The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-06

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 way is for Wilson.
 | Lower Broadway, Pine, Broad ant l Wall Streets are for Hughes. Avenue A and Second avenue air 1 for Wilson.
 Fifth avenue is for Hughes. Greenwich Village, Eighth avenue ! Tenth avenue and Lincoln Square New Bohemia" for Wilson. Madison avenue and that new new neighborhood of the fashionable: out beyond the Grand Central are for Hughes.
 The Ritz and the Biltmore are fol Hughes.
 Wilson will carry the Waldorf. So much for Manhattan Island which really contains about all o1 what is really meant when you heal of ''Lil Ole N'Yawk."
 Queens, Kings, Richmond and the Bronx, all observers agree, will give Wilson pluralities.' Dispute hinges only around the size of Wilson's ad- vantage.
 If Brooklyn delivers the 25.00O which Democratic Leader McCooey
 
 match Hughes upstate plurality by we'll over 100000.
 The Democrats in national cleo tions usually do we'll to break even in Brooklyn, and 25,000 would mean a laundering verdict in Wilson's favor from Brooklyn's large independent vote.
 Now, if the advance canvasses and polls from upstate mean anything, they mean a big cut in Republican pluralities there. Prospects are that Hughes will not reach the Bronx with 100000 or anything like it. Conclu- sion: Wilson will carry New York.
 It's the leaven of democracy at work in the great mass of humanity that throngs Americas metropolis. Many outsiders have a notion that New York, is sort of world unto it. self, and not part of the U. $. A. That is a whale of a mistake. New York is just the name, only more so.
 Take Upper Broadway. This is a democracy for fair. Among any ten men you meet on Broadway, the daily wage is apt to vary from $100 to $1 day. There are some $1,0O0-a-day men, but not many. Most of them do pretty at, say $1O to $20 a day.
 In 99 cases out of 100, the $100.- a-day and the $1,000-a-day men, in their very recent and wel1-remember- ed past, have eked out $1-a-day existence. Then there are the thous- ands who are slipping or have slip ped, and are living precariously on the fringe Of Upper Broadway's many hustling activities and dissipations.
 The top-strata know the game So we'll that they know how easy it Is to slip. Many feel that their day of the rapid trip down-hil is not far distant.
 So there's a bond of common un- derstanding running through this -within-the city of actors, walters, plawrights, bootboys, writers. chauf- feurs, journalists, scene-shifters, mu- CTS, managers and promoters of all manner of amusement enterprises under the sun.
 Upper Broadway is for Wilson, be- cause it is Democratic, because he is Democratic-and because it is pros porous. Talk about Fools Paradise until you are blue in the face, but when show after show is running to capacity that in normal times would not last a week, Upper Broadway says: Gan it, MT. Hughes!"
 Talk about wages going up-tips have hit the ceiling. Time was when ten cents on the dollar was accepted as generous largess, but now you must dig up 25 or be cheap. Perhaps, too, Upper Broadway likes Wilson because he's shown flexibility. the ability to change his mind. for this part of New York lives in a constant f1ux and whirl of change. Nothing is fixed {; idols rise high, merely to fall far ther.
 Hughes decisions in re Wilson ct al rendered with that air of final- ity gathered while on the Supreme bench, do not get over at all. And put this down-Upper Broadway doesn't want war. It is full of wise people who know the cost and the suffering of the war at first hand; i; they meet it's victims every day; and they take their hats off for Wilson and accord him Honor with a capital H, for having kept America out of the war.
 Cross over to Fifth avenue, and you are in different atmosphere right away. Of course, Fifth below Forty-Fifty street is more cosmo politan now; but above, it still is the typical street of established wealth. You feel that you should have a spe- ciaI ticket or something in order to be permitted to enter the shops and spend your money. The appeal is to the select few, and two out of three of the passing stream of machines are of the $4,000-and-up variety.
 As to all things, it believes in gov ernment by the ukase of the higher IDS. It is a case of We think and eve want" and We will vote,'' etc., at the top, and of "Yessir, yessir, |" among the purveyors to-the ser- wants and the hangers-on of this spe- cfaI class of the sons of New Amster- dam.
 That name of obloquy. so effectiVe against Hughes in the West, the "Old Guard" takes well on Fifth. Sounds classy and apart, and as of an institu- tion worth while belonging to. AS for war, why, the supreme authorities of the Ol World have ordained war. America has lost Honor Ca. e. Caste) by not going to war.
 Lower Broadway, Broad, Pine and Wall streets, everyone knows under