New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-04
AMONG CHANGING GROUPS.
INFORMATION AND OPINIONS OBTAINED
FROM MANY SOURCS.


FROM MANY sOURCS.
senasor Thomas N. Bowen. Of Colorado, has breezy
Western ideas about finance He would do good service
as bear talker In Wall Street chatting with
him the other day when he said Business appears to
be pretty dull and prices very low in this country
but believe shall until reach the prices
or ls46 and lStS They were lower then than AT sny
other time in the present century The depression Of
prices must AFFECT stocks well as general business
People think that stocks lower than they
are now. They pretty look to see them 60
on fully fifteen points before the downward tendency
VIII STOP the fact Is that everything Ia plenty IN this
country but money Population and property are ooth
growing without any corresponding growth OF tho
representative OF value and the medium o. exchange
The retirement OF National notes is scarcely
more thso taken up by the coinage OF silver We are
trying 10 do business s23 capita when requires
S27 for the people OF England business and S2 In
France. We require double the amount OF money that
we now have In circulation. I presume after we gel
down To the prices OF ls4S things will 90 up again Inc
first brt ak away from that depression was when the
wildcat currency and the State banks had their run
along In 1881 and 1858 and from that time I'LL I'll the
crash OF 1857 when everything went 10 pieces Then
there was another period Of depression until tire war
came to give US now issues Of money"
Speaking OF the effects o, the ward teadsn " Of
the times. as described by h Senator Bower said; 1t
10 har lest Oh tue who have little m9ney You
see In prosperous times when there Ia great deal OF
money going round almost any can So atch about
and get some of 1t. Credit is given loosely aud men
without money are able TO secure great many things
without cash payment but times get little
hard the situation Is intensified by everybody demanding
cash aud the credit which had formerly stood eq la 70
large sum Of circulating medium is almost entirely
| stopped. Then, too money sccumuates 10 large
centres Ike York and lies boarded there. without
Investment its being aid to operate with
IL, and that adds 10 tie burden"
Senator Bowen's term will expire with this session OF
Congress and the Legislature be elected will
EJECT his successor. He ID candidate tor Reelection
and his friends say he will be able to secure It, ES-
Senator y. p. Ill., who was defeated By Mr. Teller two
years ago. has become bound up closely in his extern
sve business affairs that h. reported being not over
anxious 10 contest Senator BOwens seat although was
lily expected that he would do Senator Hils
family would Ike to return Nasbin and that may
| influence him In becoming candidate Another man
has his eyes the sensorshp aud who is already
known to the nation, is II. A. W. Tabor, the
hero OF newspaper articles without number on the sub
jet OF night shirts aud diamonds. ain tod that Mr.
TABOR has recovered MS luck. which some what down
for two three years. He recently raised all the
mortgages on his Colorado property by securing loan
low rate OF interest Eastern insurance com
paaes, by which he Is assured income over and ABOVE
his interest engagements of sl5O.OOO or 100000
year, sufficiently handsome for Colorado million
alre The from whom Senate: Bowen has most
to fear IS sad to be David H. Mofat who Is In no sense
candidate As president OF tue First National BANK OF
and OF the aud Rio Grande Railroad be-
being Interested heavily IN mining and Othe Colo
RADIO enterprises Mr. MOhtt secured strong Aou on
the affections OF the Colorado people. He Is entirely
without political ambition and for this reason has the
support OF widely differing classes one is tue solid
aud anua element that is always TO DC found IN
any community which likes to the Office seek the
man The other IS that DUNGEONS GLASS or ward poll
and strikers who happy until they can
| draw a man OF wealth into u tight for oice during
they hope be able to pluck him freely 80 far
Aolat has refused to Any countenauce to the talk
about himself ior the place.
The beat have that my Sunday columns OF
gossip closely read in the fact that error ever
creeps into them that am not Immediately challenged
Ia IL talking about rhaddeus stevens ana
his fathers history week. was led into AL ABB
surd stake. relative OF the stevens family told me
| that the fatLer Of rhaddeus stevens sergeant
under Scott hastily inferred tha' 1t was IN
the Mexican the elder stevens had served In
fact 1t the War OF 1872 difference OF chronology
Of thirty four years which wide to attract the
| attention of a number OF TRIBUNE readers. Among
those letters correcting this paragraph Ia
Andrew Rankin, Of Jamaica, who says ABOUT the dis
til gusned LEGISLATOR: Thadleus StoYenss s0-caled
club-fo not club foot at ALL bat shortening OF
the ten dous, which caused by fall III childhood and
made weak that portion OF the foot, directly boz
hind the OF usually called the bail Of the
foot"
tx Governor William E. Cameron, OF Virginia. in
the city Las week hun at the Holman House
He WAS formerly one OF the warm allies OF senator
M.noue but they fell the distribution Of patron
Prcsi lent Arthurs tins anu have not joined hanls
again Mr.. told me that he has not recently
paid any attention politics. but has besn practising la W
with all is energy Although he put in this general DIS
olaimer, hs said to about Virginia matters Tho
EeIublicans stand much chance for success Ia
Virginia than they had two years ago. think they
will their representation IN Congress- tnat Is
they will simply back the two districts wrh De-
longed to them but taken away By the Democrats
They are the and tXth These districts are naturally
Republican ard ought 70 be carried THIS year.
I'e 10 talking with senator Herman about Utica aud
her politicians. Of whom have cut LARGE hsIre IN
state md national politics and given Industrious names
70 the list OF statesmen. when quiet remark
DE made imp ressed me fo-cbly as charaeterzng the
integrity OF AL OF them. Said he: In all THAT naS been
said OF tea politicians and statesmen there remains one
stskns thing we never O., LAM among the leaders
boh Democrats and Republicans that the canai Jon
tracts were not thiags desired aud never even
sought any for or friends II Is Doins that can De
made force tor the credit OF ULca Id vie" of
the history OF the canal frauds
Senator Herman talked with freely about the rea-
tions between President Cleveland and Governor Hill
He asserts with much emphasis that they are entirely
harmonious and agreeable Ia this respect Lis opinion
differs from that commonly expressed among tue
younger politicians He said to me: Governor hi11 Is
very clever young too clever not to Xno" tnat ne
could not more certainly Kill himself than by setting Nun
self up AZ candidate FOR President III opposition % MI
Cleveland. L should do that Il would only isau 10
nsht ia the state Convent N aud the 'mOe o. Ihe
party would say that ne ha raised row lu tno
party ranks ami they would not nave him tos 'h"t
reason You may set It down certain that the mass Oh
tue Denociatc party VITA Mr. Cleveland anu no man
il strong enough 10 break hin down. Ot course " MI
I and OF "A
situation and II Is entrcly proper III eIo
friends OF Mr.. Hill to be working away Oh INA. Ihoi
VINO nave said they would not seek ieelrctou' "io
have been fonnd accode 10 the wishe, OF tne rHs
In ,nch matter. rat er than perss IN their own Gov
erno Hils wise he wants eminent preI1fnsht
IS t. 20 rig aid make good Governor ne ut,
reclrl LlAL WIN