Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-22
THE SARATOGA CONVENTION.
Cleveland's Favorable Prospects at Chi
cago-The Rally of the ssCrOw Eaters
-ConkIing to Stump for Blaine-Sum-
mer Closing of Fashionable Churches.

/ NEW YORK, June 19.-Pe0ple breathe
/ freer now that the Saratoga convention
/ has met and adjourned. Although those
who hope to win the independent and dis.
I satisfied Republican vote regret that the
delegation to the National Convention
\ was not instructed for Cleveland, so that
/ it could present solid front at Chicago
4 yet the convention after all did its work
/ wisely and well. Cleveland certainly has
a large majority Of the delegates to Chi
/ cago, and the adoption Of the unit rule
viii ulti mately cause the entire vote o
4 the State to be cast for him. If the ssbol
/ tiers" and independents whom i know are
i to be taken as criterion, it really mat
\ tiers little whether Cleveland or BayarC
/ is nominated. The National Convention
7 cannot 90 wrong if it confines its choice
/ to this noble pair. All my boiling Repub.
/ lican friends say that they viii vote fol
+ either, and they represent the sentiments
4 Of thousands of other Republicans in
\ this and the neighboring States. The
\ Saratoga Convention showed particular
I wisdom in not giving John Kelly and his
J organization a chance to bolt. By yield.
I ing TO his demands for an equal represen.
I tation with the county Democracy, which,
/ after all, were reasonable, the convention
/ deprived him Of any excuse for making
! his usual s'deal'' with the Republicans.
| Young crow boiled is said to be esteem
! ed a luxury in the north of Europe.
I Blaine can hardly be called young bird
| he is, nevertheless, being swallowed with
4 apparent gust0 by men who, a short
/ fortnight ago, declared that nothing would
| induce them to stomach him. / was pre-
| pared to see even lOud-mouthed boilers
/ gradually yield silent acquiesence TO his
/ nomination and ultimately afford him a
| suIky support, but to find some of his
1 most vehement anti-nomination oppo-
nents already transformed into ardent
| supporters is certainly surprising.
Yet there are doubtless many such if
Casper Golderman, Chief Clerk of the
Health Department, is fair example of
the class. While Blaine's fortunes were
trembling in the balance at Chicago,
Golderman announced with yirtuous en-
phasis that if the Republican Convention
nominated a man with such a soiled
reputation he would not vote for him.
This was not said once or twice, but
repeatedly, in loud tones, and accom-
panied with the application Of unpleasant
epithets to the plumed knight. Those
who heard Golderman buster imagined
that "any decent Democrat would get his
vote sooner than Blaine.
FOR NEARLY WEEK AFTER BLAINE's
nomination, Golderman was silent as to
political matters, and when asked what
he intended to do on election day, tried to
eyade the question. He implied that he
was Of the same opinion as before the
Chicago Convention, but he no longer de-
nounced Blaine. Bat all this time he was
experiencing change Of heart, and on
Saturday his conversion was complete.
That morning, without any one initiating
the subject, he suddenly broke out in my
presence with, ssThese id scoundrels
who are now boiling from Blaine are the
same who bOlted from Lincolnl"
His capacity to eat crow, you perceive,
is much greater than his knowledge of
ante-bellum politics. To call the natural
dissatisfaction which at first existed in
this State at the throwing overheard of a
statesman like William III. Seward in
favor of a then comparatively unknown
Illinois lawyer a bolt, shows surprising
ignorance in member of the party which
claims to comprise the culture and educa-
ton Of the nation.
But there are many Goldermans in the
Republican party, and when election day
comes but a few thousands, compare
lively speaking ,Dt the tens Of thousands
who are now denOuneing Blaine win vote
against him. Fortunately, few thou
sand votes will turn the scales here in
New York and other doubtful States.
One of the queerest political bets
which thus far have been made is that
Conkling will take the stump for Blaine.
! A sTALwART POLITICIAN OF SOME PRoAII-
NENCE
in his s'deestrict' has bet two hats that
he will not, but the fact that his bets were
taken is considered proof of the existence
| of an understanding between Blaine and
Conkling which will result in the latter
| supporting on the platform his former
| bitter enemy. Conkling Will do this, il
| is supposed. not in gratitude for the
| sstaffy'' administered to him in Blaine's
/ book, but in the expectation of being re.
! stored, with Blaine's help, to his seat in
| the Senate. Although / do not believe
| any of this, | am in hopes that it is true,
/ for Conkling is so disliked by the half
! breeds that his support would injure
Blaine rather than help him.
Everybody who respected young Theo-
! dOre Roosevelt is glad to learn of his denial
/ that he intended to support Blaine. Ac-
| cording to what WIS last heard from him,
| the interview in which he announced that
/ he was "Republican, not a Reformer,"
| was fabrication. But he may change his
mind yet before election day.
Every summer a comparison between
! Professionalism and Romanism. not favor.
| able to the first named, cOnfronts one
/ While the Roman Catholic Churches here.
as elsewhere, are open all the year round,
]
are closed two months of the twelye-July
4 and August. You may say that the
4 Roman Catholics of New York belong to
| the stay-in-town class, so that it is neces-
sary for their churches to remain open,
while the reverse is true of metropolitan
| Protestants. While admitting the first, ]
| DENY this last assertion. The large ma
| iority of the male attendants, at any rate,
of the very churches that are most apt to
close spend the greater part of the sum-
mer in town, and there are of course
thousands of Protestant families whose
circumstances forbid their leaving New
/ York in even the hottest weather for any
length of time.
The Protestant Churches which remain
open during the entire summer belong to
| the denomination that is considered most
| akin to Romanism. With few exceptions
only Episcopal Churches are to be open
| in July and August, and the Episcopal
| Churches which will remain open are
those that have tendency towards High
Church. For example Trinity Church
and the various chapels connected with
Trinity parish, will all remain open the
| entire summer.
THE RITUALIsTIC CHURCHES WILL mi
TATE THE ROMANISTS
in this respect, as they do in others. St
Georges and Calvary Churches. which
have ceased to be low under their present
incumbents, will also remain open, not tC
speak of other more aYowedly high
/ churches. On the other hand, Grace
Church, the Church of the Ascension
! Christ Church, st. Bartholomew's and
other distinctly low churches viii be
closed during July and August. Although
| the Rev. Heber Newton is so abroad" q
churchman as to be considered hetero
| dox, his church-the Anthem Memorial
is only to be closed fortnight for repairs
OF other Protestant churches, all the
more fashionable will be closed. Many o.
their pastors are already taking their va
cations, or are about to start for the eoun
try. The Rev. DIR. John Hall, the dis
tinguished Presbyterian divine, is il
Europe, and DIR. John P. Newman
Grants old chaplain, who, although {
Methodist, occupies a Congregations
pulpit despite the opposition of a large
part of the congregation, begins a three
months vacation next week. The latter!
lines are certainly cast in pleasant places
i !, e not given to every one, either clergy
man or ,avman, to receive a salary o
| $4,000. tits. however, to be but Sc, 900 il
future for nine months work.
When thus eight Protestant churches
in ten are to be closed the levi tW'
months, what are the stay-in-town mem
bers of the congregations going to do
The answer is not hard to find. What
wonder that the 'tcontinental'' Sunday il
becoming popular in New York, when fol