New-York tribune., 1900-08-01
THE PASSING THRONG.

You hear funny things occasionally at a polit,-
cal meeting" said NJ H. Green. OF chicago at the
Hotel Imperial yesterday 7 was
NET THE at such one recently. where the
hMERfENCf duty devolved one man to read
NOBLT out the names OF the vfcs-prssi-
dents. About ten OF these names
were OF importance and the rest put on 10 hatter
the vanity and touch the pockets OF those named
you've seen such lists and know how they run?
Well, on this particular occasion the man who
was reading finished up the names Of those Of i'm
portance and then either his spirit broke or his love
OF fun got the better Of him. for glancirg AZ his
audience, he said, And about a thousand others
whose names you can read IN the papers in the
morning. Just imagine the feelings OF those thou
sand others. Murder 20 them At once assumed +na
aspect of tustihable homicide
Quickness OF repartse the stump and IN de-
Date Is invaluable 70 public speaker In a de-
bate or on the stump the speaker is constantly open
10 interruption and II he is not ready at repartee
the whole effect OF his speech may be completely
ruined / remember once statesman OF the pre-
v1ous generation telling me a story apropos OF
this- II was IN the Buchanan campaign
or 1850. and the newly organized Republican party
was standing largely for anti-savery AT that
time slavery had many sympathizers IN the North.
Many who perhaps did not sympathize with slav-
slavery were trampling on a property right which
II was wrong for them TO touch. These two classes
IN the North formed the opponents whom the p
pu5licans sought 10 win over. TO DO so the sturnD
SReaAers OF the party put forth their best efforts.
impassioned ant-sIavery address 70 a TaW-EsrSlaod
audience They didn't Earm 9p as f5Sv S5o3i5 AZ
AID finally one old farmer got up and asked per
mission 70 question the speaker. Pointing an ac-
cuSlng Hnger at him- the farmer said Answer
me this: Wasn't George Washington the Father
Of His Country, a slave holder?' nv friend told me
that ne was never 50 nOnplussed IN his life He
tully realized the Importance OF the old fellows
question. and that II he did NOT answer IL and an
sWer 1t in some way favorable 70 his cause his
ment, and then, II by inspiration his history
came back to him, and he remembered the terms
farmer with his eye what you say is true George
Washington was a slave holder during his ne
he went on. when his time came 70 die even
" washington dared not go into the presence OF his
mtted them one and all The sTstes1,an 81 9 s7aJ-
said that that was the most effective speech ne
had ever made"
Have YOU noticed said Albert Ford OF
Chicago, at the Herald Square Hotel yesterday
how in certain communities GER
sPECIALTIES tain specalties are sold by thu
OF STREET venders? For instance here In
VENDERS. New-York hot corn AT i've cents an
ear seems De your specially n
Atlantic City. where I was recently a certain
peculiar candy, called sea side taTy. holds the
palm IN Chicago We go in strongly for buttered
corn balls. In Southern cities black 'mammies' sit
around and deal you out fried chicken and 'cohn
pone- BY the way, I across one here the
other night on a street corner. and stopped and
let me tell you. In San Francisco. II IS needless
70 say the appetiZing hot Lamae OutstrDs all com
aAStAlet street actVIlSlic
oJth FRANCISCO that Is queer 70 Easterners- Al
almost every corner cigar stores. and ca n
voII car - se a. ~ w - you ~ w
practice is universal I wonder what it is that in
each community causes the street vender TO sell
dluerent c01nlodIties? There ought TO be pretty
good material for psychcal article by expert
TO explain the why and wherefore % certain com
munlties recurring certain kinds OF food Of the
street venders.