Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-25
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
What the Democrats In the City Are TnIk-
ing About-A Feline Error-A summer


What the Democrats In the City Are Tnlk-
ing About-A Feline Error-A summer
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JUDGE BAILEY is not worrying himself about
the Mayoralty contest He stands in this
position: The Democratic party must make an
uneduivocal offer of the nomination for Mayor
or he will have nothing to do with it He is
not seeking the office. but personal friend Of
Judge Bailey-who is very near 70 him-told
me few DAYS ago that the man who made such
an acceptable Judge is willing to serve the peo-
pie of Pittsburg in the capacity of Mayor If
they desire it. "You can imagine" said he.
what kind of Mayor Judge Bailey would
make 1t would mean stirring mp Of waters
that have been still for good WHILE"
From what the leaders of the Democratic
party in this city say it would appear that Mr.
Barney McKenna is not very seriously enam-
ored of the project favored by some of his
friends to run him again for Mayor. The prin-
cipal reason, one woulu imagine, for Mr.. Nc
Kenna's disinclination to enter the field again
is that he hardly cares to give up his very COM
Portable position as Alderman-an office with
revenue of good many thousands year. His
Aldermanic term expires next year and he is
likely to think twice before abandoning
pretty dead sure thing in the Aldermanic line
for chance at game which from financial
point Of view is very little bigger.
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IT is fact that the Democratic party in Pitts
burg is in better spirits without the offices
than it has been for the past four years with
them. There has been, too, real growth in
the party Of late. and it is evidenced in several
ways clearly visible. The Randall Club and
the organization of the County Democracy are
both in better fettle than ever. There Is less
chance Of internecine warfare in the party
than there has been Of late years.
ONE small cloud there is on the political hori-
zon which may portend trouble for the
Democratic This Is the way one of the most
prominent Democratic leaders described the
cloud: There is no trouble likely to come of
a clash Of bona fide candidates for the Mayor
atty. what fear and what two-thirds OF the
party fear is that some man will be put forward
by certain small coterie of Democrats which
afiliates with City Hall Republicans, not to be
really run, but to be held up TO impress Judge
Bailey with the idea that there viii be tight
over the nomination. These people know that
Judge Bailey will not fight for the nomination,
and this is the way they hope to keep him out,
and SO serve their friends in City Hail. do
not think they will succeed"
By inquiry in sundry quarters found that
this feeling is very general and really the main
topic of discussion among Democrats.
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THE Black Cat is under slight misappre-
hension about Salvini's engagementin in this
CITY, The feline journal says:
SalvIni is another disappointed foreigner who
finds the American dollar hangs high and don't
always drop when he shakes the tree. But his
lonesome houses in Pittsburg were due more to
the high price of admission-s2 a ticket-than
to any fault of Mr.. Salvini's The people of
Pittsburg boycotted the theater rather than
submit to what they deemed an extortion.
In the first place the scale OF prices was as
follows: Parquet and first three rows in par
quet circle, 81 50; balance Of parquet circle,
s.: dress circle, first three rows 81 50; balance
of dress circle. 81; gallery, Soc; lower boxes,
SlS; upper boxes, S.
But the intelligent people Of Pittsburg were
not scared away by the prices per se They
thought, no doubt, that the half Of $6 bill was
far too much to pay for the privilege Of hear
ing an Italian tragedian Of the second class
shout himself hoarse. But I venture to think
that had Mr.. Wilt played salVin: at the regular
prices of the house the audiences would
have been very little larger. Pittsburg
has not reached that blissful condition
of culture which ordalns the acceptance of an
actor because London. New York, Boston or
Paris has set the seal of approval upon his
forehead. The number of Pittsburgers who
90 to see an actor because it is the fashionable
thing because all good society" went to see
him in New York is not very large yet. This
was shown by the many empty seats at the
Grand Opera House during the Salyini engage
ment
THE sunset lasti night was wonder in this
wonderful weather. The west was GRIM