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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
THE NoRTHsIDE SCANDAL.

The previous exposures and charges of
corruption in the Allegheny City govern
ment were cast in the shade yesterday by
the report of the Auditing Committee on
the Mayors Office. This report consti-
tutes pri1sa facie charge against two of
the Mayors which closely approXimates
the line of breach of trust. and if made
good certainly shows public dishonesty in
that Office.
Besides the facts brought out in the Off
cial report the street and newspaper talk
includes assertions of practices even more
serious. These can hardly be treated as
having any foundation until backed up
by evidence. But what is disclosed in the
report is serious enough to call for de-
cisive action. Mayors who levy excessive
fees and fail to account for them are not
the proper executives for an enlightened
city. If the assertions of the published
report are true there is a crying need for
thorough cleaning out of that city's
government and the introduction of new
element in its politics.
These charges should be unsparingly
investigated, and wherever misconduct is
shown the penalties should be applied.
The time is past when the public can. af
ford TO palter with official Irregularities or
corruption of any kind.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01

the most useless of bovine animals. His
meat was tough, his temper intractable, and
his hide was about the only available part
of him. His wildness made him desert all
his haunts at the first sign of settlement;
and if the plains where he once roamed
were to afford homes for civilized people
his disappearance was inevitable. No
sensible man will seriously maintain that
the vast country west of the Missouri
should have been kept away from cultiva-
ton in order that unique class of wild
OK could be preserved for the occasional
sport of the wealthy. Yet that is the only
alternative to the disappearance OF the
buffalo. 1t is well to preserve occasional
specimens of the animal, as in the Yellow
stone Park or in England; but the fact
that the great herds have given place to
other great herds of valuable beef cattle is
not change that this country need be
ashamed Of
We do not raise an outcry because the
prairie weeds are supplanted by fields OF
grain, or scrub oaks give place to orchards
and vineyards. There is no more reason
for bewailing the fact that the picturesque
but useless buffalo has been replaced by
herds and farms which furnish food to
millions in both the New and Old Worlds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
LEADERS IN THE RACE.

PHIL ARMOUR takes q great deal of
pleasure in playing bean bag with his
babies.
GENERAL BUTLER will not vote this
year. He failed to register in time, and now
says he don't care to vote this time.
The Nizam of Hyderabad spends S10,-
100000 a year. The fact that he has 500
wives accounts for his extravagance.
n oNoURE CONWAY says Mme Blavatsky
told him that her occultism was all glamour.
That is what most people supposed it was.
GENERAL GRUBB's valet is named Hugg.
1t is supposed that the General will not leave
his valet at home on hfs forthcoming we'd
ding trip.
Mr. JOHN CAIRN, President Of the
Brush Electric Light Company is said to re-
semble "Jones, Who Pays the Freight" of
New York.
IT is reported that ex-senator Fair, of
California, has married the proprietress Oft
girls school in San Francisco. Senator
Fairs daughters were once students at this
school.
Won MUMM will continue to represent
the German Government at Washington
until a successor to the late Count Won
Aroo-valley shall have been appointed. He
is said to be extra dry.
MISS FRANCES WILLARD, the temper
ance evangelist, has q new idea. She pro-
poses that professor of total abstinence be
appointed to the American University at
Washington. 1t ought not to be hard to fill
the position.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
TENNEssEE,s MINING WAR,

