Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
COLONEL BROWNS GREAT STROKE.


The meeting of those lights of modern De-
mocracy, Grover Cleveland and David Ben
nett Hill, at the dinner recently given by
the Hon. Colonel w. L. Brown, has attract
ed public discussion in several of its aspects.
What the ex-President and the future Sena-
tor said to each other in the moments of fes-
tivity after the weary months in which they
failed to speak as they passed by, how the
interview may be held to affect the future of
Democracy, and what long dug-up hatchets
were buried under the modifying influences
which the Brooklyn Eagle describes as ''clos
de vigot" and chamberlain" have formed
the subjects OF columns of profound and di-
verse editorial comment.
On one point, however, all are agreed; that
the master mind which succeeded in getting
Cleveland and Hill to put their legs under
the same mahogany has made the political
stroke of the season. For a long time some
malign fate had decreed that these eminent
Democrats should be unable to get together.
IT the ex-President went to political din
ner at Philadelphia the Governors execu-
tive duties developed cohesive power
Governor was to participate in any political
function in New York, the ex-President was
carried off by pressing business to Boston.
The man who conquered the adverse fate and
succeeded in inducing these two lights of
Democracy to illuminate the same board
with their presence, commands the attention
of the country as a pre-eminent political
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quet to which we invite attention, are some
peculiar characteristics of that Senator, sage
and warrior, the Hon. Colonel Il. Brown.
To study the qualities which enable men
of eminence to achieve their greatness is al
ways profitable task 1t will therefore
be work of public instruction to throw
light on the quality of the Hon. Colonel's
eminence, which enabled him to bring David
Bennett Hill and Grover Cleveland into fes-
tive unison, thereby causing the wonder and
admiration of all true Democrats Long
before the Hon. Colonel VIM. L. Brown had
become famous as a light of legislative
halls, or as a metropolitan editor-before
he had even attained the military rank of
mere captain, and when he was known as
the Mahoning and Shenango valleys,
and in the parts about Youngstown,
as an unsurpassed adept in the great
American art of draw poker. To prevent
any misconception as to the characteristics
of an eminent statesman we hasten to say
that Colonel Browns championship at that
avocation was in no respect due to the sur
"a
holding supeIfuous aces up his sleeve. He
was an exponent of the square game, and as
such was at once the terror and admiration
of constantly widening circle. He even
frowned down upon the alluring but dele
terious indulgence in jack pots; and dem
oEstrated his championship by adhering to
the rigor of the game as conflict of scien-
tifc inteliects with great profit to himself,
as the demonstrator of the most scientific
methods.
In the illustration OF science as applied to
draw poker one prominent characteristic of
this professor of the game was TO convince
his antagonist he was bluffng, when he was
really the possessor OF some such triumphant
collection of cards as q king full or an ace
flush. 1t is still a tender though costly
memory with those who have, by sitting
opposite to Colonel Brown, gained ex-
perieuce, while be gained money, how
he would permit them to catch him
blufing one or two moderate sized bets,
aud then when he, on third encounter, had
stacked up the chips to towering aud fab
ulous height, how they would call him OF