The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-31
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
from our Regular Correspondent
New YORK, March 23d, 1853,

From our Regular Correspondent
NEW YORK, March 23d, 1883.
"Down in the South, at present."
said Southern Republican to me the
other day, "people are actively en-
gagged in President making--that is
to say on paper. They have plenty
of leisure between one cotton crop and
the other to talk politics, anu they do
| it to their hearts content. What
amuses me most however is to see
the way the Indiana and Kentucky
Democrats are parcelling out the pros.
pective spoils. They propose to get
the cream of the results of the party's
restoration to power in the House of
Representatives. Their scheme is to-
make Carlisle the Speaker, and Nc.
Donald is to head the Presidential
ticket. The party in the North will
have to shift for itself according to
their intentions. Ofcourse the whole
matter will end in the usual Demo-
cratic row. In spite of the repeated
thrashing they have received, they
are the same old Democrats all the
way through, with the same old
cranks at the head of affairs"
The Republican party is gradually
being forced to side with the prohibi-
tiOnary question by the determined
efforts of the Democrats to make the
liquor interest one of paramount inn
portance. "You will see that some
plank of this kind will have to be in
serted in the Republican platform
next year," said prominent Maine
politician to me. 1.-The other party
goes to such extremes towards the
liquor interests that we must stand
firm on the other side, and then let
the people judge whether they will
have rum or sobriety rule"
A man who was and to certain
extent still is lobbyist of exceptional
shrewdness and vigOr told me last
Sunday at the Hoffman House. that
in all his experience with Democratic
legislatures at Albany he had never
seen such "mixed crowd" as there
was up there now. The Tammany
people under kelly's orders are be-
having somewhat but the rest of the
Democrats are such hoggish grubbers
for lolves or fishes that they would
seize on almost anything. The nuns
Der Of bills introduced to provide the
Wherewith for coming ex-legislators
to keep the wolf from the door is
amazing, and the effrontery with
which the system Of "you tickle me
and I'll tickle YOU" is being carried
out, takes even my breath away.
IS A peculiar instance of the force of
the imagination came to my knowl-
edge to-day. In certain Office there
is employed as collector man who
has been suffering from heart disease
for some years. A few days ago he
felt very much distressed. He had
an idea that his physician was en-
deavoFing to conceal from him his
true condition, and therefore went to
a medical college and consulted two
of the foremost specialists In the
country. After examining him thor
oughly and applying every test
known to science, they told him to
prepare for the worst, and that re
could not by any possibility live long
er than five weeks. This informal
ton so shocked the poor man that
he came to his Office late in the after
noon in a perfectly dazed condition.
He walked about mechanically and
when spoken to made the queerest
answers. "How can tell my fami-
Iy," he exclaimed after he had told
his employer of his doom. The gen.
tleman who conceived the sincerest
pity for him. gave him a note of in
PRODUCTION to another physician. He
left the Office and has not returned
since, In fact he did not go to the
physician at all. This happened last
Monday. The police and private de.