The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-30

not one of them has ever done yet-the
tiger would feel very weak on the
evening of election day. And why
shouldn't they, for Tammany has done
Just what Corbett did. The old
wooden-headed Indian of Fourteenth
street has been challenged, and he has
replied: Fight Mr.. Straus." 1t was
perfectly well known that Tammany
did not nominate one OF its own men
because il did not dare. 1t desired to
shift the fight on to somebody else. If
d suspicion of such conduct on the part
of Mr.. Corbett raised howl from the
offended moral sense of the broken
nosed battalion, which forced Mr.. Cor
bett to change his tune, what could
Tammany expect from the same tao
tics? Just what it got. THE boys"
wouldn't support Straus. They said:
what tell? Dey had right ter NOM
mate Grant"
On the whole, have rarely seen any
thing so amusing as that nomination.
1t is understood throughout the coun-I
try, of course, that Mr.. Straus' strong
point was his well-known charity.
Imagine Tammany hall, which has
(not metaphorically but actually col
lected tribute from the blind beggars
On the street corners. making a cam
paign on the issue of charity!
Think of the shopkeepers on the
rast side, whose profits of few hun
bred dollars a year have never been
exempt from Tammany's exactions, be-
be is good to the poorl
! 1t may seem to the reader that these
things are long way off from his per-
sonal interest, but / think such rich
ness ought to be appreciated any
where.
We have had this year another excel
lent illustration of the shrewdness OF
politicians. That is, perhaps, the best
joke in politics. 'Shat adjective is per-
petually reserved for the stupidest of
men. / would not trust convention
of the political leaders of New York
city to make a mud pie, if | wanted
rood one. These Tammany sachems
believed that because Mr.. Straus con-
trolled the advertising of one of our
largest dry goods stores that the news
papers would support him. This was
regarded by them as one of the strong
points of his candidacy. And no candi-
date. in my recollection, has ever so
ronspicuously lacked newspaper sup
port.
WHY, a new printers devil in any OF
the newspaper offices-so new devil
that he's afraid to get ink o. his face
might have told these shrewd politicians
EXACTLY how.much influence that consld-
pration would have upon the press OF
the city. But they did not ask print
Frs devils advice. They did not nave
Eense enough.
If Tammany's leaders had had rs
much perceptive power asa blind man
blind dog they would have seen what
vas coming when DIR. Parlhurst got
after them a couple of years ago But
they evidently mistook him for Rev.
Sam Jones. They thought that he
would talk q little while and then quit
Nobody else thought so. Nine people
put OF ten with whom | talked-not
counting politicians-believed that he
would succeed if he wasn't removed"
IL
nlaved and easily won, the doctor has
nlayed such a game. So FAR as can
see, his adversaries have not gained a
no;nt Observers of the struggle have
s,p,etimcs been deceived bv the size of
.un vuaro ano the numoer OF the
pieces. They have mistaken slow
game for one well contested. But the
fact is that DR.. Parkhurst has not been
matched in any single point OF the
fight He has played like Ajeeb, the
rhess machine. which once defeated me
In twenty moves when ii might have
been done much less skillfully in half
h dozen. Even Superintendent yrnes.
who really has head on his shoulders,
has been a child in the clergyInan's
hands. and now draws nearer end pearer
"a tha inaritahla saankinH