The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1888-11-03
NEW YORK LETTER.

NEW YoRK, Oct. 3O. 1sSs.

hASNOLiA GAZETTE.
New YORK, Oct. 80, 1888.
Two weeks before election. |
The air is full of the blare of
brass bands. The streets are
swarming with professions. Out /
of doors you can hardly hear your |
companion talk for the eternal
din and rear. And as for cross
ing the streets, hardly anything
short Of baioon would accom-
plish it while one of the seemingly
endless professions is passing.
Flags and banners and bandannas
are iiuttering all about. A stran-
ger might be pardoned for think
ing that the only business done
here at all, is the business of poll
tics. 1t has got to be virulently
epidemic anu IS wholly undescrm-
mating, the Bank President and
coal HEAVIER being equally subject
to the contagion. Of course the
greater part OF this screcching and
tramping is done on behalf Of the
National and State tickets; but
the peculiar complications in local
politics give this years fight a
zcst which the traditional oldest
| inhabitant swears by the eternal
he has never known the like OF
before.
just think of it Seven full
flcdged candidates for Aldermen,
and so many gentlemen aspiring
to Congressional and Legislative
honors that 1t would take an cx-
pert accountant to compile a table
that would do just ice to the situa
toni And then they have sucf
queer ways of voting up here
1t does not matter whether a man
lives in his own district or not
As a matter Of fact, several o
the Congressman from this cit,
Z would hive to traverse two o.
three Congressional districts j
going from their residence to th
one they represent.
3 Even now there are some lin
+ gcring whispers of possible com
: promise on candidate for Mayo
4 who will bring Tammany Ha
and the County Democracy tc
9 gcther. 1t Is understood tha
f negotiations to this effect are bC
/, ing conducted quietly by MI
b William Steinway, the head {
+ the great piaro house Of thi
]. name, and one of New Nork
/ wealthiest citizens, who has ju
& returned from a European tou
|. Mr.. Steinway, as you may recal
# was until lately the New Yo'
i. member of the National Dem
Ie cratic Committee. He wants 4
Di warning factions to settle upC
N Mr.. Herman OelrIchs, his succe
< sor in that position, Tor Mayo
ie That gentleman in turn thin
lc Mr.. Steinway would iit the bill
/ a nicety.
t, No doubt either would make
r very acceptable Mayor, but 1t is
very late date to try to patch
le the differences in the local d
b mocracy. Nothing short Of
is miracle could accomplish it no
In The opinion of most of t
In Democrats whose views | ha
Id heald, union at that stage
le the game would be of very doul
m full advantage TO the Nation
In ticket. Nothing but wholcsi
is slaughter of the ticket by one
to the other OF the factions {
We ieopardzc The chances of veto
n In this State. To cut off
rs possibility of such an occurre,
ed which could be easily detecl
n anu which would inevitably cru
d. forever the organization VIII
ne night be guilty of 1.-THE Nati'
lat nj Committee will have meu
we its own at every polling booth
he the city, from which Democra
we votes are run out. Any lndl
It. ton of trading will be instan
alt reported and as there is no qu
fer ton of the loyalty OF the men
the upper councils OF both orga
Ith. zations, they will hold themsei
nd in readiness to suppress it at on
lse But there seems no danger of a
zen thing of the sort happenlng.
k very conservative estimate
nes CIeveland's vote in this city
the 100000 against 133, 900 four "
ce. ago, allowing 100000 To la
no son against 10000 cast for Blal
yer The Democratic Committee, b
,oy ever thinks that Harrison