Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04
THE RAINBOWS OF POLITICS.
trRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT

| IFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
A perfect 'bow of promise" as displayed
by the Almighty is one of the grandest as
well as one of the most beautiful sights in
the universal heavens. Rising from nowhere
and resting picturesquely upon nothing, q
| glorious segment of colors spanning o drip
| ping sky, swelling and fading in the sun
| shine, as intangible as human happiness and
| as sudden ana unexpected as human grief,
| 1t elicits the wonder and admiration of the
| world.
The Scriptures say ir is the sign that the
world shall never again be destroyed by
food. Science says It is a natural pheno-
menon that always existed, contemporane-
ously with sunshine and storm.
The political rainbow is also bow OF
promise.
1t Is the creation of man, and shows
through the sunkissed clouds, beautiful,
shapely, gorgeous, Kaleidoscope, Intangible
"a promise to the admiring political partisan
that the party is all right and the offices are
practically already ours 1t rises grandly
from political headquarters out of nothing
and rests airily upon the same solid basis.
Like the heavenly span of Nature. the
political rainbow seems to be just over
there in the meadow. or beyond the wood,
or on the lake, or resting on the mountain
and you feel as though you could, II you
happened to be at that particular point,
bask delightedly in its divine colors. II not
carve them up into actual chunks and carry
them home to amuse the children. Yet no
man ever stood on the root of a rainbow,
natural or political. 1t Is an optical tllu-
sion.
In the manufacture Of rainbows the pro-
fessional politician is considerably in ad.
vance OF the Almighty. The latter has thuB
far succeeded in making but one at time
visible to the same eye. Whereas our polit-
l.
factory turns out boxes, to order or tor the
trade.
The Rainbow Factories of Gotham.
There are four or five rainbow factories
now running in New York, the two princi-
pal establish ments being at l89 and 6ls Fifth
avenue, respectively. Both are doing good
business. When they run short of material
or low in stock they develop remarkably
prolific outside sources. The first thing
saint is supposed to do when mad saint is
to go and get fitted with a halo. The first
thing a Republican partisan or a Demo-
cratic partisan does when he comes here Is
to go to his particular party managers and
get fitted with rainbow. No fashionable
tailor without wings and Il golden harp
could give creator satisfaction to his GUS
toners. The result is that the Republican
or Dem mocrat goes home feeling that every
thing is all right.
1t Is true, among so many rainbows one
rainbow must necessarily conflict with an
other; but it doesn't really seem to make any
difference as long as everybody is happy.
The standard rainbows rises from headGrc.T-
ters on Fifth avenue and hoyerssaver In
diana, North Caroline, Nsw Jersey, West
Virginia. ,Aiahama, Illinois. Iowa, the capi-
tol ar Aipany ana the entire Northwest;
wEiie the little rainbow for cent spring up
and settle everywhere. You stub your toes
on them every day. They are handed down
manifolded at the respective managerial
headquarters for the use of the newspaper
press. The various clever press representa-
tives at headquarters could themselves
easily turn out those rainbows to suit the
palate of their customers without violence
OF individual sentiment. but it saves bother
to have them served cooked and seasoned
and eliminated of all flabbiness and unnec-
essary adipose tissue OF speech the standard
political rainbow parallels thus:
Two styios Of the Gorgeous Bands.
Republican. Democratic.
Our advices Indicate Everythngooks favor
the most extraordinary able to a sweeping Demo-
uprising OF the people In cratic victory. We are
favor Of Harrison and astonished and highly
protection. Organization gratifed to learn from
Is going rapidly forward every quarter the extra
ates solid rank and file. the national ticket and
We are sure to carry tariff reform. The whole
New York and Indiana country is aiame. We
and have every reason to York and Indiana and
believe that we,shaI add the solid South, but we
States to the Republican least three Northwestern
column. We've got them States. If not four. This
on the run. !, going to be land
The little rainbows for q cent from the in
terror. There are just as many of them as
there are politicians who bring them or
send them by mail and wire. They will par
allel under general head something like
this:
Indiana Solid.
For Harrison. For Cleveland
Hon. Peter, Heavy Colonel J. q. Smith,
weight member Of the ore of the leading Demo-
Indiana Republican State cratic managers OF Indi-
rived here from Indian Avenue Hotel w He says
apols this morning. Indiana is solid for Cleve-
He says Indiana is solid land and Stevenson:
for Harrison and Reid, '.The Indiana Democrats
THE Democrats are were never more of
F fey they are are fhe1
will knife the ticket from oughly organized and
the word go. We shall In good fighting trim.
from the working men lar there and his party
and the farming inter- swallow him bitter
ests There is much en- pill, Wen win in
thusiasm and everything walk. Indiana Is natur-
US. No Democrscic wifi cast the full party
President has been elec- vote The working men
I%aishs the s4 ssaia's the rSSDs1
What the Women Are Doing.
The ladies are in it. Decidedly. as
certained this by visit to the
HEADQUARTERS of the "Woman's Re-
States" at New York Not only is woman
in it but she is in it with big "w." And
she Is on top-on top of the big l2-story hotel.
From this lofty position she can look down
on the rest of the world and feel sorry for it.
Her headquarters form pretty bit of polit-
ical Dresden china. Exquisitely furnished
rooms, adorned with pictures and bric-a-
brac and beautified with the lovely female
presence.
No open-faced, nickel-plated Wanam akers
yawning at you, no red noses, no tobacco
juice, no stale cigar smoke, no blear-eyed
loafers N patriots down at the heel looking
FOR a job, no clappity bang. This dainty
political reception room no more resembles
the conventional reception rooms at 5lS and
139 Fifth avenue than a bird of paradise re-
sembles u turtle. We are in a lady's boudoir.
There is touch of political reality in the
typewriting machine and the stenographer's
note books seen through the door a1ar but
let that pass. The signs OF cultured woman
hood and the delicious glamor of refined
taste are over everything.
And, say! Think of sitting in that sweet
little French tete-a-tete with Mrs. Manager
Howard, wrapped in an imported silk
American hagI And, looking straight into
her big, clear dark-brown eyes, listening to
Go way, Tom Carter. Come OFF your
perch, Frank Harrity!
Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster is President of the
Woman's Republican Association; Mrs.
retary; Mrs. Francis H. Howard is chief of
the literary bureau. Their campaign is
prosecuted on the highest fin de seicle
plane. They haYe shorn politics of all its
sordid vulgarity. What their work may
lack in scope It makes up in gilt edges.
Their documents are printed on enameled
paper and bear the monogram w. X. A.
Even the envelopes carry the royal crest,
and they look like wedding invitations.
The corps of pretty young women in an ad
ioip ;un wh IN n H..