The Washington times., 1894-04-06
CORRIDOR AND CURB.

A private letter from New York, to one Of
our chief curbstone statesmen, brings the
somewhat astonishing information that ex-
Secretary Fairchild is entirely disguised with
the President. The other evening at the
Metropolitan Club in New York a friend OF
Mr.. Fairchild's asked for the ex-Secretary's 8
influence in securing an appointment. Mr..
Fairchild said:
"Ask me for my services in any other way;
ask me to help you in anything else: ask me
for my pocketbook or my time, but don't
ask me for any service which will involve my
laying any request or suggestion before that
man.
It is but another evidence that the mug
wump is net feeling entirely satisfied with the
present administration.
Senator Mcpherson has been badgered by
some people up in New Jersey who wanted to
know all about the tariff BILL and to have 1t
dealt out to them in a lecture on the subject
This request, coming while the shrewd Jersey
Senator was ut work day and night on the
tariff bill in the secret precincts OF the Finance
Committee and part OF the time in the most
holy of NOTES.-THE finance subcommittee
was an exceedingly bland and naive request.
1t was answered in an e:ght-page letter, but
not until the bill was reported and copies
might be had for the asking or by paying
postage thereon at the Senate document room.
Then Senator Mcpherson sat down and wrote
a letter. in which he explained he had been
very busy and unfoldei the Democrat tariff
policy since 1884 and said he believed in it
and promised to send a congressional copy OF
his speech as soon as delivered and printed.
The election of Congressman Caldwell to
be mayor of Cincinnati over the citizens can
didate is considered a great victory for
George Cox. Cox is the Republican boss of
Cincinnati Some call him Dick Croker OF
the Queen City, and his antagonists Say that
he is Just as powerful in Cincinnati rs Croker
is in New York; that he has wanted no public
office and wants none except the United
States Senatorship, and why not the reformers
of Cincinnati ask and they really write and
talk as if they feared that Cox might some
day be United States Senator.
recall an incident which illustrates very
well the character of this same George Cox.
In the campaign of 1884, as you will doubt
less recall, there were very hot times in Gin
cinnati just about election day. Two or three
of the managing Republican politicians, who
had gone from New York for the purpose,
made great stir swearing in nUnited States dep
uty marshals. and even shipped to Cincinnati
several immense cases of bulldog revolvers.
This caused no end of excitement, and rioting
and bloodshed resulted. as you know. 1t de-
volved upon somebody at one critical point in
the evening to quell an incipient riot in front
OF the Burnett House. There were doubtless
hundreds of guns in the pockets or the hands
OF the assembled crowd. 1t required nerve to
face these people. George Cox not only did
it. but went down and out among them and
talked to them as one man would to another,
and the crowd feared and respected him SO
much that they quieted themse down and
gradually dispersed. An eminent Republican
or two whom we have heard of nationally
more than we have OF Cox retreated TO the
recesses of the Lincoln Club with blanched
faces and with their Adams apples in their
hat crowns.
My advices from Colorado are that the
women. who have just been granted the
suffrage there, have taken u very prominent
part in the elections and have really had full
swing. Senator Wolcott has been unwilling
until recently to admit that the women of
Colorado could ever have any particular force
in politics. but lately he realized that they
and naturally very much gratihed that they
have interfered in behalf of the party to
which be belongs and not for the Popuiists.
who have endangered him SO much. 1t ap-
pears that the silver warfare is TO be wagei
anew by the same old leaders. 1t is evidently
to be kept as formerly, very much in the
hands of mine owners The leadership is ap-
parently not TO be allowed to come East with
the natural agitation in behalf of q real BIZ
metallism that is growing so much in the
East.
Later on he left Memphis and went to Dem
ver He got broke the second day after his
arrival there The barkeepers were not as
easy to work out in that dry climate as he
had found them in the East. and so it was
that he went for two solid days without
drink In fit Of des peration he went to see
a pawnbroker and hypothecated his valise
for enough wealth to send the following tele-
gram:
A. R. DARBY, Memphis: For the sake of a suf-
fering friend rush ten HARDIN.
He hung around the telegraph Office and in
the course of the evening he received the fol-
lowing sent collect:
C. HARDIN Denver: Can it be possible, old
boy, that you are broke, DARBY.
C. Hardin, who was captured few days
ago in western Missouri, charged with having
stolen large sum of money from an express
company in st. Louis, is known in every
daily newspaper Office south of the Ohio
river. He is the king ot Bohemians and
rafting good reporter. A few years ago he
was in Memphis doing local on the Appeal.
One night he was sitting in an open window
on the third floor when he suddenly lost his
balance and fell to the sidewalk. He vas
dazed for a moment. When he collected his
senses he cried out in loud. angry voice:
"Trot out the scoundrel who hit me and I
can whip him in half a minute"