Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-02-09
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
POIitieaI-The Charity BaIl-A Serious
Case-Business.
POLITICAL.

POLITICAL.
The passage of the compromise
electoral bill, has soothed the timid
souls of tie business men who had
been bull-dozed by Tilden and his
gang, by fear of war. The straight
Republicans don't believe in it, and
never did, for they knew it was a
trick of the Democratic spoilsmen,
and was contrived to make the great
demagogue President. 1t was art
fully contrived, and carried out with
diabolic skill. Tilden had his local
copperhead press breathe war and
gore till he got the business inter-
est shaking in its shoes; and then he
appeared with this proposition to
arbitrate for place he never had
the shadow of a claim to. 1t was
eagerly accepted and the little game
was about to win, when, presto, one
of those sudden changes which even
Tilden cannot foresee, took place,
and his kettle of fish is upset. Til
den expected to have a majority of
the Supreme Court with him, but
the election of Davis to the Illinois
Senate made that impossible, and
Bradley, good Republican and an
honest man, takes the place, giving
the Republicans the majority of the
Commission. Now the Democracy
are not so much in favor of it as
they were. When it was supposed
that Davis, bitter partisan, was to
be the fifth judge, thus giving the
Tildenites majority of the Com
mission, it was all pleasant. But
now that the majority on the Com
mission are Republicans, it is quite
another thing, and the Sun and 9TH
er rabid Democratic sheets are as
extravagant in their denunciation of
it as they were in its praise a week
ago. Tilden is as mad as a March
hare about Davis, and has asked
him not to accept the senatorial
position to which he has been elect
ed, but remain on the bench. But
Mr.. Davis is not stupid enough to
forego his ambition to serve Mr..
Tilden's and so he politely declined,
and Bradley was selected. This en-
sures Hayes fair, legal treatment,
and that is all any Republican wants.
If he is legally elected, he must be
inaugurated-if not, not. The Re-
publicans of the city are jubilant
over this result.
The position of Senator Conkling,
of this State is unfavorably COM
mented on. 1t is not denied that he
felt very much aggrieved at the
nomination of Hayes. He retired
from public gaze after the conven-
tion, and did not emerge from his
retirement till after the struggle
was over. He supported the COM
promise in way that was singular,
to say the least, for Republican,
and his enemies in the city assert
that he is preparing for change of
base. 1t is not supposed that he
will go over to the Democracy, but
1t is expected that he, Davis, and a
dozen others who have had a half
and half afiliation with the Repub-
iican party, will organize an inde-
pendent body, and be the Spanish
flies of the body. Conkling is sore
headed, and is in the precise frame
of mind to make fool of himself, as
greater men than he have done. 1t
is pity that man with the talents
he possesses could not be better bal
anced. He has too good an opinion
of himself.
CHARITY.
There is a great deal of actual
charity i'll New York.-Probably no
city in the world does more in
proportion to its population and
wealth, but mixed up with it is an
amount of snobbery and bosh, that |
is as disgusting as true charity is
delightful. The charity ball in aid |
of the Founding Asylum is regular
ly the event of the season, and while
1t nets very considerable amount of
money for a very deserving object,
the manner of it is enough to turn a
Christians stomach. 1t is as snob-
bish as anything can well be. To
begin with, it is made exclusive,
and all the snobs and all the would
be fashionables have to have their
names in all the papers. The list of
"Lady Patronesses" has to appear
in long columns, and the cost Of ad-
them rms nm into the
Now all this is of no
account whatever, from a business
point of view, except that as it is
recognized as the big thing of the
year. Mrs. SnookS Thompson would
not thrill for charity at all unless
she saw her name in the list. 1t
pleases the wife of stock specula-
tor, who has made a fortune in a
year or two, and who has lately