National Republican., 1884-10-07
TIE WAGER MARKET.
Election Betting rs a Buslnoss-Bookmakers
Holding On-Ojds In Favor OF Blaine.

The condition Of the market for election bots
Is the subject of a sketch In the New YORK sun
which says that moro money is probably staked
on the result than has ever been wagored In
any previous presidential campaign. Tho pro
fesslonal bookmakers, however do not show
their usual avidity In betting as yet, for they
always laid personal preferences aside whom
they put up their money and although thcy
believe In chance they invariably like to lean
n little In their direction. When bets are made
they nrc ten to nine in favor OF Blaine,
V. II. Place Of Sandy Lake, manager OF tho
Plnas Atlas Gold aud silver Mining company
at Las Vegas, NJ NJ, has bet u now mill worth
si0,O 900 aud the companys mining property, In
all valued at S50O00O against Hughes Il Shan
mons copper property, which is valued NJ $780,
900. Charles NJ. shannon, who stakod the
copper property, bets on Cleveland, while
Place is for Blaine. Papers have beon drawn
up and arc now in the hands Of "a stakeholder:
As soon as the election Is over the transfer will
be made. A number OF pools have been made
for the purpose Of betting on the election. ono
represents n capital Of sJ00,0O0 which has been
put up by western cattle men. +. B Cobhnm,
deputy United States marshal for Dakota, q
cousin Of Don Cameron, represents the syndl-
cate. Gotham only makes the bet that Blaine
will carry New York aud will be elected prosi'
dent, both propositions to be accepted. II Ia
i
| the $500, 900 Is used up.
There are, however, some alleged pools, the
representatives Of which make large oilers, but
| who cannot be found when men with green
| back-lined pockets look for them. A pub.
lished letter signed by Henry Orringc, Au-
gustus Robbins, aud Losn Curtis offers these
propositions
carries New York by 5000 majority; 5000 to
| $500 that he carries New York by 10000 ma.
lorilyj 900 even that he carries ohio; s,3O6
TO $500 he carries Iowa; 81 OOOto 500 he carries
New Jersey; 5000 to 81, 800 he will be elected"
The III 900 was said 10 be on deposit with
George Ruckert, at 65 Bowery But when Col.
f. NJ. Craits ofthe republican general com.
went there no ono was found there ready to
bet or who even know tho signers of tho letter,
The way New York will 30 furnishes the
ground for q number OF bets
| At the Fifth Avenue hotel recently Mr..
Williams Wyse expressed his belief that Cleve-
land would carry the state by 5000, and was
quickly taken up with two bets OF $50. Col.
O,shaughnessy bet Ed. Kearnoy $1,000 that
Blaine would shoulder the state. There have
been various smaller bets that Blaine VIII
carry II by $1,000, 40OOO and 10000 majority,
and that Cleveland will accomplish the same
feat by 1900 and 25,000. Then, besides other
people who insist on investing on thelrjudg'
ment of the number of votes Butler ut st, John
Will each poll. These are all apart from what
pre- prestige onis onths Stock oS' EHeRSuse % 80 +
said to have been put up on individual prefer
ences. Addison Cammack is said to have in
vested In Cleveland stock 10 the extent Of Ovel
$40, 900, and Deacon g. v. White, of Plymouth
church, and well known In Washington, is OF
record as giving odds Of 10 on Blaine, beside
some even bets of 81 900 each with Bob Elliott
and one Of $1,000 to $1,000 with Charley Smith
in all about 5000.
Baltimore man is said TO have sent $1,000
10 New York TO be wngered ut odds that Clevc
J land carries West Virginia and that Ohio goe
democratic this month. The money Is located
The odds on the floor of the stock exohang
for some days have been 100 to 50, with Blain
: the favorite.