The age-herald., 1897-09-24

@=H1F suit on, it was all he could do to resist swatting him. Trlsd Ito get "Hig" to go balSe it off Wouldn't do 1t. Said he had bought it for tha occasion. and was going to wear it. Didn't give a damn who objected. Made s3 much fun of old "Hig' that he hasn't had a dress suit on since.
 Went down to the Times Herald of- flee to see Editor Kohlsaat. Kohlsaat prints a good paper. He's good baker als5 Got bakeriss scattered all over town It's not hot tomales with Kohlsaat but it's hot biscuit. Got rich making bread Got to be business man. ager of the Inter Ocean. Was a great success at it. Fell out with Bill Penn Nixon. Said to Nixon you've either got to buy me out. CT I'll buy you out" Nixon raplied "Givs me twelve hours time to think it ovsr'' When the time was up Nixon had the dough- in his pocket. He bought Kohlsaat out at Kohlsaaafs price. Kehlsaat didn't think he could do it. Bill fooled him. Then Kohlsaat he went back to dough and the bakers shop. Made more dough and when Jim Scott, editor of the Times Herald died, he scoop=d up the property, giving Mrs Scott all she aslzed for it. Kohlsaat's great friend of Mckinley. Used to live, when he was a boy, down in Carton. When Mckinley went broke indorsing Walkers notssf; for $11S,000, Kohlsaat and Mark Hanna passed the hat and got enough in it to pay McKin- lay out of debt. That's how McKin- ley got out of debt. Kohlsaat and Mark Hanna still hold the notes. They are getting their pay. Mckinley, he's ap- pointing their friends to, office every day They are getting a grip on the government Idon't blame them. They helped Mckinley out of the hole when he needed it.. It would be ingratitu in Mckinley if he did not remember his old friends when hs was prosperous.
 Went over to Tribune office to get talk out of old Joe Medill. When Joe was boy he was printer at the case. The first job he ever had was in Cleve- land, O. Tramped from Cleveland to Chicago catching job here and there in country towns. Chicago was very small those days. Started first daily paper in the place, which was then as now the Tribune. The paper and the town grew together. Joe got rich Was elected mayor in the early seventies Tribune's great paper. Old Joe's as free trader when there's no election in sight AS soon as campaign opens up he shifts his brush and becomes a rank protec- tionist. After the election no matter whether he's been defeated or not he goes back into the free trade furrow again. If it hadn't besn for the foolish ness of Mediiq's paper in 1888 Gresham would have been nominated instead of Harrison. Tribune tried to boss the Gresham faction. Blaine, Alger and Harrison followers all got mad. It was then anything to beat Gresham. Me dill is very old and feeble now. Very deaf. When Lincoln was an unknown lawyer in Central Illinois Medill was a reporter on his own paper. He did more than any other newspaper man in the United States to give Lincoln a state and national reputation. The two men were friends from the time they first met. Medill was born in Northern New York. Lincoln was born in Kentucky. The two extremes met. Medill was an abolutionist, but not crazy on the sub ject lke Wendall Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison. It is said that Joe Medill was the first man to suggest to Lincoln to write the proclamation of emancipation. I don't know whether it's true or otherwise, but it is a good story to relate as a matter of supposed history.
 There is a great moral wave in Chi- cago at the present time. For the past two years there has been lots of gam bling, Gambling houses and pool rooms Wloe open in defiance of the law. Young Mayor Carter Harrison, son of Mayor carter Harrison, who was murdered by crank dn 1893, is going to close all of the gambling houses and pool rooms. The fact is the gambling houses in Chi cago have been run wide open because they were protected by the police It is said every gambling house in the town has been paying the chief of po- lice wad of money every Saturday to De let alone. Harrison got on to it. This IS an evil that prevails in many cities. Chicago's rot the only place. Harrison's an honest man. He's not a crank, how ever, on the subject of moral reform. He's liberal. Says he believes in bet ting on horse races. Also says it's his opinion that the town is getting too good. He's in favor of opening a race track for thirty days season every year. l agree with Harrison. Chicago's not only getting too good, but the whole country is afflicted with false wave of reform. l am opposed to gambling Ihink It's the lowest way to get money that was ever invented. Haven't much use for gambler. Always get the best of it That's what he is in the business for. Have known a great many gam blers, however, who were honest. straightforward men, Didn't cheat nor do another man an injury. Some of them better than preachers. I presume, how ever, that this class is very small I don't object to horse racing Nothing more inspiring than to sit in a grand stand where there are thousands of men and women representing the beauty and the chivalry of the country, and watch the horses contest for supremacy. Horses are bred to race, and none like to race better than the horses themselves. The gamblers and the police, however, have held Chicago under sway for years. It will be remembered that some years ago Chicago had an epidemic of sand bagging. Hundreds of people sand- basged nearly every night. The police made few, if any, arrests. This aroused the suspicion of the mayor and police commissioners They mada m invar