Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-19
TRICKS IN POLITICS.
Governor BOies' Red Rooster That is
Popular With the Iowans.
HINTS FOR EXPOSITION MAKERS.
Senator Washburn Says Blaine Will be the
Next President. ,,'
CHATS WITH PEOPLE WHO TALK WE'LL

As an inventor of political tricks the
darkens the past history of the sharpest
| gamester in Eastern politics and challenges
the future of all aspirants. The scheme
was described by L. A. Barnberger, Phil
adelphia merchant, who stopped at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel over Sunday on his
way home from two months trip through
Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota
SIN Iowa." he said, "as in Pennsylvania,
New York and Ohio close political con-
tests are in progress and every method is
taken by each party to gain point. The
candidates for Governor are Wheeler for
the Republicans, and Governor Boies, the
Democratic candidate for reelection. The
issue of the campaign is prohibition, the
Democrats being for the repeal of law
they consider obnoxious, and the Republi-
cans for sustaining it. While in Des
Moines Governor Boies was out of the
CITY, and a friend of mine occupied his
room. I stopped at the same hotel, and was
invited by my friend to 60 into the Cover
nor's quarters.
GOVERNOR BOIES' RED ROOSTER.
''The first thing that attracted my attention
when I entered the room was huge red
rooster, the emblem of the Democratic
party, on a mantlepiece. 1 examined it,
and the conversation that followed natur-
ally led us into politics. My friend e1-
planned that prohibition was failure that
all kinds of Intoxicating liquors could be
purchased in every drug store and that, as
he enthusiastically claimed, the Demo-
Gratis would be sure yictors be-
cause the people were tired of a
law that is dead letter. TO show
you, said my friend, that prohibition does
not prohibit 1 will give you a practical il
lustration. We have here, he continued,
"a red rooster, and, as he touched a button,
we have here a buffet At the same time
the ROSTERS wing flew up and revealed
well, as matter of fact I couldn't have
told an hour after what was in it, but there
was a lot of it snd it was as good as anv
old Monongahela' ever struck. The red
rooster, was told the next day, is an in
vention Of the Governors, who is some
thing of campaign trickster
PROHIBITION THAT DOESN'T WORK.
81 am a Republican, but must confess
that Iowa looks verv doubtful. Prohibition
is undoubtedly failure. was stranger
TO almost every one, Dut nau no trouble
whatever in getting all I wanted to drink,
and didn't have to go into back alleys to
get il, either, The drugstores sell every
thing that is kept in licensed barrooms, and
make no effort to conceal the fact that they
are breaking the law"
On his trip Mr.. Barnberger stated that he
had visited the st. Louis and Minneapolis
exhibitions, and that he had been at the
Pittsburg Exposition Saturday night The
latter, he said, had finer exhibits, but not so
many of them as the others. AT Minneap-
oils, he said, they had the Mexican Band,
composed of sc Mexican Government
officers, dressed in their native costumes
Mr.. Barnberger thought the attraction
would be good one for Pittsburg next
year, and that there would be no trouble in
securing it.
Another Western invention that caught
Mr.. Barnberger's eve was the corn palace
at Sioux City, Ia. The structure, he said,
is as large as the Seventh Avenue Hotel,
and is composed entirely of corn. The ears
are of different colors, and designs on the
outside walls represent the Goddess of
Liberty, and show the United States flag in
bright colors