The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-08-30
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM.
THE REPUBLICANS ARE IN
A BAD SITUATION

THE REPUBLICANS ARE IN
A BAD SITUATION.
How They are Trying to Foil the
People. Other Campaign Notes. A
Terrible Storm.
Especial Correspondence OF The .Sentiael.)
NNw York, August 27.-The Re-
publican leaders have made a most
humiliating confession of the embar-
rassing position they are in with re-
gard to the tariff. For weeks the Re-
publicans in the Senate have been
struggling to find way to meet the
issue. They were unable to reach an
an agreement on the subject and now
they frankly acknowledge that they
intend to dodge it. Boss Quay has
been in Washington urging that no
bill should be reported. He has car
ried the day and Mr.. Allison and
those other Republican Senators who
agree with him that revision of the
tariff is absolutely necessary, have
been whipped into line. As Chairman
of the Finance Committee Mr.. Allison
yesterday asked Senator Beck to con-
fer with his Democratic Colleagues
with a view to agreeing to a recess for
two weeks. The trick was so appa-
rent that it was simply laughed at.
Now the whole scheme of the Repub
licans is unfolded. They are in mess
and they know it. They cannot, for
obvious reasons, pass the Mills Bill
and they find it impossible to agree
on substitute for that conservati We
measure. Their policy is now to ha We
a committee of five appointed to go
around the country collecting evidence
caring on the tariff, the committee to
report whenever it sees fit, and the
Senate to hold the Mills bill in abey.
anee until the report is received. Of
course this merelysa makeshift TO COW
er their confusion. That committee
will report just about the time Grover
Cleveland is being reinaugurated.
Politics are booming all along the
line. The Campaign has been formal
ly opened in Connecticut, New York
and New Jersey, and every night
trained speakers are making addresses
at the centres of population. Most
encouraging reports are received at
Democratic headquarters of the pro-
gress of the hight. In the northwest
the dispatches say the grand Old Ro-
man is carrying everything before
him. The speech he made at Port
Huron opening the Michigan Cam
paign was teleGraphed in full to ali
the New York papers 1t is ring
ing Democratic slogan for tariff re-
form. Mr.. Thurman's journey has
been continuous ovation overshad
owing anything OF the kind previous
ly known. Michigan may be looked
upon as y Democratic state in the
coming election.
A Methodist bishop told Chairman
Bricei yesterday that the Methodists
of the country could not reconcile
themselves to the free whiskey plank
in the Caicage platform and would
either vote for the Prohibition or
Democratic nominees. This is sug-
gestive, taken in connection with the
Commercial advertiser, the oldest Re
publican paper of this city. The Com
mercial was Hugh Hastings paper
and has been power in conservative
politics for forty years. For the first
time in its history it is new support.
ing the Democratic party, and it is
| doing it in no milk-and-water fashion
| either.
The tail end of the grea. storm
| which played havoc along the Gull
coast, struck here Monday morning
| While it lasted it made the old town
hum. One of the daily papers in its
headlines aptly described it as Biz
zard Monday done in Water Colors.
| Over three inches of rain fell and the
| North and East rivers rose to such an
extent that the sewers could not dis
charge their contents. Cellars were
flooded everywhere along the river
front. The neighborhood of Wash
ington market suggested transplant
ed Venice. Coney Island, Long
Branch and the other seaside resorts
with their frail buildings suffered con
siderably of course. Trains on al
railroads were delayed, and from the
neagre telegraph reports obtainable II
is learned tt at many lives were lost. A
terreific water spout at the Chesapeake
Bay near the mouth of the Patapsct
River wrecked several vessels. The
damage to shipping was very great
the eastern coast being strew'
wrecks. It is estimated that tt
loss will reach $5,00O,00O.
John l.. Sulhvan's career as a fight
er is over. At Nantasket yesterday
while carousing he tried to hold 2s
cent piece in his fingers which Dar
Murphy, one of his drunken cronies
was to shoot at Murphy missed th'
coin but succeeded in hitting Sullivan
The big fellow lost part Of his righ
thumb and fore finger.
r. SPILLANE.