Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-12
TIE TALK IF 4 THIRD TERM Evasive But in the Atmosphere,
 All the Same. NOT ALARMED BUT AMUSED How New York Regards the Present Phase of
 the Silver Craze.
MORTON WILL ENTER THE SWEEPSTAKES
ticn-Paul Boynton Making Money Hand Over Fist-Those Dry
 as-Dust Sundays.

New York, Aug. 9.-(Specia1 Corre- spondence.)-If there is a federal office holder in this section of the union who is not working and talking for third term for Cleveland. he is keeping out of sight and saying nothing. Plenty of them are working openly and talking freely for the fourth nomination of the president A South Carolina democrat who holds an important place in the customs ser vice and visits all the large cities of the country, has just arrived here from trip through the west. He insists that the Cleveland third term movement is growing everywhere, and that the polit- ical situation is so shaping itself that no combination can prevent the nomination of the president next year to succeed him self.
 This mans statement of the situa- tion is that the sound money democrats of the west and south look upon Cleve- land as the only available candidate next year, and say that he is the only man who can save the party. They look to the sound money men of the east to help in the third term movement and the indi- cations are that they will not be dsap- pointed.
 In New York the silver craze of the west and south is regarded just now with amusement rather than alarm. But if the silver agita ton continues until 1896 the sound money men of the metropolis stand ready and willing to open a cam paign of education in opposition. If compelled to the movement they must head it with a candidate, and at this time, the talk is that it will be Cleve- land.
 The belief that Grover is a man of des- tiny is no longer confined to few fanatic Coll .f !. .te 1n,ro hi Business and political events in this city are certainly shaping themselves in the interest of the president. Third termism is a great bugaboo but destiny may down it for once.
 In the meantime, the men who hold office under the present administration are talking sound money by order and third termism for some reason Their work in the interest Of the third term movement may not be in- spired, may not be approved openly, but it Is going on just the same.
 Gov. Levi P. Morton will be a candi- date for the republican nomina tion for president next year, and he will have solid delegation from this state. The re- publicans of the state are spliE into fac tions now and fighting each other, but they will unite on Morton for president. The governor has not yet publicly an nounced himself in the race, but he is candidate for the nomination neverthe- less, and his close political friends are hard at work in his interest.
 In this great hustling, surging city, that never sleeps the ups and downs of life would fill volumes every day, but in no profession or business do men rise so quickly to prominence and disap- pear so suddenly from public view as politicians In the marble corridors of the Fifth Avenue hotel the political headouarters of the city, there nightly walks alone and almost unnoticed a pale, sad looking man, whose face is picture of disappointment. For many years this man was better known, more written about and talked about than any other man in New York politics. Today his name is never mentioned in the news papers and he is almost forgotten. The man is John I. Davenport, who was for years the supervisor of elections in this city The repeal of the federal election laws by a democratic congress left him out of job and in less than year he was as good as forgotten.
 When there is a political gathering at Tammany Hall an old man with kindly face keen gray eyes and the frame or giant comes and sits by one of the front windows in the big reception room. Old men and young, men of high and low de- gree come and shake hands with him, first removing their hats. They call him Uncle Tom. This man. now but a spec tator of passing political events, was for sixty years an active worker in the ranks of the democratic party. He has been the close personal and political friend of presidents, governors and United states senator's He learned politics from Mar tin Van Buren and was for years one of the trusted lieutenants of Samuel J. Tilden. His name is Thomas Dunlap ana he is now more than 90 years of age
 The New York public tire of new fad quickly, and just now they are in the throes of nausea from too mucn munlcl- pal reform. No man ever made more en- emies in the same length of time than the reform mayor has made, and if he has made any friends they are ashamed to speak out in the general clamor of dis gust. The democratic majority in this city at the fall election 1t IS expected will be the largest on record Mayor Strong, by the way, owns $5o,ooo worth of Birmingham city bonds
 Cant. Paul Boynton, who used to give aouatic exhibitions in the lake at Lake view in boom days, has made DIE TOT tune at Coney Island this summer with an invention so simple that thousands Of imnecunious individuals are kicking Themselves because they did not think of it first. His invention is called a water chute. boat holding eight persons IS released at the top of an incline apout 2oo feet high and shoots down creased arm way at lightning speed until 1t strikes the water when it bounds up like rubber ball. The sensation of shooting the chute is something like that of falling out of balloon, but 1t has found such an attrac- tion that the capacity has proved totally inadeauate Thousands of persons have made the descent every day of the sea son. A number of visitors from Birming- ham have "shot the chute" as the ride is called, and some of them say they will never go there again. What makes the. simple affair so attractive is the fact ths the r:de arouses all the emotions of argreat danger, when as a matter of fact <here is no danger at al, not an accident having occurred during She season.
 rha average New Yorker is the easiest fellow in the world to please. When he 1 goes out to be amused he will laugh