Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-06
DEMOCRATIC REJOICING.
They Boiled Over ut MIR. Johnstou's SuccesS
The Latter Gracefully Acknowledged
the Commitment

They Boiled Over Mt MIR. JOhnstOu's Succesu
The Latter Gracefully Acknowledged
the Compliment.
The Democratic hosts were considerably
scattered. 1t was so unusual a thing for
them to capture a county Office of the i'm
portance of District Attorney that they
could not contain themselves any In one
spot, but grsvitated from the rooms of the
County Democracy to those OF the Randall
Club, and then at intervals scattered out on
the streets to inspect the bulletins in
front of the newspaper offices. Here
aud there someone who wanted the
earth would from time to time inject a
query as to the result in Ohio, New York,
New Jersey or Iowa, but as a rule he was
regarded with pity but not generally re-
galed with soothing syrup.
R. II. Johnston, Esq, seemed mainly oc-
cupied in an energetic attempt 70 prevent
being smothered with congratulations. 1t
was given out that he was attending a
school board meeting in the Fourth
ward, and then be was heard of at
No. SO Diamond street, and then
somewhere else. When finally caught he
was found to be struggling with a cold
heavy enough, under other circumstances,
to send man to bed. He wasn't in the
humor for speech making, but managed to
express his appreciation of the honor ex-
pressed in the preference.
So much attention having been given the
fight for the District Attorneyship, many
people for a time seemed to forget that for
the Coronership, but Harry Beltz-
hoover was an interested party. He was
self-possessed at the outset, but as reports
continued to show that in the city he was
T.k L.,
evinced a more lively interest, and listened
with attention to the reports of the proba-
bility of the rural districts keeping up the
proportion measurablv. They were slow
getting IN, but 7. O'Brien explained that
the autumn leaves falling had in many dis
fricts impeded the transmission of news.
At II o'clock some figuring was done with
intent to show that the gallant Harry had
considerable margin to 60 upon.
W. j. Bremen was one oil the calculators.
At the hour named he was figuring on John
ston's majority, and thought Beltzhoover
had a fighting chance, 'but, said he, Eve
are only attending to the county fight, and
know nothing OF the State" In common
with the rest, Mr.. Bremen had fortified
himself with dose of local consolation large
enough to neutraliZe a vast amount OF dis
appointment regarding the general result,
and, in fact, there wasn't much, as but little
had been expected so far as Pennsylvania
was concerned.
When someone announced that the Twen-
tieth ward had given Harrison 200 majority
a year ago and Dick Johnston 696 yester-
day, the County Democracy got up on its
hind feet and howled, and when Squire
Herman Handel added that Johnston had
carried Snowden township and that it never
before approached nearer perfect felicity
than the defeat of prohibition by one vote,
there were many who were willing to admit
that lite might possibly be worth living.
All in all they were the best humored lot
of Democrats seen in long time, willing to
embrace all their enemies and everybody else
except the Democrats of the First ward who
had cut Johnston.