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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-03
PERTINENT AND, PERSONAL.

GLADSTONE thinks that Milton was the
first author to sell a manuscript.
WALT WHITMAN has not lost the clear
ness OF his mind though his bodily powers are
failing.
SENATOR PETER has written a book,
but it has been lost to sight since the cam
paign commenced.
THE ''Duke of Bedstead" is the title Of
a London millionaire. He began life as q
bedmaker and row his establishment covers
two blocks Of city land.
QUEEN VICTORIA does not intend to
have the Ameer of Afghanistan at close
quarters with her. She will turn him over
to hotel instead ofinviting him to Windsor.
GOVERNOR RUSSELL, of Massachusetts,,
occupies his spare moments by studying the
Letters of Junius' and Henry Cabot Lodge
is much interested in the Merchant of
Venice"
THE most noted woman novelist of Aus
tria is Baroness Marie Won Ebner-Eschen-
boch. She is a woman Oft years, the mother
of seven children, and for2 years she has
been writing works of fiction.
SENATOR STANFORD, who aspires to be
President, once refused to buy book from
a woman on the ground that he never spent
money foolishly. The Farmers Alliance
evidently do not believe this tale.
Ex-Governor HoUsER, of Montana, be-
gan live as a surveyor on the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad He emigrated to Last Chance
Gulch, where Helena now stands, and got
job to turn the windlass of q mine hoist. Now
he is millionaire.
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sAwYER'S sELF-EXpoSyJRE

A remarkable and highly unsavory story
is told by ex-Congressman La Toilette
concerning Senator Sawyer, that amiable
Wisconsin millionaire, whose wealth and
liberality, with special pension claims, have
made him one of the Republican lights Of
the latter day class. There is some dis
pute about the exact facts, but the most
charitable view Of the matter puts the
wealthy Sawyer in a very bad light.
For some time the State treasurers of
Wisconsin have increased their salaries bv
depositing State funds in various banks
contrary to law and pocketing the interest.
The Democratic State Government has
brought suit to recover the funds before
Judge Siebecker; and the other day that
judge announced that he would be unable
to try the case because propositions had
been made to affect his decision. Ex-Con.
gresham La Toilette now tells that the
proposition came from Senator SAWYER
who, visiting him because he was friend
of Siebecker's, declared 81 do not want to
pay 100000 or So" and offered $500 or
$1,000 ''when Siebecker decides the case
right" To this exposure of La Follette's
Senator Sawyer denies the attempt at
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bribery, but says he offered La Toilette
money to look up papers in the case and
do other work.
La Toilette is Republican of as good
standing as Sawyer, and the charge cannot
therefore be looked upon as a partisan
SANDER. But back Of all that the fact re-
mains that even by his own admission the
Wisconsin Senator was urgently interested
in working to prevent the State from get
ting back money that had been made with
its funds. This provokes the inquiry:
What is the connection of Senator Sawyer
with the interest paid on State deposits?
Why should Senator be so much opposed
to having the State recover the interest
money paid on her funds? Is it possible
that the wealth which has given Sawyer
such weight in the Senate has been built
out of a political system which gave him
rake at the interest money as well as an
inside track in purchasing timber tracts?
The exposure is striking, but not sur
prising. There have been plenty of indi-
cations heretofore that the plutocratic
Sawyer is gilded sham, who regards the
dollar as an Ultimate and unanswerable
argument in all political questions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-03
SHADOWS CAST BEFORE.

