Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-22
CLUBS FAVOR THE CANAL.
A LARGE ATTENpANcEFR FROM PITTssURe
AND VICINITY

Expected ut To- o-morrow's Meeting In Philu-
delphia-Repres entation of the Local
Organisations - Statistics That Have
Been Carefully Compiled.
About 800 Republicans will represent
Pittsburg and its immediate vicinity at the
convention of league clubs, to be held in
Philadelphia, tomorrow. Each club is
allowed three delegates, and as many al
ternates, but besides these a number of the
members are going to the Quaker City.
To Assistant Postmaster A. j. Edwards
has been assigned the task of presenting a
resolution to the convention asking for
an Endorsement of the Pittsburg and
Erie canal scheme. Mr.. Edwards
is loaded down with facts and statistics
showing the difference in cost of trsnsporta-
ton by rail and water, and the money that
could be saved annually to shippers if the
canal were built. He will also point out.
in general way, the other benefits, direct
and indirect, to the territory concerned and
the country at large. The resolution winds
up with the statement that Congress should
appropriate the money.
Mr.. Edwards says that while it is prac-
tically State enterprise, the idea is, as he
understands it. for both the National
and State governments to assist
in its construction. Mr.. Edwards has no
doubt about the passage of the resolution.
The commission to prepare route and re-
port on its feasibilitv is the creation of
Republican Legislature, and the Repub-
lican party in the State will foster the
scheme. Last winter the Americus Club
Endorsed the plan.
Mr.. Edwards secured much of his data
- a.l..a e Al,
letters written by Captain Harry Brown
and G, W. Park, of the Black Diamond
Steel Works, in which these gentlemen
show what could be saved in freight rates
yearly to the coal and iron industries OF
Pittsburg il the canal were built
Among other things that will be Endorsed
are the force and the tariff bills, and there
will be words of commentator for Speaker
Reed and Mckinley.
There are quite number of Republican
clubs in P1ttsburg, and they will all be
represented. The Americas Club will have
25 men; Tariff Club, %; Lincoln Republi-
can Club, of Lawrenceville, 6; Young
Mems Republican Club, of Sewickley, 6;
Quay Club, OF the Southside; Eleventh,
Twelfth and Sixteenth ward Republican
clubs; Allegheny Central Club, 10; Della
mater Guards, s; Don Cameron Club, Union
Republican Club, Sixth Ward Invincibles,
Twelfth Ward Colored Club and the Sharps-
burg Republican Club.
Local Republicans ere pleased with the
prospect for attendance and with the enthu-
siasm displayed. 1t is stated on good au-
thority that C. L. Magee will be present.
Mr.. Magee is not in the city and could not
be seen about it. Just how the proceedings
will be shaped to do the most good for the
Republican ticket doth not yet appear.
Among those who left last evening we're
John Neeb, Chief Murphy, Assistant Post
master A. J. Edwards, Colonel Brady. Col
onel W. H. Reid, w. b. McCleary, j. B.
Finley, of Monongahela City; Superintend-
ent of Police Gamble Weir, and others.
There were in the party at least 75 Repub-
Iicans. The Tariff Club contingent was the
strongest The delegation from the Amer
icus Club will leave to-night.