Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-11
LIKE A POUSSE CAFE
Are Affairs Of State in This Glorious
Land Of Liberty.
NATIONAL POLITICS ALSO MIXED.
Blaine Forced to Be q Candidate By Harri-
sons Tactics.

\ Dlalno rorcoQ 70 Dc CanQlQate by naIIi
sons Tactics.
PARTY WORKERS ARE NOT FOE Ben
ryRox A srAyF CORRESPONDENCE
WASHINGTON, d. O., May 1o-what
with the Bering Sea discussion, the broi
with ITALY, the escape of the Itats, the wal
between Secretary Foster. Director Of the
Mint Leech and Assistant Treasurer Whelp.
ley, as to the amount of available funds Of
the Treasury between the country and bank
ruptcy, the movements Of the Farmers
Alliance. the discomfort OF the wage slaves,
and several other minor matters, the beds Of
those whose business il is to manage the
affairs Of the people are not beds Of roses at
this tune. It il seldom that 90 many tioklish
things mass themselves to annoy the politi-
clans Of dominant party in this rather
humdrum country. How they are to get
out of 1t all without some loss Of hair or hide
it is not possible to foresee.
or course the discomfort Of the working
classes doesn't count for much. In America,
where Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us
all q farm, it il the common supposltion
that revolutionary mutterings are the mere
jabbering of idiotic growlers, that the wage
slaves don't mean anything, and that, least
of all, is it possible that the farmers can
have any real grievance. They are all
doing this merely for fun. About the only
consoling feature of the whole business is
that, though we are absolutely defenseless
against the attacks of even 80 contemplate
country as Italy, we are powerful enough
and brave enough to Withstand the onslaught
of a few hundred somewhat demonstratlve
workingmen and shoot them down If neces-
sary. This may be good practice for the
militia in case of a foreign invasion.
Blaine Forced to Be . Candidate
1t is plain that Mr.. Blaine is to. be driven
into the position of candidate for the pres
Idency, though much against his will. He
had fully determined to write letter to
some friends for the purpose of getting it to
the public, declaring his refusal to accept
o nomination even If rendered. This did
not please Mr.. Arkell, the editor and pro-
prietor of Judge and Frank Leslie's Hius-
trdted Weekly, who has had as partner for
some time in small way Git could not be in
any other way) the son of his father and of
his grandfather, Mr.. Russell Harrison. Mr..
ArkelI, having had enough of the Harrison
family, set himself about to nag Mr.. Blaine
into change of base. As the mouthpiece
of Russell Harrison, and, presumably, of
the President, the cunning editor proceeds
in the most patronizipg manner to praise
Mr.. Blaine, but at the same time to show in
thousand ways that he has done
absolutely nothing to entitle him to
consideration. and that the simplest die
tates of deoency must compel him to stav
out of the path of the Harrison family in
the interests of another four years for them
in the White House. Every act that has
been attributed to Blaine is, the public is
assured, the creation of the universal brain
of Mr.. Harrison. who has his hand on every
lever, stopcock and valve of the ship Of
state. Of course. such talk, made as nau-
seating as possible, in the presumed organ of
the President, can have but one result, and
that is to drive Mr.. Blaine into vigorous
his letter of declination has been DELAYED
since It's writing, and his friends say it has
been transformed to smoke and ashes and
whisked up the capscious fue of the old
Seward mansion, in which many papers
have been burned that would have changed
the political history of the nation If they had
ever seen the light of day.
Well, who would not like to see Blaine
President? Even the Democrats wonld re-
joice, in case they could not have their own
man. His popularity wanes not, his intel
lectual powers decay not. He is in touch
with more people than any other man of
this time, and he is no worse. If no better,
morally than any other citizen who stands
fairly we'll with his neighbors. Even if all
of the things charged against him were true
he would be an eminently fit representative
of people whose main study is to get rich
without inquiring too closely into the
means.
All Eyes on the Fall Elections.
Already the eyes OF the great politicians
Of the country Of both parties are turned to |
the question of the fall elections, and anx- |
iety Is weak word to portray their sensa- |
tions. The elections this year in important |
States will have S tremendous influence on |
the elections OF nsxt year. The revolution |
OF last year counts for very little with either |
side. 1t has lost its significance. I have
before me a Democratic organ OF wide ma
tional circulation and great influence which |
makes this frank admission:
Il would. be foolish for any Dsmocras TO
suppose because We were more than 100000 |
voters AHEAD Of them last fall that the Repub-
mendous stay.at.home vote in 1880. In New
York aione 10000 voters who registered in
October did not 20 to the polls In November.
Had even the odd $4,000 voted on the Republi.
can side In that State the result would have
been Republican success. 1t is held by the
Republican leaders that q great majority of
these voters who did not go to the polls were
e snf IN heT pfr u Ts .s
Jay they will do good deal better for:their can.
iidates than they did ut the last election. This
Means hard, hot political battle In November