Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-04-25
NEWS, VIEWS
AND GOSSIP
Politics, Old Hotel and Catholic
Centennial
CBy Glenn Guernsey)

news are scarce In our midst this
week. Therefore / will write about
politics. That subject Is a source of
neyer-faiIIng interest to the New
Yorker. The average citizen of the
metropolis talks more and knows
less about politics than any other
man in this. our great country.
Compared with him, the bucolic ar
gufer of the country store becomes
a modest, unassumIng and uncom-
munical sphinx.
This ignorance OF the New Yorker
Is not due to lack OF opportunity.
No sooner does prospective can
didate feel the ofiice-seeking affiatus
than he hires q hall and proceeds to
unloosen great gobs OF wisdom. And
we enjoy 1t. So long as New York
remains on the map. the art OF SUI
perheated oratory and fervent stump
speaking will not be forgotten.
IL IL during presidential year
that our enjoyment reaches its
height. No candidate dares shirk
his sacred duty OF teaching the met
ropolitan voter how to cast his bal
lot. Already Bryan, Taft, Knox and
Hughes have volunteered TO instruct
ua, and Secretary Taft will give
another lesson next week. Fairbanks.
Cannon, johnson and Tom Watson
are expected shortly. and our own
Hearst will teach us the ways OF in
dependent political action at ban
quiet on Monday night Even "Bln"
Haywood the lusty-yolced miner from
Colorado. has taught us the way or
salvation by voting for socialism.
CandidIy. taking them by and
large, up one side and down the
other, ] am not impressed with the
available presidential timber, New
York alone could produce a better
lot. While II IN a little late In the
season to spring presidential booms.
] venture TO predict that our dlstln-
guiahed fellow-citlzen. Mark Twain.
could romp under the wire dozen
lengths ahead OF any sprinter now In
the presidential race. Finley Peter
Dunno, ! suspect. could give good
account Of himself In competition
with the present contestants. on
laugh and grow fat" platform
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. as the presi-
Dental candidate OF the new thought
party. standing firmly on platform
which guarantees health and hap
pineaa to every citizen. would, pre-
dict, make any mere man who had
the temeFlty 10 run against her look
like = snail. And there are others.
But II IL too much to expect the
politicians TO jump into the river OF
oblivion, merely because such an ac.
ton has been suggested as desirable.
Therefore, am inclined to look with
favor upon the plan OF New York
newspaper man, Geo. II. Mcdonald,
who has advanced the proposition
that the citizen should be allowed
70 vote against all candidates for any
once. II no desires. II majority
thus expressed their displeasure
with the asplrants for any office, a
new Ahufile and another deal would
become necessary. but that Is only
another method OF inviting our pro-
fessional statesmen to commit politi.
cal suicide, and Il Is not likely Ia
meet with favorable reception.
Demolish ola Hotel.
Next week will probably mark the
beginning OF the destruction of an
other Of New York's ancient hotels
the old Sinclair house. at broadway
and Eighth street. The old editlce
IN which many OF the great OF past
generations have dined and slept
win make way for modern com
mereial structure. Il was opened Al
= rOad-house in tsAO. and was large.
~ freQaented by the gay young
blades and beautiful danes OF that
time. who visited the hostolry II
order to partake OF the eanvasbacks
terrapln and turtle soup for whlci
It's chef was famous.
Among the distinguished mer
whose names were often TO be founs
ON the register OF the Sinclair h0us,
IN later wears were Grover cleve
land. William Cullen Bryant. +. Mar,
Ion Crawford aud Horace Greedy
The latter was exceeding fond OF ths
appetiaing dishes served at the hote
and the Sinclair house chef prepared
the brain-food which Indirectly 1ro.
dueed many OF old Horaees vigorou.
editorials. Marion Crawford. before
he became famous as q novelist. lived
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