Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-11

ttiathe case when 1t comes to the color line
Whc21k was member Of our Legislature,
bill was introduced to levy dog tax-S1 or
every male and % on every female dog
The proceeds of the levy were to 60 to th'
support of the schools. The negroes own |
good many dogs, and 1t was insisted ths
the tax from their dogs should 60 exclu
slvely to the support Of the colored schools
This was agreed to.
when the bill was about to be passed,
member proposed an amendment to ths
erect that the tax collected upon yellow
dogs be devoted to q school fund for yellow
negroes This proposition was greeted with
some hilarity, but the author of the original
Dill didn't join in it. Against his earnest
protest, the bill was passed as amended,
thus drawing the color line about as fine as
could very we'll be done In Justice to
the Alabama Legislature, however, must
remark that the bill was reconsidered, the
yellow dog amendment stricken out and the
bill passed a. it came from the hands of the
author. But it had a narrow escape.
Jimmy Burke Up in Maine.
Young James Burke, the boy orator of
the Republican National Campaign Com
mittee, has been up in Maine helping Tom
Reed and Jim Blaine to carry that State.
This youth was first brought to notice by
his ability in organizing college campaign
clubs He started in as Jimmy" but comes
back as Hon. James T. Burke. Young
Burke is "hustler" and ''rattler." He
possesses the oratorical fire in a remarkable
degree, and his personal magnetism makes
him one of the best stump speakers Young
America has turned out this political season.
Mr.. Burke's youthful appearance and
dudishness of attire naturally subjected
him to some funny misunderstandings in the
quaint old interior towns Of Maine. He
filled some appointments made for other
and better known speakers He was not
responsible for the "Hon." that stared him
In the face at every cross road, but not a
few local committeeman were disposed to
consider themselves imposed upon-until
they heard Burke speak. 1t is interesting
to hear the young orator tell of these incl
dents At one place second edition OF
Old Jed Prouty met him at the station.
Encountered Wise Old Farmer.
When Burke introduced himself the COM
mitteeman looked him over in suspicious
silence.
$50 your name is Burke, be it?"
'It be-" said Burke.
"And you say you came here to speak to
our people tonight"
'That's what came for"
II guess you WON'T" rather emphatically
declared the committeeman.
"Why-they sent me-"
That's all right, young man." slowly
drawled the old man, cooking his head on
one side and shutting one eye-'that's all
right. But you can't come any of your
New York green goods bunko games here
abouts Now, we're just looking for the
Hon. James f. Rurke, of Pennsylvania,
who is going to address US this evening,
and if he should happen to come along and
find you around here you'd better look
outP'
Then, for something like the sixteenth
time, young Burke had to apologize for
being young, for the "Hon." prefix on the
bills, for the presumption of existing at all
They had rousing meeting-the very pain
full torebodings of his audiences probably
increasing their appreciation of his oratori-
cal efforts-and no one shook him more
heartily by the hand at parting than the
old Jed Prouty.
Awful Rumor About Don Dickinson.
The story that Hon. Don Dickinson curls
his whiskers with the adventitious aid of
ginger ale is probably one of those
lies that ought to be stamped
out at once and with all your feet It is
unpleasant to chronicle the
fact that I first heard of this malicious
rumor. at national headquarters. The yarn
seems to be fit companion for that other
prevarication that Don Dickin-
son isn't wanted here and was fred out OF
Chicago as political superfuity. The latter
issquite ss absurd as its forerunner, namely,
that two ladies had called upon him at 139
bearing corset boxes. Every man who is
not suffering with political gangrene knows
that Don Dickinson Is wanted everywhere.
far as 1 can see, and that is that there is not
enough of Don Dickinson to 90 round. If
he could be divided up, like sacred relic,
into infnitesimal bits, each slice retaining
the wonderful properties of the whole,
there would be great rejoicing in the Cleve-
land camp. So far as Chicago is concerned
she would be content, probably, to hold
single whisker, under such conditions, and
the same would be exhibited, marked ga
l" under glass case at the Worlds Fair.
The rest of them could be distributed among
the doubtful States and thus insure a re-
turn of their electoral votes for Mr.. Cleve-
land.
But why not ginger ale? Isn't ginger ale
preferable to the use of Chicago water?
Plenty of men anoint their mustaches with
dlC-d5SOCldbCu
and see nothing particularly absurd In
MI. Dickinson curling his whiskers with it.
In fact, it may beat pair of tongs heated
over a gas jet. Surely the most uncompro-
missing political enemy cannot expect him
to use molasses; and it is beneath the
dignity of an ex-Postmaster General to use
fried bread for such a purpose. This dis
position to carp at Don Dickinson's beauei-
full facial adornment is one and the same
thing with decrying his political useful
ness-which largely lies in his whiskerA
Big Business In Mail.
The amount of mail that pours into
national headquarters these days indicates
he growing liveliness of the campaign.
On Tuesday morning there were some 500
letters, 40 kilograms and half ton of news
papers lying at Fifth avenue awaiting the
action of the Republican managers 1t is
rue, this was two days accumulation, but
he two days were holidays on which people
10 little If any work. The regular daily
nail, am told, averages from 200 to 800
etters per day.
This is assorted, sent around to the
various heads of bureaus and attended to
It once II there is no time to do this
within the ordinary. business hours Of the
lay, the officials work at night Every
hing about headquarters is current work
nothing is left over. As most of these let
ers ask lot of questions as to campaign
peakers, literature, the plans of local cam
,aigns, or for money, the amount Of work
involved in answering them is something
,rodigioua.
CHABhEs THEODORE MURRAY.