Real  Estate   Record





AND BUILDERS' GUIDE.





Vol. XXYI.





NEW TOEK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1880.





No. 653





Published Weekly by

TERMS.
ONE VEAR, in advance..,,SIO.OO.
Communications should be addressed to

C.  W.   S^JVEET,

No. l*?? Broadwav

HINTS TO THE PEOMOTERS OF THE
WORLD'S FAIR.

See to it, that Ulysses S. Grant is offered
the chief executive position in the company-
organized to manage it.

Choose a site as soon as possible, and let
tliere be no scandal in the way of real estate
speculation in the choice of a location.

Arrange immediately for proper legisla¬
tion next winter at Washington and Albany,
to advance the objects of tlie exhibition.

Put live young men in all i)ositions where
active work is required. There are too
many old, broken-down and over-busy men
connected with the enterprise as at present
organized.

Appoint a special committee of very bright
men to receive and consider suggestions
frjm any quarter, having in view the intro¬
duction of taking novelties into the scheme
for holding this Fair.

Let the buildings be entirely unlike any
other International Fair ever held. Why
not have the several edifices rej)resent dis¬
tinct types of architecture, Egyptian, Doric,
Corinthian, Gothic, Moorish and Modern, so
that the inspection of the various structures
would be in itself an art education ?

Have caUs issued for all manner of World's
Conventions, to be held in New York during
the iKogrcss of the Fair.

Have provision made for exhibitions of all
the national games of the world, horse races,
bicycle contests, cricket, base ball, athletic
sports, in short, let these fail's reproduce in
modern life the Olympian games of the
Greeks.





THE MORAL OF THE MAINE ELEC¬
TION.

The Fusion victory in Maine was a genu¬
ine surprise to the whole country. The re¬
sult of the Vermont election seemed to show
that the old parties held their own ; that, if
anything, the Republicans made some gains,
as compared vnth the votes in former elec¬
tions. It was supposed that the prosperous
state of the cotmtry insured a Republican
success. That party was blamed for the
panic of 1873. Mr. Tilden received 350,000
more votes than Mr. Hayes because of the





hard times. But when good times came, it
was naturally supposed that the voters would
return to their old allegiance, and would
cast their baUots for the regular nominees of
the Republican party.

What, then, is the significance of the Maine
as compared with the Vermont election ?

It must be borne in mind that there is very
little difference in the jplatforms of the two
great i^arties. There is a look askance at
free trade in the Democratic Platform, and
at some revision of the tariff for the benefit
of the foreign commerce of the country.
But in all other resiaects there is literally
no point at issue, except the possession of
the offices. And the Vermont voters decided
that from that point of view they j)referred
the RepubUcans to the Democrats.

But in Maine a very different state of af¬
fairs exists. Tlie so-caUed Greenback-Labor
party had, in that State, divided the Demo¬
cratic party, and had received many addi¬
tions from the Republican party. It is un¬
questionably true that Maine has not been
as prosperous as the rest of the country. Its
fisheries have suffered ; its shipbrdlding has
long been under a cloud, and the increase of
its population has been very slight. Then
the plank in the Democratic Platform which
seemed to favor the development of our
commerce must have been particularly at¬
tractive to the business interest as well as to
the working j)eople. of Maine. But the
Fusion majority brought to the fore new
issues. In Vermont it was the old Republi¬
can party against the old Democratic party,
marching under banners that bore the old
cries, and with a programme on each side
which did not greatly differ. But the. Fu-
sionists in Maine brought to the front vital
questions, some of which have been agitating
the country for years past, but which have
not as yet found expression in the platforms
of any great national party. In looking over
the programme of the Greenback-Labor
party, it wiU be noticed that the Greenback
issue is kept in the rear. This new party is
anti-monopoly. It looks with disfavor upon
the control exercised over the nation by the
railway magnates and the great corporations.
It shows extreme jealousy of the money
power as embodied in our National Bank
system. It wants the Government to issue
as well as to stamp all currency, whether
gold, silver or paper. It wants the interest
of labor to be looked after. It demands ful¬
ler statistics; new bureaus, having in view
the weKare of the common people. It so
far discredits the old Democratic Platform^
that it looks to the Government to cure many
of the ills which faUto the lot of the poorer
classes. ' It is remarkable that at the meet¬





ing held on a stormy night in Cooper Insti¬
tute in Nev." York, the Greenback candidate
for the Presidency had an immense and
enthusiastic audience. He was cheered to
the echo in his denunciations of the state of
things which gave us such overgrown capi¬
talists as Vanderbilt and Jay Gould. The
newspapers belittled the meeting and dis¬
missed it with a paragraph, but the Maine
election and the crowds which follow Wea¬
ver in ail parts of the country show that he
has a following and a future which is not to
be despised. It is a warning to the Demo¬
cratic party if it wishes to succeed that it
must take more radical ground ; it must
come to the front as the champion of the
common people; it must discard its old
Jeffersonian notions of non-interference by
the Government. The danger to tlie Repub¬
lican party in the Maine contest is its effect
upon Indiana, That state also is a hot bed
for these new ideas. After Maine, Indiana
poUs the largest Greenback vote and has the
.greatest number of influential men support¬
ing the Greenback ticket. Should the fusion
be complete between the anti-monopoHsts
and the Democrats, Indiana may follow the
example of Maine and the moral and politi¬
cal effect upon the November election would
necessarily be very great.

One thing is, however, sure. The capi¬
talist class—those who have wealth or
expect to gain competence, are generally on
the side of the Republican j)arty. What¬
ever may be said about certain episodes in
Mr. Garfield's career, as a representative, a
perusal of his speeches will show any one
that he is a man of signal ability, a states¬
man in the truest sense of the word, a man
of wide culture and hberal views, and there
can be scarcely a doubt but that if elected he
would make a President superior in nearly
every respect to many who have preceded
him.

But suppose the Democrats should suc¬
ceed?

We have no fears of the country. Gen¬
eral Hancock's record is a good one. All he
has written is greatly to his credit. He
seems to be a man of unimpeachable honor,
of strict integrity and of strong common
sense. He would add dignity to the Presi¬
dential ofiB.ce. Still, it must be confessed,
the break in stocks that foUowed the Maine
election, the gloomy feeling which seems to
hang over the business of the country, is not
comphmentaryto the Democratic party. It
would seem as if the wealthy class have
taken alarm at this Fusion victory in Maine,
and it may be with some reason. There can
be no danger of any such trouble as occur¬
red in the last Presidential election.   There