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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
NATIONAL ELECTION,

A noticeable feature of the phenomenal
election is its lack of sectionaliSm. Elimi-
mating the 159 electors of the South-dis-
regarding or supposing them for once to
have been equally divided among the
three candidates-and considering only
the 2s5 from States which are generally
supposed to vote from principle rather
than hide-bound prejudice, several re-
markable analytical deductions may be
made. OF these 2s5 electors President
Harrison secured 11o, President-elect
Cleveland had 140 and General Weaver
90. So that without the South Mr.. Cleve-
land would only just have missed the
Presidency in the Electoral College, and
would, of course, have secured it in the
House.
Again, dividing the States under con-
sideration into East and West by the Mis-
sissippi river, the former division has 209
electoral votes and the latter 49, Of the
2O3, Mr. Cleveland has 131 and Mr.. Har-
rison IS, so that taking this division alone
Mr. Cleveland would have overwhelming
ly carried the day. The votes of the
Western division were split up: 3S for Mr..
for Mr.. Cleveland. Here again the elec-
tion would have gone to Congress and
fallen into the hands of the Democrats.
From this it is clear that geographically
Mr.. Cleveland's victory is by no means
sectional.
Still disregarding the Solid South and
grouping the remaining States roughly
according to their respective preponder-
ating interests, as % Manufacturing and
Commercial, (2) Farming, and (3) Manu-
featuring and Farming, or Precious metal
mining and Farming mixed. Placing Con-
necticut, Maine, Massachusetts,, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont
the first group, it is natural that the Pro-
tective candidate secured IS votes to
Mr.. Cleveland's 80. In the second
group are Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mime
sofa, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon,
South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin
and Wyoming. of the so votes in this
Weaver Z. So that in this group alone the
election would not have been decided in
the Electoral College, and would have
been thrown into the Democratic House.
OF the sS votes in the third group-con-
sisting of California, Colorado, Idaho,
Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada and
Ohio-Harrison has IL, Weaver Is and
Cleveland 81. So that this group by itself
would have been directly carried by the
President-elect in the Electoral College.
This rough and brief summary is
enough to show that the ticket which Sc
cured more votes in the Electoral College
than were ever secured by one ticket
before owes its success to no sectionalism,
either geographical or industrial, and that
the election is as remarkable for its COM
parative unanimity of diversified inter-
ests and scattered areas as for anything
ole
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
A DISASTROUS GERRYMANDER.

That the Republicans have used the
gerrymander for partisan advantage al
most as industriously as their political
opponents THE DISPATCH has frequently
pointed out. An examination of the Ohio
returns indicates that measure of this
nature is largely responsible for the sur
prising result in the Buckeye State. A
special effort was made to place M. D..
Harter, Tom L. johnson and other popu-
lar Democratic Congressman in heavily
Republican districts, in retaliation for the
apportionment which temporarily retired
Major Mckinley.
But Harter, johnson and their asso-
ciates vigorously attacked and overturned
the opposition majorities, and to large
extent carried the national Democratic
ticket with them. Cleveland and Steven
son were certainly benefited at least 5000
votes in Ohio by this diversion. 1t is hard,
though, to apply the moral, as unfort-
unately number of gerrymanders in
other States accomplished the objects for
which they were designed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
FOR THE GOOD OF ALL.
Some Reassuring Words From the Leading
Organ of the Democracy.

so-o "ofue ir'in 'iie
organ Oh the Democracy.
Yesterdays New York World.1
If there are honest Republicans who really
believe what their party journals and speak
ers have told them-who fear that Demo-
cratic success in the nation threatens dam
ger or disturbance to business-to them we
say, your fears are idle.
The majority of the people OF the United
States, represented by the great Democratic
majority, do not mean injury themselves
This country is their country. Its business
interests are their interests. Its prosperity
is t1,a ,>roc bopor o.5 ,,,atfo ro
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
TIE NEW ORLEANS STRIKE.

