The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-05

and ruling generation are not persons who
memory of Tilden in politics, or
any knowledge of Bryant or Irving
in literature. They appear to be a
robust and turbulent race, whose
clssical tastes are limited to the cessus. an
exceedingly hard glove worn by the Greek
or Roman athlete when he desired to
knock his adversary down and out, and to
passionate fondness for that American
substitute for Falernian wine, which in its
highest form is made from apples, and in
its most potential shape is expressed from
wheat, corn and rye.
Eastern civilization, whose bowels have
been convulsed with pangs Of moral an
guish at what it used to term the vuigarity
and iubricity OF civilization on the Pacific
coast, seems to have reached q condition
of barbarism that can not be found at the
West ouside of mushroom mining
camp. What will become of Boston,
where once no man could De
elected mayor unless he held a
diploma from Harvard college7 What
will become of New York, where once
none but true Americans were put
on guard? New York has become
the Dublin of America; her mayor
and city government are Irish-Americans:
her congressman are sired by imported
stock. Boston is even more completely
changed in its ruling political forces than
New York. No blue blood Bostonese hand
no silver-voiced orator of the old Brahmin
Boston caste and cult stirs her citizens to
tears. to mutiny and rage. Faneuil Hall,
whose arches once resounded to the deep
bassoon of Webster's eloquence, or
thrilled with the silver trumpet strains of
Phillips. hears now chiefly the rich voices
of imported orators or the voices of orators
who are the sons of imported sires. For
Webster We now have Mr.. John E. Fitz-
gerald; instead of Phillips we now hang
on the lips of Mr.. Patrick Collins.
And as We pass from the non-productive,
immaterial arts of poetry and eloquence
to the walks Of industrial life and labor
that involve invention. machinery, manu-
features and trade, we find that athletics"
native and imported, are among the
most lucrative and popular branches of
industrial art in Boston. The leading
representative of the noble art of self
defense, Mr.. John Lawrence Sullivan, I
went across the Atlantic, like Alexander
to spread his conquests further, waited by
ind z hot fron
the blessings and the prayers of Boston,
and the burning and shining light of Sui
livan's fame made the whole West grow
green with envy and fairly wilt with
shame. California had Starr King for
citizen; Oregon had the eloquent Baker,
but until the recent rise and victory of
Corbett neither California nor Oregon ever
produced statesman like Boston's favor
lite son. once her Achilles, but now her
Ichabod, who could have strangled Starr
King and Baker at once with his hands as
easily as the infant Hercules throttled the
snakes.
This is the new situation in both Boston
and New York that the Rip Van Wrinkles
of Democratic culture must wake up to
and take into serious account. In New
York city Ingersoil is mute, while Bourke
Cochran and Thomas f. Grady sweep the
strings of the harp of Irish eloquence for
Murphy, the man of alcoholic affairs.
against Schurz, the scholar, writer and
political critic. 1t is Murphy, bearing the
gonfalon of King Gambrinus, that is sure
to defeat Carl Schurz and his backing of
culture, arrayed in claw-hammer coat and
immaculate kid gloves.
''To the victors belong the spoils." The
Mugwumps furnished the party with it's
candidate, but Tammany furnished it with
its votes, SO Edward Murphy, without
single qualification for the United States
senate, will be elected to that responsible
and dignitied tody, while Schurz, who is
adorned with every qualification that
learning and skill of pen and tongue can
give, will be rejected with contempt and
without ceremony.