The age-herald., 1897-09-28
GOSSIP OF THE STREET
 AND HOTEL LOBBIES

"If there eyer was a man fighting hard | that man is Senator Marcus Aurelius Hanna, of ohio," said R, T. Simpson, of | Cincinnati "Ohio has record for very
 bold politicians but MT. Hanna's methods are about the boldest the stase
 has ever witnessed. If he had taken up the crusade with a sledge hammer, like
 a railroad hand driving spikes, he could
 not have been more energetic or perse- yering. There has been norly of the fine
 work of diplomacy, TO concessions, both
 of which have formerly been conceded
 very essential to such campaigns.
 '"To man up a tree it just locks as though tifle form of the senator appeared
 and almost every leader bowed in sub mission. without even so much as draw ing a long breath. There is no use in talking if he is successful he will be su-
 prenJa in Ohio. He has some enemies | and they may be able to defeat him. but I houbt it. These are the men who | charge that he deposed them from power. l They are very bitter, but no worse than 1 IldutNst, IOl lle IS very UluCll On liIe pIli- 1 cfpal that the end will justify the means. Tt has heretofore been the custom to give representativ and state senators two terms. Many of the first term men
 have been retired this year, fer you know | the legislative haIls must be filled With l Hanna men. In several countries where 1 Foraker men have been in power for I years, Hanna men new stani guard.
 Hanna is charged with putting in play l dirty politics to accomplish this, but
 such charges are frequent"
 "The stove box whittier and chronic hard times growler is like a fish out of | water" sald Col. Wilburn Richards,
 who has travelled extensively of late and l was in the city yesterday en route to his home in South Alabama. 'He is out of 1 a job. He can't get an audience to listen to his old, worn-out fabrications about hard times. I have had occasion to visit a number of states within the past few weeks and find good feding pre- vaHling among almost evary class. The northwest seems to be in a prosperous 1 condition, crops are good and lots of money is expected"
 oklahoma Territory Will export 25- 1 900, 900 bushels of wheat at an average of | 75 cents per bushel. This territory d1as a fruit crop which will rlval that of Cali fornia and splendid cotton crop, al- though 1t is a little late. Western cat tie are going just like Klorrdyke stock, last springs calves bringing $15 per hsad. A little more than a year ago you could buy the COW and calf thrown into the bargain fer SIP.
 "The people are mot talking politics to | any extent, and this was one of the best | signs I discovered"
 "The rivalry between cities in regard | to population gelts worse than it does over opposing base balEl teams" re- ! marked J. ". Tucker of Houston, Tex. | The rivalry in Texas is now over which city possesses the largest population. Dallas makes a beast of having the most and so does Houston but I am inclined
 to believe that San Antonio beats them
 both. Houston qlas a bona fide popula-
 ton of about 45,000, Dallas about 5000
 more, ard San Antonio leads them all
 with a population of about 55,000. The
 best evidence is that San Antonio has 1000 more registered votes than any city in the state.'
 Atlanta has such wise city council," said w. A. Neal, a gentleman mailing from the Empire state of the south. ''This body should join hands with the Kansas legislature for tine record on freak legislation. Freedom of speech is not considered an Anlerican privilege by these city fathers, as is proven by a ridiculous resolution prompted by the yellow fever scare. It was that if any one should assist in spreading a report | that yellow fever existed there his pun ishment would be sixty days in the work l house."
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