Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-07-06
POLITICS IN NEW YORK.

TIoN-IIABon SOLID FOR CLEvE-
tAND-TiIE WALL STREET END OF
TIE T1PPECANoELET Ticket. WITH
a SHORT HIsToKY OF IIE"BAR'L.' -
New YORK, July 4.
Politics has the cali mere now. A
few days ago it was raging at white
heat. You got whilis of it in the
cafes and hotel Hobbies. 1t came to
you in sulphurious gusts f-om the
wide open doors of Printing House
Square and succeed the fronts of
the great newspaper Offices with big
lcttcred legends OF the extraordinary
doings at Chicago.
Men who have grown hoary in
politics cannot remember when the
work of u national convention has
been received with such conspicuous
indifference. Even those perfume
tory cbnlitions Of enthusiasm which
in the nature Of things are supposed
to assert themselves on such occa.
sions have been almost totally lack;
ing.
The New York Republican is
usually Of the type that has been
graphically and rather picturesquely
described as "Blaine or bustcr,'
and lie is naturally Disguised that
his party should have so little to
show for their season of anguishcd
travail at Chicago.
As seer through the field glasses
of the local leaders the head of The
ticket appears to be something more
than mugwump and something less
than - Republican Tie politico
moral straight jucket of the indie
pendent will not adopt itself to his
figure and the stalwart mantle of the
magnetic man is many sizes too
large for statesman Of his girth.
The Independent vote that went to
Cleveland in 1884 will stay with him
this year. For time this contin
gent seemed considerably bciogged
as to which road it would take, but
the Chicago diclier has cleared all
that up. George William Curtis and
rie Times, the head and front and
the mouthpiecc Of the combination.
have pronounced for Cleveland and
Thurman in the most unequiyocal
terms.
The vote CT organized labor here
will 90 the same way-and it is biz
enough to he a mighty force in New
York politics. Henry George, who.
rs lahor's champion, polled over Co.
900 votes for mayor, with Republi-
can and Democratic tickets in the
field, is an avowcd advocate o.
Clcye,and's election. That very con
siderable section Of Irish Democrats
who were led astray by the blarney
OF the Meinc man four years ago are
also safely back within the Demo
cratic fold.
Banker Morton is mulli-million
aire. Besides being an immensely
rich man, Mr.. Morton is chilly known
] here for the ireGuent disappointmcnts
; of his political ambition. When he
entered politics some twelve years
ago, the boys soon discovered a
conference.-the readiness OH his part
to put the bic "bar'l'' on tap. They
have been systematically bleeding
him ever since. lie was once dc.
tcatcd and once elected to Congress-
from an uptown "brown stone dis.
trict.' The boys rolled ont the
'bar'f' when that memorable wall
went up for Blaine funds four wears
ago. They put n flea in Brother
Notions ear about the venerable
Lapham' seat in the Senate. When
the vacancy occurred up went tho
"bar'r' to Albany with Boss Plat
personally presiding at the bung
hole. EYarts, however, drew the
prize. Nothing dauntcd, the same
old crowd were on hand st Albany
again last year when Warner Miller's
term ms Senator expired. The Wall
street magnatc as usual was blcd
feariully, but somehow the Senator.
ial ticket got fastened to Hiscoclss
coat
THIS sort of thing began to be a
tribe monotonous. There was immi
nent danger that Moncybags growing
weary of INDUCING his expensive
folly, might get his grip on the fatn
Get and turn off the golden stream.
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