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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22
A SOUTHERN FICTION

The remark of THE DISPATCH the
other day about the tendency OF some of
the newspapers to speak of the Brazilians
who are making stand for constitutional
government as insurgents" and of their
movements as a revolt" moves the
Charleston Nea5s and Courier to deliver
itself as follows:
1t is not at all remarkable when you think
about it little, cotemporary. The papers
in question have become so accustomed to
speaking of the people in this country who
made so strong a stand for constitutional
government so years ago as 'rebels" that
they naturally apply the same or similar
term to every people that emulates their
example.
This is introducing a new element into
the discussion of constitutional govern
ment which, in the interest of historical
accuracy, it may be worth while to ex-
anime. By those who ''made SO strong a
stand for constitutional government 80
years ago" is evidently meant the people
Of the South in their secession movement.
The assertion that the people of the South
in that movement upheld the cause of
constitutional government has been made
before; but as it is this time addressed
especially to THE DISPATCH, we take
great pleasure in giving critical exami-
nation to the claim.
Constitutional government is govern
ment according to fundamental law, which
designates the methods by which the
ruling powers shall be selected and de-
fines the manner in which they shall ex-
ercise that power. Popular government
is the form of constitutional government
in which the rulers are selected by the
people. Thirty years ago and more an
election for President was held under the
constitutional forms by the people of this
country, and strictly according to the pro-
visions of the Constitution a President
was chosen whose political views were
obnoxious to the South. Because he was
elected the Southern States declared that
they would no longer remain in the
Union, and four years struggle ensued.
On this condensed statement of the dis
pute, we fail to find any support of con-
stitutional government in the course of
the South, or any resemblance to the
people in South America who are re-
sisting the usurpations of military dicta-
tors The more we examine into the de-
tails the less we find to support the as
Sertion of our Southern contemporary.
Without opening the question of the right
OF secession, for which there is not the
slightest syllable of support in the Con-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22
ILLITERAcY AND SUFFRAGE.

Ex-senator William A. Wallace struck
the note of an important reform when in
an interview in yesterdays DISPATCH he
urged the establishment of an educational
qualification which would exclude litter
ate foreigners from citizenship. The posi-
ton that the foreigner should be required
to read and write sufficiently to gain some
comprehension of our system before aid
ing to control its affairs needs little argu-
ment
The tide of illerate immigration at pres
ent constitutes the great reinforcement to
the mass of ignorance in our citizenship.
The welfare of the country demands that
some check be imposed on the growth of
this element to protect politics from the
decentralization resulting from the ease
with which voters of that class succumb to
the wiles of corrupt politicians. At the
same time, we should offer an inducement
to immigrants to secure education by hold
ing out the prize of suffrage when they
have qualified themselves to exercise it.
But does not the same argument apply
to the smaller proportion of illiterate per-
sons who are native born? Indeed, is not
the illiterate American more undesirable
than the illiterate foreigner, as one who
has failed to utilize the educational op-
portunities which this country affords?
Would it not be just and consistent to
apply the same policy to both, and with
out disfranchising anyone, to enact, that
after given date, no one shall attain the
right of suffrage unless he can demonstrate
his ability to read, to write and to exercise
his power of a voter intelligently.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22
FLORENCE AND THE DUKE
The Actors Hard Jokes on His Grace OF
Beaufort

