The times., 1897-10-27
AT THE HOTELS.

Il want to venture the prediction"
said Henry L. Stevens, OF Springfield
II., at the Metropolitan, last night. THAI
ex-Goy. John p. AlUgeld, OF our STATE.
viii soon be back in public lie. Mr.
AltgeId IS now in Chicago prscuciHg law
and incidentally Will say that he i getting
all the practice that he can attend to-
but the Democrats OF the State need his
services in behalf OF the party and IL
viii u0t be long before he is again actively
participating in State politics. Mr.. Alt
Geid's burning ambition is To be governor
OF Illinois again. There is 10 doubt that
he is the most popular man in the State
among the masses Of the people, and l
want TO say that II he and Gov. Tanner
Were up for election again tomo rFow
for tie governoTSEip, the present chief
executive would stand bsoiutely no chance
of capturing the office. While Mr.. Ait
geld was governor we heard a great Hany
grumblrgs and kicks, and the opinion
was sought To be created around the
country that he was the most unpopular
governor the State ever had. BHU the
Kicks that were registered against hin;
are not n circumstance compared 70 those
which are being made against Tanners
administration
Never was a governor Of the State sub
jected to such caustic criticisms and
vicious lampOonS by the press of the
State as Mr. Tanner. Most all OF the
newspapers in Illinois who supported him
last year for the goyeinoTshig have re-
pudioJed nm and are lambas;iug hin
every day. The cry is coming up among
the people for Altgeld. He is q great
favorite, and IL his health continues to be
good ne will soon be back in his old place
This prosperity racket is not working very
well in our State The dodge has prov ell
something OF fisSco. The people are
going over to silver, and at the Con
gressional election next year we viii
send silver delegation to the next
House of Representative here"
The Georgia cracker is II character
that has become famous the world over"
remarked q. S. Griffith, a travelling man
from San Francisco, in the lobby of the
National Hotel last evening. And, like
wise has he been generally credited with
an abnormal supply OF physical courage;
but a little incident l saw enacted several
months ago down South convinced rne. that
your average cracker is a hum6ug of the
same order as the alleged bad men of the
wUolly West. We were coming out or
Atlanta oil train on the Southern took
q seat in the smoker among a crowd OF
ordinary looking people, and in the corner
of the car was seated big, square Ia wed
specimen with rough clothes and very
drunk. ] sized him up immediately as a
cracker. Wen when we got about twenty
miles out of Atlanta, and while every one
was talking, playing cards or reading. the
hig fellow suddenly jumped up and let out
a howl that would have put a Comanche
to blush.
Heah, gentlemen, l IN up on my met
tie now, and something's going to 7tappen.'
he screamed. Some cusS has gone and
stole my liquor. III let a man take al
most anything I've got but hc can't take
Hy liquor. AT the same time tie whipped
out a big revolver which he fIourisIed, and
loudly invited the man who had taken
his ghisky to come to the front ANA pro-
duce. l could see that most of the pas
sengeTs were struck with the mans fero-
ciousness and several started to leave the
car, but he pointed his gun at them and
b'tde them stop. Then he walked To the
forward end of the car and started toward
the rear with his big gun in his hand,
asking each man If he had 'interfered
with his liquor. One man was 50 badly
frightened that he offered bottle s,f
corn whisky to the bully III the hope of
appeasiaG Kim, but the cracker refused it
the car, a tail, 6road-Shouldered negro