Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-12
SENATORS FROM MONTANA,
Two Men More UnlIks Zach Other CouId be
Found-How They Made Their Money
Governor Elect Campbell as a Mixer
Fred DoueIass' UnpopularIty in Hayti.
IooRREsPoNDENoE OF THE DIsPAToH.

/ lar, DlaCK-oyeQ anu DiaCk-lalTeQ. ne REMINDS
one Of Abraham Lincoln, and he has as much
magnetism as James @. Blaine. He is great
orator, and he holds mis- audience in the hollow
Of his hand i've minutes after he has first
opened his mouth. He exeells especially In
the vindictiYe, and he has poison bag al the
end of his tongue equal in size to that which
supplies the vitriol which spurts forth from
the mouth of John ]. Ingalls,. He Is well up
in English literature, quotes from the poets as
though he had been raised with them, and is
one Of the great lawyers Of the Northwest.
For the 20 odd years during which he has
lived in Montana he has been a noted man and
| he has done more TO crystalline civilization in
the great Northw than any other Montana
citizen. He settled first at a little mining
camp, and removed from thence to Virginia
City. He was practising law in this
mining settlement during the stormiest
life in bis band and the road agents ruled the
Territory. The Sheriff belonged to band of rob
bers and road agents and justice was unknown
until one day Sanders called the miners
| together, denounced the robbers and organized
| vigilance committee and set of mining
| courts. He pushed this organization SO that he
was eventually able to clean the robbers out of
| the country, and this was not done before there
| were number of hangings and not . few
/ bloody shooting ARRAYS.
Sanders made money in Virginia City at the
| law. He made more at Helena, and now at
the age of 66 he is worth about SOC, 600 He was
| born In New York and he married his wife in
| Ohio, where he was admitted to the bar. Mrs.
sanders sanders Is % very bright woman woman. she is widely
| am told, be one of the leading figures in Wash
ington society. She is now presiding with grace
oyer the hne residence Of Senator Sanders in
Helena, and she is very proud Of her three
| grown-up sons, the youngest OF whom has just
graduated from Exeter College.
Senator Power and His $4,000 Palace.
! Senasor Power is o trihe older than Sanders
He is little, rapid, nervous business man
who started life as an Indian trader up the
| Missouri river many years ago, and who has
| been engaged ever since then in trading with
the Indians. the whites and the Government
and has made It pay. He is worth three or
four hundred thousand dollars and has big
| agricultural implement establishment at Hell.
ena, with branch establishments throughout
| the Territory. He is.building one Of the finest
houses in the Northwest. It 10 an immense
marble structure trimmed with granite and red
sandstone. and it is to cost $4,000 The
red sandstone trimmings are exquisitely carved
and It will take all Of next year to finish them
The house contains about % rooms and it con-
sists Of two stories, basement and an attic.
About six years ago Senator Power got the po-
Htical bee in his bonnet. Why it attacked him
no one knows, for he is no speaker and has
heretofore had no political connections. He
became = candidate for Congress and was later
on defeated by Governor Toole In the cam
paign for the Governorship. 1t was his defeat
ton to the senatorship.
What Made Campbell Governor Of Ohio.
JAMES e. CAMPBELL will be inaugurated Gov
ernor Of Ohio next week. He owes his posi-
ton to his appreciation Of pumpkins and fat
cattle. It was this element Of his nature that
made him successful in his first Congressional
campaign and he thereby got the prominence
that makes him to-day the greatest man in
Ohio Campbelrs opponent during his first
Congressional campaign was ex-Congressman
Little, whom President Harrison appointed this
summer as a member Of the Venezuelan Com
mission. Little Ii a tall, sober aristocrat, who
belongs TO one Of the influential families of his
county and who considers himself far above
the ordinary run Of mortals. He had repre-
sented the district In Congress and he had no
doubt OF his reelection He did not mix much
with the common people and toward the last of
the campaign when he and Campbell spoke to-
gether at big agricultural fair he made a
scholarly oration on the intricacies Of the tariff
while Campbell deyoted his talk to the glories
Of the agricultural show, and oiled his tongue
on the fatness Of the cattle, and spoke glowing
words on the rich, yellow golden hue Of Greene
county pumpkins After the speeches were
over Campbell went around the fair grounds and
shook hands with the farmers. He talked
with Farmer Simpkins about his winter wheat
and praised Mrs. Jones yellow butter. He
chucked the country maldens under their
chins, kissed all the babies without regard to
sex, and shook hands with old and young alike.
