Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-16
BLAINE'S BLASTED P
HIS PLOT TO STEAL NEW YORK
NOW ABANDONED.

I GOs
The Eopeiessness of Such an Efror4 A.
together too Apparent-Death ola SEN
tuagen Arian who Always Wore His
Hat bat Never Became Bald-Some So
ciety SnObbery.
COrresD0ndence OF the Mornin1 Nsars.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-While the Blaine
managers lave apparently changed their
minds, it is very evident that an attempt
to steal the thirty-six electoral votes NJ
this State was contemplated, and it re-
mains to be seen whether it may not be
carried out even at the eleventh hour. At
any rate, this is the general impression
among Democrats, and those who think
thus will not consider this State assured
for Cleveland until the State board OF
c~anyassers SO decide. The election Of a
Republican Chairman of the Board of
Aldermen acting as supervisors bv the
aid of Tammany votes is not calculated
to. allay the alarm Of those who are fear
full that a plot is in progress to oun
Cleveland out, but Alderman Waite, who
vas cOmplimented with that rather
empty honor, is not the stuff out of which
conspirators are made. In place of being
lean and hungry looking like ECassius,0
he is a very plump and pleasing persOn,
and, although he can keep a hotel, from
John l. DavenpOrt's standpoint
he probably would not be more
successful than Elkins in running
a tramps' lodging house IN the Bowery.
In fact, the hotels he has kept have not
always kept him. The BTevoort House,
in spite of Its English patronage, finally
proved q financial failure under his man
agement, and his profits from running the
PequOt House, New London, last summer
could not have been large. Altogether,
Charley Waite will have to experience a
metamorphOsis similar to that of the
leopard changing its spots If he is to prove
the Joe Bradley of a counting out process
q la the Electoral Commission Of 1876.
Still, whethere Waite and his brother
Aldermen, IN their capacity of supervisors
and county canvassers, act fairly or not,
the process of counting so large a vote is
such a long and tedious one that they
cannot easily finish it until Saturday of
neXt week.
Judging from their past action the
Blaine papers VIII claim a majority for
their candidate while a single vote re-
mains to be counted. By so doing they
would hardly make themselves more RI
diculous than they lave already. The
Tribune, for example, last Sunday gravely
claimed that an error of 425 votes in favor
of Blaine had been discovered IN this
city on the strength of figures fur
nished by one Brodsky, a ~pot-house
politician and police court lawyer. Jour
nalism is sunk TO a low ebb when a great
paper like the Tribune will editorially in
dOrse the statements of q fellow like
BrOdsky. AS a matter of fact, too, Brod-
sky, either intentionally or otherwise,
said what was not true, and his false
statement, Endorsed as it was by the
Tribune, has done more than anything
else to prove that the Blaine managers
have nothing on which to found their eX-
traVagant claims of errors and %inaccura-
cies sufficient to OVerturn the apparent
plurality for Cleveland. For, if they have
good grounds for their claims, they GER
tainly would not have stopped to pick up
the wrong estimates due to the bad arith-
metic or mendacity of the Self-corstituted
~canVasser, John f. Brodsky, who, when
he proclaimed his discovery of an error
of 425 in favor Of Blaine, omitted to add
that it was to a great extent Offset by an
error Of about th-ree-quarters that figure
in favor of Cleveland. The only errors
thus far discovered or likely to be discoV-
cred in favor of Blaine are included in
BrOdsky's figures, so that C~leveland's
plurality in this city Will not be appreci-
ably diminished by the official count.
IT IS NOT ONLY THE NEGROES IN THE
SOUTH,
who, taught by the i~ncendiary publica-
tiOns and speeches of such politicians as
are the bane of the country, dread the
coming of the Democrats into power as a
prelude to again reducing them to slavery.
The absurd and ridiculous fear is shared
by their brethren in the North. l know
of a negro who can read and write and
otherwise gives evidence of intelligence,
that cannot be persuaded to the contrary
Of fhiC Ifa hos povOp haou n uI,uo .vI
yet he anticipates that no sooner is Cleve-
land inaugurated President than that
all negroes, himself included, whether
born free or not, Will be reduced to serVi-
tude. 1t would apparently IRquire but
little playing upon his fears to cause him
to take refuge in Canada, as he seems to
think that he will not be safe here in New
York. lie is, l have good reason to be-
IleVe, q far specimen of his class and
race as represented in this city, and is,
therefore, proof of the nefariOus modes Of
e~lectiOneering to which the Republican
managers have resOrted, probably no
more IN this campaign than in previous
ones. ,
Old people should take care of them
selves. The confusion resulting from the
election caused the person whose duty it
was to omit to make a fire IN the Office of
the Chief Clerk at the Police Central
Office on Wednesday of last week. The
cold which Mr.. Hawley, the Chief Clerk,
contracted by sitting in the ~frelass room
developed into pneumonia, from which be
died on Monday. What would hardly
have harmed a younger man proved fatal
TO the septuageDarian. Mr.. HaWley was
"a. Continued wearing of the hat, in
season and out of season, is supposed to
lie the cause OF the badness which is so
prevalent even among young men. l
never saw Mr.. Hawley without his hat,
and l used to think he slept in it. On the
hottest summer day / have seen him wear
a heavy %stOvepipe lat while at work in
his office. He died in the possession of as
fine a head of hair as q man ever had,
and it was less gray than the hair of most
men of 80! There is a romance con-
nected with the only daughter of
Mr.. HaWley. She was once en-
gagged to George, the tavorite
son OF the late Commodore Vanderbilt,
who died from a lung disease contracted
while serving in the Federal army in the
+ late civil War. - IS SUPPOSED By some
that, had he lived, he and not William Ii.
Vanderbilt, would have inherited the
lions share OF the great wealth collected
by the Commodore. Miss Hawley has
remained single for the sake Of her dead
lover.
Physicians, apparently, deem them
selves infallible, but they frequently fall
into egregious errors. Dr.. Fordyce
Barker was recently called to New London
to hold a consultation with the physicians
who were treating two cases of typhoid
fever, of which he has made a speciality.
When asked his professional opinion as 10
their chances of recovery, DR.. Barker de-
clared II case hopeless and made light
of the other, The patient whom he deemed
sure of recovery died within twelve
hours of the utteTance Of his prophecy,