The outbreak of what closelr approx
mates civil war at the Tennessee mining
: camps is an example of what a stupid and
archaia policy of legislation on one side
and the spirit OF lawlessness on the other
may produce. The Tennessee affair diff
fer3 from the labor riots In tieas city in
1877 in that ours was temporary out
break of popular passion, while the action
of the Tennessee miners is in pursuance of
deliberate and even preannounced policy.
When an army of discontented miners,
after one previous demonstration and sew
eral declarations that if what they regard
as Justice to them is not done, they will
use force, attack the prison camps of the
State, overpower the guards and set the
convicts free, it cannot be regarded as
anything less than declaration of a pro-
vincial war on the authority of the law.
In an ordinary locality an outbreak on
that scale would be less serious; but forti-
fed, as these miners are in their mount
aims, their rebellion cannot be overcome
without great expenditure and serious
loss of life.
The quarrel, as already said, is due to
lessness on the other Certainly the
miners have much to complain of. The
use of convicts for mining is a semi-ciyi-
lized policy, and the wages of miners are
nowhere so high that the State can with
justice depress them by introducing con-
vict labor. But that does not justify the
miners in armed insurrection. Indeed the
outbreak makes the proper redress of
their grievances the more difficult When
they proclaim by their acts that force is
superior to the law they simply invoke the
use of a superior force against them until
they are reduced to obedience.
The task of making her laws effective,
and also of making them just rests on the
State of Tennessee. If she cannot develop
her mining interests without civil war she
win be better off to leave the mines de-
serted and idle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
A QUESTION OF TASTE

"There is no doubt of it." remarks the
New York EUeni71g San, 'the dissemina-
ton of news has deadened curiosity and
its destruction must be a matter only of
time This idea is supported by the
assertion that mot one reader of the
cable news out of a hundred would give
two cents for the details of the recent de-
structive storms After, this conclusion
is leaped 70, that the time will come when,
''weaned from occurrences that do not
really concern it, the public mind will re-
ject news and demand for its regular
pabulum good nourishing theory"
This will be d comfortable thought for
the many critics of newspaper work who
have so freely pointed out the fault of
modern journalism to be the constant pre-
sentation of vast accretions of undigested
facts with a very slight proportion of
thought. But whatever comfort they get
will be derived from an assertion which is
wholly dogmatic. 1t is just as easy to say
that not one reader in hundred would
give two cents for any theories that might
be deemed worthy of publication; and the
assertion would probably have a larger
amount of truth.
There is no other test as to what the
public prefers than the character of the
matter furnished by publications that at
tain the widest circulation. And it is a
well-known fact that the greatest news
papers attain their success by the quality
and quantity Of the news they furnish
The tendency for the past fifty years has
been the exact opposite of that indicated
by our cotemporary. Formerly the papers
gave up the greater portion of their space
to opinions, with meager summaries of
current events. Now they give pages to
news, but only comparatively small por-
ton of their space to theoretical discus
sion.
But has the tendency changed? Ger
tainly it would take very acute eye to
perceive any signs of such reversal of
public taste. We have been unable to
notice that the esteemed EUeaSag Sun has
at all abandoned its practice of furnishing
as much news as is possible within the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
THE BUFFALo's EXIT.

The fashion of lamenting the disappear
ance of the buffalo from the Western
plains moves ali exchange, in commenting
on the fact that breeder of them in Ne
braska has shipped number to England,
to say: 'It is singing reflection that
there are nearly as many live buffaloes in
Great Britain to-day as in their home on
the American continent
This is the stereotyped tone of comment
on the extinction of the buffalo. But
there is reason for the inquiry whether the
fashion of talking Of it as public loss and
a national offense is not over-done. The
buffalo was an interesting and picturesque
animal: the indiscriminate slaughter which
whitened the plains with the bones of the
great herds was wasteful and wanton; but
his disappearance before the advance of
civilization was only a question OF time,
and when we reflect on what has taken
place there does not seem to be good rea-
son for ali these lamentations.
The buffalo was, except as game, about
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
ON THE HOMESTRETCH.

