Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-26
THE TOPICAL TALKER,

A Prophecy About Mr.. Blaine That Time
Has Proven Trns-what CoIored Man
Thinks of the south-A shrewd Circua
Trick.
| A COUPLE Of months ago in Washington a
member Of Congress and newspaper man
discussed in my presence the political prospects
OF Mr.. Blaine. The Congressman was not a
Blaine man, but knew him well personally, and
his family still better-especially Mr.. Blaine's
brother, who Is employed In one of the depart
ments. My notebook reminds me that
the Congressman said: 1.-THE mismanagement
OF Mr.. Blaine's differentiation campaign In
1888 will not be repeated in 1892 If things run
on as they have been doing for year past Mr.,
Blaine viii be forced almost whether he
likes 1t or not, to be . candidate at
the next Presidential election. There
is no likelihood Of Mr.. Blaine's letting any
opportunity slip to present himself upon
some public question of great Importance
before Congress rises this summer When he
does begin the fight there will be no such blum
ders as European trips allowed in his cam
paign. know that he still has the ambition to
be President. and his friends are as eager as
ever to help him."
The opportunity to which the Congressman
referred has arrived, and every day is showing
that Mr. Blaine means to take all the advan-
tage he can of 1t.
AN intelligent colored man who has had
considerable experience of life in the
South, although he now prosecutes his trade
in PittsDurg said to me o day or two ago:
There is no great desire among most of the
men of my race in the South-I am speaking of
my friends and relations-for new legislation
in their behalf. They would prefer to be let
alone. The generation that has grown
up since the war has taken part in
good deal of what people call the building Of
the new South. There are exceptions of
course, but the majority Of the men know in
Southern towns and In the country have a
strong attachment to the soil and to the whites
who live with them. The two races are more
closely related than most Northerners suppose
PROBABLY It was not with the knowledge Of
the Barnum and Bailey management that
Forepaugh's people. when their circus was
here early in the spring, declared that an ar
rangement had been made by which Barnum's
circus would not visit Pittsburg this season.
In former years some such division Of
territory has been made, Barnum taking
the Eastern States and Forepaugh the West
or vice versa. A good many Pittsburgers be-
lieved Forepaugh's assurance that the only
Barnum would not get here after his return
from the conquest Of Britain, and they spent
their half dollars and dollars in Forepaugh's
bic tent.
Now Barnum's circus looms up tremendous
upon the horizon, and whole carloads of parents
will be compelled to lay out more dollars
against their wills?-on circus tickets. The
small boy is the only one who will
not kick. If we except the small girl who has
just as warm a love for the tanbark and the
clowns and the animals and the peanuts and
the lemonade as her brother. Perhaps it is all
for the best. But economical parents and
guardians will be little shy about swallowing
announcements Of the ''only circus this year"
in future,