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Show Wall Street Not Interested in Politics IF, n traveler from Trieste or any other ncross-tho-sea city wero to bo led blindfolded Into Wnll street at present, If the blindfold wero to bo then removed and ho wero to ho asked quickly what ho Judged from appearances, the nttltudo of tho streot -was toward tho coming presidential election, his natural rqply, trnnsloted, might be, "Oh, you Joker!" Although the election Is only a short tlmo off, It Is truo that there nro few Indications in Wnll street of Its proximity. prox-imity. A round of a score of hrokor-ngo hrokor-ngo offices does not bring to tho ear I much political conversation. Tho Afrl-can Afrl-can hunting trip of Mr. Roosevelt la exciting n great ileal nioro conjecture than the Tucsdny after tho first Monday Mon-day affair. . In tho thoroughfares a straggling vendor of campaign buttons may bo noticed humming awny tho tlmo and paiiBlng onco In n long whllo to bar-gain bar-gain with a messenger boy. Tho Int-tcr. Int-tcr. In fnct, Is about tho only ono whoso Inpel Is adorned with a button bearing ono of tho Hill's likeness. Thoy sny that fower campaign souvenirs souve-nirs nro being sold thnn nt nny other period within tho scope of recollection. Earlier In tho week several men went down Into tho llnnnclnl district to offor for snlo small lings having prints of tho rival candidates' pictures. They remained a day, and then disconsolate, betook themselves to other regions regions whero tho spirit of politics was more In evidence In former years pictures of tho particular par-ticular olllce cholco for tho presidency ' wero wont to ho hung conspicuously i over tho stock boards or tlckors. This ' election year thero nro not moro thnn I threo or four olllccs In nil tho street ' whero a photograph of Mr. Tuft or Mr. i Ilryan Is to bo Been. On ono of the bulletins on tho floor of tho produce oxchnngo pictures of tho two cnndl- dates wero pasted some tlmo ngo and a notice was pinned thereunder requesting re-questing tho members to Inscrlbo their cholco on appended slips of pnpor. So llttlo Interest wns evidenced in the vote that tho attempt to got at the political po-litical sentiment of tho oxchnngo wns abandoned. I Ono of tho brokers on tho stock ex-chango ex-chango snld recently: "Tnko n look around tho lobby nnd you won't see nny of tho renders with their oyes on the political nows. When they'ro not reading tho llnnnclnl pngo they're reading tho baseball news." That broker was about right, too. |