Evening star., 1876-12-14

ROW ovEs TuE PRESIDENTIAL PSors
The President NJ bets coniinue 90 at.raSt
nanch attention ia New York. MorriSsey &
CO.'S action I'm declaring them ssof" has prs
uuced ereai excitement and conSiderss BILE
hand talk. johnson a Bros. and Kelly HlfSs A
70, 20, proprieto-s 81 rival marts, seeiing thai
they should not follow MorrisSey's examDip
without consultation with their pafrsas
called meetings for that puTTso~e whi,h
were (pid Tuesday night. Sohnson's piaoe
MAS hcdolent OF pooling music TlckeS-
holders at the har shouted defiantiy a; osise-S
across The room. MorriSsey was sharply d.
nounced The "discussion." sought 20 be
That the house could be cleared OF the wrane-
inhe, guarretsome crowd. Later IN the even
ing Mr. johnson announced that h. declared
All TIE pools on, both auction and French
AZ IL understood that. like Morrissey A 60.
the house will exact commissions Al Keilv
Bliss Turf exchange, Mr.. Kelly stated
Ihat MI. Morrs>ey's action hal placed him
IN bad position. Men had Threatened to
begin suits To recover their stakes AZ Kelly A
Bliss did not also declare bets OF. vote
was taken, the majority favoring a with
drawal OF the money Five or six men oh
tccted. Mr. Kelly declared the bets OF aud
said his house would pay back the money
ehtire ana lake no commission.
"rHE WORST OF swTNDIFS"
, tider this head the Tifbl1ae saws la The
Ieht of the latest Information NorriSs,.yfs
political oo.-selling proves 20 have heen a
mo-, gigantic swindle, and Ia have been car
ried on regardleSs of every pr,scsient of bonor
or sense OF decency practiced ar fclt among
MOIFl~SfsN
conn Ell his pool gambling To IN race f,,ark.
lie established hims az at the old Thomas
Exchange on upper broadway. a l. believed.
to make the best use of the gambling ls,X-or iu
1ilden'S reform campaign, and u arraugs
The pools 80 that a few democrats should have
Z @ chance OF winning thou-ands with no
chance OF losing. Thai this w9S the scheme
j. confirmed by the statement thai NorriSSey
VIII not open his pool-roomS next season.
Betiing men charge MorriSSey with Outrage
ous had faith FOR a man with a reputation Toe
Sol lrtaHH NtNf
was formed by three or four Of MorTisSey'S
and Tilden'S friends. some nj them we'll
Known IN Wall street This pool called for
$1,000 or more on paper. II il beiievod
that moi a dollar of IL went into the pool
box. Republicans were pouring in their
money against sham. and MorriS~ey, sell
ing pools nj 800 to 50 I'm Tillen'S favor
was cry ing, Here il plenty uf money wait
ing to be taken nj the same odds" That this
game was carried ON i'm Tiiden's Interest -
asserted by both republicans and democrats
IL j. also stated that the three or four perSosS
who were To share the s.usufruci" Of Ihis
$1,000 i'm case Tilden was elected refused 10
ray the 500 into the pool-boN when they
discovered that HAYES was undouh;asllv
elected Consequently, &c Morrissey at
tempted 10 pay the bets in favor of The
holders of tickets ON HAYES he would find
himself s1o.O00 short. and be compelled e.
either bankrupt himself ar prove "A delaulter
This hciitious sso.eD was represented on the
Jones" IL IL beiteNei that Jones" and
Morrissey are i'm interests and sentiments as
closely related a. Chang and Eng the siam
ese twins. and that Jones" and MorrisSey
had the too liberal license which the law
gives them in mind when they set out TO
raise Tilden stock by foul means.
WHAT JOHN MoRRIssEY CARES.
Mr.. NorrisSsy was met by the ~. n. HsrgS
reporter aficr the POOL rumpus at Johnson'S
had come To al end. in front of the Hoffman
house. a,ld when told OF the severe languap..
used against Linn at one of the poOl-rooms
laughed and said. We'll, there's nobody that
would care - little as do about it, and mo-
body who would take u sopleasantlv a. lido
As IL came from both Hayes and Tiiden men
IL makes ~ all the more satisfactory ana
pleasant tn me-"