The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-28
Our New York Letter.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Dec. %, 1S7l
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POLITICAL.


POLITICAL.
After the tragedy the farce. 1t is
well for every serious matter to go out
of the public mind with laugh. The
laugh after the fierce excitement of the
election and the dispute that follows it,
is the neat trick the pool-room gamb-
John Morrissey and several other Demo-
cratic gamblers - the proprietors of
gambling hells, be it known, are all
Democrats, and very prominent ones
conspired with the Tilden managers in
this city to manipulate the pool-rooms
in the interest of the great reformer
They didn't put up cent of money, nor
was it necessary. In these places no
man sees anybody's money but his own.
When he puts up hundred dollars on
Hayes he presumes some one else has
put up the proper amount on Tilden; at
all events, he gets ticket certifying to
that fact. Now, Mr.. Tildep's game
with the gamblers-it is characteristic
of Mr.. Tilden that he is not above any
thing-was to have the booksellers an
nounce every night large odds on Til
den as against Hayes, some nights the
betting being two to one. Every
night the Associated Press sent over all
the country the betting market, and the
managers here telegraphed leading
Democrats the transactions at the pool
rooms as regularly as the bank sends
the business of the day to their country
correspondents. And it has the effect
intended. To see such odds offered, at
what was supposed to be the very GEN.
ter of information, disheartened Repub-
licans, who felt it was no use to fight if
the battle was against them from the
beginning, and it swept into the ranks
of the Democracy all that class of po-
litical drift-wood that wants to keep on
the big side. Now, had Mr.. Tilden
actually put up this money it would
have cost him immensely. Tickets were
out in John Aforrissey' 'srooms represent
ing million and half dollars, of
which the Democracy, at the odds that
were given, should have had a million.
But behold you, the moment that it be-
came certain that Hayes was elected,
and that he would be inaugurated, Mr.
Morrisfey issues pronunciamento, de-
that he feels it his duty to declare all
bets off, and that he would refund mon
ey on tickets, less his commission, three
per cent? The Republicans who bet go
up and get their money, less the per
cent, the Democracy having had the
use of it for months. Had Tilden been
elected there would have been no de-
claring off, but the conspirators would
have held every dollar. 1 have no
sympathy with the men who bet, and I
only narrate this incident to show with
what dirty tools the great reformer un-
dertook to carve his way to the presi-
dency.
By the way, let no Republican feel
alarmed about the war-like demonstra-
tions on the part of the Democracy of
Indiana. All that stuff gets its inspir-
alton from the Democratic General
Committee here, and is done at their
order. The game now is to hold meet
ings, and pass war resolutions, and in
dulge in all sorts of bombast, with the
hope that timid Republicans will be
frightened to the extent of being will
ing to surrender their rights for the
sake of peace. The Democratic edi-
torial mill here is filling the country
Democratic press with ready-made edi-
torials all shrieking for blood, and their
agents are traversing the country in
every direction tanning the flame. They
don't mean to fight, for the South will
not support them, and the moment
Hayes is inaugurated they will settle
down as calmly as sleeping babies, and
give attention to their neglected bar
rooms and faro banks. 1 must confess,
however, that it is little hard for
these fellows who have been eating
husks for sixteen years, to come so near
the crib without being able to get their
noses into it.
FASHION ITEMS.
Cloaks are now the larger part of the
dress. Dolmans and sacques reach be-
low the knee. Circulars and ulsters
nearly cover the dress. This is the
comfortable for winter, and looks SO, be-
sides being healthy, because they pro-
tect the lower part Of the figure with
out the heavy skirts, which must be
worn with street cloaks. The Bebe
bonnet adds another item of comfort,
as it is the exact copy of a child's bon
net, covering the ears and back of the
ladies. And these small bonnets are as
handsome as they are snug, in seal-fur
or dark velvet with cardinal or rich
purple face trimmings under the bun
ches of yellow valenciennes, which soft
ems the face.
THE POOR ALWAYS WITH US.
Careful statistics show so, 900 working
mechanics in this city out of work, re-
presenting about 100, 1000 people with
out the means of living. Laborers on
the new streets are employed for S1.25
day, and citizens grumble because
they are not cut down to 80 cents. Men
hire out on farms about New York for
$4.00 month and board, and come to
the city for better wages, only to apply
at station-houses for a place to sleep.
Thirty respectable mechanics applied
to be sent to the workhouse on Black
wells Island for the winter, rather than
starve, as they could get no work.
There is less work and less hope for the
poor this winter than last, and in the
end, work must be provided by the city,
or there will be bread riots. Nobody
can blame workingmen if they take
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