The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-08
LOOKING FOR A MESSIAH.
the me REPUBLICAN, GHOST DANCE
BEGUy IN ROCHESTER,.

Finds That There Was Never . Moro
lruopuinr Brave, and Most OF the
Tribes arc shouting for fassett 1t
Looks ~ Though Fsssett Would he the
only Candidate for Governor Before
tho Convention, and that wadsworth
would se Named for Second Place.
ROCHESTER, Sept. 7-Everything IL In readl-
ness for the big Republican ghost dance in
Rochester on Wednesday. The object OF all
ghost dances In America Just now Is to enable
tho daucor to SEQ tho real Messiah. and that is
what tho Rochester dance is for. The dancers
have been In war paint for several days in
their homo villages and will all assemble hore
tomorrow evening In their ghost shirts
Al d war paint. They will dance until they tire
each other out. and the one who il last on his
feet will DO proclaimed the Messiah. Tho
task Of deciding This question is to fall on
Thomas &. Platt. The big medicine man. who
10 already in his tence at Powers Hotel. coniur-
ipgaway in his most mysterious manner.
Every three years the Republicans have
male their medicine and held their ghost
dance. but they have not picked out a real
Messiah, ackn wleiCcd bv all the tribes. since
1872 when BIG Injun John A. Dix put on the
.htse feathers and held tho wur club OF
state But the Republican braves ali
reme;nbor that in 1879, owing to q
quarrel among the Democratic war; iors their
man Black Friday Cornell squeezed into the
Messinh's clothes. Ever since then these braves
have been hoping for some such accident to
happen again and so the ghost dance is again
abou. 10 take place. The half breeds and
enuaw mon who are tho followers OF Chief
Warner Miller. are nearly all standing a,oof
to night, and saying that the real Messiuh is
going 10 appear at Saratoga this year. But
they will all feel the magnetism OF the dance
later on. and will fail to iigginG and
hunting up their last years ghost
shirts before another day OF the mad
reel has passed BY. This Is certain. because q
splendid dancer. not yet seen. 10 on the way to
the council lodge. wearing q shirt Of white
buckskin. and finGtnE a. lively par OF moe
casins as ever lent touch Of color 10 war
dance. He is handsome and brave. has been
tried In many battles, but has never been
scared yet. though he led hopeless
charge against the Tammany tribe in Now
York last year. and had to show the
heels OF his moccasins. His name is J. Sloat
Fasset'. and he Is called" The Young m an Of
afraid OF his mouth" II he lives until next
Wednesday he will Guidance every brave in the
ring. II he has to dance the paint OF bis skin
and tho shirt of his shoulders.
Tho first brave to reach Rochester was the
big Ineun OF the Barge ONCE, Barney BiRlin.
Fsssett lad not been heard Of at that time.
aud It was interesting to hear the Barge
ONCE boss talk about the situation. He
WAS as diplomatic as a dancing master.
HI said that James W. wadsworth. the
great maize grower OF Livingston.
was . powerfully fine man: that blue
coat Carr Of Troy would make winning
dance that Stewart L. woodford known a. the
man who wants everything. always could out
dance all creation. and that Andrew d. White
would ding his heels around all the dancers
Who might come.
That was tho condition Of things this morn
ing. Nobody knew anything except that
thsfs was to be big dance and lois Of shirt
wsarers. and that Big Chief Platt had said he
WAS making medicine for Andrew D. White
But there never was Q more unpopular brave
than this same Andrew D. White. As q
rule these warriors who attend ghost
dances do not reud much fine litsra-
ture. but the number OF them who mad
read Whites papers In the Forum and the
North american RerieU. the Popular Science
Aonthlv and the University Magazine. was ms
great as the number that see the pictured
rocks OF Lake Superior every year. Moreover.
tho trouble was that there was no use trying to
make believe that Whites papers were good
reading Every one felt that there was
no earthly use 10 Mr. Whites dane
Ing. no matter II Big Chief Plat was
his friend. for White had attacked the
right OF the braves to a voice at the council
nres He had practically said that only men
with horses or wampum should vote for their
chiefs. He had also attacked the forms OF
worship of several tribes In the Stale. His best
i hi turned t. away ava from him; They reSisd
number.' and agreed that he was not in II.
Then the other ghost dancers were discus sed-
thHtis TO say. some Of them were. Nob"dy
Hr.s.sSt. only in their own estimation: Philip
aIed cheering ,henchmen. Thnr was t!ue,
70 ra haf been 70 start sn'd d%T ss SsSTe
nna .. sfG 4a1 wbs oss
%hsn: ayai% becker ssils IiauoS ana ADDRESS:
M ,Ss ss IL pledged SsIS
There was little talk Of Gen. jose, h Is. Carr
but y WSs ~ mae Iy his
SeuSsess rue BY. tnsy vii ses COG! r.c.p:
'h'ns: i GsFss '' issor 'anPSs Is
f2r 'ho secretary OF state BY the hsIp Of the
Nlnor ms1 who were ban 70 on beating Isaac Il:
peynHTQ, tn0 D6InOcTatl0 nominee. lH6So 8Eo
things that Krpu blicans never yet hase COM
lgrei with though clergyman o. the pane
trying 10 make the party fight on Just such
lssn0..
Some very imposing quarters have been
A. ed bare tor some very imposing men, but
the rooms and tho oandidsl|s VIII look very
dismal Nv this aitornGon, when the bulk Of he
wave, and has come Ike an inspiration; Who
ever iaiiS TO get out OF Its way will get ducked
Ga; Con Carr mas i,ps hessdInarters sngaeei IN
Philip Becker has hired the hotel reading
room for his banI and bis henchmsn but al
those Iuarters will BIZ nvsrwhe med aud guttsd
when tho hlg Fassstt wave strikes Town WI
fuil force Tomorrow.
Tho rising q the waters was felt whom the
tba n h OF the delegates bsGaI to pour into
iHpg At snpner time. Leading A. the rest came
JOIN 4. Sleicher Shenri and Burleigh we're
sore on every one else who had been named
BY Tho Piatt men. but we're ready 10 yell for
Then came Michael !. Dady anil the Wicked
rn sSs and Eo by The ess n
sspt tina, Of Judge John n. D.yy. With them
came ihe victorious Brodsky. Gustaye H.
Schw b. john \. Knnpp. Hamilton Fish. LOuls