The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-29

A hundred votes more or less would have
given him the victory.
However, it is not likely that Mr..
Bangs will permit the use of his name
unless he has some prospect of winning.
Various posts have been proposed for
him, and if the seat in congress is not
given him he will probably be chosen To
some other Office within the gift of the
Yonkerites. As few persons are as vet
aware. Mr.. Bangs could have had one of
the most lucrative consulships in Europe
had he cared TO give up the position
which he now fill so ably-namely that of
jester in ordinary to the cultured classes
of his country. He is still very Young
man, very popular personally, ana pos
sessed of a greater political pull than
many a thriving politician has Hei
the leader Of his party in the district in
which he lives. In this respect he re
sembles many other literary men
throughout the country-Gen. Lew Wal
lace, Joaquin Miller and Thomas Dunn
English.
KNEE BREECHEs AGAIN.
The attempt tie revive the knicker.
booker dress for men is again to be made.
Already at Newport the innovation has
been seen here and there, but not until
the New York season opens will there be
anything like a systematic display of silk
The idea is largely the result of what has
been noticed by travelling New Workers
in the capitals of Europe. England, par
ticularly. has been having a craze for
knee breaches, aud the fashionable tai
Tors display various marvels in that line
no iuconsiderable amount of which have
already been purchased by their Ameri-
can customers.
The knickerbocker costume requires a
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the swells in New York attlred like bows
of and s will serve to edify the unfash-
ionable of the metropolis.
II should not be supposed that all these
innovations attract any undignifed atten-
ton, however. The average poor New
Yorker and the gamin and haunter Of the
streets would scOrn to seem so unhabit-
uated to metropolitan experience as to
stare at anything fashionable. 1t is one
of the unyiolated rules of "hoi polloi" as
a congressman says, never to gaze at any
thing out of the way in the dress or equip
age of the socially powerful. The New
York prCletarian would scorn such a
thing as staring at a fashionably dressed
woman, wherever she might happen to
show herself. In this respect the New
York mob is above the London one,
and even that of other American cities.
NO FASsETT AFTER ALL.
One of those last minute rumors which
no one is ready to trust and yet which
may be true, is to the effect that j. Sloat
Fassett will not run for governor of New
York this fall after all. Most persons
wonder why 1t is that these distracting
gubernatorial rumors are set atioat so
frequently. The fact is due to the ex-
traordinary features of the situation.
There is not the shadow of a doubt that
the governor elected this fall will be
balloted for as presidential candidate in
the next national convention of his party.
AS the republicans feel that they have
such excellent chances it follows that the
range of choice is Unexpectedly widened,
and that the names of men of national
fame are mentioned, and that they natur-
ally hesitate to decline even the prospect
of such honor as nomination will bring.
Yet 1t is curious, too, that all the men
named decline to allow consideration of
their names This feature of the situa-
ton is alleged to be ''moonshine" by the
politically expert No matter who the
nominee is, declare the sages, he will &C
cept the honor.
This has lead to a report of the demo-
cratic side. William G. WhitneY's refu-
sal to be a candidate is now said to be
nominal merely. He will accept nomi-
nation, declare those who pretend to
know Indeed, in spite of all that has
transpired it is still whispered that the
opposing candidates of their respective
parties will be William c.. Whitney and
Chauncey NJ. Depew
DAVID WECHsLER.