1T will furnish probably the best test ever
made of the strike principle-at least in
this country.-BuGdlo Ezpress
We do look for good order now, however,
and only deplore the injury done New
Orleans trade by o foolish strike,-Pailadel-
phid Bulletin.
BAKERLEss. gasless, newspaperless, street
carless, the Crescent city of New Orleans
feels herself on the wane pending the strike.
-Wdshington Star.
THOSE who rouse the spirit of New Orleans
and goad it into action have always hitherto
found that they had a very heavy account
to settle. 1t is not likely to be different
now Washington Post
IT looks as if supineness on the part of
municipal authorities to afford protection
to nol- union workers in former strikes had
rendered the soil there fruitful for the
present strike crop.-Dallas Ne,os
To obstrucs the business of whole city
because of a single grievance, because en-
ployers refuse to recognize only union men,
is in itself a matter of great moment, per-
haps more momentous because never at
tempted before.-Hnrrisburg P1t,iot
IT is an attempt to carry point by a bitter
and widely organized fight, in which the
necessities of daily existence on the part of
thousands will be hundred times stronger
for peaceful arbitration than the passions of
those who have organized the contest
Boston Herald,
The strikers seem not to have profited by
the lessons conveyed by Homestead and
Buffalo and are resorting to force and inter-
ference with the personal liberty of noh-
union workers. They ought to know that
this course is the shortest to disaster and
defeat.-Neac York Press.
SOME good will certainly result from tho
strike. however it may result 1t will bring
the employers sharply to sense of the
need OF greater system in conducting busi-
ness, and the strikers will learn that there
is limit beyond which organized labor
cannot Philadelphia Press
II men upholding any cause would bc re-
spected, they must respect themselves.
Labor is respectable, and never ceases to be
SO until its representatives shall discredit
1t. Let us have settlement such as fair
ana honorable men can complete. No other
will be salts! !actory.-Ne,o Orleans Picayune.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
Social Chatter.

Mps, EDMUND RUSSELL, of New York CITY,
is the guest of her cousin, Mrs Maurice l.
Coster, of Summerlea street, East Ehn. Mrs:
Russell Is the vile of the Edmund Russell
who was in Pittsburg some wears ago, and
whose talks on house decoration created so
much pleasurable sensation. Mrs. Russell
will remain about a wcek, and next Monday
evening, as the guest OF Mrs. Z. L. Magee,
will give QUE of her delightful ana fnstruc-
tive talks on 1.-THE Art Of Expression" She
was Il pupil of Delsarte. She Is to lecture
before the Art Society December 0, on her
return from Chicago
A JOLLY childrens party was held at the
residence of MIR. and Mrs. J;P. Andrews,
Dinwiddie street, last night. MISS MILDRED
and Master Joe Andrews dld the honors, anu
well did they bear the trying duties OF
hostess and host. There were aoout nun
dred little guests who danced, played games
and enjoyed themselves generally.
ONE of yesterdays charming receipt ors
was that given by Mrs Laughlin ana MISS
Bissell ut their nome, Ellsworth avenue,
East End. 1t was in honor OF MRS. Davlu
Bissell. OF Allegheny. bride, OF some
months. who has just returned from ner
wedding trip to Europe.
JOHN A. BRAsHEAR will lecture this evening
at the Academy of Art and Science. on "a
Recent Visit to European ODservatories and
Astronomical Instrument WORKS" ana frofi
Keeler will exhibit ana explain some pictures
OF Mars recently made.
PLEASANT entertainment was given by
the Young Peoples Society Of Christian
Endeavor of the Sixth Presbyterian Church,
last evening. Besides music and recitations
there was all interesting address by DE- j. >.
FersOn.
FRIDAY evening, the 18th instant, there
will be musical and literary entertainment
at Masonic Hall. Collins avenue, under the
auspices Of the East Liberty Circle OF the
Projected Home Circle.
THE first reception OF the Tuesday night
class of the Duquesne Dancing School is to
be given Thanksgiving evening.
THERE is to be dance ut the Park Place
Hotel. Sewickley, this evening.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
BEFORE THE PUBLIC.

