The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-01
NEWS FROM GOTHAM
Great Political Fight to Be
Settled This tuesday
BIG FIGURES IN BATTLE
View of Gould as He Is on
Wall Street.
(John Marthors Letter to the Eagel

John MarthOls Letter to the Eagiel
New York, Oct. S1,-The political con-
test here is narrowing down TO the single
issue whether Democrat or a Republic
an shall be the next mayor Of the great
est Of American cities. and by election
day it viii be found that al other side
questions have been eliminated from the
struggle ! supreme effort IS, of course,
being made by the F'usioaists to keep
the good-government idea in the fore
ground; that If Tammany is restored to
power all sorts of horrible things viii
happen. but the Democratic masses see
Through the pretenses OF the Republican
nhanagers and realize that a Fusion vic
tory viii BE- merely a Republicans victory
I'm disguise. giving that party an enor-
lnous advantage in the coming Presiden-
tiaI election when the vote Of the city
will probably decide that Of the state,
and that of the state. TO a great extent.
which party shall be in control OF the
national government until 1903.
Walking along Wall street the other
norniag I suddenly found myself in
good sized crowd Of pr0spe-ous-looking,
well dressed gentlemen whose faces were
broadeHed 10 auriferous smiles and who
were donaing and doffing the very latest
styles IN fashionable headgear in great
form. 1t did not take many seconds TO
find out that George jay Gould was the
object Of the ovation, as they call that
sort Of thing. Mr.. Gould had just re-
turned from one Of his long trips Of OBJ
servation over his great system Of rail-
roads and the men We're paying him
homage were. I presume, after a tip
on the market. Well, he gave it 20 them
privately as a short time later, he gave
Il publicly and that was summed Up in
one word prosperity" But putting aside
the market an dali that concerns it,
there are few men who attend more
strictly to their own business than does
Mr.. Gould As a railroad president. he
knows every section of the thousands of
miles he owns and manages Il believe,
said Wei posted railroad man to me
recently. that George Gould knows ev-
cry pebble on the tracks OF the Missouri
Pacific and his other lines, and that if it
were out Of place. somebody would hear
about it IN short order" Mr.. Gould was
brought UP in that way by his father.
When mere lad he began the tours OF in
sISection with his father more than TWEEN
IL years ago. and under his careful par
entail s1utelage his sons are walking pre-
scisely in the footsteps Of the grandfather.
George Gould's boys go over the lines
with him three or more times a year.
abe millionaire owners of the vast es-
tates, forest and game preserves in the
Adirondacks. most Of whom live in this
city. are badly scared over the recent /
murder OF Mr.. Dexter. warnings OF a
similar fate having been sent TO many
of these twentieth century American feud- !
al barons. It must be admitted that the
problem is a tough one for them to solve.
These gentlemen are somewhat in the
same position that the Irish landlords
were in fifteen or twenty years ago. when
their evfcted tenants avenged the ex-
pulsion from their little holdings by
shooting their noble prOprietors Of the
soil from behind hedges an dthickets as
If they were SO many jacb-rabbits. These
Irish agrarian crimes We're perpetrated in
q country closely watched by an immense
force Of policemen. soldiers, and private
guards. yet few of the murderers were
ever discovered. And the landlords had
finally 10 give UP the contest. for that
is the real meaning Of the Irish land act
which these same landlords. in the House
OF Lords and the House OF Commons. |
were rScenty forced to enact. The woods
men Of the Adirondacks are an infinite
~ more determined race Of men than the
oppressed. half-fed Irish peasants, and |
the trust lords. who have infringed upon
what they consider their wild territory,
begin to see the point IN this light.
What 10 do to preserve their lives in
their preserves is the question. 4 friend
of one of these gentlemen, who owns a
little patch Of fifty Thousand acres. tells
ne that the owner OF this vast estate is
thinking of surrounding himself. during
his summer sojourns, with a big body of
zetainefs. drilled. uniformed. and fully
armed ike militia or regular troops That
was the style in which many OF the old