Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-01
0. P. Caylor Pays His Respects to the
Association ReVolters in an
Interesting Way.
AFEW VERY SAFEPOIETERSGIVEN
Peter Gladiator Browning Modestly Asks
$4,000 to Come and Play in
the Local Club.
REILLY'S CASE FULLY EXPLAINED.
Marx Baldwin Nay Sign Catcher Jack oconnor to ps!
in This City.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH, ]

NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-"It is war. Sign
all the good League players you want"
That was the message, you will remem-
Der, which flashed across the wires between
Chicago and Boston about ten minutes after
the National Board announced its decision
in the Bierbauer-Stovey case. The message
was directed to Mr.. Prince in Boston and
was signed by Arthur Irwin in Chicago
Shortly afterward Secretary Kalbfuss, of
Washington, announced that "We are now
pirates and have hoisted the black flag
against the National League Ior the good of
baseball,
call attention to these things because
want to show that the declaration of war
came from the American Association. There
may have been a casus belli. 1 am not
going to discuss that shade of the question.
The cause may have been good or not
sufficient; we'll let you take your choice of
convictions. What we must all admit is
that the American Association declared
war. The League and national agreement
forces had TO make up their minds to sur
render or fight. There was middle ground.
The enemy had shouted its orders for an as
sault. Letters of march ana reprisal were
issued. and the command went forth to fight.
One of the Leagues forts. Cincinnati was
taken possession of and-there you are,
Very well. Now to digress little.
A few DAYS after the death of General Sher-
man read in the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette sketch of the war character OF the dead
warrior from the pen of Murat Halstead. He
showed up the policy which made Sherman one
Of the famous generals of the world. In brief,
General Sherman did not believe in shilly-
sEally tactics. He advocated the unrestrained
use of the torch and the sword in war. When
lie marched from Atlanta to the sea Swathe
40 miles wide marked the way. and in that
swathe not human being, habitatiou or a
pound of provision was lett TO mark the trail; /;
Sherman always insisted if this policy which
marked his march from Atlanta to the sea had
been put in practice by the War Department in
the very start, thousands OF lives and millions
of money would have been saved.
Now it looks to me as if the National League
had taken up the Sherman policy in this latest
baseball war. Certainly there has been no mis-
understanding possible concerning the policy
the League is going TO pursue, MIR. kalbfuss
manifesto seems to have been accepted in good
faith by the opposition. I'VE are all pirate
now" says he, meaning the Association men,
land have raised the black flag against th
National League" Every school boy knows
what tie black flag of the pirate signifies. 1t
means: No quarter asked and no quarter
given" How have pirates been treated in all
ages 6y ne powers p against WI which they ra;sed
and you'll ind that most of them have been
blown out OF the ocean.
1t is a gigantic mistake in the Association
and believe most of the men at the head of
Association clubs not in their hearts recognize
il. But they are proud (all baseball magnates
are born proud) and they do not like TO make
acknowledgement, in the face Of the enemy.
But let me say that il is always manly to con-
fess a wrong step and to admit defeat, when de-
feat stares you in the face like your reflection
IN mirror.
It matters not whether the Association as a
body was wronged or not by the National
Board; they have no excuse for dragging their
whole structure down around their heads for
the sake of vIndicating principle. The con-
servativc leaders of the revolt must see that
they are overmatched; that they are the victims
OF bad ADVISERS.
Who will be first among them to say, Let us
have peace" He who will speak the word and
start the crusade for salvation at the sacrifice
of the few hot-headS who precipItated the
calamity Will soon write his name famous in
baseball history.
Some years ago 1 saw Louis Harrison play a
stage part in which was a scene that reminds
me now of the condition of the American Asso-
cIation. Harrison in Lis role made up his mind
to lick the lymph out of the stage villain and
proclaimed the job good as done before he
began IL But Louis, like the more recent war
Tior. made miscalculauon. When the dust of
battle lifted Louis' stage clothes were hanging
10 him IN strips, the stage blood was smeared
over his face and damnation clothed him as
with an ulster, while his intended victim walked
swaGgeringly into the wings smoking cigar
and wholly unframed. Louis gazed after the
victim sadly, and said in a voice saturated with
pain and sorrow, I'm sorry i whipped that
man."
Need apply the moral
Now, 1 want to state little history in ad-
vance, and 1 assure you on my word that it is
not prejudiced supposition. Marx it well and
heave brick at my head later on if it be not
true 1t is this:
There will be but one club in Cincinnati next
year. and that will be League club. Al John
son is deceiving the other Association men. He
cannot deliver his goods. This is as sure as
that two and two make four. know exactly
what my words mean when tell you this And
McPhee and Reilly know exactly what know
have signed the League contract, do you? They
are not men who would walk into trap
At the schedule meeting to be held in this
city next week Cincinnati will be scheduled in
the League, and the games will be played.
Excuse me! Imust 60 out and read the latest
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