Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-05
BETTING ON THE ELECr1oS.

BETTING ON THE ELECTION.
! Cleveland Men Looking for BlaIneites
and Offering Them Odds-Butler and
st. John Not Talked OLA Western
Colonel who Has Evidently Lost Faith
in the Republican Nominee,
There has been much betting on the cleo
ton, says the New York World, this year
by Wall street men, the irregular nature
of the contest, with St. John and Butler
as two uncertain factors in the problem,
offering special opportunities for hazards
on the general result. A conservative
broker estimates that about SIS, 900 or
$4,000 has been bet in the Stock EX-
change alone on the election. Members
of the exchange and bankers on the street
have made many bets outside at the no.
tells uptown and at the restaurants and
other places of resort downtown. The
betting, as a rule, has been about even on
the general result, but the Cleveland men
are offering odds on the election in this
State; s., 200 to 500 that Cleveland will
carry the State has been offered and 81, 900
even that his majority will be 1000.
Mr.. Thomas G. Buck, of II. K. Enos &
Co., within day or two has bet $4,000
with K. S. ConnOr, brother of Jay Gould's
partner, that Cleveland will get more
votes in the State of New York than
Blaine. Mr.. Buck endeavored to have
the bet repeated, but Mr.. COnnor de-
cined.
Mr.. c. I. Hudson has bet 81, 900 with w.
T. COlbron that Cleveland will have $4,000
more votes in the State than Blaine.
Mr.. Hudson has two bets of 1900 to
81, 900 each that Cleveland will be elected
with Deacon S. V. White, OF Plymouth
Church and LackaWanna corner fame. In
all Deacon White has bet $1,000 on Blaine
as an offset apparently to the stand for
Cleveland taken by his pastor, Henry
Ward Beecher. He has three bets of
81, 900 each with S. Elliott, who believes that
Cleveland will be elected.
Addison Cammack has bet extensively
at the WidsOr Hotel, the amount being, it
is understood, $37,000-all staked on
Cleveland.
It was reported downtown yesterday
on the best authority that a bet of $40, 600
was made at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on
Friday night that Cleveland viii have
more votes than Blaine in New York.
About $50, 900 more was placed on the cleo
ton that same. evening at the hotel.
An evening or two ago eX-COngressman
Miles Ross, of New Jersey, made several
large bets at Taylor's Hotel, Jersey City,
that Cleveland will be elected.
Col. J. o. ShaughnessY, who lived for
many years at Denver, Col, and accu-
mulated fortune of several millions in
mining enterprises in the West, has been
in the city for several weeks trying to
''place," as he says, $780, 900, made up by
a syndicate of which he is the representa-
tive, on the result Of the election. He
proclaimed himself as an out-and-out
Blaine man, and when he first arrived was
willing to give odds that Blaine would be
the next President Of the United States.
He is not so sanguine now, however. His
money, the Treasurer of the Republican
State Committee, who yesterday almost
went wild with joy when a contribution
of So was received, says is in his safe and
ready to be ''laid out" on Blaine. A few
nights ago the gallant Colonel encounter
ed Mr.. Edward Kearney in the Hoffman
House and bet $4,000 even that Blaine
would be elected. Mr.. Kearney offered to
double the amount, but the Colonel was
not disposed then to risk and more. A
night or two later Col. Shaughnessy wan
dered into the st. James Hotel and a we'll
known gambler said to him: ''PI bet
$4,000 to $4,000 that the Democratic par
ty will win" The Colonel would not 90
so high, but was bantered into betting
$1,000. He seems to have lost faith in
Blaine, and it is stated that he has an
nounced his intention to leave the balance
of his $50, 900 in the safe of the Republi-
can State Committee until after the Ohio
election. The custodian of the money,
however, said that it would be invested
the moment a favorable opportunity pre-
scented itself.
Few men have been more successful in
betting on politics than Billy Wise. In
days gone by he was an ardent Republic
can, and he staked a great portion of his
worldly wealth on Garfeld's election. He
came out ahead-in fact, he made for
tune by his operations in 1880. He fire.
quents the Gilsey and the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. He is now a strong Cleveland
man. He bets at the rate Of 800 to $50
that Cleveland will be the next Presi-
dent. A short time ago he made bet of
$1,000 to 500 with Joe Hackett, and he bet
$500 even with Charles Davis.
Mr.. Cammack, the noted bear broker,
strOlled into the st. James Hotel and in
crowd of Republicans announced that he
would there and then bet $4,000 to $4,000
that Cleveland would be elected and du-
ly inaugurated. Blaine's ayowed admir-
ers quit the corridor as soon as decency
would permit.
1t took Cleveland man from Philadel-
phia two weeks to find a Blaine supper
ter who would stake $4,000 even on the re-
suit.
At Kelly & Bliss Exchange, in Twenty
eighth street, the reporter was told that
DldluG 81 ppOA hCIS NCIG OuClluS PIsuUO "
5000 on New York State and the general
result. Bets have been made there that
the Republicans will carry Ohio by 10000
majority. No odds were given.
MIR. Shay, a wholesale grocer of Wash
ington, has been in the city for several
days. He has bet $4,000 on Cleveland. A
Mr.. MCGUIRE, of Cleveland, o.. is stopping
at an uptown hotel. He is an Indepen-
dent Republican. He is betting extern
sively on Cleveland. A German-Ameri-
can named Nipple, also of Cleveland, o.,
was, until Blaine's nomination, a red-hOt
Republican. He has within the past few
days staked several thousand dollars that
the Democrats will carry Ohio.
The Republicans have been claiming
that there was a strong probability that
they would carry Louisiana. Col. James
II. milford, of New Orleans, is here ready
to bet from $1,000 to $4,000, and give
large odds, that Louisiana will go Demo-
cratic.
1.-THE Blaine men do not give any Odds"
said eX-Coroner w Gilman. They indulge
in a great deal OF chin music, but /
haven't heard Of any Of them putting up
any considerable amount of money. They
talk like men who were confident of de-
feat. Blaine himself seems to feel that
way, and he is going around the country
making a holy show of himself"