The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-07-12
POLITICS IN NEW YORK.
REPUBLICANS Disc GUS TIE D
WITH THE WORK OF THE
CHICAGO CONVENTION.
Labor Solid for Cleveland-The Wall
Street End Of the Tippecanoeiet
Ticket, with Brief History OF
the Barrel"
From oar Special Correspondsnl.l |

NEW YORK, June 81, lssS-
Politics has the eall here now. A few
days ago it was raging at white heat. ! OH
got whiffs of it in the cafes and hotel lob
bies. 1t came to you in sulphurious gusts
from the wide-open doors OF Printing
House Square and succeed the fronts of
the great newspaper offices with big-let-
tered legends of the extraordinary doings
at Chicago Every other man resolved
himself into an oracle or soothsayer and
the talk was pretty much all Blaine.
Everyone felt that New Jerks seventy
head and the wiley Steve Elkins, Blaine,
Cossacks lowering about the edges Were
sent TO Chicago to do the bidding of the
man frCm Maine when the proper moment
should arrive. The trotting out OF DepEew
az stalking-horse to keep the boys in
line pending the grand coup deceived no
one.
And now the dismal failure of the
Blame plot, and the unexpected c0niDlna-
ton of other candidates which headed off
the contemplate ted stampede TO the crafty
FIorentine Is the absorbing political topic
In its discussion the nominees themselves
are almost lost sight of. Men who have
grown hoary in politics cannot remember
when the work of National Convention
has been received with such conspicuous
Indifference. Even those .perfunctory
ebullitions of enthusiasm which in the
themselves on such occasions have been
almost totally lacking.
Your Gotham Republican-whatt there is
of hm--is apt to be positive, aggressive:
He chooses his idol from the inner circle OF
Stalwartism, and bestows his homage upon
| it with a zeal i'm direct ratio to its record of
partisan achievement. No amount of
Cheap. ancestral gliding will surnish up
! little tin figure of the Chicago Conven-
! tion size into deity worthy to command
the fealty of the New York Republican.
| In fact, he is usually Of the type that has
been graphically and rather picturesquely
described as Blaine OF buster. ana he
is naturally disguised that his party should
! have so little TO show for their season OF
anguished travail at Chicago.
The family history idea IN politics comes
home to the New York Republican with
that sharp pain born only of the record
and memory of disaster. 1t was only last
fall that the supposed prestige of pedigree
placed at the head of the Republican
State ticket the very respectable son OF
his father" Col. Fred ID. Grant. HOW ne
led the party to defeat under conditions
much more favorable to its success than
they can be by any reasonable proba9iiits
this fall. has passed into history-and his
tory is very likely TO repeat itself with
eXemplarieS with respect to the 1lppe
canOelet ticket.
AS seen through the field glasses of the
local leaders the head of the ticket appears
!. to be something more than MugWuml
and something less than Republican
The pOlitico-moral Straight-jack OF tht
Iudependentvote will not adapt itself to hi
, figure and the StalWart mantle OF the mag
uetic man is many sizes too large Tor
statesman of his girth. The Independent
+ vote that went to Cleveland in 1854 VII
stay with him this year. For time thi
contingent seemed considerably befogget
as to which road it would take but tn
Il ;oly
and George William Curtis and ~
o Times. the head and front and the mouth
0 piece of the combination have pronounce
II for Cleveland and Thurman in the mos
e uEequivocal terms. :,
d The vote of organized labor here vii
5 90 the same way-and it is bi
e enough to be mighty force in New lor
e politics. Henry George whe as Labor
n champion polled over 6O0OO votes It
= Mayor with Republican and Democrat
C tickets in the field, is an avowed advoca'
II of Cleveland's election. Ihat very COZ
J.. were led astray by the blarney OF the Main
le man four years ago are also safely pac
j. within the Democratic fold.
1t After all, there is considerable humor
)r this grotesque combination OF Benlami
a and Ievi. and the boys are making IL
+ most of it. They say there was vel
y sugary odor in the great Meeting Ia
in when Boss Platte trlumphantly rolled i
as Morton "barrel" down the aisles. III
I'd brainiest of Republican leaders, Senat
It, ingalls,, who usually dips his pen
he yitriol and sometimes smeaTs it over WI
ed the oil of polite satire, wrought better thu
. he knew perhaps, in his recent adyail
nc sketch of the Vice-P Presidential candida'
IL At all events the picture of his drawing
"a a very accurate presentment vi the va
M Street end Of the ticket.
III Banker Morton is a mIltimli iiohai
10 f,a1 tn "a n
He maintains magnlfcenthome estaoii
ment here and half dozen others at
: rous fashionable watering places. \
&C finest thOrough-breds are III MS staoi'
III his servants are all attlred III tiie III
irreproachab BILE liveries. lie entera'
royally at home, and is frequently The
OF dazzling receptions and banquets
DeImonico's | have had OCCASION 10
him professionally more than once:
has good manner and the lines OF his y
:, recall those of the late ex-governor
den. Besides being an Immensely I
man, Mr. Mortoni is chiefly known mere
FREQUENT djsappointments Of his poiit'
Ter ambition. When he entered politics 50
IN twelve years ago, the boys soon
the coveted a commendable readiness on
4 3 part to put the big barrel on zap,
I'D have been Systematically bleedinf
50 ever since lie was once defeated
n once elected to Congress from an up-tt
~ brown stone district. The DO
&c rolled out the " barrel " when that NJ.
or orable wall went up for Blaine funds
;an years ago. They put a flea In Bfo'
Ind Mor,ons ear bout the venerable Lapha
OAR seat in the Senate. When the Vac.s
ere occurred up went the " barrel To AID
hey with Boss Platt personally pIesln'i
un- the bung lGie. Eyarts, noWeFer,
IL the prize. Nothing daunted. the same
'H5 crowd were on hand at Albany az
tIo last wear when Warner Nj 'ler's term
Senator expired. be Wall Street mag
as usual was bled feauaiiy but
how the Senatorial ticket got fastea1
Co | u!scocks coat.
orx The outlook in nutshell IS FOR Ia
rcs. ma aiority for the Democraiic ticket
II has been given since the Grst rise 81
o.d' Cleveland tidal wave wbich'engulfsd
ami Republican party IN the eVef-e-D - y
not m-u,bered Cuaerr.a fnriaI contest OF loo
free FRANK l. ' AU6HA