Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-18

which began to fire bets ana queries at the
devoted head OF the Republican Chairman
| and Corbett admirer.
brains will tell in q fight" persisted Col.
onel Tom.
inquired one.
"I'll bet you hundred to twenty you are
| wrong" said another
"Better stick to politics."
"Back your Judgment. Here's 100 to 10 on
| Sullivan"
| "And here's $50 to so COrbett fs knocked
| silly"
Gentlemen"
"Come, "om-put up or shut up."
| 'Where's your sporting blood?''
| Gentlemen, am not q betting man.
| Derisive laughter.
"But if you will come at me one at a time, ("
dnwled the gentleman from Montana, Il
| shall feel compelled TO accommodate YOU -
| Amid considerable chatting Colonel Tom
drew his wallet and began to book the bets
now sho~ered upon him. The odds were
great enough to risk the thing and he play
| FULLY gathered them in. The result was tina t
| on the morning succeeding that memorable
night in New Orleans Colonel Tom Carter
was just about 81, 100 richer.
The Candidates and the Artists,
1t gives me pain-I had almost said ca
| pain to remark the campaign lithogra phs
| that are being sent out in neat pasteboard
| cylinders from the respective National head
| quarters. 1 thought at first sight, these
were giant Chinese firecrackers, or eiong-
ated sections of Greek fire, or Roman can
| dies, or some other ancient form OF slumber-
ing festivity, but investigation proved them
to be good deal worse. They are life-size
pictures of the opposing candidates. 1 mean
as portraits they are worse. That of ex-
President Cleveland is the picture of a man
of ferocious aspect and a sloping Dutch roof
for q forehead The ordinary kindly eve of
Mr.. Cleveland is given the severe expression
OF Il man who has had his toes trodden on in
crowd of people receiving unsatisfactory
election returns. The neck and jaw and cheek
are those of q man who can take his shirt off
without unbuttoning his collar. My type
writer says it she shonld meet such man on
upper broadway suddenly after 10 o'clock
she would unhesitatingly break and rnn.
This is an unhappy turn TO give q man of
amiable temper and pleasant manners, and
whose face in everyday Lille is an invitation
to little children and causes every stray dog
to wag his tail. 1t is the ex-Presldent as
seen by the man who failed to get that
postOffice position.
happily for General Stevenson, Demo-
cratic candidate for Vice President, the
National Committee forgot all about him.
HIS portrait does not, therefore, complicate
the situation. Perhaps it was thought best
to try this sketch OF the head of the ticket
on the public first, and if it didn't kill any
body to supplement- 1t with the tail. 1 fancy,
however, that good many people would
like to have the portrait of real live Demo-
crat to hang up where they could look at it
occasionally.
The National Republican Committee has
been careful to err in the other direction.
Its pictures of the candidates are calculated
to excite admiration and respect / would
have never believed that Harrison could be
made so beautiful, while the portrait of
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid is that of a man who
could borrow quarter If me any day-any
day happen to have one about NEON his
simple word of honor that he would hand it
back next payday. That peculiar nose of
Harrison's is as exquisite as the nose on the
ceiebrated statue of the Greek slave. Those
whiskers are exquisitely rendered, each
particular hair being given a beauty and in
tellectual force of its own, while the rather
fat and somewhat dished face of the carl
caturists has been made to disappear alto
gether
But the Republican artist errs in the right
direction.
Putting Out Lot of Shin Plasters.
The managers at 51S Fifth avenue are
about to spring a new thing upon their un-
suspecting opponents down the street. 1t
will come in the shape of a regular financial
fusilade on the 10 per cent bank tax repeal.
A fac simile of many of the old shin plasters
OF State banking days is being prepared and
these will illustrate, in practical way, the
dangers of the Democratic return to wildcat
banking. l saw lot of these shin plasters
at headquarters and they were depressing
enough to man who once experienced the
inconvenience and losses that arise from the
free banking system.
CHARLES THEODORE MURRAY.
NEW YORK, Sept. II.