Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-28
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G. L. Magee Thinks Governor Pattison Is
Able to Write Any Speeches OF State
Papers He May Need without Help
From Anyone, and Cites His Record.
New York World, Interview.J
II am not in politics much now," said Mr..
Christopher Magee at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
yesterday morning, "but 1 am Republicans;
as was until last fall, when was forced to
admit that for time it took good deal of
pressure to keep me from becoming Mug
wump. But was victorious In that campaign,
and now am back where l was at first
MI. Magee was sitting in the amen Corner"
OF that famous Republican headquarters.
Asked what he thought of the force bill. Mr..
Magee smiled and said he didn't know what to
think; that it looked as if those old fellows
over there at Washington might 60 on forever,
like Tennyson's Brook without accomplishing
anything"
"Mr. Magee, what do you think of this charge
OF plagiarism against Governor Pattison, and
OF the report, which Judge James Gay Gordon
declines to deny, that he. Gordon during Mr.
Pattlson's first incumbency of the Gubernato-
rial chair was the real author OF the Pattison
state documents and of the Governors first in
augural3'
-, 1T seems absurd to me-" said Mr.. Magee,
knowing Pattison, Gordon, Hensel and Black
as 90. Mr.. Pattison had no need OF Mr.. Cor
IN, a his public life when he
CITY OF fhliadelphia by majority of thirteen odd
Thousand although the city went Republican
Dy nearly ~. 600. and he has succeeded as pub
nc character and as President of the national
Dank, over which he presides in Philadelphia
quite as we'll since he left the Gubernatorial
enair, and ceased according to this rumor to
nave the political aid and literary assistance of
his one-tme friend, Judge Gordon.
fattlson was very young man when he was
erected Governor, but he was pretty thoroughly
equipped and he had made a record for himself
as City Controller. He didn't need anybody TO
write his speeches for him or to speak them for
him either"
Agentleman Of the party hero volunteered
the statement that Judge Gordon declined
either to confess or deny that he had been the
author of some of the Pattison State docu-
ments, and Mr.. Magee smiled incredulously,
II believe" said he sit is because of Patti
sons acknowledgment of the services OF Mr..
William U. Hensel. whom he made Attorney
General, and of Mr.. William F. Harrity, whom
he has made Secretary of State, that Judge
Gordon is now alienated from him. There was
something very interesting about Pattison's
course toward these men in the recent cam
palgn. Inever heard that story that he and
Hensel were on the outs because when first
elected Governor Mr.. Pattison had declined to
grant Mr.. Rensel the favor of an advance copy
for his newspaper Of the Governors inaugural
| address. But do know that in the Guberna-
torial convention which nominated Pattison
this time Heusers delegation was instructed
for himself and did not 60 to Pattison at all
| until toward the last, when 1t became apparent
that nobody else would be available.
when the PattiSon- -HenSel-Black party
| reached Pittsburg their stumping tour of
| the State Mr. Hensel dined with me at nv
house on the Sunday of their stay there and
| Mr.. Black. who dined not far away. came over
and Joined us after dinner that day. 1t was
then said by them that they had been COM
pelled to waive personal preferences and turn
in and support Pattison with all their power
because he was such a vote-gerter that there
was nobody like him in that respect and he was
the only candidate with whom the party stood
any show at all. have heard that Judge Cor
| don rather resented Mr.. Pattison's appoint
ment of Hensel and Harrity to Office"
"But on his charge of plagiarism it is said
| that the language itself as well as ideas of
| Governor Pattison's inaugural address now and
eight years ago are almost exactly the same
| How do you account for that?'
well, account for it in this way: Gov.
| ernor Pattison made a winning fight both times
because he insisted that national issues had no
place in the campaign in Pennsylvania. He re-
| fused to consider the tariff question or any
other national one dividing the two parties but
devoted himself to local issues. In the cam
| paign of 1880 he found the same local issues
| confronting him and his party which con-
lrontSo tnein IN 1904 AS his opinions on tnoSe
| issues ard on their importance had not under
| gone any change in the eight years intervening,
| he saw no reason to change the language IN
which he had expressed those opinions
| don't believe for minute it was because he
! didn't feel and was not capable of re-express-
| ing them in any way he choose"
| Somebody suggested that Mr.. Cleveland was
| getting jealous of Pattison now since people
began to talk abort Pattison and Palmer as
| the Presidential candidates of 1892 at which
| Mr.. Magee expressed surprise, and said that he
| had heard on the contrary that Mr.. Cleveland
| had prayed for Pattison the night of the elec-
| ton, and had so written him. It was observed
that this looked as if Pattison and Cleveland
| were still preat friends