El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-04

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''Oue of the most annoying features
that actors have TO contend With, are
the cries which sOne times come from
noisy wags in the house. These usual
ly provoke the mirth of an audience.
but are demoralizing to the nerves OF
the persons at whom they are directed
One of the most amusing of these eX-
periences," said Comedian William
Hellar of the Town Topics company.
"The incident occurred in the course
of scene in Ric hard the Third, be-
tween Edwin Booth as Richard ard
Miss Lodusk Young as Lady Anne
Richard had offered his sword to Lady
Anne and on Bonded knee besought h4r
to kill him if she would not pardon the
wrongs he had done her. Anne, with
the sword in her hand raised her eyes
toward the gallery and excl aimed,
what shall do? Direct me. heaven.
In boyish voice, the answer came
down from one of the nut-strewn seats
of heaven, Stick him
When President Cleveland stepped
down from office today, it ended one
hundred years of rule by party Ia the
recently published by the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat which is appropriate
roading for this inaugural day, and be-
sides this Round About feels slightly
under the weatEer. So here 1T goes:
In the election of Washington in
1889 and 1892 party lines were not
drawn, and at the earlier date parties
were not in existence. Washington
was elected each time without opposl-
ton because he was prominently the
foremost man in the country. When
the convention of 1877 met which
framed the constitution it was the
intention of Ben amin Franklin, who
was also a member of the convention,
to propose Washington as president
of that body. Franklin was the only
man in the United States prominent
enough to be thought of as possible
competitor of Washington for that
honor. AT the opening of the conven-
tion Franklin was absent, ard another
member of the Pennsylvania delega-
tion, Robert Morris, proposed Washing
ton. and he was chosen unanimously
n the first and second elections for
President Washington was the only
name considered for that office, and be
received every electoral vote cast
SIN the election of 1896, when Adams
and jefferson were the leading candi-
dates, the first partisan contest, or
contest, of any sort for the presidency
took place. Parties had been formed 8
few years earlier, but this was the first
time that they figured in presidential
election. The party line in politics has
been present ever since. sometimes II
has grown faint, and once, during the
era of good feeling, 1t had apparent
ly vanished, yet it was never actually
lost. Most persons thought then and
afterward that partisan dlVls1ou had
ceased around the time when Monroe,
in his second election, received every
electoral vote cast except one. There
was one man living then, however, who
was not deceived by this political
surface sameness You are told,
indeed, wrote jefferson, shortly after
that election, to Galiatln. that there
are no longer parties among US. that
they are now amalgamafed, that the
lion and the lamb lie down together
in peace. Do not believe word of it.
The same parties exist now as ever
did
The old partisan division developed
in the contest on the United States
bank in 1871, and which in 1896 reveal
ed itself for the first time in presl-
Dental election, has existed to this
day. Party Ia oelS have charged, but
the basic line which has separated
| them (the greater organizations and
| not the smaller Ones) has remained the
| same. There has always been broad
constructioniSt aud strict construc-
| ZIONIST school in politics, the former
accord ing relativ ely large powers TO
| the federal government and relatively
small powers to the states, and the lat
| ter reversing this order. 10 the
| broad constructionist, strong govern
ment school have belonged TO the
| federalist, the nat Onal republ can, the
| whig and the present republican par
ties, while Jetferson's republican party
| I,f
democracy, are on the strict construc-
t:onist side. On March the stric!
constructlonist school will have con-
| trOled the presidency for fifty SIX
years, while the broad constructlOnIst
| line held that Office ffty-two Years
when Harrison retired in 1893, anu Will
have had it tifty-six in 1901, when the
term beginning today ends. by this
close approach to an absolute balance
are the partisan forces in the United
States divided
Il am no pessimist,'' said a well
known citizen this morning but | dc
endorse the following little scrap which
| l clipped from a paper and which |
think viii apply to Ell Paso just as well
as any other place. Here 1t is: Gig
arettes are killing the boys, and the
| mothers ought to kill the cigarettes
| Every woman VINO mas giO"lup o"A
| at her side aud every wLman who hopes
to rear a manly, bright son should be
interested in this subject. The vice O1
cigarette smoking is one Of the most
pernicious which is known to the youth
| of the present generation. 1t saps the
vitality of the system when it Is mos
needed 1t robs the body and the mind
of qualities wnich go to form the very
foundation Of health, vlgor, intellect
and virtues Indispensable in after life.
The drain which they cause upon the
system can never be repaired. The eff
fects oftheir use can never be over
come "
| In San Francisco recently as a police
am bulanc passed along tie street load
ed with Gilman n arrested for work
ing on Sunday, a polio, nan explain
I'd to a questiOner the cause OF arrest.
| ''HeD, :; uruntGd a diSp uStCd ChlEamap