New York SUM- e.
Through sothern, Florence came to know
the Duke Of Beaufort, and they were excel
lent friends. Beaufort came to this country
and was at the Gilsey House good wh1ie.
Florence enlivened his stay by several jokes
which were the talk Of the town at the time.
He told the Duke that he was not looking
well. "You need violent exercise" said ne.
'Now, was troubled as you are. USED
to strip to my underclothing, and. taking
heavy chair in my hands, would run about
my rooms, raising and lowering the chair lo0
times without stopping. 1t had grand
effect"
Florence insisted upon this for several
days, and got the Duke into a mind for try
ing 1t. One afternoon, when several eminent
persons were going to call on the Duke,
Florence persuaded him to try the great
remedy. The Duke undressed, and, seizlng q
great chair, he elevated it above his head and
began racing around the room. He was soon
in fine sweat, with his eyes buls1ng, MS
face red, and his veins standing out. flor-
ence went to the Office, and when the emil,
nent and dignifed persons arrived, he sara
to one of them he knew:
Going up to see His Grace?"
"Yes," said the man.
sWell." ;" said Florence, "I've been up to see
him, and I'm afraid he's touched in his head.
He Is leaping about his room, making strange
noises and breaking the furnitare. Come up
and see. think he ought to be restrained.
His family ought to be told"
The eminent and dignified personages ac-
companied Florence, and, peeping through
crack in the door, saw an apparent maniac
dashing round and round, with staring eyes
and flushed face. Then Florence took them
away to tell what they had seen, beginning:
'1ts very sad about his Grace" until an i'm
preston was general that the Duke Of
Beaufort had gone mad. A few days later
Florence hid the Dukes clothing, and poked
his head in at the door and said: Hurry
out, the hotel is afrep' The Duke presently
appeared in the hotel ONCE in nightgown,
slippers and a tall hat, thus confirming the
unfavorable impression OF his intellectuals.
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PlTTsBURG. SUNDAY, NOV. p, 1881.
low, But EQUAL To 1T.

After much more appeal than should
have been needed from Mayor Gourley
and the newspapers, Pittsburg business
men yesterday rather tardily, but earn
estly, took up the project of sending a
committee to Washington to ask for the
National Republican Convention. Though
put of to the eleventh hour, there is still
a chance Pittsburg may be selected. San
Francisco is simply out of the question,
and has been from the first Neither its
free transportation, its glorious climate,
nor its famous wines would reconcile a
majority Of the delegates to put in three
weeks upon the nomination of ticket
Omaha and Minneapolis are likewise open
to the objection of distance, and their
hotel accommodations are none of the
most extensive.
New York decidedly has stronger
claim than any of the places named, and
PittSburg is better situated than New
York. Besides, the Republican party as
an organization might reasonably wish to
revisit the scene of its birth. We do not
know OF a spectacle which the delegates
could view with more satisfaction than
that of the vast and varied Industries,
started into being and fostered by the
tariff policy, which is visible everywhere
within radius of 200 miles of Pittsburg.
But, inviting though the prospectus is
which Pittsburg can lay before the Ma
tional Committee, it must be confessed
that the attitude of indifference shown by
our manufacturers, bankers and other
prominent men has been decidedly chill
ing. Nowhere are individual enterprise
and resources exploited on a more i'm
pressive scale than in this great city of
ours. But when it comes to cooperative
effort in competition with other cities, OF
to pride Of locality, such as has done so
much for Chicago, Minneapolis, St Paul,
Kansas City and other places, there is a
strange want of motive spirit
There must, however, be beginning in
such things. 1t is well, therefore, that
Mayor Gourley and the newspapers did at
last yesterday succeed in getting an
earnest committee to 60 to Washington
If Pittsburg get the convention, that
affair will be handled capably and WELL
For, if extreme reserve is a characteristic
of the town, it must be admitted on the
other hand that it never fails when the
emergency arrives
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22
SUPERIOR TO PARTIZA NSHIP.

There is gratifying indication of public
ability to lay aside political prejudices in
the fact that citizen of Ohio is now
travelling through the South who has been
the object of more virulent political abuse
than any other living man; and yet in the
stronghold Of his political opponents he
has been received with marked cordiality
and public respect. We refer to Ruther-
ford B. Hayes, ex-President of the United
States
The South does itself honor in honorinc
ex-President Hayes. Since it is still the
fashion among Democratic organs of the
more rabid variety to indulge in abuse of
Mr. Hayes, it is pertinent to remark that
his personal qualities and public record
entitle him to the esteem of the people
and their public manifestations of respect.
Succeeding to the Presidency under the
most trying circumstances, his personal
bearing both as President and, since his
retirement, as private citizen, has been
digniied and irreproachable His states
manship as President was open to criti-
cism, the most vital weakness of his policy
being that his desire to conciliate the South
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22
A JURISr's DEATH,

