Life — April 18, 1889 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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"y Life there's Hope. “While t VOL. XIIL. APRIL 18, 1889. Streer, New Yorn. No. 329. 28 West Twenty-THirt ce, postage free lying to this office. fs, TUN, WV. V. VE in flat numbers, ubscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by ing old address as well as new RESIDENT HARRISON obviously does not intend to fall into the error tha ‘cording to the politicians, led to Mr, Cleveland's defeat last fall. Mr. Harrison does not go back on the men who elected him,” nor despise the counsel of the ward politicians and the heelers who carried the Republican tic ‘Thus far, the men who have done the dirtiest work for the party have received the tin the slums. en who conduct the primaries have controlled the Presidential ear. The instance that affects New Yorkers the most, and demonstrates conclusively that Mr. Harrison intends to devote his admin- istration to the welfare of the Republican party rather than of the people, is the deposition of Postmaster Pearson. most substantial recognition, and the states ‘There is no serious claim on the part of even the most asinine of the Republican organs that the New York Post- Office has not been admirably conducted, because such claim would be laughed at by the business men of this city, whatever party they may belong to. The only charge made against the late Postmaster, on the contrary, is that he is upheld by the independent Republicans, and that he served the people faithfully through a Democratic administration. For this offense he is sacrificed by the sanctimonious hypo- crite at the head of the Post-Office Department, at the bid- ding of the weakling in the Executive chair, who is in turn dictated to and controlled by the men who have put him in power for their own purposes. NE of our most highly esteemed local contemporaries is unduly agitated because it has heard that, owing to political exigencies arising under the late administration, there is some doubt as to whether Ward MacAllister will admit Mrs. Grover Cleveland to the ranks of the Quadr i If we may be permitted to use an expressive, though, perhaps, a vulgar, colloquialism, this makes us tired. We had not hitherto supposed that sensible people took the MacAllister seriously, or that observant citizens received the idea of “the goo” otherwise than in jest. That aside, however, Mrs. Cleveland needs no patron to establish her in the favor of whatever society she may choose for herself in this or any other city; and she is too sensible a woman—even if her husband were not too sensible a man to permit such an error—to allow herself to be made ridiculous by the notice of so preposterous a coxcomb. Grover Cleveland, a leader of men, and yet-to-be arbiter of the destinies of the nation, suf- fering in any way the patronage of the petty director of the cotillion and dictator of the debutantés, would be a spectacle not calculated to increase the sum-total of human cheerfulness. 1TH deep regret we are compelled to chronicle the sad circumstance that Dr. Chauncey Mitchell Depew, at the dinner given to the missionaries who have just circum- navigated the globe to teach the heathen of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceanica the glories of our national game, was led to round one of his eloquent phrases thus: —where the pyramids that have looked down on forty centuries, and have seen their peoples disappear, greeted you until the applause rattled the bones of Parneses and Pharoah, and the Sphinx bowed its head and handed the box to the captain of the team.” But Doctor Depew need not despair. Great Homer is alleged to have nodded on occasion; Shakespeare was not always able to spell his name right; Byron invariably wrote “through” for “thorough ;" Alexander the Great's pompous ignorance of art made the slaveys in the studios of his time laugh; Napoleon Bonaparte was unequal to the etiquette of polite society; P. ‘T. Barnum made a mistake in importing the white elephant; Ward MacAllister once recognized a man on Fifth Avenue who wore a top hat with a sack coat, and all history demonstrates that no one individual has ever proved himself infallible upon all occasions that arose. But how came Doctor Depew to know that “the box" in a game of baseball is portable ? F there is a more amusing spectacle before the public than the struggles of the Four Hundred’s Committee over the Centennial ball, it is the chagrin of the New York World over Stanley's letter. That Stanley should not have had the manners to wait in retirement in Africa till Mr. Bi- cycler Stevens came and routed him out, seems to the World an intolerable impertinence. It Suggests that there is a great deal in Stanley's African adventures that won't bear telling, and that Mr. Stevens is going to find out about everything and tell it to the HWor/d's constituency. The MWorld's pas- igation is such that it seems quite capable of creating a muck-heap so that it may have the advantage of being the first nose to detect its stench. sion for inve: comicbooks.com