Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-11
GOSSIP OF POLITICS.
How the National Managers in New
York Spend Their Sundays.
RUNNING A CAMPAIGN ON TICK.
The Experience of Jimmy Burke Among
the Changers Of Maine.
MAIL MATTER AT THE HEADQUARTERS

NEW IOhh, oepL lu-lhe pusihoss
politics is something like the business o
religion-it not only doesn't shut down OF
holidays and Sundays, but reserves its yer!
fine work for those occasions. The Chair
man of the Republican National COMMITTEES
doubtless considers politics the mother o
invention and invention the boss of neces
sity. So he is to be found at the Plaz'
Hotel every Sunday up to his ears In work
from the time he gets back from early mas
to find batch of kilograms and cards undel
his front door to the time the hall boy,
faint on the stairs from exhaustion at mid
night.
Some of his callers prefer Sunday because
they labor under the impression that the
Chairman is at leisure and lonesome on tha
day. They mentally picture him sitting
gloomily at window, like q week-old
bride while her husband Is out smoking q
cigar somewhere, and they 60 up with good
intentions and a choice assortment of rain
bows to find Colonel Carter at his desk,
coat off. sleeves rolled up, in the middle ol
business Half dozen gentlemen are in
the ante chamber waiting for an opportun.
ity to assist him. Cards and telegraph
messengers are coming up and going down
the cards going down bearing the signi6-
cant inscription ''not in" and the messag ea
going out showing that the Chairman Is in
by large majority.
What the Democratic Brethren Do.
Mr.. Harrity goes to Long Branch to
spend his Sunday in the bosom Of his fam
ily- Secretary s. p Sheerin, Of the Demo
cratic National Committee, stays at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel on Sundays, when he
doesn't 60 out in search of pleasure down
the bay somewhere. Sheerin Is deeply en-
crossed with the problem of New York life.
Having for nearly life time labored un-
dsr the delusion that the Wabash river was
the principal highway of commerce as wei
as natures's noblest water works, Mr..
Sheerin is never weary OF gazing upon the
broad Hudson from the quarter deck of 9
ferry boat, or Of blowing the waters of the
New York Bay, and even daring the
danger of the seas as far as Coney Island.
The result of these brief excursions is, he
informed me-not for publication, as it
might have q bad effect politically in In
diana-that he has practically abandoned
all of the preconceived ideas as to the rela-
tive grandeur of the Wabash and the fasci-
nation of high life in Logansport and sue
eumbed to the seductiveness Of New York
summer.
Secretary McComas, of the Republican
Committee, goes to Baltimore or his native
Maryland village for his Sunday. The
handsome secretary sometimes remains on
deck straight through and might be found
at 518 Fifth avenue from early morn TIL
dewy eve.
Religious fiIiations Of the Managers
While on the subject 1t is worthy of re-
mark that the campaign management Of
both the Republican and Democratic par
ties is in the hands of members OF the
Catholic Church for the first time in na-
tional history. Colonel Tom Carter, Chair
man of the Republican Committee, attends
earlv mass at St Patrick's Church and Sec
retary Sheerin, of the Democratic Commit
tee, usually occupies the same pew with
him. Mr.. Harrity is devout Catholic.
Quite every other committeeman and three
fourths of the subordinate officials about
both headquarters are Of the same religious
denomination. There will be NO "Rum,
Romanism and Rebellion" to make or mar
this campaing.
Treasurer Roosevelt, of Chairman Har-
rity's staff, has up to quite recently been
quietly resting at his country seat There
is as vet little demand Tor q treasurer at
either headquarters, as oil the political sub
scriptions at 518 or 139 Fifth avenue to the
present time could be carried around In the
Bowery nights in the breeches pocket with
out exciting dangerous cupidity. 1t hasn't
been found necessary to have safe or
treasurer at Democratic headquarters. This
state of affairs has afforded some amusement
r. Al. bou. Usriaus hnun0roua rama rk
were INDUCED in upstairs as to how long Q
national campaign could be run on tick,
whether the treasurer was enjoying himself
and whether he'd bring any money along
with him when ne came.
Making Merry Over h,ir Poverty.
This was growing worse every day, when
suddenly that nice, rich old gentleman and
treasurer dropped in. There was universal
agreeable surprise manifested. Mr. Roos-
welt noted the joyful emotion that his
coming stirred up with much pleasure and
wanted to know where his room was. Then
he wanted to know what he should have
printed on his door.
"Not In," suggested Secretary Sheerin.
"'N. K.'-no cash." said another.
Snow is the time to subscribe" said
another.
".N. B.'-no DOODLE"
Unless the Democratic campaign man
ayers quickly adopt the McCourt scheme of
the ''peerless prima donna" and her trick
husband to sing and dance between speeches
on great political occasions, the Republi-
cans will get in ahead of them. Judge
Holmes, of Syracuse, is getting out book
of "Patriotic Psalms and Hymns, designed
expressly for the conversion of the heathen
to the uses of the G. o. P. These psalms
inf Goro hi1hlr1
humorous and spirited, and de-
signed to stimulate the loyal heart to the
greatest enthusiasm for coming glorious
victory this fall" Having never struck .
psalm or hymn of that character, Q good
many people will doubtless Join me in
lying awake nights until the first copy
comes out
Who Mrs. Tom Carter Is.
Colonel Tom Carter's lovely wife was
Miss Nellie Galen, of Helena, Mont, whose
father is a multi-millionaire. 1 remember
pretty Miss Galen when she was girl at
school at St. Mary's, hear South Bend, Ind.
She was sprightly young brunei, of happy
and rare intelligence,
coupled with unfagging industry. She was
graduated in 1882, with the highest honors
from the Conservatory OF Music, and In
1888 after the academic course. While she
an omplisbed French scholar, her
speciality was music. On the harp she was
divine. She was very popular with her
classmates and much beloved by her excel
lent instructors. AS the wife of Colonel
Carter, Chairman of the National Repub-
lican Committee, she fulfills all the early
signs of promise.
The Tariff League, through that amiable
political devotee, Secretary Wakeman, has
issued a tin campaign badge about the size
of an old trade dollar. 1t bears on the
raised rim the words, ''Harrison-Reid, and
Protection, 1892. " In the bottom is stamped
The following touching poem:
Profactioa,s