Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09

as 1rreverent and profane. But In moment
or two the significance Of the thing struck
people like a thunderbolt, and the most
reverent could hardly suppress his .amuse-
ment. The leader of the band said it meant
exactly what it said. So seldom had the
Democrats enjoyed victory that they felt a
little nearer heaven.
A KISS FOR PATTIsoN.
Three pretty girls sought admittsnce to
the Hotel Lafayette on Tuesday night, where
Governor Pattison and eI.Postmaster Har-
rity were closeted receiving returns. The
porter stationed at the stairs to keep the
great crowd back said they must state their
business on card. They do things up in
style at the Lafayette, and as he handed
them the card plate one of the girls stopped
forward and delicately touched her lips to
the card. Her business with Mr.. Pattison
was never stated to him..
A great many free railroad passes were
given out at Republican headquarters to
stump speakers and:other campaigners. One
man applied for pass in the early part OF
last week. He was a stranger to Colonel
Andrews, the State Chairman, and he paid
but little attention to the man, simply re-
ferring him to Clerk Morrison.
Il FUNNY 1r1srAKR.
The latter gentleman, supposing the man
came with authority. gave him an order on
one of the railroads for pass to the North
eastern section of the State. Two days later
the word came that the stranger had made
rattling Democratic speech up in the aDthra-
cite coal region. 1t turned out that he was
labor agitator from among the miners up
there who had been hired by the Democratic
managers to speak at his home. He sup
posed that Democratic headquarters were at
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applied there the clerk, thinking, of course.
he wanted the only political headquarters in
that section of Philadelphia, sent him across
the street to the Continental Hotel. The
stump-speaker was making his maiden effort
in politics, and having never met any of the
big guns, concluded, of course. that he was
talking to State Chairman Kerr. It was a
funny mistake.
A CAMPAIGN RHYME.
There is music in mems souls at all times.
Events of great public excitement have
given birth to some of the most patriotic
songs in the English language. They have
come from that love OF rhyme which breaks
out on some of the most unexpected occa-
sions. During the Blaine campaign that
stateman's name set itself to kind of music
when the street refrain was invented:
"BlaineI Blainei
James g. Blainer'
And in Philadelphia Wednesday night
similar refrain was sung from the Delaware
to the Schuylkill, as follows:s
'Quay! Quayl
No more QuayP'
TURNING ON THE LIGHT.
When the Philadelphia Inquirer printed
the story about Pattison's South Penn Rail-
road legislation, it headed it .'Turn on the
Light" The next day Pattison sued the
editors of the paper for libel, and on the fol-
lowing morning the Times came out with
the line "And Pattison Turned on the
Light" printed at the end of every separate
item or article in the whole paper. The
sentence was thus probably printed 200
times in that single issue of the Times. 1t
was the last week of the campaign,
but the phrase caught the popular
fancy, and papers and conversation rang
with the words, "And Pattison Turned on
the Light" It was significant language
when it is remembered how quickly Mr..
Pattison vindicated himself. The Inquirer
covered two pages of its paper one morning
subsequently with little pictures each being
the representation of bull's-eye lantern
throwing halo of light Oh circle in which
we're printed extracts from Blaine's speech
of Saturday week ago. But fhe morning
after the election the Times had one big bull
letin board out on the street simply in
scribed with the words, "And Pattison
Turned on the Light" L. E. SToFIEL.