The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-11-13
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
THE ELECTIONS-TwEED- VANDERBILT
-BI'SINESS-TH WEATHER.
NEW YORK. Nov. II. 1874.

/ -BI'STNESS-T WEATHER.
NEW YORK. Nov. IL. 1874.
{ THE ELECTIONS
did yun hear anything drop Out your
wayf Are YOU. dear Republican reader
| i'm receipt of notes every hour from your
/ ocular Democratic friends. asking yoI
| how YOU like il! Does your Democratic
/ neigiIbor slap your back with vigor
unknown 70 former years. and remark,
Things have kind O changed, aint
/ they3 That is what is affecting the
/ Republicans of New York just DOW. \
more hilarious. jolly set of men than the
/ Democracy are not in existence. TIE
/ enormous majority given to the DemOc-
racy in this city is very easily explained.
I \ vast number of Republicans-Ihe
best and hardest working Republicans.
fOrmerly-voted Deliberately, and in
cool blood. for Tilden. and the Demo
cratic ticket They did this. not because
they have lost their Republicanism and
propose to go into the Democratic par
ty. but because they believe that the
leadership of the party has fallen into
bad hands, and that rebuke is neces-
sary. One solid, substantial merchant,
who has always given liberally of his
time and money TO the Republican cause,
told me, the day before the election. that
he should vote the straight Democratic
ticket.
Your reason!' / asked.
Because" was his reply, 1T is time
to slap somebody i'm the face The good
old party has gone astray. We prom
ised civil reform, and we have not done
a thing in that direction We promised
the settlement of affairs in the South,
and anarchy reigns there We pledged
ourselves TO purity in the administration
of affairs, and loI Ben. Butler runs the
appointing power. Simmons was made
Collector of the Port of Boston, against
fine protest of every merchant of that
city Shepherd is in favor at Washing
ton, and, in short, the buzzards, the
camp-fOllowers, the brigands of the party
are too close TO headquarters | am
going to vote with the Democracy. Just
this once, a. Il note of warming"
As this man did, so did thousands of
Others. The Republicans of the city
felt that change was necessary-tlIat
within the party evils had grown up that
required radical and very severe treat
ment. And SC they either voted the
Democratic ticket, or refused TO vote at
all
The Democracy are as jubilant as men
can be. The Manhattan Club. which is
the headquarters of the leaders of the
organization, was, on Friday night, a
scene of revelry of the widest possible
kind. Champagne flowed freely, and
the more Democratic huid-whiskey-
Was as common as water. Thurman, OF
Ohio, made speech, as did Tilden and
the other magnates.
No wonder they all feel iubilant.
They see ahead of them long vista of
good things. They see in this triumph
the election of Democratic President
in 1876, which gives unto them the I'M
checked control of the city, the State,
and the whole country. Through. the
minds of these men float visions of posi-
tions of trust unhampered, and of plum
der unlimited. They see in the imme-
diate future a revival of the glorious
days Of Talnmany, when the great city,
bound hand and foot. was in their hands.
bleeding money at every pore. They
see the revival of the Americus Club,
with its gang of jolly roysterers; of the
old Tweed times: in brief, when every
man who could control fifty votes had
his hands in the treasury. elbow deep.
And. by the way,
BOSS TWEED
Is the most jubilant man Living. He eX-
poets an early pardon and quick deliv-
erance from his bonds. The old man
cllaies under his refinement now more
tiian ever. He wants TO be out. Now
that the Democracy have made the
world lit for him to hustle in, lie wants
to t'e in a condition 20 hustle. He
knows very well that the Democracy
will need him; and that now. that they
have the power, they will not permit
him 10 languish in bonds.
Possibly when Tweed gets out. and
gets his hands on the wires once more.
the Republicans, who were 50 fast to
vote for TIlden, may conclnde that ir
would have been better 70 have borne
the ills they had rather than fly to those
they knew not of. New York will taste
the sweets of ring rule once more, sIre.
What short memories men have.
SOMETHING ABOUT VANDERBILT.
Gladly, oh how gladly, do | turn INV
eyes from the political field in any other
direction. Who is there on this side of
the water who has not heard of Wander
bilt, the railroad king! Would you
know something more OF hinl Well.
the old gentleman is now eighty-two
years of age, and is as strong and vigor-
ous as he ever was; or, at least. he does
as much work as he ever did. He has
outlived all his contemporaries. The
great bulk of his enormous fortune he
has made within the last ten wears.
When he bought Harlem stock it was
down-wOrth nothing-he made it val
liable. TO make it more valuable he
got control of its rival, the Hudson Riv-
er, and 10 make that Just as profitable as
it could be made, he gobbled the Cen
tral. And then TO give the Central a
proper Western outlet he took i'm the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern.
Having "A direct line to Chicago. the
Commodore adopted one idea, viz: that
the only points to be considered were
New York and Chicago. and whoever
interfered with this notion was remorse-
leSSly killed. Erastus Corning made a
fight for Albany, and he went under.
Dean Richmond made a fight for Buffa-
10, and he was swamped. And what is
true of Richmond and Corning is true of
everybody who has ever come in his
way.
In the course of nature he cannot
long hold ont, and it is some interest to
know of the people who are TO inherit
his vast estate and vast power. He has
had thirteen children. The oldest is the
wife of J. VI. Cross, Esq. of this city:
the next is the wife of ID. b. Allen:
Ethelinda Eliza married broker. Os-
good, and Emily is the wife of W. X.
Thorne. Next, after the four girls, came
a boy. who was named William Bill
ly, as he is faniliarly known, is his
fathers lieutenant, in the railroad world.
and of very great ability-in fact, it is
said lIe is stronger and quite as hard as
his fatler- Then come the daughters,
and another boy. Cornelius. The latter
i widOwer, and a man of little ac
count. He is Il spendthrift, and so ut
terly unlike his father that the Old man
refuses 10 pay his debts. or. for that mat
ter, have anything 10 do with him. Ii
will b. remembered that the late Horace
Greeley lent this Vanderbilt large sum.
which the father refused to pay. Fran
els and George. who followed Cornelius.
died young.
William is looked upon a. his fathers
IIccesSOr-indeed. il is said that the
great king of the raj! has made his will.
leaving him his entire estate, specifying
particularly. however. how it is to be
used He desires that the supremacy in
which he has held so
many years, shall remain in tine family,
and that if shall go OH and accumulate,
as such interests always do, il they are
C lntrolled by a hand strong enough to
keep them together.
The people have different hopes, and
it is we'll that time is always on their
side. The power welded by Cornelius