The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-11-14
THE TALES ABOUT BETTING.

THE TALES ABOUT BETTING.
For several days past the Globe has kept up
running charge that Wings have cheated and
swlnded their brother Wings by obtaining and
suppressing the ca rliest news of the election in
New York, and then betting, through agents.
with their own duped friends, in order to win of
them what, or more than, they had lost by their
previous bets with Locofocos
This charge is grave one, and if true ought
to consign all such Wings to everlasting infamy.
If false, they who make it, ought to be so con.
signed.
The Globe of last evening has column on the
subject, and It's editor, after quoting the paragraph
of the Intelligencer of Saturday morning, in rela.
ton to the returns from New York, says he knows
that one of the editors Of the Wing party, who
had large bets depending, was appraised of the
fact that New York had gone for Polk ; that his
family was in the deepest grief on account of it !;
and yet the result was kept profound secret
from the mass Of the Wings.
Now we know of no such Wing editor, nor
any such facts as are here so positively detailed.
The news that came by Friday nights mail TO
Baltimore, and thence 10 this city by the Tele-
graph, making it certain that New York had
gone for Polk and Dallas and Texas, was an
nounced at the Club House, by Mr. Bradley, to
some three or four hundred Whgs who had there
assembled, and were waiting to know the worst
The same news was announced to more happy
and better pleased crowd in front of the Globe
office.
How, then, could Wings dupe Wings with any
other or different returns, in this city! Let those
who positively assert it, at least cloak their silly
story with some show of FEASIBILITY or proba-
bity
The Globe published, from one or two New
York Locofoco papers, charge that sundry Wing
betters chartered steamboat at Albany and
came down, with certain news that the State had
gone for Polk to within ten miles of New York,
in advance Of all other news and then HE'D to the
city and to Philadelphia where they won from
their own political brethren, who were already
bleeding freely, as much money as, or more mo-
| ney than, they had lost by their bets previously
made with the Locofocos
We set the charge down at the time, in our
own mind, as vile Locofoco invention, to cover
up some OF their own miserable tricks, which
would eventually come to light. And sure
enough, the following article from the Neao York
Tribune, of yesterday, makes the whole subject,
in that regard, as clear as day:
PIGEONED.
On Wednesday evening, 9th instant the news
received from the interior of our State was favor
able to the success of Clay. 1t purported that
Oneida and Madison had gone for us, which ind-
| Gated heavy Abolition vote for Clay, and, with
the favorable results in Duchess, Rensselaer,.
| Washington, Schenectady and Montgomery, look.
| ed like Wing majority of several thousands.
Ii Oneida and Madison had gone for us, there
| could be no rational doubt of the result. Mex,
morning we had different advices, putting Oneida
and Madison moderately against us, but giving us
encouraging reports from Delaware, Chenango,
Seneca, Ontario, and Monroe. On the strength
| OF this news, which left the chances nicely ba-
lanced II not little in favor of Clay, many Wings
bet largely on the State and general result, sti-
INFLATED by an unfortunate error of Judgment in
a leading Wing journal. 1t now appears that the
| Locos had private advices that Thursday morn
ing by steamboat which came down express from
Albany to within some ten or twelve miles of this
city. Aided by this, they had no trouble in swim
| ding the Wings to the tune of half million or
so, in addition to their previous heavy losses.
we don't object to sharp practice but isn't this
little too sharp? What says the Morning
News!