Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-05
THE TOPICAL TAIKER
Chief Bell of the Secret Service .pd HI.
Counferpari' Buffalo BHI-The stones
Have Been Used 10 war-CoIoueI

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Counterpart, Buffalo BHI-The stone,
Have Been Used 10 War-CoIoue
Bayne's Renl Reasons.
THE Secret Service has lost one Of the hes,
men it ever had by the dismissal of Cbiet
Bell. 1t won't bother Bell very much. for there
have been always half a dozen responsible and
lucrative places at his disposal among the pri.
vate detective agencies and financial intelli.
gence Offices
Chief Bell is as picturesque character as
you may meet in the United States. He looks
like Wild Westerner, though he comes. 1 be.
lieve, from New Jersey. He wears his dark
hair long; it falls an inch or two over his coat
collar in graceful wave. When he has on his
big sombrero-he never wears anything in the
| shape of hat that has not about half foot of
brim-he bears a most striking resemblance to
the Hon. William +. Cody. better known as
Buffalo Bill" In fact, Mr.. Bell has been
frequently mistaken for the famous Snowman,
whom he knows very well and admires, by
the way. When saw Chief Bell last in his
private off ce in the Treasury building at WASH
ington, he was lying pack in an Office chair with
his feet on the table. his big. soft felt hat on
| one side of his head and a thick cigar in his
mouth. He looked awfully like Buffalo Bill.
In the museum of the Secret Service no.
ticed portraits of Cody and Bell side by side,
and nobody could decide off-hand which was
which. Why doesn't the dashing detective
| join the man who has made precious merchan-
disc of cowboys and Indians that weren't worth
powder and shot Together they might tame
all the wild men in the world, or conquer one
| hemisphere and exhibit 1t to the other.
| IT isn't necessary to remind the gentlemen
who are preparing to fight Mr.. William A.
Stone that he is of great stature and heavy
weight The 76 odd inches and $50 pounds of the
nominee for Colonel Baynes shoes are known
| to most Pittsburgers.
But doubt if many people know what stock
of fighters Colonel Stone comes from. His
blood is Anglo-Saxon in its origin. AT least as
long ago as the beginning of the last century
his ancestors landed in N ew England, where
they settled as farmers Colonel Stones great
grandfather carried a musket at Bunker Hill.
His grandfather died of a wound received in
the War of 1872 His father emigrated from
Wendell, Mass, 80 years ago. and took a tract
of virgin forest land in Demar township Tioga
county. The fight for existence in that un-
fruitful region was as hard as any Colonel Stone
himself fought in the late war.
1t is a fact too, that Colonel Stone overcame
numberless diff culties in obtaining his educa-
ton, and in his professional career he has
shown lots of grit. Therefore if fight Is to
come Colonel Stone will not be very much out
of his element.
WHATEVER may be said of the course Colonel
Bayne has seen ht to take, there is
every reason to believe that he speaks the en-
tire truth when he gives as his reasons for re-
signing the state of his health and the desire of
Mrs. Bayne.
In Washington recently heard in several
quarters of the effect that hard work, es-
pecially in connection with the Mckinley bill,
had had upon Colonel Bayne. A gentleman
who had been in a position to see great deal
of Colonel Bayne. both in the House and out
of it, said to me: "If Bayne does not take more
rest and recreation he will break down."
AS to the influence brought to hear upon
Colonel Bayne by his wife, it has been very
well known for long while that though much
attached to their beautiful Washington house,
Mrs. Bayne has desired his retirement from
Congress- and even from politics. That Mrs.
Bayne will be pleased to see her husband drop
the M. c. from his name may be accepted as
positive fact.
In Washington the surprise is great, because
those who know the above facts about Mr..
Bayne's health and domestic influences were
misled by the canvass he made. II Colonel
Bayne had declined to run again, in Washing
ton, at all events. his reasons would have been
properly understood.