The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-01-13
DEMOCRACY ASSAILED
A Grist Of Gossip from the
Worlds Fair City.
VIEWS OF A CORRESPONDENT
Vivid Pen Picture of the Heart
rending Distress among
the Unemployed.
vIEws oE A coRREsPoNDENT
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence,
Chicago Jan. 7.-Although chicag
has elected democratic mayor to sue
ceed Carter Harrison, whose life was S
cruelty snuffed out by the bullet of
half-crazed and brain-clouded assassin
ID requires an awful stretch of the i'm
agination to call the recent election
democratic victory, AS matter o
fact, it is as plain rebuke to Hi
Obesity Cleveland as was that admin
istered by the people of Ohio, Iowa, ant
other states at the November state elec
tions. In November, 1892. Chicago wen
democratic by nearly 25OO. Hopkins wa
elected by all kinds of fraud and Jesuit
ical Vaccinations, and goes into tn,
city hall with barely a thousand vote
to save his political hide.
For the past two weeks Chicago
streets and her mammoth retail depart
ment stores have presented a World
Fair appearance; in fact, believe it hal
been more difficult to get along tn,
main thoropghfare than it was during
the height of the exposition attendance
Business men say, however, that Will,
the holiday shopping crowds have beer
larger this year than ever before, theii
purchases, on the other hand, have beer
much smaller The majority of the al
most countless thousands who surround
ed the big bazaars We're bargain seek
ers. That is, they were looking about
to make one dollar do this year whai
they were content to get with ten last
year. There's a contrast for you be.
tween democratic and republican rule
w. p, Rend, the big coal miner ant
chairman of a relief committee appoint,
ed by Mayor Harrison just before his
death, to provide work, food and shell
ter for Chicagos army of idle and des
titute, made a statement the other day
that there are now over 100000 unem
pioyed resident workingmen in this big
city. By this statement he means tc
exclude thousands of buns, tramps, and
transients that have drifted into Chica.
go since the autumn months, and who
are still here to be fed, housed and car
ed for in some sort Of shape. Referring
to this army of resident unemployed.
Mr.. Rend said: These men are in tho
main, men with sober, honest faces,
and are heads of families. They come
to me and with tears in their eyes, tel
me of their distress and of the horrible
truth that in their homes, into which
the withering, blighting curse of en-
forced idleness has come, there are in.
nocent children crying for bread" IAN.
other contrast between Astoria and Chi
cago) These men, continues Mr.
Rend are men who have helped to build
up this magnificent city, and If Chicago
does not stand by them in this their
hour of terrible need, it win be q crime
against God and Heaven
l am glad to say that Mr. Rend's ap-
peal had the effect OF arousing the citi-
zens of Chicago to the true condition Of
the Industrial classes, and that with
Characteristic Chicago pluck and ener.
gy the relief work was at once taken
up with vim and thoroughness that
has gone far towards alleviating suffer.
ing and distress, and which on Christ.
mas day carried joy and gladness and
a generous supply Of the necessarfes of
life into thousands of homes.
And this brings me back to the
throngs of Christmas shoppers which
crowded along Chicago's streets during
the holiday season just closed. In not
a few of the purses were dollars which
could lily be spared for toys and holiday
knicknacks, because Of the melancholy
fact that the butcher, grocer, coal man,
and landlord, all had prior claims or
them. But you know what parental
love is; and don't blame parents fol
seeing to 1t that childish faces were not
lacking in smiles. nor young hearts
filed with sadness because Santa ciaut
passed them by in the year Of our
Savior. 1873.
A big fat Nincompoop in the presiden-
tial chair may enforce a policy that
brings ruin and idieness to thousands Of
American homes, but thanks to an all.
wise Providence. he cannot chill tie
hearts or the charitable aor close
their purses TO the cries Of distress
that well up from the suffering masses
my Jel'1de himself with the
idea that New Jersey is a bigger state
than Texas; in the Interests Of a crowd
of infamous sharks on Wall street he
n,sy :ores the tiine-henor'sd silver dollar
out OF existence; he may father an in
famous tariff bill that, before its pas
cage. has already settled the wheels IN
thousands Of factories; tut he .an not
ztop those acts Of kindness BY which