The age-herald., 1897-11-10
MATT MINOR IS
 AGAIN AT WORK

| a uo1af. II believes III SeltlnB every thing dn sight. Doesn't care much how 1t gets it. Since a foot ball player from 3. Rome was killed in Atlanta few days ago Georgia has become exceedingly l virtuous on the foot ball question. The unfortunate player had not been buried before member of the legislature in- trodueed a bill prohibiting foot ball play ing in that state. The argument has been advanced that by breaking up foot l ball Atlanta will loose money. People will not go there and patronize the sa- looms, hotels, street cars and newspa- 1 pers and other things as they have on the occasion of a foot ball game. The argument that foot ball is brutal is good. | The man who plays foot ball is about of the proper calibre to become a prize fighter. He is not nearly so good as a prize fighter. The foot bali player claims to be gentleman, but his con- I duct is that of a brute. The prize fighter is supposed to be brute, though his business is not half so brutal as that of the foot ball player Georgia is not going to lose anything. Tn view of the fact that foot ball Is to be lost another member of the legislature, Joe Mansfield
 proposes to introduce a bill in the legis-
 
 words, Georgia is to become rival of Nevada. Atlanta is to become the Car son City of the south. Atlanta will open it's gates wide to Bob Fftzsimmons, Jack McAuliffe, Jim Corbett, Peter Maher, and all the rest of those who make their liv- ing by prize fighting. Can't beat Geor- gia. That state can see dollar 400 timss further than Massachusetts. It 1 ruil ipfa da and everything else for few dollars. | Prize fighting is not as bad as foot ball playing. Society has only made it ap- pear so Fashionable society, especially among the ladies, has lionized foot ball | players to such an extent that brutality is fn, fact encouraged. There have bsen more foot ball players killed than prize fighters. Prize fighters bruise up each others facts. Foot ball players break the necks, arms and legs of their com rades. Prize fighting is hundred times more respectable than playing foot ball.
 About the only difference visible to the naked eye, is that prize fighters wear their hair short, while the foot ball play CTS wear theirs long. Both are lionzs d by females of small mental callbre. If 1 Georgia will legalize prize fighting and | ADCh state can do to more forcibly illustrate its idea of progress.
 I'll venture to say at this time that | Mark Hanna is going to have a hard road to travel before he is elected to the | senate. Hanna never has been popular with the people of Ohio. He is less pop- ular now than ever. Hanna made a failure in the last campaign. Foraker and his friends have no use for Hanna
 There is as much difference between Foraker and Hanna as there is between daylight and dark. Foraker is dash ing. fair fighting enemy. He never hits below the belt. Full of courage and l personally an honest man. Loyal to his l friends and never did low trick against | an enemy. He has worked hard all of his life, but has not accumulated a for tune. He is a poor man, though he has had opportunities to become a million aire twenty times over, if he had been dishonest. Upon the other hand, Hanna is just the opposite of Foraker
 Lew, mean. cunning, selfish. ignorant, 1 dishonest and brutal. Stab his best friend in the back to promote his own in- l terests. He is a checkbook politician | When honorable means fail to secure what he desires in politics. it is then he flashes his chs elk book. He believes | that every lahoring man can be bribed | He has no respect for honesty, virtue
 or manhood. Will pollute his own soul | to gain a personal victory. The friend | of corporations and the promoter of | theft. Hanna has done the republicans | of Ohio more harm in one year than | the democrats have done it in half a century. A combination will be formed against Hanna. Thsre are enough re- publicans in the legislature to join with the democrats to beat Hanna. The com bination will be made on Gov. Bushnell. Bushnell is a pretty square citizen. He is a republican, but not of the Mark | Hanna order Bushnell is an honest man. He is an employer, as is Hanna, | and has always treated his employees well, which Hanna has not. From what I hear, there are men in the Ohio legisla- ture holding the balance of power whom MT. Hanna cannot bribe. Foraker, no doubt, feels that with Hanna in the sen- ate and the especial friend of the presi- l dent, the republican party in that state is to be taken out of the control of For aker. That is Hanna's game. That | dS McKinley'S game also. Foraker never | liked Mckinley. He has supported him because it was his policy to do so. Mark Hanna appears to be on the toboggan.
 There Is going to be a hot time in the Maryland legislature. The mugwumps and the republicans are now in the sad de. The enemies of Senator German are riding high horses. I doubt if a straight-out republican will be elected to lasucceed German. That is, a man who has always been in the republican party. | The dissatisfied democrats the German enemies, will demand recognition. Chief of these Is J. W. V. Findlay who was in congress for some years from Baltimore. Findlay was elected to congress in 1884 as a democrat. AS soon as he became I isacquainted with Cleveland. he turned to a mugwump. He served two terms in | I~a1.