New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-27
THE MN FROM ASPEN

SIN the name OF lchthyOlOgy cOHcholoSli
psychology. biology and bacteriology what do
Won call this?" said a fisherman on the
Massachusetts coast as he held up 4 creature
that seemed to be something half way between
the ichthy osaurus and Rocky Mountain mule
This is neither a hell grummet nor Mug
wump." THAT" xd the skipper, " is La
biit,. What is a Liability? Well, we call
'em liabilities because, i'll the first place, when
we are fishing i'll these waters with this klnd
of tide and dragnct Of this sort with mesh
rs fine as this. ard all sorts Of bait from dollar
wheat To free beer. we are more liable to catch
EN- than we are any other kind of fish. Then
again. after they're caught they're liable to
flop round and stave a hole in the bottom of
the boat if you don't throw EN- overheard.
And the marketmen call them liabilities be-
cause they eat up the assets An yes
said the fisherman, thouehtiully. re-
member we had just such tide a year ago. and
some of my friends set just such dragnet and
threw ont all sorts of bait and caught Just
such a lot OF queer creatures. They We been
noppng round and threatening 70 knock a hole
in the bottom Of the boat ever since. Labl-
tics are they? Well the best thing to do is
70 throw EN- overbOald.
The fisherman was. as they say III the
street dead right" about the dragnct set at
Chicago. the fineneSS Of the mesh, the variety
Of bait the phenomenal creatures that were
caught therein their uSecssnesS as assets. their
aggIcs.ivene>s as liabilities and their DISPOSE
ton to flop round and make hole in the bot
tom Of the boat They caught the Pcnnoycrs
Of Oregon. the Afcclds Of Illinois. the Till
a. I linz of
Kansas. the stones of Missouri and the Waitcs
Of Colorado-a wonderful collection of queer
fish. no two of them alike. 1t was the sort of
fishing that went on the principle announced
in an early age, "AllS fish that comes to my
net" I'm such a tide as that OF last Novcm-
Der with such net a that thrown out by the
Chicago Convention, the fishermen had no rca-
son 10 he surprised al anything in the catch
from "A saurian 10 a sea serpent, from tumble
bug 10 bull calf. They cast for everything
in sight and out of sight: for edible food and
for stock companies for Bowcry museums. And
now that they have got them all together 1t is
no wonder that they turn them over and Won
der in the name Of ichthyology. conchology,
psychology biology and bacterology what on
earth they signify what they are for and what
TO throw them overheard as liabilities" be-
fore they swallow up the assets
Only one in the whole lot-onc ont of the
PcnnoycrS and AltgeldS and Tillmans and
Lewcllings and Stones and WaitcS-has any
sort of reason for being. any genesis that can
stand an analysis down 10 the sediment and |
rcsiduum of first causes. That man is Davis |
II. Waite. Of Colorado whom TIE TRIBUNE /
has two or three times called off his perch for
a little conversation on the subject of blood /
Davis H. Waite is from Aspen, Col He is /
a PopuIist. Many persons have wondered |
how he came to be Governor of Colorado. |
It's easy enough when You consider where he
came from. Whoever reads the platform Of
the Populists with care will see that when the
Populists of Colorado, assisted by the Demo-
Gratis of that State, began to look about for
a candidate for Governor the logic of the sit
uation. the whole trend of events and the
irresistible push of the large-hearted, wide
mOuthed and extensive cared persons engaged
in the movement sent them TO Aspen. And
then the law of selection compelled the choice
Of the biggest one in the pen.