Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-28
WANTS HIS REWARD.
A Pittsburg Attorney Whom the Republi-
can Protectiopists Ignore.

Pittsburg Attorney Whom the Republi
can Protectiopists Ignore.
P1TTssuRa, Pa, Dec. 24.-John II. Steven
son is wsll-known patent attorney of thi
city and an enthusiastic apostle OF the pro
tective tariff. During the Harrison cam
paign he devoted his spare time daily fol
several months to the writing CT tariff
catechism iu which he gave history OF thu
revenue laws and which purported to show
the benefits arising from increased duties
and the evil effects OF decreased rates under
the several acts of congress. The idea was
to give the reader an intelligent grasp of the
tariff question from Republican stand-
point in few words.
Mr.. Stevenson had the 'catechism CODY.
righted and then sent it off for inspection,
Levi P. Morton read it with interest" and
recommended that it be submitted to the
Republican national committee for circula.
tion. United States Senator Spooner said
that he considered it valuable" paper,
and such men as United States Senator
Ingalls,, Congressman W. D. Kelley, Thomas
M. Bayne and John Dalzell OF this state;
ten. Nathan HoH Of West Virginia, and
Dx.Chief Justice Daniel Agnew of Pennsyl.
vana, wrote eommendatory letters to Mr..
Stevenson.
Finally Col. W. W. Dudley, treasurer and
acting secretary OF the national commits
sion. asked for permission to use the cate
cbism, This was early in October. Elec.
tion being near at hand Mr.. Stevenson did
not stop to negotiate about compensa.
tion, although friends told him the pamphlet
was worth $4,000 as campaign docu.
ment. Col. Dudley afterwards wrote him
that the committee had had the catechism
published in the papers throughout "New
York and the doubtful Eastern states. ="
It was also printed in pamphlet form and
millions OF copies distributed in West Vir.
ginia. New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Delaware and Indiana.
The election over and the battle won by
the Republicans, MIR. Stevenson, who had
circulated many copies OF the catechism
himself and supplemented it with protection
speeches from the stump, began to wonder
where his reward would come from, He
had heard OF the 100000 sent to New
AOAh w AoocOufk AOu H1dAuRtCUuT0F6 El6U
before election, and OF the liberaiity With
which speakers had been paid and had no |
doubt hs would be remembs e1. On De- |
psmber u he received resolution from the |
national committee thanking him for his !
generosity and patriotism and the use
Of his especially effective and popular
This was not quite as substantial recoe-
milton as MIR. Stevenson had looked for, and |
he entered into correspondents with Col |
Dudley. His letters brought evasive replies. |
by suggestions that the coms
mittee found more claims coming in than |
doodle" to meet them.
Meanwhile Mr.. Stevenson conceived An |
ambition to be United States consul at |
and to that end secured mum.
sreus signatures to his application, over a
half a hundred members OF the Pennsyl.
vania legislature going upon the petition.
This was filed with thedepartment OF state
Ind Mr.. Stevenson hasn't heard from it |
'ince, neither has he secured any satisiac.
lion from the national committee, and he
will 60 to Washington in few days to con-
er personally With Senator Quay. Col
Dudley and other managers Cf the pro.
;es:ive campaign, with view to securing
recognition OF his claim for the Tariff
}atechism,"