Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-18
NEW YORK NOTES.
Midsunmer Political s,raws and What They
Indicate.

Indicate.
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Special Congregations Of The Evening Star.
NEW York. July l6, 1891.
TNHIs Is THE TINE OF THE YEAR AND
= OF the four years when the average man
olts his hat on the back OF his head. mop. his
brow and guessss who viii be the candidates in
the next presidential election. And as such
speculatious have to start with base line we
begin, Of course, with the obvious names OF
Harrison and Cleveland.
Speaking now for New York sentiment so
TAR AZ l am able to gauge il, this is the combi-
nation If politics run in a rut and the nomina-
lions 90 by default; il. that il. by some chance
the expected for once happens. But the mid
summer politicians are 10th to stop with sach
easy and plain guess work this; they want "a
harder one" and hence are already exploring
the pasture and stables for dark horses
Harrison's administration has not aroused
much enthusiasm in New York. but he is re-
sspected personally asa just and pure man and
one; IL II 10 not thought by most people to be
oriiiisnt II should be remembered that most
people are rather afraid Of q brilliant admins
,ration and much prefer their White House
o!hnsty 10 trudge along in q dignifed and sase
mediocrfty. Hence IL il to Mr. Harrison's ad-
vantage rather than otherwise that his admin
istration has been devoid Of fireworks
Sieveiand has maintained the same stolid
orderly Flooding habit of life which was noted
as Characteristic OF his New York residence a
year ago and whatever the motive underlying
TINS course OF action, whether natural taste or
,ndlnerence or studied policy, the result must
De admitted In word, he is vastly popular,
ana II looks as though this great favor among
.ne democrat" would once more beat down the
intense and active hatred felt for him by a GER
tain set OF democratic politicians. lie SAYS
nothing ard does nothing of much general in
terest, and yet there is something in his per-
sonahty which makes him easily New lork's
nrst citizen. There is no man in the city who
is followed on the street by such a wake Of
turned heads, who causes those who meet him
when abroad to nudge their neighbor. or per-
maps stranger, and whisper There goes
Grover" 1t might be difficult to analyze the
source OF this magnetism" but the fact is APP
parent that Mr.. Cleveland possesses it TO an
extraordinary degree.
AND As TO tissues"
Two straws have lately shown which way the
wind Of issues" will blow The more import
ant is the explicit statement in the Ohio demo-
cratic platform that the tariff must be reduced
to revenue basis. The other is the state
ment by Senator Kenna. in an interview. that
undoubtedly the democrats will prepare a new
'arin phi ana push 1t through the House and
possibly through the Senate next winter These
movements are looked on with some dismay
IN New York, where, outside of political circles
there Is general feeling that we have had
enough Of tariff agitation at Washington to
last for one year at least. The whole business
community is in chaotic condition owing to
the complications Of the new tariff regime. and
now. II all the schedules are to be overhauled
again and another violent change made in the
revenue system, the present worries and
anxieties viii be greatly increased. For this
reason business men OF all parties are begging
for little steadiness Of policy even if il 4 NOT
on an ideai basis. At present there are some
tnlng like nine or ten thousand cases of appeal
on the docket Of the board OF general APP
praisers, most OF them Of course being dupfi-
cafes. ihen the dockets of the courts are
overwhelmed with revenue cases. and il is GER
tsinly an unpromising time to begin new
nght involving all the principles which we're
| fought out last winter LET us have peace {"
say the merchants, and they are almost willing
70 add, peace atany price"
SAVING The EAST SIDE Tors.
The piping hot weather Of the past few DAYS
has put into active motion those charities for
which New York il famous, looking 10 the nro-
lection Of poor babies against the fierce neat.
and putrid poisons Of the tenement districts
Inc ST. Johns Guild. of which have previously
written, have put their great hospital fotilla
at work and have already come of victor in
more than one hand-to-hand battle with death
Tor puny infants. Nearly one thousand sick
children were taken down the bay on two or
three different days this week, and four excur-
sions week are to be kept up during the sum
mer. Alongside of this great charity is the re-
beginning OF the summer work by the Charity
organization Society. which 10 on the largest
scale. Not to speak Of other special efforts the
Bartholdi Creche is doing great work for poor
families. Since its establishment five wears ago
over thirteen thousand mothers and children
nave thus been able to spend q day out in the
| fresh air Of the harbor. Then the medical and
police supervision Of the tenements has been
wonderfully bettered of late. 80 that the chill
oren and the grown-up people, too are not 90
fearfuliy handicapped in their summer strug-
gle Tor lie. The effect of these measures shows
| very plainly In the health statistics IL would
not be too much to say that a hundred babies a
day are saved from death on any OF the partic-
ularly trying DAYS. We needn't discuss whether
1t Il an unmitigated boon to humanity to have
some OF these little tots Of the tenements saved
| to become toughs. aldermen and other terrible
wrecks In mature life, but looking at il simply
from humanitarian point OF view the recent
activity in this particular direction in New York
city has shown q wonderful development
HAPPY TO BREAK A LICENSE DEADLOCK.
For some time the bar room influence in New
York has been outraged by deadlock in the
excise board, owing to the absence of one of
the commissioners in Europe. This has caused
them Infinite Inconvenience, and resulted yes-
terday in very curious exhibition, which won Z
acvance their cause among those who are none
too friendly to them anyway The missing
commissioner, to whom they have been calling
like the priests Of Baal, in vain for some time
finally turned his steps westward and reached
New York yesterday. To give him hitting re-
ception there was a tremendous excursion of
iquor people down the bay, but the crowd
aboard was 90 formidable that when the com
missioner saw 1t he thought il was Just as well
to stay aboard the ship and hence his tumultu-
Gus friends returned 10 the dock without their
hero. For months there has been scarcely
single liquor license granted in the city 6ut
now IL Is likely that this particular kind OF trade
will have boom.
TIE ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTOR IN WAGNER.
1t was Ben Butler who admitted that he
couldn't talk against a brass band. but Theo-
dore Thomas confessed last night that even his
orchestra couldn't compete, either. He was
playing one Of the delicate numbers in the
ballet music OF Sylvia" at the Madison Square
Garden, when Q strident street band came up
lth avenue, belching out Annie Rooney
Thomas fought for few bars, then tapped for
silence and let the band have its sweet will until
the soldiers passed, when he resumed I'm
perturbable, distinctly gray, grown old in the
musical service OF his country, Thomas is still
the central figure in American instrumental
music. But il this master spirit has MANY
players TO annoy him he is spared the elenen-