Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-12
TRACK AND STABLE TALK.


TRACK AND STABLE TALK
Garrison has disposed of his entire II.
terest IN the horses racing under the nars
of Mcmahon & Co, including Eo-i2n, Cy
clops, Speedwell and others.
In the hands of Johnny Campbell. OF tbs
Chicago stable. row at Saratoga, j. w.
Guests promising twc-year-ola Day co.'s
Heron, by Harry O'Fallan, nut OF Virginia
B., Will be given good opportunity to slow
all the speed he possesses.
A telegram says that HaniSins 6 Camp
bell. of tho Chicago stable. backed t-eir
horse Little Mi2ch to win over $500 IN tho
Passsic stake al Monmouth, Oh Tuesday,
and he landed the money for his owners
with ease. However, portion of the cream,
of the victory was wiped OF when their
horse Tudor. the favorlte, failed TO get
chalk mark IN the raile dash that followed.
Cot:rer. the recently imported light
weight who has came over for Mr. Cas-
salts stable had his first noun: recently
st Monmouth Park, on Felicia IL Although
success did rot crown the lads maiden eff.
fort on American SCI. be finished Ike =
workman, and Higgins, Cassstt's trainer.
thinks he Is decidedly valuable addition IA
the lightweight division.
A special from New York TO one Of TIE
daihes says the Dwyer Bros are peSo-
tiating for the cid SecsGcus rsce-;rack.
The course belongs TO the Catholic church.
and several years ago was leased 10 the la;s
Mr.. William T. T-avers. 1t IS said that TIA
Dryers are net satisfied with the Treatment,
they have received from rival racing asso<
Citations, and may keep tho SecaGcus tract
open al the season.
1t is said the Dwyer Bros. have concluded
to buy 10 more year!ings. but il the futars
TO revert TO their old policy of buying horses
that have already proved. their excellence.
They recently received at the Broekiya
Jockey Club track. direct from Kentucky,
twenty head of prospective cracks, foi
which they paid 81, 200 et the yearlng sales
ii the blue grass regions Of Kentucky LAST
spring.
King Thomas, Senator Hearst's $4,000
yearlirg son of King Ban and Maud Hamp-
ton (fuli brother of the great Ban Fox, IS
dong nicely al the farm of J. & j. Swigert,
Woodford County. Nv. He Will remain
there until fan. and possibly during tia
winter, aud in the meantime receive soma
instructions as 10 what his life duties VIII
be on the track. Runor's tongue in Ken.
lucky says, among other things, that Major
E. G. Thomas, who fornerly owned hIat
Ban. has purchased an interest IN the higa.
priced yoGngster.
Brown Prince, the sire of Shllelagh. WIN
ner of the Royal Hunt cup. new mile, -
Ascot Eng, was bred at Woodburn farm,
Ky, sired by Lexington, out OF mp.
Britannia ", b. Flying Dutchusn. liz
was bought as o yearlIng oy the late N. TX
Sanford and taken TO England. tie was win,
ner at three years old il England and ran seq
ond 10 CLAIMANT for the two thousand gum
cas-, but his career was cut short bY becoming
roarer, and he went 10 the County % Meath.
ireland, for service IA the stud. Captain
Macheli and his friends are said 20 have won
sl2G, 600 by the victory OF ShILe.agh IN ths
Royal Hunt cup.
Gray & Co.'S horses at the West side
track, Chicago, are getting into pretty good
shape. and have nearly recovered from thu
nIlarial troubles contracted 1t 81. Louis.
Galen, the crack two-year-old By Faustus,
which won the Cuickstep stakes, half = nile,
at Washington Pars with ITO pounds Up. IN
IS seconds, is engaged in the $50,0G0 FurUr-
ity stakes u be run II COusy Island On
September 3. If he retains his form eclo
Jim will take his M:ssouri-bred youngsier
East and give the young cracks OF the turf
whirl for the rich plum. Several proml-
nent owners, among then f. J. Baldwin,
hive asked fo.. price on the fast and PROM
islng youngster. The lowest spot cash tx.
Vrs Mr. Gray VIII give any sueis $1,000.
What About BIankctse
There was Democratic torch-hght pro-
cession in Indianapolis recently ia which
a transparency was born containing this
motto: What About Blanketsr' We
greatly suspect that some wag OF "a Repub-
lican sign painter ran in a joke on tho
Democratic managers OF the procession, for
there is N uch TO say about blankets which
Will not be calculated 70 cnthusc the average
workingman Here is a bit Of Representa-
tive McKinley's speech on the tariff perth
nent to the subject Of blankets:
On the 9th Of March. 1857. the United
States Government advertised for BIDS for
the purchase OF blankets Tor the medical
department Of the army. There were for
eigu bids and there were American bids.
Now. ii the President IL right in saying tsAs
the duty Is added 70 the cost, then tho for
eign cost, duty added, ought - be just equal
to the American prizes Now, what arc tho
facts of the transaction As | have SAID,
there was foreign Did and an Am orIcaH
bid The foreign bid was ior i four-pound
blanket for medical purposes, % be fur
nishcd for 8 Is 2-i0 For tue same four
pound blanket, for the same purpose, the
American bid was = 80, there beng /. dill
ference Of 50510 cents Who do yoI sap
pose got the co1tractl There WAS a foreign
bd over our American bid. and The differ
cnce between the bids was 30 cents on each
blanket. Now yell me which manufacturer,
tho American or English, COS the contract
Is there anybody here who would not have
given it 10 the American, there being a
difference Of only 80 cents between the bi3st
MIR Mckinley was confronting Mr.. Nils
and q number Of free-trade Democrats when
he asked this question, and not one OF them
dared make answer. though hs paused for -
reply. Then. when no Democrat had the
courage 70 defend tho AdDln4si r4lsol, Mr..
Mckinley continued:
Is there any gentleman On this hoor who
would send abroad To get par u blankets
merely 70 save thirty cents on them, thEs
taxing away FROM the American Hl@nufect-
urer and the American farmer and ne
American laboTer t6at nuch buslnesss
However tha. mas be, that contract Old 90
abroad English labor. With foreign ysooi,
made those two Thousand blankets for no
use Of our army American iSoOr was buy
cottsG aud they came "a without paying any
duty. There beng 80 little revenue Ia the
Treasury, II was necessary, 81 course, 70
save every psnny, . they took sd7aatase
CT the lsw which perr4.ts tie Unlteo SAFES
to bring In gools duty free.
sor /. this tgas Only Instance o. record,
says the San Francisco C,-oHses<. 4 commit
tee Of Cor Eress sazes months ago. unds-