Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-21
BLAINE HACKERS SCARED.
Cleveland Men COrrOspOndingIy Conf
dent-MetropOIitan Notes.

Correspondence Of the N0rnin0 Neacs.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Bets are the
straws that show which way the politi-
cal wind is blowing. The Cleveland men
were shy of backing their candidate up
to this week, but since the publication of
the new batch of Mulligan letters they
are offering and taking bets of large
amounts. One enthusiastic Democrat
has wagered $500 that New York State
will give Cleveland $4,000 majority. He
will proba bly, lose it, but the fact that he
is willing to make such bet shows a
growing confidence that the thirty-siX
electoral votes of the Empire State are
safe for the Democratic candidate. A
Blaine oficeholder told me yesterday that
in his opinion Blaine was losing votes at
the rate Of 5000 day. He has no hope
of his election, but intends to vote for him
all the same. / hear from trustworthy
sources that while the fresh installment
of Mulligan letters have no effect upon
the men who had already made up their
minds to vote for Blaine, they are con-
yertIng those who were hating between
two opinions. According to this view,
there are thousands of men who gave Mr..
Blaine the benefit of the doubt in regard
to the "deadhead'' letter, but who cannot
resist the corrobOrative evidence afforded
in the publications of last Monday. Such
as these will either vote for Cleveland or
not vote at all.
The Butler meeting IN Union square
last Monday night was funny affair.
That the large majority present assembled
only from curiosity to hear and see But
Ter is shown by the dwindling of the crowd
which took place when he went away. l
passed through the square twice. and the
persons whom 1 knew there were simply
the victims of curiosity.
A POLICE CAPTAIN DIsCoURsED TO ME
ON THE EVILS
of beer drinking the other day. He hap
pens to be a Republican, but | do not
know that his remarks had any political
significance. He said that the workmen
in breweries, especially the drivers Of the
beer wagons, are the despair of surgeons
when any accident happens to them. This
is due to the quantities Of beer which
they consume. Every well regulated
brewery here supplies the men employed
in it with all the beer they want to pre-
vent them from tapping fresh casks and
from meddling with the beer when in pro-
cess of making. The employees are gene
rally supplied with tickets with which
they get beer from saloon attached to
the brewery. Each ticket is good for a
glass; One brewery in MOrrisania gives
plOyes, in addition to the regular wages,
which are no smaller because what would
cost 81 so, if bought in the regular way,
is added. The tickets for which he has
no need a workman is privileged to give
away to members of his family, and he
can make use of them in treating his
friends, but he is not allowed to peddle
them. The consequence is that work
man in brewery, if single, drinks about
thirty glasses of beer every day.
Drivers of beer wagons drink more, Tor,
in addition to their allowance from the
brewery, they sample their own wares at
nearly every saloon which they supply
with beer, so that they probably average
as many as fifty glasses of beer every
working day in their lives. What Won
der, when driving about the crowded
streets in the fuddled condition that such
a quantity of beer must produce, they are
continually running over childrenl The
marvel is that accidents from this cause
are not more frequent. 1t is not to be
wondered at either that they themselves
not unfrequently fall under the wheels of
their heavy wagons and are crushed by
their own Juggernauts.
When this occurs, said the temperance
police Captain, the victim is a dead man. |
What would not perhaps materially in
jure temperate person will kill the beer
dr1nker. A slight flesh wound, or even a
cut in the hand, which temperate man
would think little or nothing of, will be
weeks in healing in the case of a brewery
employe who makes use of his privileges, |
and will sometimes prove fatal. An in
ordinate beer drinker seems to have no
power of resistance against disease.
When one is brought to a hospital the
victim of an accident, the surgeon has no
hope as soon as he learns his habits.
Beer drinkers seldom or never survive a
surgical operation that Is considered