The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-24

1
the safe side of sixty, with eyes as
gentle as gazelle and manner that
, IS never aggressive, save when aroused,
Mr.. Grace has the faculty ofmaking and
holding friends to an eminent degree.
He knows how to hide his resentments
and to blde his time. But woe betide
the man upon whose trail he once en-
camps. A strong Catholic and pro-
nOunced democrat, it is rather singular
that he never has been drawn into the
neshes of the Tammany Hall orgapiza-
ton On the contrary, he has for years
been relentless enemy of the organ
ization and the chief supporter of the
! County Democracy organization which
at one time bid fair to permanently
supplant Tammany IN the control of
our municipal affairs, but which went
to pieces through the greedy eorrup-
ton Of its ignorant and understandable
managers. Mr.. Grace Is trying
to revive similar banditti,
and it is barely possible that
he will try to lift himself into the
mayors Office this year, as he did in
1854 under the cover of the presidential
campaign, which is an excellent season
for bringing out votes and making po-
itical deals in this city. / do not know
the origin Of the quarrel between Gov.
Hill and Mr. Grace, but | presume it
began about the time that the governor
manifested his liking for the pirates of
Tammany rather than the freebooters
of the County Democracy. 1t is said
that the governor once told story
about Mr.. Grace which got into circu-
lation and annoyed him considerably.
It was to the effect that while mayor
Mr.. Grace went to Albany to consult
with the governor about certain meas
ures which he deemed of interest to the
city of New York. he made certain
statements to the governor which were
somewhat astonishing, and the governor
said to him.:
'Mayor Grace, why don't you go be-
fore the people of New York and make
to them the same statement that you
have made to me, as a means of arous-
ing and awakening public sentiment?"
II / should make such statement to
the public as / have made to you, no.
body in New York would believe me-"
This, according to the governor,
aroused his distrust of Grace, for it
occurred to him that mayor of the
city Of New York who would admit
that his veracity was SO far below par
that nobody would believe him when
discussing important municipal meas
ures was not man for him to train
with. Whether this story be true or
not, there was certainly decided fall
ing out between Mr.. Grace and Mr..
Hill, and the willy senator has been
made more than once to feel the
keen edge of the Grace snickersnee.
The hostility shown Hill by the ILL
advised Syracuse convention, composed
as it was entirely of Mr.. Cleveland's
friends, will cut an important figure in
the November elections. 1t has widened
q breach between the two factions in
this state, and / know of nothing that
can heal it now. Should Mr.. Cleveland
be nominated at Chicago, as now seems
almost certain, all hope of defeating
Tammany locally would seem to vanish.
power and organization to keep Tam
many's voters up to the support of the
democratic national ticket, and if Mr..
Grace succeeds in forming coalition
with the republicans to defeat Tam
many's candidate for mayor the Tam
many knife viii be used with great
effectiveness ON the vertebral column of
Mr.. Cleveland. At all events, there will
be fun in politics in New York this
year. 1t should be borne in mind that
all Of Mr.. Grace's sltillful political work
has but one objective-the pulling down
of Tammany Hall and the erection of
Grace Hall
MRS. MARTINS CRUSADE.
One of the queer phases of our Amer
lean politics is that there is always
some woman who seems to enjoy the
fun Of being sham candidate for the
presidency Erstwhile it was Mrs. Belva /
Lockwood. Now it is Victoria Wood !
hull Martin. This Inarvelously active |
and aggressive woman has left q beau
tiful and comfortable home in England |
to come over here and engage in the |
1cl4y VI Il uuIlllS iOA JISSitiCht Oh d pldO |
form which has for its chief clause the |
of the human race. The |
humane Mrs Martins theory is that if !
vicious, diseased, deforlned and inbecile |
people on this earth can be kept from |
and propagating, a very |
handsome and long lived human family |
will result. In other words she is /
seeking to introduce into our sexual af /
fairs the same principle which applies |
to the Kentucky stock farm. She is a
persuasive and magnetic
woman and no doubt she WILL Sc
cure some converts to her theory, but, |
as matter of fact, she might as well |
be engaged in trying to induce vegeta-
ton to grow toward the center OF the
earth, instead of away from it, as TO es-
tablish the rules for the government of
human affection think Ms Martin
has been a much abused and unneces-
sarily maligned woman. She has had
the misfortune to be too far in advance
of her brethren and sisters, and her life
has been q stormy and somewhat I'M
one. Her career and that
Of her sister may be said to be unique.
remember in Cincinnati, about the
closing years of the war, when her sis
ter, Tennie Clafin- was pictured and
advertised in all the local newspapers
as 1.-The Wonderfully Gifted Child, Ten
At that time Tennie was sup
posed TO be endowed with second sight
She was beautiful and fascinating girl
and she attracted great attention as a
precocious fortune-teller. Subsequently
she and her sister came TO New York
and here they achieved fame in con-