MI. 1lLLl0 BIfubLeQ ABOUT Blo grand STAND and
received the congratulations Of his friends
upon his fine effort, and when his friends
begged him to come out in the evening and
help the crowd nre on rockets and sample Gin
cinnati lager, he gravely reparked 'That the
people must have their sports, but that they
would enjoy them more II gentlemen did not
mingle with them" He was not to be rooted
from bis hotel parlors, and the ring politicians
Of his party swore roundly as they saw Farmer
Campbell doing his political mixing. This |
same kind of a campaign was managed by
Campbell throughout the whole district, and |
the result OF the vote was q greater surprise |
than that which came after the election OF |
pious Dick Bishop some years ago. Bishop was |
the greatest mixer Ohio had ever known, but |
Campbell Is his equal He was elected to |
Congress. and the change In the vote about |
that agricultural fair showed that Ohio pump |
kins will beat patriotism any day in theweek.
How Ex. Minister LanEstOn Learned French.
THE Hon. Fred Douglass, according to some |
authorities, seems to be having hard time |
in Hayti and he would make q much better /
minister if he had thorough knowledge OF the
French language. The Haytians speak French |
and this Is the diplomatic tongue Of the court |
Ex-Minister Langston told me the other day Of |
his difficulties in this regard at the beginning Of
his mission and how he finally surmounted
them. He said: II had young. white man as
my secretary who was complete master Of
both spanish and French, and supposed
At the first meeting Of the diplomates q case
very important to the United States was pre-
sented. 1t was given in the Spanish language
and the discussion upon it had 10 be conducted
in French. l could not utter a word Of either
language and remembered with regret an op-
portunity which Charles Sumner had offered
me, but which had refused. He had told me
that would some day probably be calico upon
to take foreign mission and that / ought to
know French. If you care to try it viii teach
you,' said he.
idea that would be sent abroad. At this meet
ing Of the diplomates saw that must master
the French or could not do efficient service.
was asked for my opinion and said in En-
glish that the S case & was very important , to my
until 10 o'clock the next day to put my opinion
In writing. was given the Spanish papers and
wrote out my opinion in English and my seere-
tary translated 1t into the French, and gave
it to the assembly. That day, however, de-
cided that if / could not master the French in |
six months would throw up my mission 1 ,
told the secretary so and he became my teacher. ;
From then on ate, drank, slept and Thought
nothing but French studied all the time
and practiced on every man, woman and child |
met. There was no laborer. or beggar so low
upon the street that didn't Bon Jour. mon
sieur,' to him. and there was no woman 30
ragged that did not accost her with French ]
phrase longer or shorter as was able to make
it. The result was that had good hold on I
the language before my six months were up,
b / !.
Hayt, during the latter part of this time. de- !
livered a eulogy upon him. My eulogv was
published In the newspapers and it was copied Z
into the journals Of Paris and complimented !
by them"
Why Douglass is UnpopuIarsin Hayti.
ASKED Prof Langston as to the objections
of the Haytians to Minister Douglass on ac- :
count Of his color. He said: II don't think
here can be any objection raised to him on
that ground nor on the ground of his having a
white wife. Not few Of the most noted peo- :
pie of the Island are blacks who have white
wives and this was the case OF the late Presi- '
lent Salomon. l once heard SalomOh make q .
speech defending himself against the charge
hat he was opposed TO the mulattoes, He .,
Iaid: am black man myself and my wife IS A
white French woman and my Vice President .
8 HAytian as white as any Caucasian. chal. b
enge anybody TO say that have any feeling d
against any one on account Of his color 2
Il don't know that Minister Douglass Is m
popular in Hayti," continued Minister Lang
Jon ''but If he is so 1t is because the Haytians
ire very Jealous in regard to the Annexation or q