WHAT trifles the Democrats rave over as
the campaigns draw to their close.-Chic0go
Inter Ocean.
IT is a pleasant spectacle to see Mr.. Cleve-
land throwing bon bons to the tiger.-Nea0
York Advertiser
PARTY managers and regularly appointed
election-day workers are useful and efficient,
but the united work of all members of
great party is irresistible.-sT. Louis Republic.
MAJOR MCKINLEY has made 12O speeches in
this years campaign, and yet has not ut
tered one foolish word. That is to say, as an
orator, he presents striking contrast to
Grover Cleveland.-H. Louis Globe Democrat.
WHEN the returns begin to come in next
Wednesday, Papa Cleveland will wish he
had stayed at home and walked in the Silly
night, instead of cavorting about the State
for Flower and Minneapolis
Journal.
The new ballot is simple affair and yet
the average man fails utterly to understand
1t. There be wise men who think the old
fashioned is plenty good enough and the
wise men are not altogether wrong.-Grdnd
Rapids telegram Herald.
THIS enthusiasm which was witnessed last
night; as well as when Major Mckinley was
here, is merely sample of the wave that is
sweeping through the State. Northwestern
Ohio will go largely Republican If a careful
canvass means anything.-Toledo Commercial
THE most careful observers incline to the
opinion that Ohio will go Republican and
Iowa Democratic; New York and Massachu-
sets doubtful, with the doubts in favor of
the Republicans in the former State and Of
the Democrats in tine latter W1sconsin State
Journal
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
THE PROSPECTS FOR TUESDAY.

If there are any living issues of differ
ence between the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties upon which the public in
telligence can at present lay hold, these
issues are to be found in the Ohio canvass.
Not only so, but they are clearly defined
in that canvass. There the policy of pro-
lection for home industries, which in these
days is the distinctive Republican policy,
is directly confronted by the policy of
experimenting with theories at the ex-
pense of the business of the country.
Beginning with tariff for revenue only and
looking ultimately to free trade, the
Democrats have fatty challenged judg-
ment upon that position and upon free
coinage of silver also, despite the GER
Tainty of arrangement of values. The
DISPATCH believes the Democrats will be
beaten; and it hopes the majority will be
large enough to cure them effectually of
their habit of running off after the false
prophets of finance and the mere theorists
Of political economy.
In Pennsylvania the representatives of
the Republican party in State offices-that
Is to say, specifically, Auditor General Nc
Camant, Treasurer Bower, ex-Cashiee Liv-
sey and the Senate which has audaciously
attempted to whitewash these officials
have furnished grounds which, were it not
for the coming Presidential election, would
he esteemed ample to justify even a
sharper lesson than was administered to
the party management in the ignominious
defeat of Delamater last fall. The willful
violation of the laws governing the treas
ury, through which the State has los large
sums, might have been set simply to the
account of individuals had not the Senate
first virtually eXonerated the offenders by
a whitewashing report and then practically
evaded their trial. Thus is the response
bility for the business thrown upon the
party. The general belief in the personal
honesty o. Gregg and Morrison, and the
indiSposition to give the Democrats any
encouragement in Pennsylvania that they
might use in the Presidential canvass, will
probably prevent the full operation of
public judgment upon the attitude of the
Senate toward the derelict State officials
Bat the vote may nevertheless be made
close one by the course of the party man.
ayers.
Such is what may be called the local
outlook. Of all the elections on Tuesday
that of Ohio will be the most interesting,
and Pennsylvanians are as much concerned
about it as they are in the contest in their
own State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
A LUXURIOUS EVENT.
The Return OF the Gar to q Suffering and
Starving People.

The Return Of the Gar to . Suffering and
Starving People.
New York Tmes1
The return of the Gear to Russia is neces-
sarily a lugubrious event. The distress that
prevails throughout his empire Of course re-
inforces the preachers and workers OF sedi-
tion. Although we have net heard much Of
it of late, nihilism must be considerably
more powerful than ever. The suffering
Russian peasantry have thus far avenged
their sufferings upon the Hebrews, who are
already under an official as we'll as popular
ban, and this direction of their energies is
entirely pleasing to the Russian Govern
ment.
There is another class Of Russians who will
fail to find satisfaction in mauling Hebrews,
and who are likely to renew their attempts
to overthrow the Government under which
they suffer, by the ancient method of tenn
pering despotisms. If Russia were tolerably
prosperous and contented, the Gear would
probably return with warlike Intentions;
but he will scarcely venture upon any
offensive or threatening actions now that
Russia is more wretched and moro discon-
tented than she has been since the Crimean
war,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
NAVAL IDEAS OF PRESTIGE.

