Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-26

lieve. Well, jackson had too much popu.
larity and power for Poindexter. He fol.
! lowed him up. believe that one of the
| Gwinn brothers was killed on account Of
/ this conflict But Poindexter never re.
covered from the blow Jackson administered
to him and died an unhappy man."
Bo;h Candidates Self-Made Mon.
Cleveland and Harrison were both pool
men, and in their comparatively short lives
have realized upon the investment their
| fathers made. The clergyman's Office puts
his son en- rapport with morals. The moral
classes acknowledge as much reality in their
| pastor as in their President Harrison s
| lather seems to have been a mild-tempered
man; he was in Congress, but nothing much
is remembered OF him, and his chief record
is that of refusing at the war period to run
Tor Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, upon the
ground that thereought not 10 be division
Of parties before the public enemy.
lis grand dfa,her having been a military
maa-and III these qualities are trans
mitted, thsagh they may slip past one gen.
eration-young Harrison went to the war,
the turning point in his life. 1t is noticed
to this day that mis- askant glance becomes
beaming when be stands in the presence of
his soldiers, at TIE reunion of his regiment,
he becomes fraternal and paternal.
The mistress of the White House, who
now lies very sick, so sick that when came
out here nearly q month ago they could not
tell her ANYTHING abo.t the worlds affairs,
lest the least excitement might kill her,
This woman has mended her husbands
clothes with the needle, has baked his
bread, and perhaps has done at times his
washing.
One Of H;rrison's Best Traits.
The good trait in Harrison is his belief in
his somewhat unpopular son. The more
that Young man slashes about, interfering
with greatness, the more his father sees that
sons have TO have some kind of lives in
spite of the Presidency.
There is che iather-in-law of the Presi-
dent walking about Washington as chipper
as newspaper reporter, who Is only 80
years of age. 1 saw him Just before came
out here, passing the telegraph office in
Washington. Said 1 to the clerk: "How
old do you think that man is?" .'Oh, he's
Co. said the clerk. "He's 92,'' said 1,
'and his daughter lives up here in little
white house opposite Lafayette square"
''Is that old Mr. Scott?'' said the clerk,
"well wcnderl''
What is prettier than the story of his mar
riage? Perhaps the same want of socialitv
which the politicians accuse him of, or the
want of the good luck to fall into female
society, prolonged his bachelor life, but he
had friend happier than himself, who ives
married to an excellent woman. This friend
and Cleveland did business together: they
were both lawyers. They were rather
sports on the road going out toward Niagara
Falls. All at once the friend, thus driving,
was Killed. He left to Cleveland the care
of his child and her widowed mother
In time Cleveland scored his point in
politics. 1t came the turn of his end OF the
State to be recognized in the convention of
his party. A great convulsion in the Presi-
dental Office had disorganized the Repub-
licanS, aid Cleveland was elected Governor
as if he had been the heir of Garfeld's
term. 1t was but one step more to the
Presidency, and he inhabited the White
House, like others before him, without any
family.
Married His Crown-Up Ward.
Ladies began to go to the White House,
for it is a hard President who cannot get
almost any wife. Finally came, fresh from
school, the grown-up ward. Some
thought that Mr.. Cleveland might take a
fancy to her mother, but that mother has
since married, and is in the second period
of happiness. The Presidential term was
signalized by this marriage Of potency and
youth. And now Cleveland is freshly a
only man, L think on record
who became paternal after laying down
the highest honor in the land.
He also knows what poverty is; he was
going about good while getting clerkships
and tutorships, teaching in the blind asyl-
um, sitting on the store counter at Fay
etteville wishing he could help his father
and sisters. who were living up at Holland |
Patent, and when he went to Buffalo his |
first job was to write book about cattle, |
describing how Artist the Second was de- |
scended from Artist the First, imported |
from Holland in her dam, that dam atore-
said from Rotterdam by Amsterdam, both
derived from Rip Van Dam. This was not
labor, but it taught the lesson
Of facing task and being careful about par |
ticniars |
Cleveland did not get along at the bar as
fast as he might have done, and he was |
passed over BY bis party when he should |
not have been, and up in the attic OF a hotel |
he learned how lonesomeness becometh not |
man.
We shall now 60 on abusing the candi- |
dates according to our gender until one or |
the other is elected. If either of them |
should die We shall all uncover our heads |
and remember-not what we said-but what |
our neighbcr said against the deceased. |
The world will never be any better than |
this nor any worse. A few persons NAV |
astonlsh their age BY remarking: "Aiter |
ali, the two men now running against each |
other are about as respectable specimens of |
as we have ever had. GATH.