A NIAGARA of Republican votes will soon
be rolling down to the Harlem.-M Y. Re
corder (Rep.)
IT is significant that Republican organs
are less confident of success in Iowa than in
any other of the five great battle grounds of
this campaign.-Kd,asas city Star (Dem.)
PRESIDENT HARRISON should not forget to
enumerate among the reasons for celebrat-
ing Thanksgiving Day the cheering fact that
there can be no more joint debates this year.
Chicago Times (Dem.)
WITH Boies, Flower and Campbell all win
ners, the Democrats will have three more
firstclass men right at the front of the po-
litical procession as it moves over into 1892.
St Louis Republic (Dens.)
THE victory that is within sight for the
lottery men in Louisiana will partly COM
pensate the Democrats for such defeats as
they will sustain next Tuesday in the other
States.-N Louis Globe Democrat (Rep.)
THE Republicans unanimously declare
that Fassett will be elected Governor. The
Democrats are equally positive that Flower
will be elected. This enables rs to say that
the election will be close one.-M Y. Ad-
rertiser (Lad.1
THE Iowa Republicans have been some
what handicapped this year by the fact that
their candidate for Governor is not public
speaker; but then Governor Boles has done
them considerable service in that respect
Los Angeles Times (Lnd1
OHIo's Republican plurality in 1888 was
1s. 500. If Governor Campbell wins against
such overwhelming odds 1t will be an I'M
precedented victory for tariff reform, and q
magnificent Endorsement of an able and fear
less executive.-Ilinois State Register (Rep)
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NO NEED FOR WAR.

Latest reports concerning the Chilean
difficulty indicate, not change of Chilean
sentiment as some of our lingo papers put
it, but different state of Chilean opinion
than has been reported. So far from ex-
pressing enmity to the United States, the
semi-official organ of the Junta deprecates
the idea of war and assures the public that
the rumors are unfounded. Doubtless
there is a popular feeling in Chile against
the United States for which we should re-
member that we have ourselves to blame,
but the expression of the governing classes
is the reverse of as belligerent as Mr. Egan
has represented.
1t is necessary to note that the approach
to an improved understanding began when
Chile was able to reach the State Depart
ment through the Snedium of its own rep
resentative, and that the communications
received through that authority were con-
ciliatory instead of warlike. This lends
additional point to the inquiry whether it
is true that the United States Minister at
Santiago delayed the news of the Chilean
Minister'S appointment and has since then
been coloring the communications by his
own belligerent disposition to the Chilean
Government.
This is point which the Administration
should clear up at once. 1t would be a
nice morsei for the campaign next year to
have it come out that the United States
had been nearly plunged into war by the
unreliability of its diplomatic re presenta-
tive, and nothing had been done to correct
the misconduct.
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PITTsBURG. TUESDAY, Nov 8, 1891.
TWELVE PAGES
THE INTEREST OF THE RETURNS.

To-night's returns will show how far
the average common sense of American
voters transcends the sophistry of doc
trinaires and the demagogism of smart
politicians The people of Ohio especially
are put to signal test of their good judg-
ment. They sit as a jury upon the trial of
protection against the insidiouS beginning
of free trade, and of sound and firm cur
rencv against the delusion of the cheap
silver dollar which would derange values
and produce commercial convulsion in
place of bringing prosperity to anybody or
to any interest. There can hardly be any
manner of doubt as TO the verdict
In Pennsylvania, for reasons already
given, the chances favor Gregg and Morri-
son: but nobody need feel surprised if the
malfeasances of Republican State officials,
and the course of the Senate in condoning
their breaches of duty, have produced
such an influence as to cut the majority
very close. 1t is indeed highly probable
that nothing but the proximity of the
Presidential contest and the high standing
Of the Republican candidates, particu-
Iarly General Gregg, could save the party
this year from such a reverse as its rep
resentatiyes in office invited
In New York and in Iowa two interest
ing contests are also being waged. But it
is Pennsylvania and Ohio-most particu-
larly the latter-that will chiefly occupy
attention tonight.
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BANK FAILURES AND RUMoRs.

