The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-11-17
BROADBRIM'S N. Y. LETTER.

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BROADBRIM'S N. Y, LETTER. |
We have just closed one of the most re-
markable and stirring political campaigns
of the century. Other campaigns there
have been, In which great interests were at
stake, and in which millions of men we're
zealously engaged, bu: never before in my
memory have such large bodies of men
been handled with such consummate abill-
ty, and the bitterness consequent upon the
conflict been toned down to the plane of a
decent civilization. The two political Com
manders-in Chief have displayed an ability
almost phenomenal. Mr. Bryce was well
matched by Mr.. Quay, and Mr.. Quay was
well matched by Mr.. Bryce, and now the
battle is finished and the last vote is count
ed, neither will have anything to accuse
himself of; for each has done all chat NOR
tai man could do to secure victory for his
party, and shall always look upon this
campaign as one of the liYliest that have
ever seen. All the week the cities of Brook
l,n and New York have been stirred to
their innermost depths by mass meetings
aud monster professions, in which hundreds
of thousands of people have been engaged.
Day by day, the Democratic drygoods men
and the Republican drygoods men met at
their respective quarters and made the well
kin ring with their campaign songs and
battle cries. One club instituted sort of
cart or truck campaign. They had large
truck all covered with flags which moved
from place to place with band of music,
and whenever they could pick up an audi
ence they started up lively campaign song
and then the speaker gave them the true
gospel Of Harrison and Protection" or
"CleYeland and Reform" Both parties ap-
about New York and Brooklyn, which is
debatable ground. Brooklyn has been es-
pecially favored this week: Mckinley OF
Ohio Bob Ingersoll and Chauncey Depew
for tho Republicans, and Governor Hill,
Secretary Bayard and a number of others
for the Democrats.
Aside from the ward professions, which
haye been monsters in their way, the pro-
cessions, of Saturday, the third of Noyem-
Der, ecllpsed everything of the kind ever
seen in New York. 1t was not only par
ticipated in by New York and Brookly n,
but the partizans Of each party poured in
from the outside country till 1t is pretty
safe to say that we had over hundred and
fifty thousand added to our regular popula-
| tion 1t Is estimated that we have every
day in the week a floating population of
fifty thousand strangers, and to this on
Saturday We had added a hundred thousand
more. All business was suspended, both
parties having evidently set themselves out
for fair and square trial of strength.
Those who saw the Republican parade in
the afternoon would have willingly filed
their affidavit that Cleveland had no more
chance of being President than he had of
| flying through the air like a bird, while The
thousands that lined the the sidewalks a
few hours later and witnessed the magni6-
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ing "Four years more" felt that Harrisen's s
chances for the Presidency were dead as
Julius Cesar. Never in one day was seen
in any part of the world two such monster
professions, representing such opposite
principles and conflicting interests, and
conducted with less disorder. That is so,
thanks to our police organization. There
are elements smoulderlng here that, if given
the smallest latitude, would make our city
blaze from end TO end but the strong hand
of organized power stands ready TO quell it
at any moments notice, and back of the
police is the National Guard so that not
withstanding the fact that socialism cent
ers here, and anarchy holds its nightly
vigil, we lie down TO sleep in perfect Sc
curity, which the Gar of Russia surround
ed by his Cossacks can never know.
To the credit of New York be 1t is said
that while here and there there might have
been little lively badinage and chatting,
on the whole no more orderly professions
have ever been seen in the city, and when
the asperities Of the present conflict shall
have passed, they will be remembered with
pride by the adherents of both political
parties.
The effect of the political excitement has
been to block all kinds of business, and
now that IL is over, and the country Is still
safe, let us hope that the men who have
been absorbed in politics will find time to
attend to their legitimate business, that the
nation may still continue on the high road
10 prosperity.
The lodging-house vote, which has been
the curse and shame of New York in years
past, has been hunted down by both parties,
and the bummers and convicts to whom an
election meant food and lodging and free
whiskey for weeks, find their occupation
gone. Several hundred of these fraudulent
voters have been tracked and few years in
States prison may teach these conyicts that
the American ballot is too sacred thing
TO be bought and sold by felons. The clerk
of the weather has been quite impartial in
bis treatment of both parties. The mon
ster procession of the Democrats which
was reviewed by President Cleveland OF
the 9th ult., faced binding rain storm
and oceans of mud, but nothing could
dampen the Democratic ardor, and the next
parade Of the Republicans was blessed
with very fine weather. On Saturday, the
Sd, when the Republicans had their last
grand parade, though the weather was moi
as bad as that which the Democrats faced
week before, 1t was bad enough to test
the courage of New York hackman, and
when saw old judges of the courts, emf.
nent lawyers, rich merchants and arlsto.
cratic bankers facing the rain and trampine
through the mud, apparently as merry as
schoolboys, resisting all Invitations to ride