The age-herald., 1901-09-15
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or otherwise. They have no fixed goal toward which they are striving. not one. Their only object Is to magnify tfiem- selves, to gain free advertising for their own obnoxious personalities. They are egomaniacs every one of them, and when they have sold their little gold brick to the newspapers and gotten their names Into the columns with big head lines they have accomplished the only purpose which they have in the world This Is history. Look to the facts ana you will find that they bear out the statements of your little Rebecca, every one.
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 '"rake the most glaring example of re- cent years-Parkhurst. Has that creat- ure, I ask you fair and square, ever done anything in all the years that he has been posing before the public except to advertise himself? Has he ever tried To do anything else? Did you ever know his so-called society to start out on any ap- parent enterprise that he did not take water and begin to retreat as soon as there had been some sort of public explosion? We are not quite ready,i ho says: We are not attacking the social evil, or this and that; we are simply and then he goes off Into vague gener- alities and takes passage for Europe Oh yes, he did at one time apparently have a hand in foisting upon us the worst city government which New York ever knew, and in giving fat office to a lawyer who took prominent part in one of the enterprises in which he had a hand He was trying to crawl out of 1t Just as soon as he saw that something was doing And he has done the same ever since. No There is but one purpose in parkhurst and that he does. That is to keep Parkhurst in the public eye. And he would not succeed in that were 1t not for the latent insanity in some of the newspaper offices
 linen, there is that insufferable little fellow Moss h hhy Is it, asked the sage of Sheepshead Bay, that he always makes me think of toad7 Oh. have seen and heard him. I went to court one day just for the purpose. It isn't often that rubber like that. But had seen so much about him in the papers that had a desire to see how the real thing looked When saw the fiat-headed little chap with the cold and evil eyes, could think of nothing else. He reminded me of a toad, a snake in the grass, sneak, posing as a man anxious to do good
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 Can you or any one else tell me of any good that he has ever accomplished? Oh, yes, he has made a business for himself as lawyer, and that Is all. He Is per feet specimen of one troubled with the Reform mania. He ought to be locked up and -he-would be, too, if New York CTS were not such patient donkeys.
 AS for the latest breed of Reformers. the men who are seeking to reform other persons business just because they have their own interests in the same line to advanco-well. there Is no use wasting time or words on them They do net be- long to the lunatic class, the egoman- iacs, though they trench closely upon the egomaniac's ground. There are other words for them and pretty severe words at that. One of the words which l have heard used Is scoundrel. Do you think that fits? do.
 You think that I feel strongly about these fellows. Why should I not? You call me the daughter of the racetracR. Well, 1 am to a certain extent just that My father-rest his soul-was breeder and seller of horses all his life. No more honorable man ever lived, and they will tell you that over there in the paddock If you ask it. Why, this little finger was worth more than the virtue of all the pretended reformers that ever lived. It makes my blood boil when l hear these nincompoops attacking the honorable business of racing. What do they know about anything honorable. they and their blackmailing, crooked fingered agents some of whom are In prison now ana more of whom ought to be? When l see these big-iittle egomaniacs attacking good, clean sport and crying, Oh, oh, to persons whose shoes they Are not lit to lace I wish I was not woman but a good strong man. I would make them eat their words or sonic one would get badly licked. That is the sort of hair pin your Rebecca Is. Reformers Bah' The name gives me bad taste In the mouth. Let's go inside and open little. bottle which have upon the ice:'