OLIVE THoRNE MILLER, the authoress,
knows about as much about ornithology as
q professor.
M. DEIBLER, the veteran executioner of
Paris, has beheaded 800 persons. He is al
ways calm and never loses his own head.
THE Queen never drinks more than two
glasses of either champagne or claret, and
after dinner Her Majesty is accustomed to
take small glass Of Tokay.
BARoNEsS WALLHoFEN, who achieved
distinction under the name of Pauline Lucca
as an operatic singer. is reported to be hope
lessly Ill in her native city of Vienna.
DRs SYLVESTER, Jenkins and Young,
said to have the most lucrative dental prac-
tice in Berlin, Dresden and Leipsic respect
lively are all natives of Maine. The last
two mentioned cut all their teeth In Bangor.
EMMA JUCH's blonde tresses have i'm
pressed Boston much as Paderewski's re-
workable shock of hair did the whole
country last year. although they lack the
picturesque extravaganza of that genius
locks.
Mr.. MCCORMICK, Foreign Commissioner
of the Chicago Columbian Exposition in
London, has resigned his post, owing to the
Ill health of his wife, with whom he has
been obliged to remain on the Continent
since summer.
DIR. Won HoLLEBEN. formerly German
Minister to ia pan, but who was transferred
to Washington as the representative of the
Imperial Government in the place of the
late Count Arco Valley, fs en- route for New
York on the North German Lloyd steamer
Havel.
THERE is probability that Major Cen
eral Nelson A. Miles will within a few
months exchange departments with Major
General o. o. Howard, now commanding
the Department of the Atlantic. General
Miles feels hurt by the criticisms bestowed
upon his management of the parade during
the Fair dedication ceremonies.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
CONSUMPTION AND THE NERVES.
A New Theory Demonstrating the Close
Connection Between the Two.

"A new Ineory demonstrating the Close
Connection Between the Two.
Philadelphia Press.I
Consumption plays so large q share in the
civilized death rate and its restriction
would do SO much TO prolong human life,
that every step in its study is Of deep public
interest.
DR.. Thomas }. Mays, of this city, has just
published a paper in which he renews his
past arguments that consumption OF the
lungs is closely connected, probably as q re.
suit, with any serious weakening Of the
nervous system. This is indicated by the
greater relative frequency of consumption
among the insane and feeble minded, by the
appearance of insanity and consumption
with the greatest frequency at the same age,
and by the circumstance that consumption
comes in the lower animals, on which ex-
periments have been made, whenever the
nerves reaching the lungs, the pneumogas-
trio nerve in particular, are injured, or when
in man injury to these nerves is produced
by disease.
This may indeed be due to the fact that
these nervous injuries and this nervous
weakness are all part of general weakened
state which ends in consumption. But the
large number of facts grouped by DIR. Mays
go far to indicate that the reason why con-
sumption appears at the opening OF active
lie Is because this is q period of nervous
overstrain. This strain affects the great
nerve which reaches the lungs. the heart
and tn stomach. They all weaken: and the
lungs. which receive tho largest and endure
the la rgest and most constant contact with
the world of outer decay all about us, break
down and pass into consumption. Under
this theory the bacillus OF consumption is
looked upon as the OBJECT and consequence
ofa weakened condition due originally to
diminished nerve power which makes the
organ open to attack and decay. A large
number of facts, like the rnvages of con-
sumption among savage tribes when first
exposed to civilization, its frequency among
the insane and feeble-minded, and its attack
on promising" young men and women who
begin life with unusual ardor and industry
are all explicable by this theory. 1t is by
tho way closely similar to the one now held
by an increasing number OF physicians with
reference to Bright's disease. whose primary
cause is nervous over5train, which
weakens an organ whose demands and
duties increase with age.
For the laynan the moral of all this is that
the way to meet the special tendencies
toward disease is to preserve the nervous
system from overstress; and this in its turn
can only be done by the closest attention to
the general health. No medicine is worth
rap in dealing with the nerves compared
with the mental and physical hygiene and
care man can apply himself under skilled
medical direction.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

