Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
SOME DEMOCRATS PLEASED.
I. .OLeary Sounds Pattison's Praises-Ed
Smiley Defends the Legislature Against
the Charge of Drunkenness-He Calls
Down Representative Jonas.

I. j. O'Leary Sounds Pattison,s Praises-Ed
Smiley Defends the Legislature Against
the Charge of Drunkenness-He Calls
Down Representative Jones.
"That's all right" remarked T. J. O'Leary
yesterdaypwith broad grin, when asked
what he thought of Pattison's Endorsement
for President by the Clarion county Demo
Gratis. Mr. OLeary, however, is a strong ad.
herent OF the Governor, and he would be an
migrate not to be, for he got everything he
asked for. "Pattison may be knocking out
bills at lively rate" he continued. ."but he
is honest. He is not using the veto power,
either, to gain popularity but he gives good
reasons for all his actions. Why not make
Pattlson resident? He is able and a first
class man."
Ed Smiley, Chief Clerk of the Senate,
claims some of the Governors vetos are in
consistent. In killing an appropriation for
q Reading hospital he said he had estab-
llshed the rule that no such bills would be
signed unless they were approved by the
State Board of Charities. He turned around
and signed bill for a hospital at Oil City
which had had not been sanctioned by the
said Mr. Smiley, "but it shows the Governor
feels like it."
Representative Jones, in his Homestead
speech, attacked the Legislature as a
drunken set and bound hand and foot to the
corporations. Mr.. Smiley resented this ar
raignment, and said: "The last Legislature
was the most sober in my experience at
Harrisburg. Outside of Russ Hotel there
is no other drinking bout of any account in
the city. l frequently went in there last
winter, and seldom saw a crowd of members
St sitting att at the tables as in old times The The
drinking wef0 was S done done by y0S' the ei ous sns
siders who came to Harrisburg and
not by the legislators The trouble with
Jones is that he talked too much. I will
wager that he took up $4,000 worth of the
States time with his long, unnecessary
speeches. He is one of the men who is always
harping about the poor workingmen. Why,
the anthracite, store order and compulsory
educational bills were passed in their in
terest. Nobody ever gets all he wants at
Harrisburg, and it is impossible to hold 200
men in line and have them do a great amount
of work"
Colonel Thomas NJ Bayne came up from
Washington yesterday and registered at the
Schlosser. He will sail in a short time on
his trip around the world The Colonel said
he was devoting his time to farming, and he
declined to talk politics. He commended
Harrison's administration.
Ex-Sher1f McCandless received a telegram
yesterday stating that the Pennsylvania
Club in Philadelphia had indorsed Dalzell,
vention.
Rev. DR.. Derrick, q prominent colored
minister and politician in New York, was on
the limited last evening going to Chicago to
attend a convention of the Episcopal
Church about sending missionaries to Haiti
He says there are A,OOO colored voters in
New York State and they are Republican.
He thinks Harrison will be renominated and
elected During campaigns the preac cher
hangs around headquarters at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, and he generally gets what
he wants. He wields wonderful influence
with colored voters in the city.