The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-04
is safely Republican by at least Is, 900 for
Harrison and Reid. and over 10000 for
Governor Fifer and the State ticket.

| is safely Republican by at least Is, 900 fol
| Harrison and Reid. and over 10000 for
| Governor Fifer and the State ticket.
ON THE BETTERS' BOURsE.
Republicans Waited in Vain for Takers
A Farm as Wager.
NEW YORK, November 3.-The crowds
on that political brokers' bourse
the Hoffman House cafe-were twice
as thick as they had been the
night before. They had two centers-
Republican cash and Democratic rumors.
The earliest of the latter was that Mr..
Harri and Mr.. Dickinson, on hearing
that Colon Swords was to appear dur
ing the evening with $4,000, had left
word with Billy Edwards to inform
them and that they would cover it.
This was early found to be false, and
it seemed for good hour and a half af-
ter the crowd had grown thickest in the
cafe that Democratic money would con-
tinue as scarce as it had been on the pre-
vious evening and all day long. To en-
liven things the national stakeholder
showed a letter which he had received
during the day, and which ran as fol-
lows:
Mr.. EoJauorCJs:
I see by the papers that you are betting on
Cleveland carrying the election this fall. |
have no money to put up, but have farm OF
100 acres, and will bet one acre against yours!
or any other mans 500 III money, and thai will
make you nice building lot, or you may dou-
BILE it, that Mr.. Harrison will be elected, and
this shows that the offer is good If hear from
you by November 5. A. IL. BUNCE.
No 25o Vast Ferry street. Buffalo.
There were no takers of Mr.. Bunce's
novel wager, and then the crowd which
had been sweeping in current full of
eddies of talk around and around the
square far in the middle of the cafe cir
cled in one huge whirlpool around two
big men, one with a white, the other
with a blonde moustache, who drifted
into it from the hotel lobby.
The white moustached big man was
Nat Mckay, and the blonde moustached
big man, William NJ. Hahns
They had big wads of the "long
green'' in the hands which they held
above the heads of the mob, and their cry
was "$10OOO on the election of Harri-
son." and s$5000 that Harrison will be
the next President
.'Wait one minute, gentlem en-, till
see Mr.. Murphy" cried Billy Edwards,
keen for business, and in flash the
1.-THE athlete was off to carry the news to
the Democratic state chairman. The
gentlemen did wait. Seconds grew into
minutes, and minutes seemed to drag
into hours in the heat, and the glare,
and the jostle, but still Mr.. Edwards
came not "Where's Murphy? Is he on
the roof?' vociferated Mr.. Mckay, jubi-
lantly, as the delay gave stronger and
stronger evidence of backdown, Final
ly the Republic ms gave it up and left the
hotel.
An hour later-it was rumored that
Mr.. Whitney had in the meantime inter
vened-Mr Edwards announced that he
had placed bets for Mr.. Murphy, not
with the Republican representatives, but
with the following named gentlemen:
AL Hayman, theatrical manager; f. Wal
baum, bookmaker, Democratic politi-
clan, and head of the Gutenberg big
Four $4,000; Ed. Wheelock, book
maker, $4,000; and Mr.. Dunn, book
maker, $4,000.
There were two significant points
about these bets. One was that Fred
Walbaum bet against his party, and the
other that Mr.. Hahn, who as soon as he
heard that the much talked of Demo-
cratic money had at last arrived set
out in quest of it, could not be obliged
with dollars worth.
These facts set the rumor afloat about
hotel corridors that the bets with the
booklnakers at least were sham. The
motions of making them were, however,
certainly gone through with in the Hoff
man House cafe.