent Mes" came
from the North of Ireland with his father
As lad he trod the shadows OF Sleeps
head bay for clans. But he was ambi-
tlous and made all the acuuaintances he
could, and then made friends of them
The Franklin Lodge of Odd Fellows adj
United him to membership, and when the
zine came for an election for constable,
the Odd Fellows and his other friends
elected John Y. McKane. He took to nolI
ties, as ali North of ireland men seem 10
do. Then he became commissioner of
common lands, then supervisor of his
township, then chief OF police, then mem
Der oi the Democratic state committee
All this time he was Democrat. In 1887.
because I'LL! broke promises 10 him, IS
he says, he went in heart and
soul anti-Hiil. Cleveland was asked
TO patch mp the quarrel from the White
House, but Cleveland said il was ONLY a
local" quarrel. and McKane went anti
Cleveland, ana Cleveland went under the
next year. Now, the Democracy OF Kings
the second county in the state. has lust
taken John \ Nc Kane into the fold again
anu chosen him chairman OF the board of
supervisors of the whole county. If that
causes Mr. HARRISON 10 lose any sleep. WHY
let hlm lose It, II can't be helped and
facts are facts. MCkaue wears the inner
IA, and the statesman with the tuft on his
chm IS at the front. The odd fellow did
il! MCkaue is solid and we'll nroDnr-
toned, brown haired and musfacbsf a
husband and father and thrifty manager.
ana he has The blue eyes OF the man who
gets there"
Governor Albeit and the Boodiers
In vetojng the Reading Coal conspiracy
bill, Governor Leon Albeit, of New Jer-
sey. has done what public sentiment de-
manded he should do. bat evidently not
what he himself wanted to do. He was
drasoonei into correcting as corrupt A
piece Of monopoliStic legislation as this
country has ever seen. lie vetoes the bill
chiefly on the ground that he believes it to
be unconstitutional. and yet throughout
his somewhat extended veto message he
argues that the bill is a good thing. and
laments that he is not able TO approve il.
The fact is, that he vetoes the bin as A
piece OF political expediency. The idea
OF bill to iegalize a combination To
increase the price OF coal to the consumer
was 50 lmpGdent in its conception and out
raSeous IN principle thar IL created a storm
OF Indignation throughout the country
and particularly in New JERSEY. and the
governor, as much as he would have liked
10 see the bill become law. did not dare
aIhX his signature so II. 1t would have
meant has political death, and it is not at