The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-24
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondents
NEW YORK, March 10th, 1888.

From our Regular Correspondents
NEW YORK, March 10th, 1888.
Since the adjournment of Congress.
the city has fairly swarmed with leg
islators from all sections of the coun-
try. and in order to get comprehen-
siye idea of the present feeling about
the new tariff, as also to ascertain
what effect it would have on the po-
litical future of the two parties, I
called on and had conversations with
with a great many of them. The
general impression seemed that tariff
legislation, or tariff tinkering, as some
of them expressed it should now be
left severely alone, as the interests of
the countrV's business demanded that
the game of battle-dore and shuttle
cock between hope and fear should be
stopped. One Senator thought we
ought to let things severely alone now
for at least three years, in order to
see how the changes which have been
made would work. A leading West
ern Republican Congressman how
ever whose foresight and breadth of
view have frequently been noticed,
considered the matter differently
however. "The fact is" said he,
shat the tariff question will decide
the Presidential campaign of 1884.
So far the question has just been
played with. The Democrats sprung
it on US in demogogic manner.
Nevertheless legislators nor the peo-
pie at large have had the time to
study up the matter, nor even to give
it fair consideration"
Now that something has been done,
and that the whole subject has been
agitated, the people as well as their
representatives will be posted, and
you will see what grave question
the tariff matter will become in six
months. 1t is my firm opinion that
the Democrats as usual will make a
mess of 1t, and that the Republican
party will sail into possession again
with sound common-sense tariff flag
floating at the mast head. This mat
ter is ~ grave one. 1t concerns the
heads, hearts and stomachs of the
nation, and in treating it one must
never lose sight of that fact.
An Assemblyman from the interior
of the State, assures me that there is
no chance at Albany for the passage
of a new charter for the City of New
York, and Mayor Edison who has
drafted one had has his labors for
nothing. What the DemocraticS olons
urged by the crack of John Kelly's
whip objected to principally was the
clause providing for single.headed
commissions to govern the depart
ments. The fact that such change
would bring about not alone more
economical form of local government
but also a better administration of
affairs by preventing officials from
shifting responsibilities is nothing to
these Performers" compared with
the fact that they would lose patron
age ny it, by diminishing the num-
Der of loaves to be distributed among
the faithful.
any one living outside of New
York can have no idea how the box
ing mania has seized upon the popu
lar fancy. Young men and old men,
Iaborers and professional men all are
able to discuss, the merits of the
gladiator and the number of these
trying to fit themselves for the art of
handling their "dukes" by a course
of boxing lessons is legion. Women
and girls too have caught the fever.
In quiet side street, just off Sixth
A venue, one of the professional fe-
male boxers who used to display her
science at Harry HIPS so-called sport
ing theatre has opened gymnasium
forladies. She is an English woman of
about 30 years, massive in proper
tions, a hard hitter, and despite her
weight agile as cat. l believe she
was born near a colliery in the North