Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03
Gothamites Making It Responsible for
Many Scraps.
ISSUES DEVELOP BITTERNESS
GIaziers Enjoying Prosperity Be-
cause of Window Displays.
PLENTY TROUBLE IF WANTED
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star

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| NEW YORK, November 2, 1900.
| PROBABLY the reason why the campaign
over here, as affecting citizens in ordinary
walks of life, is so extraordinarily violent
| and virulent, consists in the vast funda-
| mental differences between the two great
| political parties as they are now consti-
| tuted The two organizations have per-
| maps never been so far apart in their his
| tory. When Cleveland and Harrison ran
against each other, for instance, there was
| only one actually essential issue-the tariff
and that issue wasn't of nature to carry
| the ordinary citizen off his feet. The ordi-
nary citizen threw his hat in the air and
| yelled, of course, but he did those and
other things simply because he felt that
| they were required of him as an hereditary
or self-developed partisan, and perhaps at
| least three out of five of the hat throwers
and shouters Of the Harrison-Cleveland
campaign didn't really understand the in
volutions of the tariff problem, and it it
more than likely that way down In the
| deeps of them they didn't care sailed
| herring for the tariff business one way or
| the other
But 1t is all very different now. The is
| sues of this campaign have made men bit
| ter. All hands appear to be in hghting
| mood. Nearly every man you meet mas a
chip on his shoulder when it comes to po-
|
| gulf that lies between the dogmas OF the
| two parties, so Numerically opposed are
| the beliefs of the subscribers to the Two
parties on every issue of the campaign, and
| the result of the election promises to be so
| directly meaningful in it's effects upon men
in every walk of life, that the nerves Oh
| those who permit themselves to lapse INTO
| political discussions are tuned up anu
strained to the swapping point. The result
| is that scraps have been 1nnumerapie'Hall
| of them between staid. solid men VINO nave
| never engaged in fisticuffs since attaining
| the age Of manhood, and the ponce coui 70
| all over Greater New York are having three
times more business" as direct result OF
a national campaign than they ever hao
| before.
The new practice which is now virtually
| universal over here, of placing Autographs
of the preferred candidates In the front
windows of domiciles has been particularly
productive of trouble, in addition TO i1'ak trl
immense business for the GLACIERS. The
crash of glass in the less sedate quarters
owing to this lithograph-in-the-w lndoW RAD
is so perpetual that It almost has the Ell
feet on the ear of rataplan on some OF the
streets. An exhilarated truck driver. pass
ing along a thoroughfare after his day
work Is done, sees whole row OF paIior
windows given over to the display OF NC
Kiney and Roosevelt Autographs. He feels
that a proper declaration of and adhesion
to his political principles absolutely require
him to put cobblestOne through one or
the hated windows, anyhow-'1eS RI LUCK
as he generally puts IL NHeH bSioi e
the magistrate on the following day-and
then, when the cop appears, he Is never of
two minds the subject Of giving the
bluecoat a cobblestone argument on the is
to nn hs is ovo to be ana
stung to poignant grief over the spectacle
of Rryans Autograph brazenly exhibited In
the front windows Of seven-tenths OF the
residences he is compelled to pass in order
to reach his own domicle, resorts to the
cobblestOne method Of showing his displeas-
ure and the trend of his political bias at
one and the same time and he. too has to
be hoisted into the hurry wagon through
the combined efforts Of no less than an en-
tire platoon of police. Up in Harlem on
Saturday afternoon last. Bryanite brick
layer, suffering under a peculiarly biting
sense of wrong on the Autograph question
he found himself in neighborhood that
showed him not a single presentment of
Bryans countenance wherewith to solace
his aggrieved spirit-went up and down the
line, on both sides of the street, and shat
tered every window on the block upon
which was pasted the engraved features of
the President. He was logged and unre-
pentant in the police court on the following
day.
What did you break those windows for,
my MANI the magistrate asked him.
Because don't t'ink windies is a-comin'
t de Mckinley bunch, nohow," he replied;
"dey amt entitled t windies; dey amt en-
titled t nottin'. Deyre also rams, tsee?"
Are you aware of the fact" inquired the
magistrate, that you will be required to
pay for the replacing Of all Of those smash
ed panes of glass?'
"Oh, jes' charge 1t t me account-or wait
a minnit-Tll make youse out a check for
IT," replied the bricklayer. fiippantly.
He Will Not He There.
These fiscal measures however, In no
wise appealed to the magistrates idea Of
the fitness Of things, and when the news
of the election Of the successful candidate
Is flashed over the wires next week there is
one pane-smashng brickayer, at any rate
who won't be down town to get the re-
turns.
Another ebulient Bryanite was moved
to dark wrath on an L train the other even
ing over the Mckinley campaign button
worn In the lapel of the coat of small
smooth-shaven young man who happened
seats.
Say said the supporter of the Ne
braska candidate, leaning over and en-
his eye; who's de guys mug on dat piece
O. dshware in youse's coat?'
That" replied the small man. not re-
moving his gaze from the car window, lis
an excellent portrait of the present Presi-
dent of the United States, who is to sue
coed himself on the 4th of March next"
ut is. hey?' growled the Bryan parti-
san. "Youse is kind O. chesty about it.
amt youse? Coin t. succeed hisself is
he? Say, dat ting worries me. 1t makes
me whzz aroun' under de hat. 1 don't like
1t, see? Take it off,
well. the man that takes this button
off,. calmly replied the small gentleman
wearing the Mckinley button, has got to
be a whole heap on the climb, and I'm real
high to climb.'
out and tugged atthe button between his
thumb and forefnger. Perhaps even at
this moment of writing he is irving TO
figure out, on his cot in the hosnitaI tn
which he was taken, what happened tn
him. Everything was, even according to
the police surgeon sireport, a blank to him
for several hours after he tried to remove
the small mans campaign button. The
small man happened to be one of the in
structors in the gentle art Of boxing at the
New York AthleticSClu and a past master
in the science Of muscle culture. whose
knotted sinews have been pictured in The
advertising pages Of all of the MAGAZINES
for many months past.
Another POLITICAL scrap happened on the
L on the same nikht that had some hme
morous features "a large, malt-enthused
man, finding hiInselfin urgent need Of some
body to converse with. turned to his seat-
mate another larges but not malt-enthused |
person, and asked
We'll, which of EN- Is going to win?',
The man to whom the question was nd
ad rnfah