Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-09
Correspondence Of The Morning -Aetos.

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but he may not be able to prove the cheat
ing with which he is apparently to be
tricked out of the Presidency.
That with Republicans the spirit to so
cheat him is willing is evident; the trouble
is that the means Of doing so are weak.
Any great correction" of the returns
which have been received would expose
the manipulation to detection, and small
alteration of the figures would have to be
so numerous that it would involve such
an extended system of bribery of the
Democratic inspectors of election as to
be. one would suppose, we'll nigh imprac-
tlcable, unless, as Horace Walpole said,
every man has his price. Still the cleo
ton machinery in nearly every county in
the State, outside of this city and
Long Island, is in the hands
of the Republicans, and this gives them
an opportunity for gainsaying the will of
the people, which they will doubtless take
advantage of. Such, at least, is the Opin-
ion of the Republican politicians here,
who are bold enough to say what they
think. awe cheated you out of it once,
and we will do it again" has been said to
me in so many words. Even if Cleveland
ultimately receives the electoral vote of
this State, will still think that an earn
est effort was made to unfairly deprive
him OF it.
I CLEVELAND EVIDENTLY EXPERIENCED
THE USUAL FATE
of Democratic Presidential candidates in
/ this city, and was sold out by every candi-
/ date who could advance his own interests
/ by sacrificing the national ticket. I have
/ experienced a change Of heart as TO Tam
many Hall. however, and believe that as
| whole the organization gave its support
/ to Cleveland. Instances are known of
! Tammany men being in collision with
| the Republicans, but the Gefeat of Grant,
! the Tammany candidate for Mayor. is
/ pretty good proof that the deal was not
| general. On the other hand, the election
| of Grace is equally fair proof that
the County Democrats made deal.
At any rate, the figures show that the
electoral ticket was sacrificed in the in
terests Of some one. The Combined vote
OF the TWO Democratic candidates for
m 1dy was, IN ropdd numbers, nearly
lS2.OOO or 13S,OOyF more than the vote Of
the Republican candidate for the same
once, whIle, as you know, Cleveland's
| pIuraIlty in this city was but little over
43,OU0s- Blaine's vote being about So
wv. Now great part Of this
/ difference can only be accounted
for on the ground that votes We're
obtained for either, or both, of the Demo-
cratic candidates for Mayor by an ex-
/ change for votes for Blaine. OF course.
many disguntled Democrats. who voted
the regular local ticket, voted against
/ Cleveland from pure cussedness, without
/ gaining anything thereby, so that the
/ deal theory don't account for the entire
/ difference between Blaine's vote and that
/ of the Republican local ticket. | am,
/ too. Inclined to hold Tammany Hall less
/ guilty than theCOuuty Democracy of collu-
/ sion with the enemy, because Ofthe curses
1 both loud and deep which | hear among
Republicans against John Kelly. They
/ profess themselves too delighted at his
defeat hpOaHGo
/ fault. If he had wanted his candidate for
/ Mayor elected he should have carried
I out deal with the Republican machine
Sunset Cox gave DR.. Burchard's now
famous alliteratiye sentence rather
happy turn when he introduced q Con-
/ federate General to Gov. Cleveland on
the review stand in Madison square last
| Saturday. 'Here's a personification of
rebellion" he said. II will, for this oc-
casiOn, personate rum, and you, Governor,
are the nOblest Roman of them alp
The scenes around the newspaper bull !
! letins on Tuesday night begger descrip- |
! tion-tO use Shakespeare's time-worn
| term. All night long excited men stood |
in the drenching rain. and while they |
waited for the tardy returns gave vent to |
their political bias by appropriate bowls. |
The Democrats chanted ''Burn this let |
/ ter' and "SOap, soap, Blaine's only |
hope" while the Republicans repeated |
their refrain of "Blaine. Blaine, James G. |
Blaine" with damable iteration. and
sang John Browns body and March |
/ ing through Georgia" When the rain
| grew so fierce that umbrellas, in spite of
/ their being in each others way, had to be
put up, the crowd looked like a field of
| gigantic black mushrooms.
LAST NIGHT THERE WERE COMPARE
lively FEW
around the newspaper bulletins, but
| the headquarters of both parties up town
were crowded, and the Blaine men, in
spired, it is to be presumed, by the
| thought that their candidate was to be
| counted in, went bowling around the
neigh borhoOd, apparently in a state of
/ well-fOunded eXultation. Judging from
/ the returns just received, they will not
! be so jubiiant tonight.
/ What at first view seems a rather ex-
| pensive mode Of ecOnomZing is being in
| dulged IN by many New Workers who
| have lost money in the depreciation IN
values which has been going on the past
year. Quite a large number of people are
| going abroad because they think they can
| live more cheaply in the effete mOnaIchies
of the old world than they can in this
| young republic. Going to Europe would
seem more expensive than living at home,
| but 1t is not if your home is New York.
| OF course, the people who are going
abroad from economical motives do not
intend to travel about much; that would
| cost more than staying here. They will
settle down in some cheap out-of-the-way
! place on the continent, and have all the
! glory of being abroad while spending less
money than If they remained at home.
| There are probably places in this country
where, taking travelling expenses into
consideration, one can live quite as
| cheaply as in Europe. or, at any rate, live
| in much more comfort at comparatively
little additional expense; but it would be
an open confession of poverty to leave
| New York for some obscure village in this
country while residences in an equally
| obscure and perhaps more undesirable
place in Europe savors of luxury and
is something to brag about. These very
persons who are going abroad to save
money, when they come back, if they ever
do, will make social capital of the length
| of time they spent away from their native
country, for it is come to this
pass that the less an American lives in
! America the more consideration he is held
! in. "He's so cosmopolitan, don't you
know. He's spent nearly all his life
abroad; was educated there, and all that"
Happy is the man Of whom this can be
said. When he does condescend to come
to this country, his path is strewn with
roses, and yet it may be that he has been
living abroad all his life because he can
not afford to live as he would like to In
| New York, and, Of course. he would scorn
to live anywhere else on this side of the
water.
AMERICANS WHO HAVE PASSED MUCH
of their time in Europe bring back snob-
bish notions about trade being "low,"
and seem to think that even professional
work is less dignifed than a life of idle
ness. Fred. GaTretson, the tea importer,
is an exception to this, although, perhaps,
he has not been abroad long enough to
fully acquire this aristocratfc idea. He
started grocery store in Newport last
summer, which he personally superin-
tended. and, when necessary, he weighed
out groceries, did up parcels, and per-
formed other duties Of a clerk. 1t is told
of him, that when a fashionable woman,
with whom he was to dine that evening,
objected one day TO the price of something
he was selling her on the score of its be-
ing too high, he said: swell, I'll look up
the figure in my books, and tell you when
l come to your cottage TO dinner.'' Ac-
cordingly, when aTrayed in fauitless
evening dress, ne presented himself to his
hostess that evening, he proceeded to tell
the lowest price at which he could sell
| the article she wanted As MIGHT