The telegraphic columns of The Drs
PATCH, yesterday, quoted prominent
naval officer as saying that the presen,
situation proves the wisdom of Washing.
toms maxim, '1n time of peace prepare
for war;" and not only justifies the work
which has been done in building navy,
but proves that good deal more ought to
have been done to enable the Government
to meet the present crisis properly.
Standing by itself this proposition is
unexceptionable, except for the literary
doubt as to crediting Washington with the
authorship of a maxim which was simply
translation of the classic sin pace, para
6eItum." THE DISPATCH has steadily
advocated the policy of naval construc-
ton. But two or three other deliverances
of naval officers which come in connec-
ton with that just cited are sufficient to
provoke the expression of doubt whether
we will be the better off for navy if the
spirit is to rule it which is expressed in
those remarks.
One naval officer is quoted as saying
good and wholesome effect it would have
upon the world at large" He carries this
idea of waging war for effect to the ex-
traordinary length of saying that 'even If
Chile is small and weak, the spectacle OF
whipping her would produce for us an ex-
cellent prestige abroad" Another ex-
presses the same notion of naval prestige,
which is simply magnified copy Of the
schoolboy bully's theory on the same SUBJ
jebt, by declaring 81 should like to see an
affair with Chile; not only for professional
reasons, but also because I think that the
time has come for this country to admin
lister lesson to someone"
If our naval rehabilitation is to embark
us on the policy suggested by these utter
ances, it is time to remark emphatically
that it would be more for the credit and
prosperity of the nation to have gone
without navy. 1t is hard to imagine any
thing more repugnant to the spirit Of ad-
vanced civilization, and the theories of
popular government exemplified by
this republic, than the spectacle of great !
nation seeking to establish its prestige by
whipping small and weak one, or its
navy cruising around to pick quarrels for
the professional advancement of its Off
GERS, and embarking in quarrel destruct-
i've to lbs commerce for the sake of admin
istering ga lesson to some one."
The navy should be used wisely and dis
creetly to protect American citizens and
uphold American interests. But naval Of
ficers should be sharply given to under
stand that the United States is not to
lightly ruin its South American relations
by plunging into war to give them promo
ton or to secure them the glory Of defeat
ing "a small and weak nation"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
NECESSITY FOR A CANAL.
It Would Have Pacifying Eject Upon Pa
cific Countries.

It Would Have a Pacifying Effect Upon Pa
cific Countries.
Cincinnati Times-Star.l
The necessity that is almost absolute for
the completion of the Nicaragua canal now
becomes manifest as the relations between
this'country and Chile become more and
more strained. To reach the scene where
Uncle Sans reasonable demands may be
punctuated with a few shot and she'll thou
sands of miles are to be traverssd and weeks
OF time lost that could be saved were it pos
sible to send the steel-clads through the
canal. Valparaiso is almost directly south
OF Washington.
The same meridian that passes through
Washington runs but n few miles west of
Valparaiso. In their route to Chilean waters
the American vessels now on the Atlantic
coast are compelled to go through the Straits
of Magellan, and SO sail thousands of miles
ont of their course. Every point of the COM
pass is described in the present route to
Chile. The Nicaragua canal would simplify
matters. Moreover, its existence would be
apt to have pacifying influence upon little
Pacific coast countries naturally disposed to
be sassy"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
Obituary Nofaa

