Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-18
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
Southern Men Pushing Ahead-That Flop In
RapdalI's District-A Peculiar Journal-
isfic Club-Honest Business Men Hard 10
Find In the Metropolis.

Find In the Metropolis.
WRITTEN FOR THE pIsPArcH.;
a N interesting feature of New York life is
the number Of people of Southern birth and
education who have since the war made New
York their home and place of business Thirty
years ago the born and bred Southerner in
business in New York was rarity Before the
war the Southerner in the North was a gentle
man OF leisure. Now he is man business.
he Is not ashamed Of it. either. Nor does he
compare unfayorably in any respect as busi-
ness man with the ''mudsill," whom he once
anected to despise. On the contrary he is quite
able to make his way among the best of them.
You can find him all the way through the diff.
terent departments of commercial life and
political office. know South Carolinian who
Keeps restaurant, or rather buffet, in lower
broadway, who is fair type of his section.
He 1s gentleman born and bred who started
in small way small capital. and who by
his natural courtesy, his judgment of human
nature and devotion to business has built up
very successful place.
"For time." said he to me the other day. II
felt ashamed to be connected with this sort Of
thing. but told my critical friends who were
doing nothing at the close Of the war that
would rather run restaurant with bar attach
ment in New YORK than be idly banging about
the hotels at Washington or the barrooms OF
my native State talking about the past. When
l came out Of the Confederate army at the close
Of the war. ruined man financially, with gun
shot wound through my body, which is an open
running sore to-day, made up my mind that
would seek any employment which offered It
self which would furnish an honorable support
for myself and my family. At that time there
was nothing doing IN the South. and very little
encouragement was offered tor men of my con-
dlt1on. l came here after awhile, and have
competed with everybody else in the daily
PURSUITS or making living. A good
many other people from my section
did the same thing, and have yet to
hear OF single instance in which Southern
man who came to New York when l did
life. There are great many of them in New
York. Some have made comparatively hand
some fortunes within the last 25 years. Brains
tell everywhere and brains accompanied by de-
votlon to business pursuits. especially tells in
the great city of New York. In my opinion
there were at the close of the war thousands of
able gentlemen born and raised in the South
who could, had they brought themselves to
begin life anew in the North, have been much
better off to-day than they ever will be by hay-
ing remained at home. Still, the ties of State
lie are hard to break away from, and 1 do not
blame them for beginning the battle over again
among their own people,"
Some of the most pleasant half hours have
with this gentleman. A good many South
erners patronize his restaurant. and NAV add
that good many of his countrymen are in the
naplt OF calling ON him when they are in hard
LUCE na aWay hs from nome: Every beautiful after
the park or during the winter in the Riding
that macmillan Sontbarn ohorna ont;noaL1a on1,,
in the enuestrisnnes ~ ths snnnv Snnth '
y. '.s SN~
Randall and Tariff Reform.
THE result of thu Democrat;c. Nominating
! o. D,~r ,.-.. a,
SonVenton IN tne rsanuau oistrlcs, ih
Philadelphia, would seem to justify the posi-
ton taken by Colonel Mcclure, of the Times,
in a recent conversation with me in this CITY,
He sad. "Had M Randall hean a vall man
- - yeo - n-a-
ne couio not nave Deen renom1nated IN MS own
oistrict. In connection tnerewith the state
ment was made that the Democratic party had
chanped to such a deoree that the majority of
th. cons+;tr.ro, ~. =, 80 =, = =, riT rafo-ro
sAS Uues.sueASy arc ~ iAtoi WI " 'H,in ieio"
anu uiu nos supscripe W tne theories Oh MI.
Randall, even while that majority elected and
reelected him to public office. Speaking Of
this interview. a prominent national politician
onbso,uor,Iv ro,n.r..a :. ~,
ST. ,.a,',s >. ,-.o.as.,. W e
result of Monday in view, just how many other
Democratic constituencies in Pennsylvania are
in favor of protection. per 60 We must all ad.
mira Mr. RandalI,a neraora1 indan.naa,.a .na
IL
nign cnaracser. continued TINS genteman
"His case will show how misleading it is to sup
pose that a man ON the floor of Congress speaks
truly for his constituents as well as for himself
Mr. Randall differed from his nar,v IN a
ditsarnd frpyn h;s ov, sg,itnaSts S "Sy Ty S ue
cessful attempt to indorse his protection
theories In the recent nominating convention
,9 IN ms ois.liGt VIII sneo ngnt on 1nls suolece
stitnencies and other noI,ticians ~ thronahomt
the country. We mnst all remember that Mr
Randall was conspicuous chiefly because Of
TINS POSITION on the tarl1 and Tor his opposi-
Ion 10 'ne 1b ,d OL ms ns IN tns one
been Tins in the Randall district There are
probably more tariff retormers in the Quaker
City in both political parties than there are
Mckinney protectonlsts should tine Mckln-
icy Dill s pass snls Co9gress ana get TO De Ia"
Tknew MT. Randall Intimately and had fre.
quent occasion to talk with him on the tariff
question during his Congressional life. He al
Ways took we grouno tnat ne represented MS
Dnantiv made hv the Dsmocrstic tarir rsform
press that he could not 20 to Congress again
and again without Republican following, and
that he owed his seat to Republican votes and
sne nepu NJ mHnagers Oh fnila9eipnia. Jpn VI
as SANDER as did also Sis iwmediate I friands
s,aaa se .o reeaS NJ Is pno sh & mss oon.inuany
ha1;a,a W tSat III I.anoal, out 9i 'ne parry,
Tha 49, sna' 4; me was fepeatsIy feau 0u.
- Ine truLn IL, as stated oy colonel Mcclure,
.nat MT hahdaLrs strengtn as pubic man
saya w ss geat IN NV ms per
ucai worker and parl1amentarian In Congress.
A Unique Journalistic Club.
nowN q tough-looking street in q tough
- neipbborbood vast of Sixth avenue ia the
noou ~ "e's u S,A1n a'vnue 70 VIC
ponce station OF tne ienaerioih preclnce
opposite the station Is the "Ienderioin CLUB"
The sETenderIoin nracipctU is the we'll accented