APRoPos of Columbian celebrations, the
discussion as to n national flower and the
growing popularity of the chrysanthemum,
1t is surprising that the appropriateness of
its first syllable eminently fits that flower to
become the emblem of the country that
honors Christopher Columbus so highly.
But, the beauty of the flower notwithstand-
ing, its adoption by this country is impossi-
BILE. as it is an importation, and serious in
ternational difficulties might arise il the
Japanese should insist on their rights OF pri-
ority in securing the national trade mark.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

Mr.. HENRY WATTERsoN is girding up
his lofns to urge on his party to the radical
policy of the Chicago platform which Mr..
Cleveland took pains to very distinctly mod
ify in his letter of acceptance. 1t is to be
hoped that Henry will meet with O disap-
pointment similar to that which resulted
from his sanguinary burial prophecy. But,
by the by, when MIR. Watterson remarked
that, in the event of Mr.. Clevelands nomi-
nation, the New York Democracy would
pass "through a slaughter house to an open
grave' he left himself small loophole for
escape by emitting to specify who would
occupy the said grave.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

PRESIDENT HARRISON has five impor-
tant foreign missions at his disposal. In
view of the fact that men of sufficient
standing to fill them with propriety can
hardly be expected to relinquish home and
business interests for q four or five months
tenure of office. it would appear that the
President would be wise to consult with the
PresideDt-elect before making the appoint
ments- In this way much expense TO the
country and annoyance to the uppointees
can be saved. And at the same time there
would be no need for the Inconvenience of
an interregnum in these cases in our foreign
re presentation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

tical bracing is invaluable in high office
building, and its presence ought to be en-
forced. Its absence is due partly to the
competition of contractors, partly to the
gullibility of the public and in part to the
ignorance of architects. But every self
respecting engineer should refuse at any
price to design building whose safety he
cannot conscientiously indorse.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

THE report of the death of Theodore Child Is con-
flrined. He died of cholera at Ispahan, Persia,
Wednesday, November :.
WILLIAM HARTMAN, II years old, for the last 10
years a resident of McKeesport, died yesterday.
He was one of the wealthiest men In the town. and
q widely-known business man.
REV. DIR. JOSEPH j. BULLOCK, of Washington.
died in Lexington. KY. Wednesday At the resi-
dence of his son, @. Il. Bullock, whom he was
visiting. He was Presbyterian minister. but ten
years ago he retired, making his home In Wash
tngton.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
THERE is great wisdom in the decision of

THERE is great wisdom in the decision of
the Treasury Department. to continue to en-
force the strictest quarantine regulations
Cholera may, or may not, break out afresh
next spring, brit this country should take
no chances. And incidentally the resultant
lessening of indiscriminate immigration is
all excellent makeshift, until proper legis-
latton can be enacted to deal with it on a
permanent basis This will touch the pock-
cts OF the transportation companies and
their pockets are too frequently their only
consciences.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
ENGLAND's DEPRESSED TRADE
A Reform in the Currency in the Directio
of Bi-MetaIIism May Help Things.

