Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-22
IT MAY BE MORGAN.
The South Has Show for Second Place on tn
 Ticket-The Cotton Boom and "Trilby."

New York, April 19.-(Special Corre- | spondcnce. )-Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama may not be nominated for | president in 1896, but his popularity at the north, especially in this political cen ter, bids fair to land him in second place on the democratic national ticket.
 The proposition of the Washington Post, indorsed by Senator Hill, to consid- CT the claims of the south in looking for a democratic candidate for president next year, was well received by many | politicians in this city, and Senator Nor | gan was at once suggested as the one man south of the Potomac and Ohio who might prove to be an acceptable candi- | date.
 Of course the men who plan national campaigns and pick out candidates do not at this time believe that any southern man will be nominated by the democratic party for president next year, but most of them would be glad to see man like Morgan get second placei6n the ticket New York will have one Ur more candi- dates for the nomination, the west will present a number, and many experienced politicians are satisfied that President Cleveland will be a candidate al large for another nomination. Out of the con
 
 alterations that may arise, it is more than possible, it is indeed very proba ble. that the candidate forzyice-preSident will come from the south and no man in that section of the country can get the votes of so many northern delegates as Senator Morgan. tu
 A well-knOwn eX-southerner is very much in evidence in New York just now. John H. Inman is credited with engineer ing the great boom in cotton by which many fortunes have been made and lost during the past few days. For the first time in years the cotton exchange is dividing with the stock exchange the at tention of SpeculatorS. Until the recent rise in cotton the exchange where that staple is bought and sold was a very dull place, rarely mentioned in the news columns of the local papers. Now all is changed and every day the struggling, bowling mob of brokers on the floor of the cotton exchange compares well in numbers and lung power with the stock exchange mob. Inman is there every day, trading more than any other broker, and it is said that his firm now holds more spot cotton than any other house in the world. ...
 The cotton boom, while only a specula- tion that may not last long, serves for a time to turn the attention of men of capi- tai to the south. There are other evil dences, too, that Wall streets interest in the south is reviving. The advertising columns of the financial papers show that there Is some business doing in southern industrial securities. Bonds and stocks of various enterprises are well adyer tised, and some brokers go so far as to advise their customers to buy southern securities in anticipation of a sharp rise at an early day.
 The New York public and the courts, have ideas on the subject of decency and morality that may be peculiar to this me tropolis. What is vulgar on the Bowery may be high art on Broadway. There lsl a striking truth of this paradox before the public today. A police magistrate has just decided that young woman posing on the stage of Broadway the, ater, with no clothes on except coat of bronze paint is an artist, and her ex-. posture before a mixed audience art.r which cannot be immoral indecent or degrading. At the same time Steve Bro- die the bridge jumper, is on trial in an other court. charged with misdemeanor in exhibiting in his Bowery saloon pho- tographs of actresses dressed in tights. While the exhibition of painted women without clothes goes on at the Casino be- fore a more or less fashionable audience Brodie will probably be convicted and fined for his exhibition of photographs
 New York will not send a contesting, or protesting delegation to the next na- tional democratic convention Before the end of the present year the party in this state will be unit ed in one organi- zation. William R. Grace today resigned the leadership of the state democracy, or anti-snappers, as his organization was known He ~also announced his inten- tion of retiring from politics. Grace was the brains and the bank of his organiZa- tion, and without his leadership and his financial aid it will som fall to pieces. At the same time there is a movemnt on foot to take the stragglers back into the regular organization of the state on terms that will be satisfactory to both sides.
 Local state and national politics will lose picturesque figure with the retire ment of William R. Grace. He is getting old now and his health is not good. He has accumulated a vast fortune in the South American trade, and among some of his political followers he is known as the man who owns Chili and Peru, from the fact that he has vast business in tereStS in those two countries. Grace has twice been mayor of the city, and it is said is ambitious to round out his polit- ical career with a term In the United States senate, but there is little chance of the democrats regaining control of the legislature in time to gratify that ambition.
 New York is quick to take up fad and go wild over it for time, then forget it as quickly, but the Trilby fad is the worst on record. The city is literally ''Trilby' mad and Manager Palmer will likely make a fortune out of the play be- fore the epidemic has run it's course. The word feet is for the time being obso- lete. All pedal extremities are now re- ferred to as Trilbys. The broken broker the orator out of a job, the newsboy without pennies, the car driver without a car all talk hopefully of the time when they will get on their Trilbys again. TO THE PUBLIC
 We are now offering pure and delicious wines, such as claret, 50 cents per gallon;