Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-20
THE SITUATION IN NEW YORK.
An Outline of the Political Prospect
The Sunday Concerts in Central Park.


and by proxy, with all sorts and cOndi-
tiOns Of men. In it nothing is eXtenuat-
ed which is TO the disadvantage Of the De-
mOcracy, and naught is set down in NAL
ice to Tammany. All. excepting Cleve-
lands personal enemies, and the work
ingmen whose minds they have poisoned
even the Republicans-agree that the
Democrats have nominated ticket which
deserves success; whether it will achieve
it is, Of course, a matter of individual
opinion, and in matters political the wish
is always father to the thought.
Indeed, for the following reason. if for
no other, Cleveland is the best possible
Presidential Candidate that could have
been named. Any other candidate would
have been open to the reproach Of being
John kelly's choice. Had the convention
named either Bayard or Randall, it would
have been considered, and justly, a Tam
many triumph. In order to avoid laying
itself open to the imputatiOn of having
been bulldOzed by the worst elements in
the party, the convention was obliged to
nominate Cleveland. Kelly & Co. left it
no other alternative. Practically, as / in
timated in my last letter, he and
his henchman, Grady, did more to nOmi-
nate Cleveland than any other two men.
only the Independents and dissatisfied
Republicans would have refused to sup
port ''JOhn kelly's choice" but many
Democrats would have refused to follow
where Tammany led. When Gen. Bragg
said at the convention, referring to Cleve-
land, eve love him best for the enemies
he has made" he not only gave utterance /
to a truth, but to truth of which the re-
verse is also true. The man chosen by
q = hot
son alone, have been looked cOldly upon
by the better class of Democrats.
According TO present appearances Tam
many Hall, in spite Of all that has hap
pened, will give Cleveland quite as much
support as it would have given almost |
any candidate. Already the different |
branches of the organization are wheel |
ne into line. But its repentance cannot
entirely undo the mischief il has done. |
The slanderOus seed sOwn by the Star, |
the Tammany organ, has borne fruit i'm |
the minds of the more ignorant and unin- |
telligent of the wOrkingmen, and John /
Kelly in part told the truth when he said |
that he could not, if he would, |
secure Inc laboring vote for Clevga-- !
land. wOrkingmen who are not fools, |
here and elsewhere, Will prefer the reform !
Governor Of New York to the corrupt ex- !
Speaker Of Congress, the incarnation of
unfortunately there are more fools than
wise ones in this world, and Blaine ap-
parently is to be the candidate of the fools
as he evidently is of the knayes.'
THE OPPOSITION To CLEVELAND Is so
IRRATIONAL
that il is a hopeless task to reason with
it. Men object to him for YetOing the
Elevated Railroad five cent bill who only |
use the cars in the five cent hours; en- |
ar.FaN -
his YetOing the twelYe-hOur bill, when, |
owing to their being paid by the trip, had |
ii become law their salaries would have |
suffered by so much; mechanics find fault /
with him for vetOing the mechanics lien
bill, when 1t was calculated tn ;,in;ura in
place ofhelping the%.il ON second thought. |
.mere cannot be many men so utterly |
idiOtic as to thus believe black is white, |
and by November the workingmen as |
class will doubtless vote for the candI- |
date of the party of the people, and not |
f or the nominee of the MOnOpOlists' party. !
What l alluded to a fortnight ago as
calculated TO Offset any detection among
the wOrkingmen will assume mammoth
proportions before the campaign is over,
+ those who initiated the movement are |
to be believed. When going up town on
the night Of the nomination on Third
avenue car l met the editor of the BOycOt- |
ter, a paper which calls upon working
men to boycott the Tribune and the Iri-
JuRe'S candidate. Those who act on the
advice of the BOgcOtter not only do not
buy the Tribune, but do not buy Of firms
who advertise in the Tribune, and above
all they oppose the IFibuRe'S candidate
for President. The BOycOtter'S animOsity
to the Tribune is due to WhitelaW Reds |
breaking his contract with Typographical
Union No. and employing nOn-uniOn
printers. The editor Of the paper which
thus believes in Waging war to the knife
and the knife to the hilt told me that the
100000 Knights of Labor IN the country
would comply with the Typographical
Unions suggestion 10 boycott Blaine. As
for No. itself, it already contains club
of nearly 700 voters composed of men
who have never voted Democratic be-
fore. but are pledged to do so this
time, In fact those are the conditions
OF membership, The typographical Union
will evidently boycot Diss,lne, put Judging
from the alleged action Of the hnIs1l!ts Oh
Labor in st. Louis and elsewhere, its nv
ample is not to be folloWed. with entire
unanimity. IheTe as one argument in
%seFei-, favor which all Republicans
acknowledge, although they pretend to
make light of il, and that's the difference
between the class Of men who are dissat-
isfied with his nomination and those who
have bolted from Blaine. Certainly an
o5orous comparison, as DOgberry called
If can be made between George William
Curtis. Charles Francis Adams, Jr.,
President Eliot of Harvard College,
LANES Freeman Clarke, Professors sum
- and Dana. and the rest Of the Yale
COLLEGE faculty, and John Kelly and Tom
The CITY is already putting on its cleo
zion livery. The streets are becoming
Terrible as an army with banners and
widowed counterfeit presentments OF the
different candidates stare at one from the
fransparencies Of the various political
cIubs. Larger or smaller meetings OF
each nartv are held in some part Of the
Town every evening. Election time has
come and the voice OF the campaign ora
tor is heard in the land
M NEW DEPARTURE OF THE PARK
COMMISSIONERS
in changing the concert IN Centra! Park
from SATURDAY. to Sunday, While 1t is
source OF delight to thousands OF
the working people, has incurred the
oratbamas of those who believe that the
Sahbafh was made for man and not man
for the Sabbath. The commission
ers have actually been flooded with petit
fions signed by mistaken but Jealous peo-
Me nraVing that the concerts be dlscOn-
tinued. One Baptist clergyman, however,
with whom a petition was lett not only
refused to sign 1t himself out ADVISED ms
CONGREGATION not to, and it did not obtain
\ singIe signature. The Park Commits
siontTs. sustained by his action and the
snnnort Of the newspapers, have thus far
held out against the Sabbatarian clamor.
Ihave never understood nov now ms ,I IetS-
renee for Sunday as the Saobatn, Wnlch
exists among English speaking Protest
ants. originated. It is not popularity
OF Professionalism, but only Of English Pro
testantism. 1t certainly does not exist
among the continental Protestants, ana
never did. A Geneva tradition repre-
cnnfs Calvin the founder of the