The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-10-26
NEW YORK LETTER.

has ended with a complete over
throw of the Republican party. Now
that the smoke of battle has cleared
away it is easy to perceive just how
this occurred, and although victory
has been lost, it is well for the party
In other states in which elections are
to be held to study the causes of
Foraker's defeat and if possible
guard against them. There is no
doubt that the Prohibition vote,
which has grown largely, has cut
deeply into Republican returns !;
then, too, money was used to such
an extent by the Democrats as to
amaze even the most hardened cam.
paigner. But the chief reason was
that the Republicans were over con.
fident. Hoadley's repeated blunders.
His asinine faculty of making fool
OF himself on any and every occa-
sion, convinced them that the good
sense of the people would oppose
the elevation OF such man to the
chief position in the state. In this
they were disappointed. 1t now be-
hooves them to work all the harder
in other states to make good the loss.
In Iowa, Republicanism was tri-
umphant, although the fight was
bitter one, and the party shows the
marks of battle in the shape of large
ly reduced majorities. The Demo
Gratis in that state as in fact through
out the west, gained strength by
their alliance with the liquor interest.
Of course no permanent good can be
derived by them from this unholy
union, bat meanwhile this interest
remains an important factor which
cannot be overlooked by Republican
leaders in the estimates of their
chances.
In Massachusetts, things are very
much mixed. Two weeks ago it
looked as if the Republicans had in
deed but slender chance, and Butler
and his henchmen began to crow at
great rate. Now, however, they
are beginning to sing in lower key.
The Republicans set to work in a
quiet, systematic, but all the more
earnest way, to prove to the people
that Butlerism could never make an
Arcadia of the Bay state, and now
people are somehow awakening to
the fact that the Democratic ticket is
all head and no tail, and that the head
is as Eighty as an engine without a
balance wheel.
Poor Helen Leonard. For loving
the ancient beau Callahan, not wise
ly but too well, and shooting a: the
woman whom she believed was alien
ating his affections from her, she is
now doomed to three years and a
half in the penitentiary. No one ex-
pected such a verdict. Even the
court officers thought that if the jury
would not find her not guilty, On &C
count of the intense state of nervous
excitement in which she was at the
time of shooting Mrs. Smith, and
which if it was not actual insanity, al
least bordered on it, they would al
least disagree. Nothing can be done
here without betting, and thus the
odds were three to one against
verdict of not guilty, and that they
would disagree. The trial was ex
ceedingly well managed by her coun'
sci, but yet they failed, to convince
the Jury. The blow was very hard
on the poor girl. Her former EN-
ployer in whose family she served a:
governess, told one of her. lawyers
shortly before the trial ended, that j
the Jury disagreed, and she was ad
mitted to bail pending a new trial, ht
would furnish it, and take her bach
toshis family in the capacity of gov
erness, and thus give her chance tc
reinstate herself in public opinion
All this is now over. What the poo
thing will do after her release 1t il
hard to say. Everybody felt 'sorr!
for her. She was so refined in he
manner, and although her infatua
ton for the man who betrayed her
was piece of arrant folly, yet there
was something so tragic in 1t as to in
spire the utmost sympathy.
The western officials have not ye
succeeded in ferreting out the rascal
who tapped the wires leading from
Jerome Park, and thus victimized TIT
the pool sellers and the betting pub
lie to the tune of about 100000
Frauds like this have been done be
fore, but never on such a gigantic
scale, embracing as it did every bet
ting centre on this side of the Rock.
Mountains. The. criminals did th'
work in very circumspect and thor
ough manner. Every avenue Of de
tection that they could think of wa
guarded against. i had achat will
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