Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
A JAUNT TO CONNECTICUT.
| Some New Features of the Campaign
Hungry Joe" in Hard Luck.

as it was. felt that he had the right adj
jective in the right place when on board
a New London steamer last THURSDAY
night. Two hundred of my fellow pas
sengers were "fresh air fund" children
| OF course, the proper feeling in regard tC
them should have been one of delight
that so many little wretches were to ex
change, for even few weeks, the heal
and dirt and pestilential air of tenements
for the green fields and bracing zephyrs
of the country, but how could one fee
properly with the cabin swarming with
two hundred noisy brats! There was
nothing interesting or sentimental about
| the two hundred small unfortunates
Although clean to outward view, they
caused the steamer to be so Odorous that
| it seemed like a huge floating tenement
! house. Even when they sang "ShoC
Fly" and kindred airs they made so much
more noise than melody that even lovers
of children must have been glad when
II O'Clock came and they were all
stretched on mattresses on the cabin floor.
1t was the time for disappearing into
bed for every one there, for promenading
was hardly possible on a floor carpeted
with children, and it was too wet for sit
ting or deck to be pleasant. All, there
fore, sought the seolusiOn which the state
rooms granted, and probably but few
were displeased at learning when they
awoke that the children had gone North
on the O'Clock train.
SAW THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB REM
DEVIOUS
in front of the Pe9uot House, New Lon
don, on Saturday afternoon. The river
was pretty sight when filled with
II Sc IL
bunting. Each arrival was received with
a salute from the PequOt House cannon,
and when, towards O'Clock, James Cor
don Benefits yacht, looking with its
black hull and three masts like an ocean
steamer on reduced scale, steamed up
the Thames the river resOunded with sa-
lutes on both land and water.
The steam yacht next in size to Mr..
Benefits was that of Elbridge T. Gerry,
concerning whom ridiculous story is
told in New London. Some years ago
with his father-in-law, Robert B. Livings-
ton, both were so travel stained and
dusty as to be almost unacceptable.
Mr.. Gerry was bent with rheumatism, and
his father-in-law, in addition to being
lame, had a patch over one of his eyes.
The pair were so disreputable in appear
ance that the proprietor of the hotel was
asked whether they were not tramps!
Think of the grandson of Vice President
and Livingston being mistaken for
tramps!
The Pequot House just now is an espe-
cial resort for New Workers, as the pres
ent proprietor is Alderman Waite, the
landlord Of the Brev00rt House, in this
city. The summer has been so cool that
the season there, as elsewhere, has not
been a successful one on the whole, but
the hotel is now we'll filled. A dance was
given on Saturday night in honor of the
yacht club, and, with an infOrmaIity
characteristic of New London, morning
coats and even flannel shirts and knick-
erbockers mingled with swallOw-tails.
AT NORWICH I MET ONE OF THE REPRE-
SENTATIVE REPUBLICANS
who cannot stomach Blaine-a Harvard
professor, who has always been Repub-
hcan, and who not only has nothing of
what the Blaine men called the dude and
Pharisee about him, but who belongs to
what, even in republic where all men
are equal, may be considered the best
class in the communicable educated
and cultured class. Professor - he
is the last man to wish to see his name in
print is satisfied as to the quality Of the
Republican opposition to Blaine and is
as to the quantity. He took
WQdb many may COuSlQCI Il uUNGl view VI
Buffers candidacy. He thinks that in
Massachusetts, Butler Will draw more
votes from Blaine than from Cleveland.
The Republican whose disaffectiOn has
most encouraged me, however, is Judge
William j. Bacon, of Utica, in this State.
Judge Bacon is Republican of Republi-
cans. l know him personally, and he is
almost the last man in the country whom
l would have expected to refuse to vote
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He not only is a radical Republican, but
he belongs to the half-bTeed wing of the
party, and his dislike to Conkling is so no.
torious that for that reason alone one
would have expected him to support
Blaine. 1t is therefore not because he
has been Judge and member of Congress
that | consider his dlsatfection significant.
He is a representative OF a class so large
that if but half have the courage of their
convictions and vote against the RepublI-
can candidate for the sake of purifying
the Republican party, Cleveland viii be
carried into the White House by tidal
wave. And that there are many Judge
Bacons in the country l feel assured.
DANTON, PARAPHRAZING BACON, ONCE
SAID,
that the first, second and third requisite
to success was audacity. l have just
been talking over plan with one of the
statesmen who serve the city for modest
stipend that is audacious enough to rem
der Cleveland's calling and election sure
despite almost any contingency. Although
somewhat difficult to carry into effect, it
is quite feasible. 1t is to withdraw the
Democratic electoral ticket in Kansas
and Iowa, and to have all Democrats vote
for the St. John electors. In this way,
Kansas certainly, and Iowa very proba-
bly,, could be carried for the temperance
ticket, The result would doubtless be to
throw the election into the House of Rep
resentatives. Why should this not be
done? The Democrats can by no p0sslbll-
ity carry Kansas for Cleveland; why not,
therefore. take it out of the Blaine col
pivot on which the campaign will turn is
sthe opinion of good judges, and such a
course on the part of Democrats in States
which are Overwhelmingly Republican,
but not so much as to overcome the united
vote of the Democrats and Prohibitionists,
would prove the prophecy true.
EIt is a very pretty quarrel, as 1t
stands this, exchange of compliments be-
tween Inspector Byrnes and District
Attorney Olney. That the latter should
be obliged to employ private detectives to
bring Mother Mandelbaum to grief, GER
tainly shows inefficiency if not something
worse on the part of the police, but In
spectOr Byrnes' record since ne has mad
charge of the Detective Bureau proves
him at least to be like Abdiel, faithful
among the faithless." That he cannot
have subordinates as efficient and faithful
as himself is his misfortune not his
fault. When police preferment goes by
political favor it would be extraordinary
If all detectives were above reproach.
THE DISCOVERY THAT DAVID OGDEN
WOTHERSPOoN
died the death of a suicide on June "a,
will surprise no one more than his own
children. The fact that he had killed HIM
self had been concealed from them as well
as from people in general, and had it not
been for the investigation resulting from
the collection of insurance policies on his
life, his suicide would not have become
known. AS one policy, however, was for
$4,000, and the others probably amount
to an equal sum, sentimental considera-
tions had to give way. Indeed, it is doubt
full whether the truth would not have
been made public even if no attempt had
been made to collect the policies. The
failure to collect would have been so I'M
accountable that an inquiry would have
resulted which would have discovered the
truth.
The joke of the day is the mistake which
"Hungry joe" the bunko steerer, and his
pal made on Monday when they tackled