Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-11-13
THE EVENING STAR.
DOUBLE SHEET.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

NEW 1onh NOF. lGt0.
This has been week OF great political things
here. The first wonderful performance was the
persistency with which some of the democratic
committeeman took up the fraud cry and threat.
ened to work it to the bitter end of throwing
New York out Of the count In the electoral col
lege. But this intense feeling gave way to bet
ter counselS, and since Wednesday morning,
when the Apgar letter appeared, the opinions
of leading democrats have undergone radical
change. The resolutions OF the republican com
III ee5 to meet tie cry OF republican frauds by
astounding proofs or democratic frauds have
met with the same rebuEe from the repu bllcans.
So the people Will see a graceful submission to
the inevitable inaug grafton OF Gen. Gardeid.
he first inspiration to Investigate was thrOuga
the democrats here,-Irving and Tamm M .
Halls and the state committee members. Bu;
they were afraid that the opposition Of the busi
ness community. would be strong enough to
iDjure them at the next election, and they dill
very little. Then the newspapers made an
outcry against it, but the private letters ana
oiS. atcbeS received from the south and south
elsewhere would support them, and they went
On Investigating. Suddenly came pouring in pub
lie avowals from leading democrats everywhere.
ard the committees have now about agreed to
Yield with little display of fireworks In al
address.
BARNUN's MISTAKES.
It is really sad to think of ex-senator Bar
NUNS Encouragement of this campaign. A
prominent congressman said this morning that
he had no business to buy up voters in Maine
aid make the republicans angry, but that be
should have left Maine alone and carried Indl
ana In october. The verdict he SAYS, would
have been different, and the democracy would
nave carried New ! DIRK state. The support Mr.
Barnum gave to the Chinese letter carried
Nevada and California, but it injured him ter
r1bly In the public estimation. The use OF
Jewells dispatches, over his own signature to q
pron1nciamentO, recolled upon him. And now
the Chinese letter business has ruined him
politically. He has used bad methods of war
fare and has been beaten every tine, aud It is
not al all improbable that he may be heard
from in the coming prosecutions about the
Morey letter.
THAT CHINESE LETTER
is tie source OF general talk here now. 1t has
come to the point where 1t is no longer a task
to prove IT a forgery, and that point will devel-
ope itself Incidentally. But when the republl-
can National Committee wound up its CAMP am
analrS tney agreed to use the money they la l
LETT, which was good round sum, to discover
the 1orgers and punish every body who had any
thlng 10 90 with 1t. Such a breakdown in the
defense has rarely ever been witnessed. And
John /. Davenport and George Bliss, two OF the
most vincictlve men living. have taken the bit
IN their teeth and say they are determined to
tight the case TO the bitter end. The effect of
THIS thing is to iDjure Abram S. Hewitt poiit-
cally, and Samuel j. Randall, and possibly cause
criminal suit against WIN. Ii. Barnum for
given by Smalley, of the National Democratic
committee, and the fact that one OF the per
jurers was kept In the committee building. up
stairs, hid away from Davenport are Against
prominent leaders who ran the headquarters.
IMAM WITH MORE MONEY THAN HE WANTS.
A few days since it was discovered that the
Fourth National Bank had an extraordinary
balance, amounting to about four millions or
dollars OF ready money 10 its credit at the clear
lDg- mousse settlement, and fnancer5 began 10
wonder why 1t was 1t transptred, after good
deal OF search, that 1t was the work OF Ger
man syndicate that had been borrower OF
about six million dollars from Jay Gould. The
indicate seems TO have received an intimation
that Gould intended to make money tight"
The result was that they walked into GouIds
Office, handed him the six millions in several
checks, and asked for their securities. Here for
once was man who had more money than he
wanted OF knew what to do with. the money
is ready to loan ION CALL" The German Syndi-
cate made time" loans.
GENERAL GRANT ON MEXICO, ETC
There Is good deal more meaning to the
Delmonico meeting and banquet to General
Grant than is really known or dreamed OF in
public. 1t Is not at all improbable that G en-,
eIal Grant Will be president OF railroad 10
Mexico from some point In the southwest. Hi
heart and soul are In the scheme, both Tor
money making aud patriotic purposes He did
accept the presidency OF San Peuro aad Canon,
del Aqua mining company, but was persuaded
out o. It by his friends VINO favored his Mexi:au
railroad propositions, and he withdrew. Alex
ANGER K. Shepherd was very enthusiastic In his
hope that General Grant would go into the rail
road affair. and General TOrbert was On his way
TO Mexico under instructions from Grant when
he lost his life. There is little doubt that Gen
eral Grant looks to this Mex can matter for his
riture career. There are two other items OF In
tereSt In connection with General Grant. one
is that he has Invested his surplus funds In q
business house here and Is silent partner In IT,
aI0ther' that the TINES subscription fund,
npnCt0n fro
and future x-Presdents was not stared
with his knowledge, and that he does
not Ike It, 1t may be further stated that TO-
day Mr.. A. Ii. Girard, formerly of Washington,
and now here in business with Ex-Governor
Mccormick, called upon General Grant and
invited him to dinner to be given TO him by
the Lotus Club on Saturday, November 10Th.
He accepted, and will be there. 1t Is understood
that he does not intend by this to give offence
to any other club whose Invitations he has de-
clned, because he wants to avoid club and
Lotus Club dinners this year promise to b.
magnificent affairs. That given to Mr. Hughes
M. 7. was superb one.
DISTINGUISHED POLITICAL TRAMPs
it would rot be the fair thing to mention
names, but just throw your mental vision back
to the Generals, Majors and Judges that no
city better knows than Washington, ana that
hue hotels or lounged In the chairs OF the Eb-
Dit House. For reasons best known to them
selves, a large number OF them came here this
summer and autumn and they were nearly al
loud talking, with Well defined personal grley-
ance as an expressed reason. The long halr.
shiny coat, slOuched hat, and Certainly, III
join YOU business worked slowly with some OF
them TIL the politici ms commenced to spend
money. Not one or them joined the republican
army, but number OF them visited or Joined a
Club called the Hancock Republican Club. y
Leonard jerome president. This club had rooms
Oh oath street, and had intelligent 6einocr rats
the1e VINO said they used to be republicans
Inelr business seems TO have been to Issue IN an
1festos, and invite dis inguiShed guests from the
MOTEL register. Jerome or somebody probably
paid the bills,-what small bills they hal to
ray,---and the Invited guest generally took ''lhe
poSs around the corner 10 restore CONT
dence"
IL has been a warm lot indeed but as the
chill blasts OF November come on and the Fifth
Avenue Hotel corridor is no longer a place
crowded with politicians, the aching voids OF
heart, pocket and stomach. as the nov funeraal
laced fefOrmer OF month ago walks dOWnIhe
street, Is plainly recognized, without his sa ing
word. just exactly what Is to become OF
these men,-most of them well educated aud OF
excellent family and past recOrd,-no one can
tell They have no immediate future In politics:
they are Let generally fitted for business, and
tlere Is no war or prospect of war except in
ireland, and they wouldn't go there because
John Kelly is OF Irish descent Besides, the sea-
son is approaching now when walking Is not
good.
THE THBATERS ARE DOING SPLEEDIDLY
and the season promises to be the best for
years. Sarah Bernhard has been the rage this
week. Sarah likes this county, as ar as she
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