The daily gazette., 1878-11-11
= from the Nc,o York Sun.
I've Fffty-Dollar Greerh..

PROM THE POCKETS OF A REpUBLI
CAN INTO THE POCKETS OF A
DEkoCRAT.
Jack Croker is the head pressman 1,
the JOB office OF the Jersey City Arous
he has always been looked uopn as
!. square man. The electrotype yIgnette
ior the heading of the Democratic elec
ton tickets had often been intrusted /,
him, without fear that any outsider mich
get copy in time to print counterfei
democratic tickets with Republica,
names on them. Nevertheless on Mon
Gay last 1t was whispered among tbt
Republicans that copy had been OBJ,
tained, that duplicate electro'ype plates
were to be made, and that thous ands O
tickets were to be printed ere morning
containing the name OF an enter prislne
Republican candidate.
| Nobody but Jack Croker could ba We
furnished the copy, for the electrotype
plates had been delivered to him by Mr..
Mullone OF the Hrgus in person. The
press room doors had been kept locked
inside, the tickets were being printed
and punched, and the plates had been
carefully replaced in the safe. 1t looked
bad for Jack.
This is his explanation as made on
election day
swell, y'see,'' said Jack, wiping his
nands on piece OF cotton waste after he
had got pair Of rollers set to bis satis-
faction In small cylinder press, 81
went across the way there T. Brooks yes
terday morning t get glass o. beer, sn'
this youngester Gus Seide, from the
Journal office. had been 'a-hanging
round there all morning; 'n' says he,
Come Jack, take drink with me-"
SO l takes glass O. beer; 'D' he gets
his nose into my ear, kind o. mysterious
like, m says he, Jack, don't you want
to make some money p Well, knowed
bed been a-trainin" round with some
O these Republican politicians, IN |
dropped in minute.
"Says !, you bet.'
Essays he, 'C'n you get me a copy o.
th' Democratic ticket p
Essays l, What is II worth p
"Folty dollars says he.
See here, young fellah,' says /,
what are y givin' me ? d'y' think Pm
agoin TO run the risk o. losin' my place
for forty dollars SUI me with wife sn'
four small children p
"t Give y fifty says he.
We'll, to make long story short,
l. run him up 10 a hundred dollars, sn'
he said he wouldn't give no more.
Now, see here,' i says, this Is risky
business. I'll see what / en- do. Pil
meet you on Canal street, near War
rem, at 2 o'clock. Go out ahead, now.
We mustn't be seen together
H Than I caypa QUA. ., ,ba om.o
| told th' boss. 'Now, see here says, ,
OF course amt agoin' T. give you away
for no hundred dollars, hut think en-
make that hundred dollars if you've got
no objections Well, the boss he SAID
he didn't care what did so the ticket
was safe.
At 2 O'Clock, sure enough, Seide was
on hand on Canal street. Don't talk
to me here on th' street, | says. 'Fol-
low me, 'n' 60 Slow l led him away
up stairs in an old tenement house there.
| could feel bis hand shake with excite
ment as he caught hold of my arm.
"'Have y got it ?" says he.
81 pulls out the ticket M shows it to
him. Now, see here young fellow says
1, shaking my fist under his nose m
grabbin him by the collar, 'if y ever give
me away on this thing, don't never come
Z Jersey City again; FIR IS sure IS " do
I'll give y th'--est lickin you ever
GOT"
The brawny fist wi which Jack Croker
emphasized his threat gave tolerable as
suIaRce that he could make it good.
"Well,o he continued, 9Th youngster
goes down into his pocket, N sure enough
he hauls out two fifty dollar bills. l give
him the ticket m toP him T. wait min
ute till l got out O sight round the cor
ner before he come out, m come round
here with tn money in my pocket. AT
first i was afraid tn bills might be bad,
m l sent them over q th' bank, m got
them changed int tens. Then l went up
town m got new suit of clothes. Then
l went home m fixed up the old woman.
When got up this mornin' found she
had laid in her winters coal IN wood, m
got barrel o. -four, m lashin's o. gro
ceries. She felt good"
Here Jack held up his hand to signal
one of the pressmen to stop, and fell to
work adjusting the register as though his
story was ended.
"Well, but" his interlocutor persisted,
"did you give him the regular ticket ?"
"Oh! bless y, yes"-here Jack laugh
ed heartily-''I give it to him. awe
keep all the cuts, you know. They git
up a different one every year. After l
tor the boss what Seide wanted, l come
in here an hunted up the cut we used
on th' Democratic ticket in '6S; it was
about the right size N put it in instead
o. the new cut III the form that had
just been printin' the new tickets from;
m / struck off couple of tickets with
that ten-year-old cut on to them. That's
what l scooped in Seide with"
A Russian Marshal COrnered.
Marshal Suvorotf, when receiving des-
patch from the hands of Russian Ser