The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-20
NEW YORK TOPICS.
u,rrs AND UNDERGRADUATES OF
THE METRoPOLIs.

,,,yertise Your Candidate" the Po-
.ool MOtto-Never Before Has
ticftfy Been So Much Used in a
.aI Cnmpaign--A New Form of
ur,uce Blackmail-Gam b olings
:, the Bulls and Bears-Alfred
~ Lewis a "Sure Thing, Bet
tor.
x.w York. Oct. 1S.-Whatever the
.ntcome may be, the new municipal
,naign is furnishing lots of fun for
~ man on the street" Every de-
i,o known to political ingenuity is
,nloved 70 amuse him, and incident
.uy 70 turn his amusement to ac-
.,rt nv getting his vote. Patent med
,.tres self-playing musical instru-
nants and the magazines. have been
.orded out of the street car adver-
icing spaces by party placards. BY
Nv huge transparencies on wheels
r,r,bIe through the streets, dispensing
Ia music of drum and gong. At
,rbt the dead walls flash letters of
,ye fire in support of one candidate OF
,bs other. There is free beer down on
Ma East Side where that form of po-
s4ica1 persuasion is held in high re-
mite and free speech in the uptown
sistricts where nightly meetings are
Aeld in every public hall not otherwise
occupied. Literature in pamphlets, leaf
.ts placards, dodgers, and books is
bopring forth from every district head
1uarters. and the newspapers fairly
tenn with politics.
In future generations the mayorality
hattie of 1901 will be noted as having
sroduced the most painful assortment
Il puns every perpetrated on suffer
no nubltc. Both of the candidates
have names which lend themselves to
his sort of thing The Fusion nomi-
nee is loosely referred to as a Low
Fighter" while the Tammany man, of
rourse. figures as a Shepard among
wolves" All the jokes are variations
mon these themes. Mr.. Croker's corps
# hard working poets at the Demo
cratic Club embalm the one view In
verse. The Honorable William Leary' S
Apostles of Song, at 1 Madison avenue
sot the other to popular music. The
man in the street is getting a grand
nee show OF literature, music and liv-
ng pictures every night in the week
hut Sunday.
lust now the current of probabili-
les seems to have set toward the Flu
onists Tammany is having internal
hroubles. 1t has suffered some hard
blows at the hands of its friends. The
Kings County Democratic organization
pamphlet on the ''Deveryizing of
Brooklyn" quickly suppressed as it
bas was a sore blow. So was the
Boomerang return of the Tammany &C
cusation that Seth Low paid no per-
eonal tax, for it was shown that Ed
ward NJ. Shepard was the man who
advised him not to submit to the ex-
tortionate assessment. Then, too
Ehepards own bitter characterization
bf the Tammany organization have
been thrown in the Tigers teeth to the
considerable embarrassment of that
nimaL These. and other things, have
caused the betting to swing a little
against Tammany, and very little, it
true, for even money still prevails
bnd only a few bets have been made
ft odds of ten to nine on Low. But
neanng, Tammany is always more
eady than its opponent to back it's
opinions with bets and the other side
Invariably expects bets and holds off
or them. Even money means that the
CadS are really against Tammany, and
mat unless there is an unexpected
urn OF affairs, the bets will be on that
pass before election day.
IL thls city is, as some one once
cslled it, the Happy Hunting Ground
y inc millionaire it also has certain
aaWoacks for him. He lives in a
nercer hight than beats upon a throne.
ne chances to be a member of any
VI 'he VIGOROUSLY rich families, every
hng he does is a matter of public
interest and comment. In no case is
lns sort Of thing carried so far as
W. u Inc case of the younger Wander
uHs Their goings-out and their
Comlngs-in are duly chronicled. They
never turn a corner without the
iisk OF being snap-shotted by the
uoiqultous camera fiend who can al
ways sell the result to one of the yellow
gOurhals. If one of them serves on a
IVY artists attend court and draw
s.iA IN Characteristic attitudes" which
~ never assumed. If he votes, the
.ssser pencil sketches him in the act
receiving his ballot, and quotes
s si.n faithful detail, remarks which he
w not make. To the quiet and re-
.eNed Nanderbilts of the past gen.
.iauoh this sort of thing would have
Ueeh ntolerable. Their sons are of a
ssS sensitive fiber. Undoubtedly they
nave been more or less affected by a
s0uety which thrives upon newspaper
AulOIleK And fc no
A. Jr," furnishes new automobile
isVords for the sporting columns of the
VA newspapers, while Alfred G.. dis
vuS himself in HE Philadelphia New
cIA coach in full page pictures, and
sUInehus marches proudly through the
"unuay editions on the flank of his
SSripany Of the Twelfth Regiment.
taSuohal Guard. Their grim old grand
. seisr would turn in his grave if he
.n know how they are furnishing
s nt,S and entertainment for that
mn oc concerning which he once ex-
rrSSed such an emphatic and WELL
NueInbered sentiment.
,oH prominent real estate firm down
vs.a IS smarting under it's recent
,nSHIillzlhg by new and singularly
sss1nious form of blackmail devised
nj. worked by man named Levinski.
sell @S man rented of them a room on the
for Vuu Hoor of building used largely
h.,seN porary storage. He put out no
atsi,. ess sign: only his name. 1mmedi-
| Ins me Insurance rate of that build
Bebs ana all that in it lay went soaring.
cor. .Gu' then, tenents in blocks of five
sSantg TO interview the real estate
aes~, S with great indignation. The
bis, Went to the insurance compa-
ar nding explanation.
briefly "' said the insurance people
,. Ho" IL is a fact that any man whose
fs,, .HQs with ski finds himself
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