The past year has been a notable one in
neurology. The list Of men of promi-
nence in public life and in professional
and social life whom Death has removed
is long one, and includes many of the
brightest and best names. The addition
by the death of Judge Silas NJ Clark Fri
day night is that of man whose career
had scarcely brought him into national
prominence, but whose leadership in the
legal profession and nine years service on
the Supreme Bench of the State gave him
prominence in the State of really higher
standing than position Of the second
magnitude in national matters. Judge
Clark was, during long career, one of
the leaders at the bar Of Western Penn
sylvania, and his elevation to the Supreme
Bench in the Democratic victory of 1882
gave that body member whose integrity
and ability were beyond question. His
death at a comparatively early age is a
public loss which the entire State may
well join with his many friends in mourn
ing,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22

Jed him to acts that could be construed as
casting doubt on the legitimacy of his
own election. But in his administration
he was personally beyond reproach. The
breath of scandal never came near him.
He was the one President Of the United
States who, having prior to his election
declared against the reelection of Presi-
dents to second term, made that declara-
ton his rule of action and abstained from
efforts to secure denomination. In pri-
vate life he has been the typical American
citizen who has held great Office, and after
his public career is over, leads blameless
and useful life, ready to aid in philan-
thropic and public organization. In all
his varieu relations as soldier, Congress
man, Governor and President, Rutherford
B. Hayes has shown a good example of
American citizenship.
1t is sign of intelligent and patriotic
growth in the South, that they take the
occasion to honor ex-President Hayes,
which is all the more gratifying because
he has been the especial target Of Demo-
cratic abuse for the past fifteen years.
The abuse was the merest partisan raving,
and 1t is satisfactory to see that there is a
respectable element in the South that
rated it at its true worth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22

AN afternoon contemporary calls atten-
tion to the defect in the city ordinances by
which property owners, instead OF making
their gas and water connections before new
pavements are laid, are permitted to tear
up the pavements and greatly depreciate
their wearing qualities. The defect is one
which would not exist in a well-planned
municipal system. But the responsibility for
the depreciation should not be placed on
the property owners exclusively. Instances
can be produced in which property owners
have tried to get gas connections made
in advance OF paving, but have been in
formed by the gas companies that it was not
worth while to bother about little thing
like saving the pavement. As the gas COM
panies do not have to pay for the paving and
only enjoy free privileges in the streets it is
clear that the inducement to them to aid in
preserving the pavements is a very slight
one.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22
PERSONAL.

QUEEN VICTORIA returned to Windsor
Castle yesterday from Balmoral.
PRESIDENT PELLIGRINI, of the Argen
tine Republic, was reported by a dispatch
from Buenos Ayres yesterday as still serf-
ously i'll.
Ex-Governor HoADLY, of Ohio, is re-
ported to be confined to his room in New
YORK by sickness resulting from a cold taken
while on a visit to Ohio a fortnight ago. His
sickness is severe, but not dangerous, as it
at first threatened to be.
MRS. RUSSELL B. HARRISON, daughter
in-law Of the President. is visiting her
cousin, Mrs. j. C. Bowman, in Mt Pleasant,
Ia, says a telegram. Mrs. Harrison is a
daughter of Ex-Governor Alvin Saunders, an
old-time resident of that city.
MRS. HARRIET LUCAS, wife of John
Lucas, Of Philadelphia, President Of the
Woman's Pennsylvania Committee of the
Worlds Fair, is seriously ill, as result Of
overwork. She will be compelled to retire
from the committee for several months.
PROF. DRUMMoND's famous essay, 'The
Greatest Thing in the World" was one Of
the successes Of accident. It was originally
a short address delivered to a small audi
ence. The author did not know it had been
he was travelling in Switzerland.
THE late Dom Piatt left two unpub-
lished books. One is life OF General George
H. Thomas, which hea wrote jointly with
General II. NJ. Cist, of Cincinnati, the other
q novel which touches indirectly on the
Beecher scandal, and is also tribute to
Archbishop Purcell and his brother.
A CABLE dispatch from Rome yesterday
reports that the Pope has appointed the
Bishop of Chicontimi, province of Quebec,
Canada, to be coadjutor Of the Archbishop
of Quebec with the right of succession to
the archbfshopric. The Vicar General of
Quebec, it is expected, will succeed to the
Bishopric of Chicontimi.
SOME anxiety is expressed, says a cable
dispatch from London yesterday, regarding
the condition OF Prince George Of Wales.
The bulletins hitherto issued from Marlbor-
ough House have shown that there was
steady improvement In his condition, but
this morning it was announced that there is
a slight increase in the fever from which he
is suffering.
Mr.. JOHN MCLEAN, proprietor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, now residing in WASH
ington, has greatly enlarged the dining
room Of his mansion there, and Senator
Stanford's house has undergone q similar
within the last few months
The Washington Star notes this as "sugges-
tive of the line along which hospitality is
likely to spread this winter" just so. Sug-
gestive both Of the line and lining which
Washington society hopes to pursue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22

