The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-17
COCKERILL'S LETTER
Matters on Top as Seen by a
Great Observer.
SOME VULGAR ADVERTISEMENTS.
Georges Enterprise-It Would Appear that
Oonld's Son is Not the Kind Of Young
Man to do Something for Nothing

AoANauNAy pFOmSnaQerS mas attaching Juhb
now to his portly personality, that liveliest
OF all. ''contemporaneous human interests"
the forcefulness of leadership BY the re-
suits ne has accomplished John Y. hcKane
is an actor of national Importance on the
stage OF public affairs. He has, to begin
with, the interesting equipment Of mys
FERROUS middle name. 1t is something of a
distinction itself to be named that wav.
More than Croker ia to New York, or
Gleason to Long Island city, or McLaugh-
lin to Brooklyn, or McDermett TO Jersey
City, is McKane TO GraveseBd, where
Cleveland was defeated in 1883 and where
he may be elected in 1892. Cleveland's
plurality Of l,O47 votes in the state of New
York in 1884 came from ~Gravesend. the
citadel OF the great county Of Kings, which
in 1855 showed a falling of of about three
. thousand in its Democratic vote. That
falling of is believed to have been the
work OF John Y. McKane, the keeper of
the citadel. He was a Democrat in
1881; a Republican in 1855. Now, in
1892, he is not only a Democrat. but
an anti Hin Democrat, possessed of a dis
tinct personal grievance against David B.
Hill, and likely to leave no stone unturned
in an effort to roll up big Democratic plur-
alities Tor Cleveland or Cleveland man if
he gets the chance. Now. who says John
Y. Mchane is not just now peculiarly
Interesting figure in the public arenal No
body in Washington knew much about Nc
Kane until he marched at the head of the
procession along Pennsylvania avenue at
Harrison's inauguration. Since that time
a.ed affo TO ,v-iy,
about personal meeting between him and
David b. Hill, who calls him John" Nc
Kane has persistently refused TO treat
with Hill. And the Senator has avery per-
suasive tongue Nearly forty years ago
this leader in American politics, one Of our
potent Mes" came from the north Of Ire
land with his fSther. AS lad ne trod the
shadows of Sheepshead bay for clans.
But he was ambitious and made all the
acquaintance he could and then made
friends os them. The Franklin lodge of
Odd Fellows admitted him to mem
bership, and when the time came
for an election for constable, the
Odd Fellows and his other friends elected
John Y. Mckane. he took to politics,
as all north of Ireland men seem to
do. Then he became commissioner OF
common lands, then supervisor of his
township, then chief of police, then mem
Der of the Democratic state committee.
AL Wis llLl6 u6 Ndb a D6ulOCEdG. IN 1901.
because Hill broke promises with him, as
he says, he went in heart and soul anti
Hill. Cleveland was asked to patch up the
quarrel from the White House, but Cleve-
land said ii was only a 'locar' quarrel, and
McKane went anti-Cleveland and Cleye-
land went under the next year. Now the
Democracy OF Kings, the second county in
the state, has just taken John Y. McKane
into the fold again and chosen him chair
man of the board of supervisors of the
whole county. II that causes MIR. Harri-
son to lose any sleep, why let him lose 1t:
il can't be helped, and facts are facts. Nc
6ane wears the imperial, and the states
man with the tuft on his chin is at the
front The odd fellow did it, McKane is
solid and well-proportioned, brown-haired
and mustached, q husband ana father and
thrifty manager, and he has the blue eyes
of the man who ''gets there"
GOVERNOR ALBEIT AND TIE BooDLERs.
In vetoing the Reading coal conspiracy
bill, Governor Leon Albeit, of New Jer-
sey, has done what public sentiment de-
manded he should DO, but evidently not
what he himself wanted to do. He was
dragooned into correcting as corrupt a
piece of monopolistio legislation as this
country has ever seen. He 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 lsments
that he is not able to approve it. The fact
is that he vetoes the bill as a piece of po-
hucal eXpediency. The idea of a bill to
legalize combination TO increase the price
OF coal to the consumer was so Impudent in
its conception and outrageous in principle
that il created q storm of indignation
throughout the country, and particularly in
New Jersey, AID the governor, as much as
he would have liked to see the bill become
law, did not dare afix his signature to it.
II would have meant his political death.
and it is not at all assured that his tempor-
iZing with the boodlers has not already laid
him upon the shelf for damaged goods.
" Whatever the legislature may do for him
in the way Of furthering his ambition to
achieve the United States senatorship. it
is generally believed that the people of the
state viii be slow to again honor him with
any important office. His election to the
Senate would not be vindication. as the
public has very clear understanding as
TO the manner in which these things are
accomplished breeze that blows over
the Hudson is to the effect that he will re-
pair his shattered fences and make a de-
termiIed e1Icrt to slip into the Senatorial
vacancy which occurs next year, but even
if he succeeds-his chances may be con-
sidereo falr-it Will, for the reason stated
avail him nothing as q vindication. An
other man who has been badly crippled bv
this attempted Legislation is MIR. Mel cod.
president Of the Reading road When he
consummsted the deal by which the Read
ing, Leghigh Valley and Jersey Central
were consolidated, he was hailed as q great
captain OF finance, but less glory attaches
TO his name now. Men are not always
honored for accomplishing that which the
law regards as shady, and this Reading
deal is decidedly OF that character. 1t all
goes to show that public sentiment is still
capable of being aroused to healthy action
a fact tnat corporationists should take
careful note Of. 1t is more or less i'm
portant
WILL TBET GET TIE BooDLEl
Now that Governor Albeit has vetoed
the bill which the New Jersey legislature
was paid TO pass, the highly important
question arises: VIII the members who
were corrupted into voting for 1t get the
money that was promised them? 1t is
pretty well known that sum not less than
$500 GOO was placed in Trenton to secure
the passage Of this bill; and l am told that
large part OF this money was placed on
deposit 10 be paid to the friendly members
when the measure became law. When
this arrangement was made there was no
doubt as to the governor signing il the
moment be got the opportunity But he
hss not signed it The protest of the pub
lie was not foreseen, and the wise schemes
of the schemers have gone agley. Can the
members who voted for the bill claim the
money which has not yet been paid TO them
and is held in trust somewhere until such
time as the bill shall become a law? The
coal bsrons, balke6 in their beautiful
plans, are said to be in no mood TO nav
large sums Of money for what they did cot
get and are now not likely to get. The men,