The Boston IrdgelIer last Saturday de.
nounced the mischief-makers who cir
culate cruel and unjust rumors concerning
''a prominent bank man and his institu-
ton" The subsequent suspension of the
Maverick National Bank indicates what
these rumors were and also permits the
inference that they were not unfounded
Those who circulate baseless talk
against the solvency of financial institu-
tions are doing a silly and wicked thing.
But there are several reasons why the
editorial efforts to suppress that sort Of
thing, as eXemplified in the case of our
Boston cotemporary, are idle and in some
cases'ill-j judged. As a newspaper cannot
name names without giving additional
currency to the rumors, its editorial re-
proof of them must be ineffective Beyond
that there is some pertinence in the ques-
ton whether the rumors are ill-founded
or not. If they are well-founded, is it
not the right of a business man to let his
friends know of the fact and take their
precautions accordingly?
In the case referred to, it appears there
was good reason for the stories. The
Maverick National Bank has been in a
weak condition for the entire ye;sy; and
the Comptroller of the Currency will have
another case in which a scapegoat will be
necessary to relieve him of the response
bility for letting an insolvent institution
continue in operation long after he has
known of the impairment of its capital
The early reports permit the hope that it
will be no such case of bank-wrecking as
that in Philadelphia. But as early reports
of bank failures are always optimistic,
that hope will have to be held in reserve
until the receiver makes his statement.
In the meantime there is urgent need
for informing the Administration that to
permit the safeguards of the national
barking law to be broken down by weak
enforcement is very grave responsibility
for any administration to assume.
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. NEW LIFE IN TRADE.

Industries Have Been Encouraged and
Prices Have Been Lowered.
Grand Rapids Telegram -Herald.I
Even admitting that free trade is better
for England, it is no proof that it would be
better for America. Instead OF little is
land, there is here an immense continent
capable of producing almost every variety
of natural production and mechanical in
dustry. The general policy of the United
States has been to encourage homf industry
and products by imposing high enough duty
on articles from outside that the purchaser
may discriminate in favor of the home
market. This has had the effect to bring the
United States into competition with many
new lines of industry, and the effect of
this competition has been the usual one
that OF putting new life into trade, and of re-
ducing the price OF the products of these i'll
dustries.
The months following Immediately after
the passage of the Mckinley bill may safely
be said to be the most unfavorable to the
growth Of industry, and yet during the first
three months alone, 15 new shoe and leather
woolen, Is pottery and glass, is paper and
pulp, l6 iron and steel, meta working, 80
machinery and hardware, and firms either
began the manufacture of tin plate, or built
new mills or additions to old ones for that
purpose. Again, it was confidently promised
by the Democratic party that the passage of
the bill would raise the prices of everything
the necessaries Of life are but very little
changed from what they we're year ago.
and the change has been toward lower
prices.
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A SHOWER OF SUITS.

Pracipes in libel suits darkened the po-
litical atmosphere yesterday. They flew
thick and fast as the flakes of snow in a
winter storm. Senator Quay pressed the
button, and the Sheriff's officers of Phila-
delphia, Beaver, and Crawford counties
did the rest. A writ is chasing Chairman
Kerr to his home in CiearfielG and the
palladium Of our Gberties,' called for
short the press, is "stood up in various
sections of the State by the Senator with
claims for damages in such big figures
that to the imagination OF the country
editor, they must seem to imply poten-
tiality of riches surprising even the
dreams of journalistic avarice.
This strange dcnouement of campaign
which opened mildly as summers day
will be contemplated with more than
usual interest when the election is over.
Then it will be seen whether the suits are
merely Pickwickian, or intended to be
followed to the bitter end
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-03
PARTISAN INSANITY.

The species of partisan insanity which
generally becomes epidemic prior to the
election is strikingly exemplified by the
Westmoreland county case. A candidate
sent letter inclosing SO check to a
political worker, which, while not an ideal
act, does not of itself show criminality or
even corruption. The bearer of the letter
became drunk and the letter fell into the
hands of the opposition.
The opposition managers are, under
usual conditions, honest and sensible per-
sons: but in the excitement of politics
they were betrayed into several foolish
acts, for Which the emotional insanity that
seizcs politicians at this season is the only
excuse. First private letter was opened
hy some person other than the one it be-
ionged TO: next valuable document was
taken possession OF by those who had no
claim TO it; and finally the wild idea pos
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-03
THE FIGHT OF TIE PARTY WORKERS.