OF bl-Metaliism May Help Ihings.
LONDON, Nov. 10-ReplyinG to a number of
correspondents who asked his opinion of the
fall in the amount of British exports, MIR.
Arthur j. Bnltour, formerly First LORD of
the Treasury, has written letter in which
he says that one of the most practical reme-
dies will be to reform the currency in the
direction of bi-metallism.
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, the Liberal
Unionist leader, in writing on the same SUBJ
ject, points out that the condition OF trade
is Is bad in protected countries as in Eng
land, from which he reasons that the causes
are not principally connected with tariffs.
The Duke OF Rutland, in a letter to his ten
ants on the Chevelie estate announcing his
intention to sell the LAND, does not hesita te
to say that the depression in the agricultural
industry is due to the free importation of
agricultural products. The Duke thus pub
licly reverts to the policy of protective
tariff on grain
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

WHILE Allegheny is determined to
make an effort toward progress, Pittsburg
should secure a proper system for the dispo-
sai ofits garbage. at least one free bridge, a
few street signs and several other little i'm
provements of much use and we'll within the
city's f1nan cial capabilities.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
MIR. Blaine q True Prophet.

James G. Blaine at Philadelphia, just be.
fore the election of 1890, in which Pennsyl-
vania won't Democratic, said: Il have come
here not with the purpose of eulogizing the
administration, but to bear mr. testimony y
and to give you warning that, as Pennsyl-
vania votes ON next Tuesday, the nation
may vote two years hence"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

SOME day the South will really awake
from its long lethargy and discard its SOL
idity and intolerance, as it arises from
dreams of prejudice and dreads of phantom
danperS
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

MAY the incoming administration per-
petually remember, from the highest to the
lowest, that Mr.. Cleveland spoke truth
when. he asserted that ''a public Office is a
public trust
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

1T is highly satisfactory to note that the
steady increase in the production of pig
iron indicates that consumption is growing,
and that the demand and supply are in q
healthy correspondence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Ex-Congressman Laban T. NJ. Di1

Hon. Laban 7. Moore Dix died at Cat
tlettsburg, KY. "Wednesday ynight Of pneumonia.
He was in his Gath year. He was distinguished
lawyer, and one of the most highly esteem ed men
of the State. He was all ex-Congrrssman. ex-
State Senator and OF the leading spirits Of the
lutte Constitutional Convention.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
Defeated but Not Hopeless

Brooklyn Standard Union.l
There is grim look about Republicans
this morning that portends the beginning
already of the girdIng OF the loins for the
next great struggle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
AMouutain of n NoIehilI.

New Orleans Picayune.i
When a Western Indian gets howling
drunk and paints his face yellow and the
reservation red, there is news Immediately
of an insurrection.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

STATISTICIANS should be in their ele-
ment for some time in working out the per-
mutations and combinations of the coun.
try'S vote,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

AMONG the crop reports the returns
dealing with the ballot harvest are richest
in general interest for the nation just at
this time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

CINCINNATI's namesake was added to
the new navy yesterday, and it is Pitts
burgs turn now.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

ALLEGHENY should outdo Shylock in
demanding the observance of every care to
secure the full value OF its bond
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

Baltimore Americana
1t is a plain, practical, sorrowful truth
that the campaign poet this year was dis
NAL failure.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

THE dangers of ofover-con6dence in matters
political are somewhat tubiquitously self-evi-
dent, just now. Mr.. Whitelaw Reid can ut
least console himself by the care with which
be pointed them out to his party before the
election
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

EVEN Chairman Carter is convinced at
last that he has met with somewhat of
defeat.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

AFTER all, New York was much less piv-
otal than usual. In fact, it is hardly clear
just where the pivot was located this year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
Open for Engagement.

Washington Post-I
Having closed his political season. Uncle
Sam is now, prepared to mako engagements
in other lines.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11

AS A RUNNER it must be generally con-
ceded that Governor Russell. of Massachu.
setts, more than rivals Nancy Hanks.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-11
ler a profound if distant obsequious.

cord her profound if distant obsequious-
ness.
Many women's rights are subject to dis
pute, but we do not think the law should
be so one-sided as to deny the right of
women to whale their husbands for per-
sistent misdeeds 1t is safe to lay down
the rule that the men who get thrashed
by their wives deserve the beating.