The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-10-11
METROPOLITAN GOSSIP.
THE SENTINEL'S WEEKLY LETTEI:
FROM GAY GOTHAM.

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FROM GAY GOTHAM.
Tammany Hall No inmates Sheriff
Hugh j. Grant for Mayor-Mayor
Hewitt Re-nominated by the CT nn-
ty Democracy The Big Wheat
Deal.
New YoRK, Octoter S-Tammany
dug up its tommahawk Friday night
and started in fer sealps. All the
big and little chieftains had their war
paint on and very lively pow WOW
it was Sheriff Hugh J. Grant who
head, their ticket for Mayor, was their
nominee four wears .ago when Mayor
Grace was elected.
Up tn the last moment there was
some slight hope Of local union.
Conferences had been held during the
day in which Secretary Whitney,
Senator German, Congressman Scott
and other personal and political
friends Of the President took a hand.
Whether these gentlemen could not
agree upon a candidate acceptable To
all factions, or whether they finally
concluded that the interests Of the
State and National tickets weuid be
best served by a triangular local fight,
it is difficult 10 say At all events we
have the out come. Friday night the
CountA Democracy put Mayor He
witt in the denomination and IS he
is endorsed By the Citizens move
ment, there seems every probability Of
his election.
There never was sharper nor pref
tier fight in the Empire Stare than
this year. Things are mixed up in
such a bewildering manner that it is
extremely difficult to keep all the
futtering ends in sight You find
plenty Of men who are ardent support
ers of Cleveland and who would not
hesitate 10 smear trough on rats on
Gov. Hills toast if they had the
chance Then again you hear men
shouting lustiIy.for Hill with never a
commendatory chirp fer the Presi
dent. When you get down to local
candidates the situation is still more
complicated. Those eccentric forces
of Citizens movements. Mugwumps,
High License men, Prohi5itionists,
United Labor advocates, Socialists.
Anarchists and Americanites (the
latest fad in the line of political organ
ization) all center in the Metropolis;
and mighty whirligig Oh politics they
make when the big and little cog
wheels get III motion.
Still the situation has not changed
materially during the past month.
The chances are tor a largely increas-
ed Democratic majority in New York
aud Brooklyn. The party managers
claim with reason that the rest Of the
State will certainly, do as well as
it did for Cleveland four years ago.
They expect 10 beat these figures by
some $4,000, basing their hopes upon
a canvass just completed If they do,
Cleveland will have 10 less than 30,-
900 majority in this State. If they
don't, he ought to have half that any
how.
Considerable excitement has grown
out of the exposure of the Republican
plot to colonize Pennsylvania "heel-
ers'' into New York State, The Dem
ocratic managers got wind Of the
scheme week ago, and Immediately
set to work to counteract it 1t is
said that Boss Quay has changed his
tactics to some extent and will put a
good portion of the million dollar
Campaign Doodle, recently raised, in
the. Empire State.
Boss Quay is said to be in a tower
ing passion over the recently report
ed Republican tariff bill; but be is
not half so mad as the Pennsylvania
Steel Barons they call them Steal
Barons nowadays-who Clipped in
three quarters Of million Campaign
Doodle. 1t is said tkat these gentle
men were duly assured that the Re
publican Tariff Bill vas only u little
Campaign ghost which would never
by any possibility be permitted to ma
terialize and there are those who as
sert that Quay himself was overcome
with this notion. His violent oppo-
sition to the reporting of any such
measures is history. Chairman Brice
takes more comfort from this
anomalous effort to relieve the
necessities of suffering people by
putting acorns on the free list. For
once he and Senator Quay are in ae
cord. Both of them think that this
measure will weaken the Republican
ticket in the Eastern States where the
Republicans have been moving hea
ven and earth to show that the present
tariff was just the thing for working
pen.
THE BIG WHEAT DEAL.
There is not much stirring to speak
of when you switch off from poiitics, A
little diuerti emcnt was created BIZ the
corner in wheat which has put up that
staple to fanciful prices. This is the
work of Broker Hutchinson, familiar
ly il not afectionately known as "Oid
Hutch" He had been getting things
ready for months and when at last he
pulled the string there was such howl
1sg and dancing and fanciful contor-
tions on the floor OF. the Produc. Ex-
change as had not been noticed there
since the Anglo Russian war scare of
three and a-half years since. On
"Wednesday no less than SO, $4,000
bushels of wheat changed hands on the
floor in a few minutes. You could
not buy standing room in the free
galleries at So. IF you were lucky
enough to struggle to the front railing
overlooking the pitryou would be apt
to close your eyes devoutly and thank
your stars that yuu were not mixed