The acrimonious contest over the Judi
ciary nominations in this county is now
virtually finished The signal feature of
it TO the rejecting voter will likely be that
in q contest otherwise so bitter, Governor
PattiSons appointees were notably exempt
from attack upon their fitness. The local
leaders, both on the Republican and
Democratic side, were subjected to hot and
constant criticism from ''straight-outs, 4"
but there was nothing maintained against
the sitting judges personally. The only
exception was the charge that Judge Por-
ter, when District Attorney, failed to
secure the trial and punishment of great
many defendants to true bills returned
by grand iuries. This complaint was
never against Porter while he was Dis
in his published answer in a recent issue
of THE DISPATCH he met it effectively by
the assertion that in every case where an
Indictment was not tried reason was
first given and approved by the presiding
judges.
Anything that is said about the matter
now viii not make voters one way or the
other. But as the probability is that to-
days returns will re-elect Judge Porter
along with Judges McClung and Kennedy
to the bench of Common Pleas Nc 8, it is
fair to the individual, and due to the con-
fldence which the public should have in
the Judiciary, to note that the solitary
charge made in the heat of the canvass is
fully dispelled by Mr.. Porter's frank an
swer as well as by the testimony of those
LAWYERS who practiced most in the crimi-
nal court during Porter's term of District
Attorney.
When the election is over ssthe straight
oIt' movement will be visible in its true
asr CT f an eager contest for leadership
within the party organizations. For this
the action of the Executive Committee
on the judiciary appointments merely fur
nished an opportunity. Though it is
highly improbable that the ''straight-outs''
can defeat either of the three Judges, Nc
Clung, Porter OF Kennedy, it is on the
other hand quite likely from the dimen-
sions of the movement that the struggle
for control in the party organl.--1tions will
continue as other issues arise.
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THE METRIC SYSTEM.
Its Use Has Been Authorized but Never
Enforced In This Country.

Its Use Has Been Authorized but Never
Enforced In This Country.
Scientific Americana
Several British Consuls have recently
warned their countrymen they were losing
considerable trade in foreign countries
owing to their persistent use of English
weights and measures in their circulars and
price lists which were frequently unintelligi
BILE to most Of the foreign dealers, whereas
their French, German and other competitors
used the metric system, which was familiar
to everybody, and naturally attracted Gus
tom. These warnings apply equally we'll to
the exporters of the United States. The use
Of the metric OF decimal system was author
lied by our laws many years ago but the use
has not yet been made compulsory; hence
the majority of people cling to the old sys-
tenn and dislike to change, although the
metric is more simple and easily under
stood.
The metric system is so much more con-
venient, saves SO much time and has now
become SO generally adopted throughout the
world that the United States ought no
longer refuse to fall into line. A very little
pressure would suffice to bring about the
change. 1t would do the business probably
if Congress were simply to pass q law re
quiring that estimates, contracts and bills
specifying weights or measures, when not
made out metricalIy, must bear a revenue
stamp of one dime. Rather than pay a small
tax, everybody would at once use the deci-
NAL system, and the change would be as
smooth as the system itself.
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SOME Sbl ALL SMILES.
'eWhat lovely morning" he said.

