The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-15

workers throughout the state will get their
| winter hats and overcoats from the Demo-
Gratis.
SURE THING" MEN
Saddest of all the betters on Wednesday
| morning was the sure thing" man. AS
a rule, he is friend of Tammany leader
He doesn't like to lay a wager unless he
is absolutely certain of winning. He is
always after inside information which will
give him tip ON the sure thing" He
asks his friend the leader in the greatest
confidence just how it is going, and his
friend the leader says that his side is going
70 win withouta doubt So the sure thing
man thinks that he is in just as good luck
as II he were picking up money
Il was done init politics" said a German
saloon keeper on Wednesday morning. as he
drew sigh that sounded like the soughing
OF the wind through the trees. Il fought
dose politicians could tell who was goin'
TO win all de same as l can tell ven de peer
vas run out of my key. Ven mine frendt
who was Cookers man i'm dis district tell
me dat Roosevelt as good as beaten vas in
dis district. l say, by shimminy, | make
five hundred tollar. So l bet FIVE hundred
tollar init q Repooblican. / vas planning
vat | would do NIT my money But my
Colt in Himmel! Roosevelt vas electedi Und
vas pretty damned sore, tell you dat al
ready
The worst form of the ''sure thing man
is the one who goes about telling all his
friends that he has inside information as
to which candidate will win. He doesn't
forget to add that he has as good as given
them a chance to pick up money, and he
drinks at their expense. On Wednesday
morning this lf-ifnportant mortal was rub
bling his head and drinking at his own ex
pense. But when his information happens
to be right he visits all of his friends on
Wednesday morning and patronizes them in
the manner of benefactOr.
The betting when the returns were coming
in last Tuesday was unprecedented Cir.
cumstances peculiarly favored it. joe
Wheelock, the bookmaker, who probably
carried more bets on his books than any
other man, and who won $4,000 on Roose-
welt by scientific betting when the first re-
turns from New York city were received at
the Hoffman House showing apparently
landslide for Roosevelt. bet to and then
10 to L on his election. When. however,
further returns from the city came in show
ing that Van Wyck would carry it by
great majority, he ran up bets on Van
hour later he was betting to ] on Roose
Welt. Then he ran it up to to l. getting
few takers: then 10 to l. finding no takers.
BIG BETS DON'T HELP BUSINESS.
cit amt the big BETS" said an uptown
hotel bartender, as he dashed the ingredients
of a cocktail into a tumbler that make
business brisk. These big bettors look at
it just as they do when they win on
the Stock Exchange. They may give their
friends champagne dinner, but they don't
get drunk and raise the devil for five days
running. They have business to attend to
and they can't afford the time. have had
enough money in small bets put up with
me to buy house and lot out in the coun-
try. Now I've got to pay EN- off and at
the same time hand out five and six times
the usual number of drinks that are called
for in a day. Every time I'm stakeholder
it means that I've got to drink with the
winner or else he'll think I'm a chump.
I've been on duty only two hours and I've
drunk so many small beers that I feel like
brewery. I'll feel like the ocean before
I hnVr fr- nj Crh
DO the losers drink as much as the Win
neIs?"
they drink more if they have the money.
See that fellow over at the end of the bar?
Hes proof of what l say. He lost about
and and he's Vs setn his drinks on 900 tick Hes
had five WHISTLES already, guping EN-
down sad and solemn-like. When man
drunk.
Last year, when he won a couple of hun.
dred on Brother Bobby's election he would
mans merry he gets drunk much easier
than when he's sad, It's astonishing how
much you can stand when you're going to
have tooth extracted and how little when
you are celebrating football victory.
One fellow who lost was in here to-day
and bought a bottle of rye. He said ne
couldn't bear to drink in public, he felt so
badly, and so he was going to drink at
home. The majority of men who lose don't
want company when they drink, especially
if they feel bitter about it. But the great
number of bets are made in good nature,
ranging from IS to 800, and the man who
wins brings in his friends and also the fell
low who lost the money, and they cele-
brate together. don't know as the police
records will show any more cases of DRINKS
than on any other day, because, a rule,
men who get drunk after election are rot
inclined to make trouble and the police let
them wander home. Then it's all over and
there's no kckin'. But when men get drunk
before election they're often ugly. Then
they're in an arguing mood and that leads
to trouble