The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-09
HE WON BY REASON.
How DIR. McCandless Prevented
Riots at Homestead.
BROUGHT PARTIES TOGETHER.
Melody Won y Vote for Him-A Success.
full Newspaper Man and . Lucky
OIL Operator.

DR.. Alexander Il. McCandless, Of Pitts
burg, who is at the Grand. is one of the
most successful politicians of Allegheny
county, Pa, having gone into several hard
fights where the odds seemed to be against
him and won by sheer hard work and
personal magnetism, for he is prince Of
good fellows. His career is of particular
interest just now, because three
years ago, when he was sheriff,
he had to deal with strike
at the Homestead Steel Works and
brought it to a peaceful close without the
aid of either militia or Pinkerton men.
There was some disturbance at the begin.
ming OF the strike, but DR.. McCandless
went among the workmen and reasoned
with them so successfully that serious
outbreak was avoided. Then he went to
the managers of the mill and gave them
good, straight talk. His powers of per-
suasion were so effectual that he brought
the two parties together and they signed
the scale which has just expired.
DR.. McCandIess also took a leading part
in the measures for the relief of the suffer-
ers by the Johnstown food. He went to
Johnstown on the special relief train
which left Pittsburg the day after the
flood and was among the first 10 enter the
wasted town the next morning. On that
Sunday evening (the flood having oc-
Cured on friday he returned TO Pittsburg
with a convoy of homeless people who
had two days before been welI-to-do.
He found temporary homes for them,
and then hurried back to do duty with
the militia on the scene of devastation.
He was interchangeable in his labors. and by
his jovial disposition did much to revive
the spirits of a people dazed by disaster.
As an illustration of his faculty of win
ming friends, story is told of the time
when he was running for the Republican
nomination for sheriff. He entered an
Irishman's saloon where his rivals card
was displayed, and said: Take that card
down. You're not going to vote for that
man. You'll vote for me-" EN- not vote
for any man but him." replied the Irish
man with emphasis. Lets have drink
and I'll sing you song" said the doctor.
He sang an Irish ballad in a manner that
touched the Irishman's heart. "Sing US
another" said the latter, and he sang an
other and another until the Irishman tore
down his rivals card and put the doctors
in its place. swearing TO vote only for him.
George K. Madden, another member of
the party, is managing editor of the Pitts
burg Dispatch, and is one of the many ex-
amples of printers rising from the case to
high position in the editorial department.
of leading newspapers. With the excep-
ton of few months, during which he
was managing editor of the Pittsburg
Times, he has been connected with the
Dispatch for over ten years and during
the last seven years he has been
its managing editor, and as such has done
good work in bringing it into the front
rank of the great newspapers of the coun-
try. Like DR.. McCandless, he has happy
faculty of making friends and attaches
his subordinates to him in an enviable
manner.
J. p. Brown is one of the men who have
struck it rich in oil in Pennsylvania. In
the last two years the oil region has been
extended close 20 the limits of
Pittsburg, the last great field be-
ing the Mcdonald, about fifteen miles
west of the city. In this field Mr.. Brown
has three wells, each of which spouts oil
at the rate OF about thirty barrels an hour.
and he is how enjoying the proceeds of his
good fortune, and at the same time invest
ing some of it in new fields on the Coast.
The party is being shown the sights by
William Hainsworth, who was both per-
sonal and business friend of all three Of
them in Pittsburg