The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-01-01
JOHN MonRIssEY's BIG sPxEE.
New York Correspondents Of the Cincinnati En-

Its Unfavorable Enees ea Mr. Merrss-
New York Correspondents of the Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Ex.Congressman John Morrissey's spree
on the night OF the Tammany general com.
mittee's first meeting after the November
election, may yet land him in State prison.
He is always demonstrative and Aggressive
when in liquor, and on that evening he had
30 far lost his consciousness az to say, in de-
handing the expulsion of Police Commits
sioner Oliver Charlick from the general com.
mittee: "We've won. and the money is ours."
The sequel ia the actual or practical closing
of every game that the ex-Congressman has
any interest in, and serious talk OF the pre-
sentation Of his case to the grand jury-an
event In which be need look for no sYmpa-
thy from Tammany Hall, since she is tired
Of the rule OF Morrissy Il Co., and will glad
ly accept in their stead men who will give
her more respectable standing in the politi-
cal world.
John Morrissey is 70. the only person
likely to be affected BY his spree. 1t has
made every gambler in the city nervous with
apprehension that it may close all the gam
ing houses. And it may. The indiscreet
friends of Morrissey have begun to clamor
for Square deaP' from the police, and the
better part of the public, anxious to wipe out
the games,ers, are joining Morressey's
friends in saying that in closing his games,
and shutting their eyes to the existsnce Of
hundreds of others, the Police Commission
ers are seemingly using their Office for pur-
poses of private revenge. This may spur the
commissioners up to the work ofpurging the
city of its gambling bells.
So much for a spree and a'political quar-
rel. 1t was a political quarrel that closed
all the gambling saloons of Philadelphia.
Aid. VIM. McMullen had planned prize
fight to be decided on Pennsylvania soil
Ostensibly it was to be for a prize; but its
real pufpose was to cloak into Pennsylvania
Just before her election such New York
shOulder-hitters as might most efficiently
assis, Pennsylvania in casting heavy vote.
The fighters were Ned o. Baldwin and Joe
Wormad. They were In training and ready,
but Just previous to the election George
Wilkes learned what was behind the
prizefight, and had Wormard arrested
and held in solitary confinement
in the central police Office Of this
city until the day after the Pennsylvania cleo
ton. Nevertheless a regiment OF New York |
shoulder-hitters went to Philadelphis under |
pretense OF seeing prize-6ght, and on their |
arrival Aid. McMullen made them all sher- |
ifs deputies. Thus exalted, they arrested |
Philadelphia policemen al polls where po- |
iicemen were not wanted by Aid. McMullen,
and Philadelphia vote was increased to the
Aldermsn's liking. The policemen were
held prisoners until they promised to 60
away from the polls and not return until az
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exploit arose a political quarrel that was IA
tai to gaming in Philadelphia. In the in
cipien; stage Of the quarrel gamblers were
the central figures, aud, as it intensified in
bitterness, gamblers seemed to be the chief
offenders on both sides. The upshot OF it
was that both political parties demanded the
closing of every gaming house in the city,
and the police compelled to comply with
the demand.
Ex-Congressman Morrissey's big game in
the house which he personally superintends
has not been formally visited by the police !
1t ia called clubhouse, and its members, |
as members of a club, claim q right to kill |
time With whatever diversions may suit |
them best while inside their clubhouse, and |
the police, never having been subjected to |
any strong pressure, have not tested the
point in the courts. Yet Morrissey's great
game il practically closed for the time at
least, for the prosperous contractors, mer- |
chants, lawyers, and others whose purses |
have paid Its enormous expenses, are kept |
away by fear that the police may make n
descent, and that they may be subjected to |
the gaze of the public in police court. The |
big fish keeping away, MOrrissey, not caring |
to cast his net for the small fry, has not deal, |