GENERAL GOMEZ. OF Mexico. is dead.
PRINCE CZARToRYsKI, Vice President of the
Upper House Of the Austrian Parliament, is dead
In Vienna.
FRED BEULER, prominent hotel proprietor and
old soldier, died ut his home in Johnstown Friday,
aged 81 years.
CAPTAIN JAMES P. JACK died at his home in
Bellevue, Pa. Friday, aged II. His entire life
was spent as pion on Ohio river boats.
ALEXANDER WILLS, old veteran, died At
Wormleysburg Pa, Thursday, aged 4s years. He
served during the war with the North Pennsylva-
mia Cavalry. and participated In Sherman's famous
march to the sea.
FRANK H. STACEY, well-known conductor on
the Ft Wayne road died yesterday at his residence
in Leetsdale, of typhoid fever. Mr.. Stacey has
been railroadihg for the past IS years and was n
great favorite with the patrons of his line. He
leaves wife and three children.
H. J. FOWLER, who died in Atlanta, Ga, on the
18th of October had been In the course OF his life
q soldier in the Indian wars, doctor in successful
practice, and Methodist preacher of long expert
ence. He IS years Of age at the time Of his
death, and left two children and many grandchil-
dren,
WILLIAM H. BRAND. an active. and influential
Republican leader in Central New York, died Mon
day. aged 8s years. He represented the county in
the State Legislature In 1882 and 1859, and served
State Senator for the Madison-Oswego district for
the term of 1s70-. He had been an invalid for the
past five years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
OIL FOR FUEL,

The possibilities of the use of crude
petroleum as q fuel are encOuragingly
illustrated by the news in our columns
to-day with regard to the visit of the chief
engineer of the Inman steamship line and
the probability that Lima oil will at an
early date be adopted as fuel for vessels
of that company.
This will be convincing demonstration
If the availability of oil for fuel The
demonstration already exists sufficiently
to convince the mind of an expert, like the
official whose visit is reported in the
article referred to. The only practical
doubt that has existed for some time was
whether supply could be guaranteed at
price that would make it more econom-
,ical fuel than coal. The immense develop
ments of the Mcdonald gushers have
shown that the Pennsylvania field will
furnish all the oil needed for Illuminating
purposes, and the Lima oil is therefore
relegated to constant use as a cheap and
convenient fuel.
The local bearing of this matter is more
important than may at first seem. If
Lima oil is an economical fuel when piped
past Pittsburg and the Pennsylvania coal
fields to the seaboard, by how much more
must it be an economical fuel at Pitts
burg with the cost of extra pipeage saved.
Here we have in addition to the other
means of furnishing our manufacturers
with cheap and convenient fuel, great
staple that can be brought into the mills
and used there without any of the SCOT,
smoke and inconvenience of coal
1t will be prosperity to the oil interests
to have the cheaper crude used as fuel on
steamers as we'll as in mills, and it will be
no less advantageous to Pittsburg to have
it used in our mills before it Is used in the
steamers, unless cheaper gas fuel is
speedily discovered
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
INCREASING THE CADETS.
Wise Recommendations for Educating
Young Men for Off1ces.

W160 heCOmmendatfOnS Tor Educating
Young Men for Ofices.
New York Times.l
The recommendation Of Colonel Wilson,
the superintendent of the Military Acade-
my, that an increase should be made in the
number of cadets takes the form of propos-
ing restoration of the Presidents privk
1ege of appointing ten cadets at large each
year. 1t would certainly seem wiser to be-
gin with a moderate increase of this sort
rather than to take the more extensive ones
which have been proposed, through also
giving Senators the right of appointment.
1t should be understood that this years
appointment of many civilians to second
Heutenancies was wholly exceptional, re-
sulting from legislation by the last Congress
which transferred several scores of officers
to the retired list. Even next year or the
year after there may be no vacancies, ex-
cept those for the graduates and the ap-
appointees from the enlisted men. Or
course, there is a standing argument for
educating as officers, with q view to use in
an emergency, number of young men in
excess Of thd)e needed in the army; but even
this consideration Is now somewhat Offset
by the partial or primary military education
of hundreds yearly in colleges to which
army officers are detailed for their instruo-
ton,