stitution, but even supposlng that right to
exist, it is not supporting constitutional
government to disrupt nation because
the seeding section cannot have the Presi-
dent it prefers. As to any encroachments
on constitutional rights by the Republican
administration elected in 1860, the Sonth
| cannot assert them, for the all-suffcient
reason that the secession movement was
declared before President Lincoln was in
augurated.
We are under obligations to the Nesos
ana Courier for thus devolving upon US
the duty of stating that the Southern
claim that the secession movement was in
support of constitutional government is
an entire fiction. THE DIsPATcHh has been
frank in recognizing the propriety OF
Southern honors to the memory of its
soldiers, and in expressing its belief that
the sentimental attachment to the memory
OF the Lost Cause does not argue disloyalty
to the Union in the present generation.
But when it comes to the assertion that in
the struggle of the sixties the South stood
for constitutional government, that trans
crosses the limits of historical truth. The
ernment; it sought to tear the United
States Constitution to pieces. So long as
1t considered slavery safe it was willing to
remain in the Union; when it imagined
that institution to be threatened by Re-
publican supremacy it was ready to dis
solve the Union and destroy the Constitu-
ton. More than that, the inconsistency Of
all the talk about the centraliZing tenden-
cies of the Republican party is strikingly
illustrated in this connection by the fact
that there was never Republican measure
which made so extreme and centralizing
an assertion of Federal power as the
fugitive slave law.
The esteemed Ners and Courier is right
in one respect, though. When an Ameri-
can newspaper can claim that such
movement in our own country was ga
stand for constitutional government" it is
not at all remarkable that there should be
an utter failure to understand what con-
stitutional government means, either here
or in South America. There was just as
much constitutional justification for Penn
sylvania to secede when Cleveland was
elected in 1884 as there was for South Car
olina to secede when Lincoln was elected
in 1860. If Democratic and free trade
President should be elected next year, and
this State should thereupon declare that
because its interests were attacked it
would resort to arms to break up the
Union, the Neaos and Courier would be
justified in declaring it to be rebellion,
and a wanton and wicked one. Mutato |
aaOnaSne, the term describes the movement |
which our Southern cotemporary refers to
as a stand for constitutional government. |
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22

In laboratories where stability is of conse
quence-such as photometric or physical
laboratories-it is usual to test the state of
the room as regards vibrations by basin of
mercury. A Belgian scientist points ont
that an incandescent lamp forms far more
delicate form of instruments for this pur
pose. 1t should be an unblackened lamp
with the vacuum preserved; in tact, new
ments he placed q lamp having looped fla
ment on the pillar to be tested a candle be-
hind, and a field glass in front TO observe
the vibrations. Steps and jolts on the floor
were perfectly indicated by movements of
the fitament when the basin of mercury re-
NAMED perfectly unaffected.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22
Wolves Between Two Cities.

Brooklyn Citizen.l
1t sounds strange to hear Of three children
being killed and eaten by wolves near the
Twin City Stock Yards, Minn., within call of
hundreds OF men employed in the yards. A
wolf in this part of the country would be
curiosity. Yet, although France has been
inhabited since the last glacial epoch, and
by civilized people for 1000 years; though
Il has only four times the area of New York
State, but seven times the population, there
are districts in it where wolves roam at will
and even an armed man is liable to be pulled
down and devoured by them. Still, it should
not be either there or here, and the hunt
should continue until the last beast of prey
tnat menaces human life is on exhibition as
q stuffed image.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22
SCISSORS ON SEVERAL SHEETS.

