New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-13

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West. idealized to the point OF almost Quixotio
chivalry, woman, though not above all the vicis-
STUDIES of our nature the Commander Of the Faith
full The test Is supreme one and Is going on from
year to year. Will it failf
Tho abundance of the land has made 1T possible
for man to dispense with woman's labor here,whie
the expense of her social elevation has aroused
mans EXTREMIST energies. and driven from necessity
to necessity, his trumphs have been superhuman.
1t b as been written:
Pale womaus fear has fought one-half the fray,
At saratoga and Thermopyla.
But for womans pride and social happiness what
Thermopyle is not being contested every day in the
year by million American heroes! These brown
stone fronts, these mammoth rents these many SER
wants. the carriage and the summer season. the chill
drens private schools the painted tiles, the gilded
china the bronzes and the ever-varying costume.
the ladies' private cash account and systematic
shopping, rise oil the lovers back like his lady's
weight in tho French legend, the price Of whose
hand was to carry her to the top of a mountain:
His eyes grow dim his feet are Lead
Old Atlas paced as slow;
He did not think q world
Could mako him stagger so
Tho Republic has done all this for woman, and
fear they do not know 1t. The equal pressure and
eleyating force of republican society has made of
one social purpose all the families of the land, but
the political ingratitude of many woman is accus-
ing the nature of that society, and not until the
round of fashion has brought back the plain dress
of the Republic Of ninety years ago has there been
the least relevancy between dress and the Re
public here. An American woman Is the only politi-
oal Queen below the crown but she often behaves
If she would exchanged for the smallest considera-
ton in Europe. If this general. the reasoning
Ina fhatw has been llpalZed
beyond her capacty that the tasks undertaken in
her behalf have been unnecessary, aud that our
republican society has failed to dignity woman
while it has disappointed her slave
TALK WITH MR.. OLIVER.
At the Fifth Avenue Hotel. early in the week.
met Mr. Oliver of Pittsburg-who has been 50 close
to getting scat in the United States Senate for
mouth past, but was about to withdrav-when he
took nose2ay from to put in his neatly fitting
SUIT of British goods, cut by our superior taors.
Said 1: "Mr. Oliver, you will have to give it up,
won't youf"
81 don't see how can, Johnny" he replied Il
have respectable ambition to 60 to the Senate, but
don't want it so bad that | need lie awake nights
about it, Having been nominated in the cauc1s. OF
course must stand until 1t tells me to come down,
OF some equal authority. have heard no objection
made to me on the of character, or record,
fitness. except that am not well enough known.
Hereafter. think. even that cannot be said against
me.n
He smiled a gentle and melancholy
smile: for Oliver Is q handsome man, with black
ewes. moustache and hair aud an olive skin; and
though they say he is native of Ireland. he looks
like fine bred young American. He hos the slrewd,
alniable address common in Pennsylvania, aud par
ticularly in Pittsburg. which is city OF genius
Out of the smoke Of Pittsburg came the beautiful
songs of Stephen Foster, following in the line OF
Jim Crow Rice, who first began to mimic the
happy African in his Dances while Foster conceived
the music. / asked Dir. Fosters brother, Morrison
Foster once where that gift Of music, so natural,
so American. vet so universal, came from in his
brother. 81 think he took it from his mothers
family" said Morrison Foster. :" She came from
the eastern shore of Maryland, and his fathers
family came from the head of the same peninsula in
Delaware
The show people say Rat Pittsburg is the best
place in the country next to New-YOrk for theatr
calls and something in ts people of inqnistivencss
hurnor and sociablity. leads to fine young politi
clans like Oliver whose business is making iron
castings or forginRs of various patterns. he watch
ing the market meanwhile TO see what is needed in
the fancy iron ne tits true that he has large pub
lilo record but has been very useful for many CAM
paigns, collecting money among the wealthy people
and leading the list literally himself and so Mr..
Quay the great Republican manager of the State,
felt that something was due Oliver. and put 1t as
high as the Senate, which the Legislature thought
too much.
"Young man." said 1 to Oliver. " do you think
your election indispensable to the good Of things
Will the world miss something ifyou drop QUIT
mot as bad as that. Johnny" said he smelling
hrs bouquet "but take the position that both
L ak~Ih xxh ol7i khair anti
laws amongst which is the caucus. II the example
ia to prevail Of overthrowng the caucus there Is an
end to party regularity. and bushwhacking becomes
respectable. Mr.. Grow desired the caucus recon-
mendation and finding that he would be outnum-
bered there prevented his friends from going into
the oeucus, which then assembled and nominated
me. tell the Democrats that they, as we'll as the
Republicans. Will be benefited by adheriug to the
organization
Oliver smiled a. ne said this, but 1t was the smile
Of one about to Let co. and not reluctantly for he
has had to sit up day aud night and be the target
for much publicity that business men are
not accustomed to. Within forty-eight hours
he had slipped his name from the list. maintaining
all the while agreeable relations with Mr.. Grow.
who also ran down bis flag twenty -four hours after
ward, and left Pennsylv ania to her usual chaos.
HoYr AND GROW.
HOyt Ia large, f0rid, country spoken man, some
thi ng of the type of Israel Putnam.
Grow. the most historical man in Pennsylvania
excepting Simon Cameron and Governor Curtin.
had his headquarters ct the Lochiel Housen Harris
burg. when called to see him-the hotel named for
General Camerop's place below Harrisburg. and al
ways the Cameron headquarters, carrying the old
mans picture against the Office wall. Mr.. Grow lie
now man of fifty-eight, while Mr. Oliver does not
look to be forty-ave Grow is not native OF Penn
syvsnia. and that point is urged against him more
than II is against Oliver, though one came from Con-
neoticut aud the other from Ireland.