seWhat lovely morning. he said.
'It is perfect morning, - she replied
True >, he said, Il haven't seen anything this
morning that isn't perfect - ana he looked her
straight in the face.
Then she blushed.-Cdpe Cod Item.
'sWhat is the trouble between them?"
s'She can't cook as well as his mother"
'sWhen did he find it out?''
s.At the end of the honeymoon. ''-hs'o York
Press
Minnie-So, Bessie Smith is going to
marry Jim Lathy! He's so thin, i don't see "na'
she can see in him. s.,. ,.-,,,
& Co. IS Monthly.
Bulinch-I tell you what IL Is, that MISE
smilax is simply out of sight
Wooden-Yes. I've noticed it every time I've
caIled.-Boston Coarier-JotrHM.
crayed a kiss with prayer and sigh,
Long long craved, and long IN Vain'
At length in pity for my pain,
The gift she granted, tenderiy.
caunot tell the reason why
This graA alas! should prove my oancs
For now still far more hungrily,
I'm wishing day and night thatl fs.
Could kiss her fifty times again.
o0u" Puck.
patriotism-The expansion Of egotism-
MY country"
cidences.
@OrIoinality-Leavinga an idea in the mind to grow
until YOU forget how it was planted there.-Kate
Fields Washington.
The man who looked upon his past
Was greved and sore amazed:
81 am surprised, - he said atlast;
I'm simply yesterdayzed."
-Washin0ton Star.
sShe's awful, isn't she?"
dreadful
s.She airfs with everybody, except Mr.. Mckee"
Eyes: why doesn't she firt with him?''
Hes her iance, you know. .''-ColusG Suu.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-03
OUR MAIL POUCH.
ingalls, on jefferson.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The very righteous and learned 1nd1gna'
tion with which your Wampum correspono
dent calls ex-senator ingalls, to account ior
something he did not say in recent lecture
at Boston is amusing to the ordinary reader
If it is anything.
Mr.. Ingalls, may not know as mucn ABOUT
Jefferson and the Declaration of Indepepd-
ence as the Wampum savant but we venture
to assert that he did not in Boston mlsquote
that famous instrument as reported In the
newspapers .7r...
And, we venture further to assert, even at
the peril of exciting the wrath OF the learned
Wampum citizen, that Jefferson was not IN
fallible, and that his theory was vastly super
ior to the constant practice. ut least so tar as
the rights of man were concerned. And his
declaration in the famous instrument of
which he was at least the reputed author,
that ''all men are born equal" is not true,
and the phrase following in which certain
inalienable rights are specified, viii not bear
the construction the Wampum statesman
gives it.
Two distinct and separate affirmations are
made to wit: That all men are created
equal by their Creator; this has reference
simply to bringing them into being, and has
no connection with what follows. They are
endowed with certain inalienable rights by
their CT Gator.
That men possess certain inherent or inal-
ienable rights, and that these are life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness, no man
worthy of the name will deny. On the other
hand. no man, even of the most ordinary
intelligence, will claim that all men are Gre
ated equal or that equality in creation is at
all necessary to the enjoyment OF life and
liberty or the pursuit of happiness.
We are, therefore, in view of all the stub
born facts of history, and especially the one
that Jefferson, with other leading men of
his day. laid the foundations of our govern
ment, in part, on the cornerstone of a bar
parous institution, which has been well
characterized as the sum ofall villafnies. and
which eventually drenched his country in
fraternal blood, we are driven to the con-
clusion that Thomas Jefferson equally with
the modern politician, was prone to indulge
in rhetoric and buncombe, quite as much, if
not more, than in fact and in principle.
And we feel safe in saying that, in declaim-
ing on the equality and inalienable rights of
man, while at the same time he was dealing
in human beings as though they were born
only equal and endowed with no higher rights
than the beasts of the field. Thomas Jeffer-
son affords an historic example of inconsist-
ency which the most reckless and auda-
cious of statesmen of the present day will
not dare to initiate. T..
NEW BRIGHTON, PA, November 2.
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sessed the minds of those who committed
these acts that they could make political
capital by getting the thing published.
The consequence is that they find them
selves confronted with the unpleasant
prospect of criminal prosecution, and
the political capital is the other way.
We do not know what individuals COM
mitted these acts, nor do we wish to- We
have no idea that any one of them would
open letters or appropriate checks if not
laboring under partisan delirium. But
that such things can be done at the close Of
a campaign suggests the policy of putting
all political workers in strait jackets for
the last week before election.
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THE RECIPROCITY HUMBUG.
It Compels South America to Purchase
From the United States.

COmpeIS SOuCn America TO furcn8So
From the United States.
Confectioner's Gazette ]
"The reciprocity humbug!'' What does
the reciprocity humbug" amount to. 1t
compels South America to purchase from
this country something in exchange for the
large amount of produce we, have been buy
ing from them. Heretofore they have been
sending us their sugar, coffee anu other ar
ticles-in some instances making US pay, as
in the case of coffee. an export duty for the
privilege of buying it from Them, and then
putting a heavy duty on American flour and
other products.
This country was good enough for them to
sell coffee and sugar to, but in their buying
the favors were all shown to the Europeans.
Reciprocity has changed this. 1t has COM
PEELED them to give Americans fair play. 1t
has been the cause of aboliShing discrimin-
ating duties, nd now it has opened the
German market to the American hog, which
has been barred out heretofore. American
farm products gain also in the same treaty.
This insures an immensely increased mar
ket for A merican pork and American corn,
which is not such a very bad result of "the
reciprocity humbug."