Evening journal., 1892-07-25
MR.. ZACH AN EXCEPTION.
He Does Not Get Fat Like the other
Men I'm Politics.

wen III iniiAtcns
In long article on politics and
Avoirdupois the New York Sun says:
"The young and slender men who are
ambitious TO increase their weight and to
get a dignifed and portly appearance,
political life might positively be recon-
mended by any physician. -Four times
out of FIVE the individual who devotes
himself to such life gets stout of body.
The election or the defeat of the politi
clan does not affect much his increase in
weight. About his only way to stop the
laying on of fat is to drop politics and
political hours habits and associates. So
long as they are kept up his flesh will
stay, though the sickness and dignity
may vary.
Almost all politicians are stout Many
people seem to think that politics
is vocation which naturally attracts
stout men, or that there is something in
being fat which brings political success.
They make erroneous inductiOns because
they have usually observed politicians
only in time of their prominence and not
while they were working their way up TO
be known and balloted for. The fact
that great many politicians are thin at
the beginning of their career proves that
politics does not at the beginning dis
criminate in fay Nor Of man with flesh.
The flesh comes afterward, and IS a re-
suit instead Of a cause.
The unhygienic life led by most poll
ticians, according to commonly accepted
beliefs, should unfeeble rather than
strengthen a man, and the lack of excer-
size, coupled with irregular hours, would
tend 10 shorten life. This idea accords
with the opinions of medical men in re-
gard to the methods Of life of other men
than politicians Certainly politicians
often die suddenly, and comparatively
few Of them reach the three score years
and ten to which a young man with
/ good constitution and good health is en-.
| titled Still there are cases where po-
litical life seems to have built up man
and improve his health
United States District Attorney Nit
! chell, United States Marshal Jacobus,
/ Collector Francis Hendricks. Senator
/ David b. Hill, Lieut.. Gov. William +.
! Sheehan. Chairman Edward Murphy
Register Fitzgerald. Secretary Willis
Holly, Chamberlain Thomas c. T. Grain,
and a long list of others might be cited
by an investigator into the fattening
powers of politics. Political life seldom
il ever reduces a mans weight, or often
! shOrtenS his existence. 1t lis seldom that
a man in active political life loses weight
unless it be by sickness causing his death
On the contrary, politicians are among
the best customers anti-fat estab-
lishments have. From Governor Ros-
well p. Flower as an example down to the
!. hOlAers of somB of the smallest
I oifiiKs Of tlis state, it is
! e4bning more thg Custom every year to
take regular exercise and even to train.
GoveItlor Flower lias rfan call at the
Lexecuti9e mansion fh the evening and rub
fhim down after EXERCISING him in boxing
for twenty minutes or half an hour.
The result in the governors case is that
he has reduced his weight Senator
Roesch Commissioner Purroy, and Others
in New York politics have like the gov
ernor gone into training TO counteraci
the fattening effect of political life.
The reporter who wrote the story OF
which the above is part evidently never
heard of Mr.. Bach the celebrated Repub
lican chairman of this city who does not
weigh as much as his smallest Negro
lieutenant