The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-11-12
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
THE ELECTIONS.

in receipt of notes every hour from your
iocular Democratic friends, asking you
how you like it? Does your Demo
cratic neighbor slap your back with a
vigor unknown to former years, aud re-
mark, 'sThings have kind O. changed,
amt fhey2" That is what is affecting
the Republicans of NeT York just now.
4 more hilarious, Jolly set of men than
the Democracy are not in existence.
The enormous majority given to the
Democracy in this city is very easily ex-
plained. A vast number of Republicans
the best and hardest working Repub-
1ic,,ns formerly-voted deliberately and
in cool blood for Tilden and the Demo
cratic ticket. They did this, not be-
cause they have lost their Repubicanism,
and propose to go into the Democratic
party. 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 literally Of his
time and money to the Republican cause,
told me the day before election that he
should vote the straight Democratic
ticket.
ssYour reason ?" I asked.
Because, was his reply, s'it is time
to slap somebody in the face. The good
old party has gone astray. We promised
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 purify in the administration
of affairs, and 10! Ben. Butler runs the
appointing power. Simmons was made
Collector of the Port of Boston against
the protest every merchant of that city.
Shepherd is in favor in Washington,
ana, in short, the buzzards, the camp
followers, the brigands of the party are
too cIo,e e to headquarters. I am going
to vote with the Democracy just this
once. as q NJ, tie of warning
AS this man I'D, SO did thousands of
others. The RepuI Ihcans of the city
felt that change was necessary-that
within the party evils had grown up that
REQUIRED radical and very severe treat
rent. And SO they either voted the
Democratic ticket, or refused to vote at
all.
The Democracy are as iuba-' ant as men
can be. The Manhattan Club, which Is
the headquarters of the leaders ., the
was, on Friday night,
scene Of reveIr.Y Of the widest possible
kind. Champagne flowed freely, and
the more Democratic d-whiskey-
was as common as water. Thurman, of
Ohio made q speech, as did TIden and
the other lnagnates.
No wonder they feel jubllant. They
see ahead of them q long vista of good
things. They see in this triumph the
election of a Democratic President III
1876, which gives unto them the un-
checked control Of the city, the State,
the whole country. Through the minds
Of these men float visions of positions Of
trust unhampered, and of plumber unlinl
ted. They see in the immediate future
4 revival OF the glorious days of Tam
many, when the great city, bound hand
and foot, was in their hands, bleeding
money at every pore. They see the re-
vival of the Americus Clubs, 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 iubilant man living. He ex-
poets al early pardon and quick de-
Iiverance from his bonds. The old man
chafes under his confinement now more
than ever. He wants to be out. Now
that the Democracy have made the world
Git for him to hustle in, he wants to be
in position to hustle. He knows very
well that the Democracy will need him
and that now that they have the power,
they will not permit him to languish In
bonds.
Possibly when Tweed gets out, and
gets his hand on the wires once more,
the Republicans who were SO fast to
vote for Tilden may conclude that it
would have been better to have borne
the ills they had, rather than hy to those
they knew not of. New York will taste
the sweets Of ring rule once more, sure.
What short memories men have.
SOMETHING ABOUT VANDERBILT.
Who is there on this side of the water
who has not heard of Vanderbilt the
railroad king? Would you know some
thing more of him2 Well, the old
gentleman is now eight-two years OF age
and is as strong and vigorous as ever,
or, at least. he does as much work as he
ever did. He has out lived all his
contemporaries. The great bulk OF his
enormous fortune he has made within
the last ten years. When he bought
Harlem stock it was down-worth moth
ing-he made it valuable. To make 1t
more valuable he got control of its only
rival, the Hudson River, and to make
that just as profitable as it could be he
gobbled the Central. And then TO give
the Central proper Western outlet he
took in the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern. Having direct line to Chi
cago, the Commodore adopted one idea,
viz that the only points to be consider
ed were New York and Chicago,
and whoever interferred With this notion
was remorselessly killed. Erastus Corn
ing made fight for Albany, and he
went under. Dean Richmond made q
fight for Buffalo, 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 out. and it is some interest to know
of ~, no-,,lo x-bo orr, f0 N, r,barit his vast