Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-06-28
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Jews at the noteIs--The Tweed Suit Politicai.


just now. is the action of Judge Hill
ton, the preventative of the Stewart
estate, in excluding Jews from the
Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga. The
Grand Union is the largest summer
hotel in the world, and the exclusive.
Joseph Seligman, one of the wealth
lest bankers of this city, has, for some
years lived at the Grand Union, with
his family, during the summer months,
and he applied last week for suitable
apartments for this season. Much to
Mr. Seligman's disgust, the clerk in
formed him that he could not have
rooms, and when asked for reasons
said that Judge Hilton had instructed
him to refuse all Jews! To say that
there was a storm would be to put it
very mildly. BE it known that the
Jews are enormously wealthy in New
York, and are, moreover, numerous.
They are the largest bankers and
among tho largest merchants, and
they control the theatrical and oper-
attic business. There was a buznng
among them, and newspaper war of
vast dimensions was the result. Judge
Hilton gave as his reason for his &C
ton that any hotel was ruined the
moment it became known as Jew
House, for the reason that the Jews
are all loud, course, obtrusive and
filthy. He said they would get rooms
at the lowest possible rates, land SNUG
gle into them all their visitors; that
they were filthy in their habits, and
that they swarm in such numbers as
to monopolize the piazzas; that in so
public a place as hotel they had
privileges as guests which gave them
license to be disagreeabe to other
people that their women were cross,
vulgar and over-dressed, i'm short,
he wouldn't haye them about at any
price. On the other hand, the Jews
insist that they are as quiet and gen
tlemanly as any other class, that they
pay their bills and have a right to all
accommodation that other people
have. And the Jews of the United
States are Withdrawing their trade
from Stewards and there is a war
rivaling in bitterness the one raging
in Europe 1t is true that there are
a class of Jews of the kind Judge
Hilton describes. Many a banker
now worth his millions and living in
gorgeous style, came into the city
with his pack on his back, and made
his commencement in the alleys and
oy-ways Manners don't come with
money, and it is not to be expected
that such man should possess all
the graces Of good society. His
daughters, dress they ever so well,
will be vulgar, and his sons, no mat
ter how large the diamonds they
wear, will be nothing but snobs. Such
are doubtless disagreeable at hotels,
and are not to be desired, and it is
true that the Jews have more than
their share Of them. But it is true,
on the other hand, that there are
thousands of Jews who have both
wealth and manners, and who are as
grounded in all that makes the gen.
tleman or lady as anybody. Hilton
made mistake in rejecting the Jews
as a race,-he should have rejected
bad Jews. The people will not brook
a line so drawn. Class distinctions
are out of place in this country, and
forty Jundge Hiltons with forty times
the Stewart estate back of them, can
not make them. 1t will kill the trade
Of the Stewart establishment, and will
hurt the Grand Union Hotel. For
whether one likes Jews or not fair
play is the jewel. The papers are
full of the subject.
The Tweed Suit.
Townsend, Tweed's attorney pub
lished tremendous arraignment of
Fairchild, the attorney general.
Townsend claims that Fairchild do
ceived Tweed, by promising to lot
him go if he would make clean
breast of it; that Tweed did so prom
Use and stood ready TO give informa-
ton that would have saved the
State two millions, and would have
brought the whole gang to justice:
but that Fairchild, in the interest Of
John Kelly and to smirch the reru.
tation Of certain men, used such por-
tons of what was confided to him as
would serve his purpose, and then
refused 10 let him 60 on the score
that his testimony is worth nothing.
The true inwardness of it all is that
g n
and more who are in both parties.
There is q very wide spread dread
of seeing him on the stand, which is
probably the reason why be is kept
in duress. There are Republicans
who took Tweed's money, in fact his
gigantic frauds could not have been
carried out without help from the
Republican party, and they arc
shaking in their shoes. There are
plenty of Democrats whom the pub
lie esteem who are spotted with it,
and there is wide spread uneasiness
that Tweed, when he does get on
the stand, will prove bull in china
shop and kick over great many
very pIobtJ kotbloS VI nSH. NO one
knows who the old man will strike
when he gets within striking dis
lance, and there are hundreds who
do not want him TO have q chance to
hit. As it stands the prosecution
has been an absurd farce. No one
has been punished but Tweed, and
he is no worse than the rest of them.
Sweeney gets off by paying back
about a twentieth of what he stole.
and Ingersoll was out within a fow
weeks of the time he went in, and
the rest of the gang have never been
hurt a particle. The prosecutions
have cost the city four times as
much as was ever realized from the
thieves by restltutiop,and SO absurd
has it become that the moral effect
of Tweed's imprisonment is gone
For, owing to Fairchild's treatment
of the case and the skilIfuI manipula-
ton of his attorneys, Tweed is now
looked upon as martyr, and is more
pitied than blamed 1t is o sad end