Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-05

mln1stretlon ID not hard pushed to ind some
other Whitelaw Reid to whom he can write
. second letter. With Blaine people there
haa been . want of faith in Harrison's mag
nanimity and largeness of mind to treat
Mr. Blaine with any Justice, after he should
| receive . second term. 1t is with Mr..
Blaine the question of closing up the shop
and going out of public business, while, on
the other hand a convention 800 miles from
!, him, with which he maintains no, communi-
cation, il voluntarily running him. If it be
said that the former Blaine men are
now for Harrison, so 1t shall be said that
Harrison men are now for Blaine. Those
who followed Blaine as great expectant
| for years, and failed in their expectations,
have now made their peace with Harrison,
while the hostile politicians, like Cameron,
Platt and Quay, who never gave Blaine
any help, have come to his support because
he is necessary to them. The Federal
| patronage in New York is too important to
lose They believe that Blaine can save it
Not an Anti-Harrison Prediction.
lido not, however, predict that Harrison
can be defeated in this convention. When
you see Mr.. Filley, of St. Louis, unable to
vote his preference on the first ballot from
| the buhdozing he has received since he
arrived here, you NAV wonder whether the
Presidents power cannot hold together the
| Southern delegations, and with Northern
| minorities como very close to renomina-
tion. Nor is 1t to be denied that there is
| a very respectable Congressional contingent
in favor of Harrison, including some citi-
zens of Minneapolis
Throughout the Anglo-Saxon stock runs
the tradition that the King is unchangeable.
shifted off. Harrison stands for the royal
Office. The duties of official place in this
country are not as profitable and agreeable
as the social and historical promotion of be-
ing an appointee if desired. Four-fourths
of all the men to be invited into the Cabinet
and 90 on foreign missions would rather
have three-months' sentence than four
years. Harrison has nine months of this
almost unqualified power, while Blaine has
been on the eve of the Presidency for 16
years, and those who waited for him to come
into his vineyard are now nearly hoary.
Tho Henry Clay Of the Present.
Henry Clay had just been IS years 3
Presidential candidate when old General
Harrison cut him out, and now a Harrison
is making Clay out of Blaine nt the end
of 16 yeara Itwas in 1924 that Mr.. CLAW
sur ported Adams when the election was
thrown into the House. and, like Blaine,
became Adams Secretary of State The
nomination of Adams in Congress was not
unlike the nomination of Garfield in Q con-
vention which had never considered his name.
At the end of four years, both Clay and
Blaine saw their party 60 out of power, and
Mr. Clay had to step aside, both for Har-
rison and for Taylor, and he was thus can
didate for "a years
But the political party which abandoned
Clay received no benefit from its shifty
substitutions Nearly four years of John
Tyler and three years of Millard Fillmore
efectually extended slavery, brought in free
trade and demoralized the currency until a
counterfeit detector was the birthright of
every American.
Said Democrat to me last night: seThe
Blaine men are going to make powerful
fight here, and rather think they will sue
ceed Henry PAYNE told me that he had
sent up to Ashland for 200 men to come
down here for Blaine"
Two antediluvian characters on the stage
are Yarmouth and Kellogg, both Illinois
BY Lincoln to be Chief Justice of Nebraska.
Yarmouth received the biggest Office in
Louisiana They are on opposite sides.
The CoIorsd Waiter on Deck.
Like negro walters in general, who do not
look beyond one seasons employment, the
blacks who have followed the few white
men from the Southern States require to be
sure of two things-the local board bill and
the next seasons engagement When
Blaine was nominated for President strife
took place between Powell Clayton and the
negro Lynch for temporary presiding Of
fceE Now both Clayton and Lynch are
for Harrison, though no material change
would seem to have taken place in their
moral chemistry.
Mr.. Lodge, who was determined to beat
nj e
50. perhaps, is young Roosevelt, who then
everything is the hard struggle of human
nature for bread and butter, and of other
kinds of human nature for selection and dis
tinction.
1t is respectable to follow the fortunes of
of a man who has been several times defeat
ed. Our wives, when we left home, said that
we had better take care of next years bird
in the hand rather than Of Blaine's four
years in tho bush. He who had four years
still wants to drink more of it. He who has
been burnt in the blazing campaign to the
very heart takes courage and says: "My
wife and I are not afraid to try the fiery
ordeal again"
Why Elections Should Be Contested.
If these elections are necessary why
should not they be hotly contested? If
every President is to have four years moro
because he has not stopped over, it will
presently be said tha. we do not care to
elect one ruler and keep one cut and dried,
like the Sultan of Morocco. On Har-
rison's Q side is the evidence of strengthening
experience. In one comparatively young
he is cool and old-time politician with
his faculties perfect; be can sight
. gun and shoot . pulsating duck,
lie out on the grass with his
daughters baby, and he is not far from
Cleveland's age, though much better pre-
served. Fat has not come upon him; he is
the possessor of great, strong jaw, which
calmly lies upon his breastbone. Behind
him are at least four generations of poll |
ticiaus extending back to 1850, and some
say before that. He was 4 weak and dis |
used quantity in 1888. He had been unable
to keep Indiana and had lost his seat in the |
Senate and was In the drudgery of the law.
We hardly know now how he was brought |
forth to carry Indiana, which was one of |
the promises which counted for him. He |
was elected, however, by certain safety |
in the manner of Clevelsnd, whose dldactic |
style had worn out and by the galvanizin0
influence Of Blaine on the campaign.
None Of the criries Above Repreaeh.
None Of these men who affect to critieise |
either Of these candidates. are above the |
same reproach; . vast amount of cowardioe
ID seen here still trying to work in between
Harrison and Blsine and st the Office Old