The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-07
IN THE CORRIDORS.
Interesting Chat Heard at the
Hotels.

Wiley s. Harrison. OF Corinth, Miss,
was in the city few hours yesterday
and to q TIMES reporter said: 1.-The
political situation in my State is simply
this. We are going to give Cleveland
the largest Democratic majority that
we have ever given to a Presidential
candidate. The Farmers Alliance is
fast playing out with us. We have de.
cided that before listening to Macune's
grand economic doctrines he had better
return to Texas and settle tho SIS, 900
that he and his associates frauduiently
made away with in their management
of the Dallas Exchange.
I'm regard to our constitutional pro-
vision restricting the privilege OF voting.
l will say that it has been very severely
critized, but you know it is easier to find
faults than it is to correct evils, and OH
the whole the provision is wise one.
1t is true that it will exclude many ne.
groes from voting, bus 1t will operate
similarly upon the whites, and after all
l contend that no man should vote I'M
less he knows what he is voting for.
For nine years the ignorant negro and
the unprincipled white man controlled
the State of Mississippi, and during that
time they turned it from prosperity into
desolation and bankruptcy, aud so long
as we can help it we are resolved that
it shall never again pass into the hands
| of these political vandals"
AT the Ponce de Leon yesterday
couple of drummers were engaged in
conversation. II think if l have any
| virtues they are good humor and love
of humanity" said one of them. From
| my youth up L think l have possessed
these, and somehow 1 cannot bear NAL
ice to any living creature. However,
| there is u hotel clerk in Hous ton,
| Texas, whose funeral I would like to at
tend, or sit upon his tombstone by moon
| light and whistle the Boom. de-Aye.'
We reached Houston one night too late
for supper. The clerk blandly assured us
that he was very sorry (of course he
was, never saw one who was not but
| suggested that we permit him to secure
US some tamales and chile con carne,
| which we could eat in the sitting room.
Never having eaten any l was espe-
cially pleased with tao idea, and anX-
| iouSly awaited tn ir arrival. At last
they came, ana 10 ny surprise l found
that tamac WAS composed of meal.
| hashed meat OF qucS tionable origin and
ninc parts o: cayenne pepper, wrapped
in shnck jacket and boiled in dish
water. 1 a.u one ana Immediately re.
pen.ed. But hope was not yet gone.
and / turned to inc chile con-come for
| consolation. | got it. l swallowed one
mouthful, and the fortunes of the
erring in that beautiful land where they
don't cut ice would have been mild to
the agonies / suffered. l felt that
was veritable Vesuvius and on the
point of an eruption.
Rushing madly out of the hotel I
made for the fire department. and be-
sought it for the love OF humanity and
$40 in cash to turn on me the biggest
hose that the city afforded. DO you
know what chile-con carne is made out
Of? Well, viii tell you, Two parts
OF sulphuric acid, three parts OF gun cot
ton and five parts OF nitro glycerine
mixed with an equ.l proportion of dy-
Mantle. If that stuff is what the Tex
ans eat do not wonder that life is held
down there by a somewhat precarious
tenure"
At the Roanoke yesterday promi-
nent Northern gentleman said: From
the present outlook the Republican
ticket is doomed to defeat. Mover have
seen so many causes conspire to rem
der ticket unpopula'. The Home
stead affair and the various other labor
troubles throughout the country are
producing the impression that the party
is responsible for them il falling to
protect against reduction of wages.
Illinois and two or three other Western
States have the compulsory education
matter as an issue and the mere fact tina t
it is Endorsed by the Repu blican party OF
the State will be sufficient to make the
Lutheran vote go squarely against that
party not only in the State, but in the
national election.
This vote amounts to more than 30.
tx,t noix IL Statp st 4
is perhaps as strong, If not stronger in
the other States. l tell you whom you
look the whole field over and see tho
forces that are now at work it alm ost
seems that fate has conspired with tho
Democratic party for the overthrow OF
its opponents. There is, however, one
hope. The Democratic party, in the
history of this country, stands unrival-
led for laundering 1t was through its
laundering that Harrison was elected
in 1888, and it may commit another and
elect him again in 1902"
Money.