Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-21
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
blaine and Sherman Plying
Their Trade at The Same
nIustriOus Inn.
MahIstick,s Cor. Conrlsr.Iournnl1

Alanistlck ! COr- C0urler-J Ournal.l
New YORK, May 12.-The CITY is
called upon to exercise heroic endur-
ance. Two great statesmen, so-called.
have arrived-Blaine aud Sherman.
They are both stopping at the same
house-the Fifth avenue hotel. TIE
two celebrities are among the
largest-sized republican apostles
fishers of men. Blaine throws out
his lines from the second story, while
Sherman handles his scoon-net on
the ground floor. They are both de-
lighted at the prospect and both de-
termined to get the nomination as
twin candidates for the presidency.
should there be no other way of
compromising such paramount claims.
The military ghost in the dim distance
disturbs neither. They consider him
as much out of the line of succession
as the ghost in Hamlet. He, on the
contrary, while masticating one half
Of his cigar, beholds himself in fancy.
walking over the track without a
competitor. If one of the three has a
show, it is Sherman, lowing to his hav-
ing a key to the national till. from out
Of which he can take $500 DOC. 600.
putting his |. 0. U. in the place
One-half of this sum could be Judi
ciously planted in the convention: the
other would buy up voters enough to
carry the state of New York
or, perhaps, what would be better,
the men who count" Grants
aitectlonate regard for thieves, even
II he could jump the third-term style.
puts him out of the race. Blaine's
hands are not clean, but Sherman he
IS most too good for the place. Didn't
he travel way down to Louisiana to
see fair play-and couldn't see it after
ne got there? ALI he did was to help
steal a few electoral votes. Go in.
John, aud get handsomely beaten.
The real party for the place seems to
be st. jerome, Of Vermont. ANY
man astute enough to devise such
a scheme as the electoral commission,
aud %sagaci0us enough 10 push the
Davis pawn just in time 10 win the
game, Is deserving Of all the rewards
his party can offer him. But the
most deserving man, and the one who
presents in his life the incarnation Of
all the vlrtues-republican virtues
81 his party, is the unetuous creature
who was recently presented to the
Bostonlans as the genius second to
Shakespeare. Henry Ward Beecher.
BEEcHER AND WENDELL PHILLIPS
as a team would excite the envy of the
devil himself. AS was gushinely said
by Justice Field, so with feryer might
be repeated of II. W.: "There b not
an incident Of his public or private life
that will not bear the closest scru.
tiny. Even Theodore Tilton will
admit that. And If military ardor *
necessary, where can a greater trum-
pet-tongued scold be found than in
the person Of the venomous Bostonian2
Oh, republicans Leave politicians,
cast them aside, and their claims 10
the winds, Turn TO your ~negleoted
saints and select them with a whoop.
Thurman dined with the chamber
OF commerce yesterday evening. IL
appears that even a good dinner does
not satisfy some men 10 the extent of
giving a rest 10 their complaints.
Mayor Cooper was the most unhappy
guest OF the evening, and, according
TO his own story, as helpless in Office
as Sancho Panya when governor OF
ms island. He tearfully complained
That he couldn't appoint 10 Office be-
cause the aldermen sat down on him,
ana couldn't remove from the Office
because the courts would not let him.
The heartless chamber Of Commerce
didn't %sympathize with him, and The