Mabel-So their elopement was failure,
was 1t?
sinnick-Yes; they got away. and were married.
-7btcn Topics.
Tommy-What is running account?'
Pa says it's an account merchants have to keep Of
customers that are in the habit of running away
from paying their bills.
Uncle-That's one definition oft.
Tommy-Is there another?
Uncle-Yes. A running account is, in some in
stances, account that gets tired out running
after while and then it becomes a standing ooli-
CATION. Boston Courier.
American in Rome Ito picturesque native)
Great Geewhilikinsl just listen to the racket in
that building. Sounds like an Anarchists meeting
n prize fight in America. What is it? Some sort
of mill?
Native-Ah. non, signor. Eet ees zee Eenterra-
tionale Peace Congress making zee debate upon zee
aboleeshment of war.-Chica1o Times.
He (despairingly)-It doesn't matter if
have got lots of money. cannot forget that my
grandfather was a stage driver.
She (sweetly)-That is all right. You can refer to
your ancestral hauls without going into particulars.
Sparks.
This courtship, though a stately craft,
But seldom ventures from her dock,
Where safely anchored fore and AFT,
She buffets not the tempest's shock.
This in New York-Out in the west
Chicago only praise allots
To craft that. sailing at their best.
Secure the highest score in knots.
" Y. Herald.
It's mighty lucky I haven't got my
bowie-knife with mer' growled the man with his
hands up.
you'd stain your soul with murder, would
YOUR, said the facetious road agent, who was re-
lieving him of his valuables.
No reckon not. ~ rejoined the other. 'out it
was a present from a friend. I'D hate Ike the
dickens to have to part with it. '-Ckie1oo Irtbus
ONE KIND OF MAN.
He cringes and bends to the men who en-
ploy him,
And meekly takes insults and sights,
And never finds fault with the things that annoy
him,
Or stands like man for his rights.
But he can be arrogant too, when he chooses
To people life chances have placed
In his power and his meek little wife he abuses
When the cooking is not TO his taste.
" y. Press.
elbow did you like the West, Lord Moo
dlebye'-
..Niagnifcent. I was very much struck by the
lightning out there, and was simply carried away
by one of your cyclones.''-Puck.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22
DEATHS HERE AND ELsRWHERE
Hon. +. ID. Collins.

Hon. F. D. Collins, a prominent lawyer,
who represented the Eleventh Congressional dis
trict in Congress for two terms died at his home in
Scranton at 10 O'Clock yesterday morning from
nervous prostration and heart trouble. Deceased
was also the opponent of Hon. Joseph A. Scranton,
in the Twelfth district in 1888. He also served as
District Attorney of the old Mayors Court of
Scranton and as State Senator. from the old
Luzerne district. Mr.. Collins was a native Of
Saugerties, Ulster county. N Y, and was a Son Of
Hon. Thomas Collins, Of Dunmore. once Associate
Judge Of the courts Of Luzerne county.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22

THANKSGIVING preparations should in
clude arrangements that the poor and desti-
tute shall have especial reason to be thank
full. The best sauce for the feast of than ks
is the knowledge that you have helped
someone else to join in the general graft
tude
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22

The German Government is supplying a
large number of portable tents to its troops
on the Russian frontier; the Russian Gov
ernment is moving 40, 900 more soldiers into
the Polish border district; and the Austrian
Government has reinforced it's forces on the
Gallician frontier. 1t is evident the inten-
tions of the Powers are so sternly pacific
that they are going to preserve the peace
by the most urgent military measures.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22

The speculation about M de Giers' visit
to Paris is unnecessary in view Of the state
ment that the French, who have streaks of
practical sense in their composition, have
decidedly cooled in their enthusiasm for the
Russian alliance. The need of Russia for
the negotiation of loans in France made It
absolutely necessary for the Russian Minis
ter to come to Paris for the purpose of
arousing the French with another treaty.