Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-07

| correspondence a. tAe AaOTSttlsQ ~fotlcs
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-HaYing seen what
there was to see at the Blaine Irish meet
! ing az Chickering Hall 1 thought it but
fair to take a look at the Cleveland Irish
meeting at the Academy of Music last
/ Thursday night. The difference between
them would have been obvious to- blind
man. There were, at least, three times
as many Irishmen at the Cleveland meet
ing as at the much Wanted Blaine gath
ering, and the Academy, big as it Is,
could not hold the mighty multitude
which assembled. What / saw of the
meeting was an outside view. l could
| get no further than the Hobbies, where the
vendors of campaign badges and Iitera-
ture were'selling their wares. One had
! FAC SinlileS of the certificates of the Little
Rock and Fort Smith Railroad, which he
auctioned off in this style: Here you
are, gentlemen, a share in Blaine's rail-
road, only 5 centsl"
! l cannot claim TO have been present at
the Butler meeting on Saturday night,
! but l did pass Union Square in a horse
car about the time that at least 20,000peo-
! pie should have been gathered there, but
were not. Mutual Friend" MoultOn. by
| the way, was the victim of an embarrass-
| ing accident that evening in addition to
that of his arrest by an over technical
! policeman for causing the cree
ton of a stand for the speakers
when the permit for the meet
! ing made no mention of it. He invited
\ newspaper man to dine with him at
| the Hoffman House, and they partook of
good but not hIgh-priced repast. The
| bill for both was but SO 80, which proves
| the meal to have been plain one, as such
small sum at that establishment would
hardly pay for dinner of a satisfactory
| number of courses for one, even without
wine. Small as the bill was, however.
/ MOulton had no money to paw it, as he
| had changed his coat before coming to
dinner anC left his pocketbOok in the one
he had taken off. He was accordingly
obliged to borrow of his companion. Had
it not been newspaper pay day the latter
would probably have not been able to ac-
commOdate him.
Speaking of paying for things, the en-
ployes IN the post office and other Federal
| otice-holders here are generally refusing
to contribute to the Republican bribery
and corruption fund. A letter carrier
! who said that he would rather see CleYe-
land elected than Blaine, as he thought
he would stand better chance Of keep
ing his position under a civil service
| reformer, probably expressed the senti-
ments OF others besides himself.
Things politically are very mixed, A
! clerk in the Health Department told me
the other day that all his Republican
friends were going to vote for Cleveland.
and all his Democratic for Blaipel
Although his experience is doubtless
exceptional, yet that even one man can
make such a statement shows what
strange bed fellows politics make this
year. However, the number OF Demo-
Gratis who are expected to vote for Blaine
has been growing smaller BY degrees and
/ beautifully less since the great Irish
demonstration Of last week, and il viii
grow smaller yet.
At a private meeting Of the governing
committee Of Tammany, held soon after
the Chicago Convention. CleFeland's in
dOrsement, so / understand, was resolved
upon. Whether the Endorsement is made
in good faith or not, the moral effect will
be the same, and thousands Of Irisbmen
both IN this city and the western part Of
this State, who have been waiting 70 see
what John Kelly was going 70 do. viii
take the will for the deed and at eleventh
hour throw up their hats for Cleveland.
The man whose vote for Cleveland con-
tains the most food for announcement Is
a Republican in MOrrisania who intends
to vote for MIN for no better reason than
that he thinks he viii be elected. and he
wants to be on the winning side When
one considers the real enthusiasm that is
A-4eAE4AAESAEI dAA4DAA Tx sIUEln
and the temperance cause one IS tempted
TO believe the MOrrisania Republican 10
be even building wiser than he knows. A
newspaper correspondent who has been
attending the meetings Of the temperance
voters in this State and in New JERSEY
tells me that they are larger and more I
enthusiastic than either the Democratic
or Republican gatherings in the same
places. Thousands Of people everywhere
travel many miles to hear St. John
speak. and willingly pay the . cents
which is often, if not ALWAYS. charged for
admission to the meetings. Think Of pay
ing for the privilege of attending a pOliti- /
cal gathering! St. John himself esti- /
mated his followers in this State alone at /
100000, and if the number who attend his |
meetings is any proof, he will prove not /
far wrong in his estimate. St. John is /
particularly bitter against the RepubIi- /
cans and especially against Blaine whom |
he denounces IN season and out of season, |
He thinks that his own candidacy will |
throw the election into the House, even
II 1t does not directly elect Cleveland and |
seems to take pleasure in the thought.
The action OF the Board Of Aldermen, in |
giving away to one concern what another |
offered s., ZOO, 900 for, is complete iusti- |
fication of Gov. Cleveland's curtaiiment |
of their powers, by signing the Roosevelt |
bill, granting the Mayor the sole power |
criticised on the ground that it was con- /
trary to republican form of government, |
as it made the Mayor Gar, as John |
Kelly's paper phrased it. Consider the /
effrOntery o. this band of scamps in OPEN /
ly granting a valuable franchise-Viz: the |
right to run railroad through Broadway |
without any equivalent, when tbey |
could obtain $1,000,000 for it! What pos |
sible explanation of their action can |
there be than that they are bribed? |
Surely, they would not thus defy |
public opinion unless they were |
going to get something for |
it. The statement that each receives |
$4,000 in cash and $4,000 in stock in the |
proposed enterprise is easily conceivable: |
IN fact no other explanation can be |
thought of. The Indignation meeting held |
at Chickering Hall should make votes for |
Cleveland, as it was not only directed /
against his personal enemies, and thus !
shows what manner Of men they are, but I
it proves the wisdom of his signing the |
Roosevelt bill in the interests of good gov |
eminent.
New York in all respects, indeed. is
more rotten than Denmark was in Ham,
let's day. The murder on the picnic
barge last Sunday proves not only in
efficiency on the part of the police, but /
something far worse. The city at large
expense keeps steamboat to patrol the
surrounding waters ana preserve the
peace among the floating population. The
murder in question was the very occasion
which is the reason of the police steam
boats existence. When the news of the
fight which eliminated in murder was re-
ceived at the police headquarters, an at
tempt was made to summon the police
boat, which is named the Patrol, but it
was out of reach of call. The
only occasions apparently when the
Patrol is on hand are those
of junketing. For example, it conveyed
Commissioner French, who for his exhi-
bitiOn of a forged telegram authorizing
himself to appear as proxy at the conven-
ton which nominated FOIger for Gov
ernor, has been since known as PROXY
French, and other dignitaries of the |
Police Department to a suburban ban
quet given by a statesman of local |
prominence on Saturday. In fact the
Patrol is the TallapoOsa of the Police |
Department, and in this respect it is
fit successor to the burned Seneca, which I
it replaces. 1t does not, however, boast |
the expensive equipment in the way of /
table furniture which made the Seneca a /
public scandal. AS yet solid silver forks |
and spoons and real China are absent |
from the Patrols table, but the Patrol is |