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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
THE WAITING GAME.

The two days halt in the progress of the
Minneapolis Convention can only be con-
strued to mean that the politicians on both
sides are not half so sure of their votes as
they pretend to be- Consequently they
tide over from day to day, spending the
interval in negotiations, wire-pulling and
all the other methods calculated to win
the position from which they will be ready
to join battle. The contrast between the
claims of the politicians and their actions
applies equally to both sides. Either of
them, if their claims were good, could have
pushed matters to conclusion yesterday
afternoon.
The proceedings yesterday were con-
fined to installing Governor Mckinley as
Permanent Chairman and to adj0urning
for another day and night of wire-work-
ing. 1t is certainly to be expected that
the convention will get down to active
business to-day. If it should not, it will
earn the name of the 'Do-nothing Con-
vention" as completely as any of its ex-
emplaTs in the list of Congress. The un-
certainties which seem to surround the
political field at Minneapolis leave but
one clear certainty which is the unanimity
and enthusiasm of the popular demand for
Blaine's leadership.
Apart from the deduction from the
waiting game, the chief significance of
yesterdays proceedings, or rather the ap-
sence of them, is the looming up of dark
horse in the shape of Mckinley as Pres
dental possibility if the matter is not set
tied by the early ballots.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
LlFE,s BRIGHT SIDE.

Cobviprer-I think of spending the sum-
NOR at speed's farmhouse. He mentioned you
''' MiIrman-He's all right. I supply him with
milk and butter-Nsro FORK Evening Sun.
"I love your
81 dom { care If you do.'
4 30, Gladys but love you.''
IL dom care IL you do. ''-Chicuoo Ns,cs Record.
Laura all "a-trimble"-
Lost her bathing gear;
Found 1t In her thimble-
We'll, do decIarer'
Atlanta Const,t,,tion.
"Is Mary good servant?''
s'In a misdirected sort of way. She dusts the
cObwebs off the wine bottles and leaves 'em every
where else. life.
Old Vet (boastingly)-At the battle of
Dumplin Heights-now you just orter seed the
enemy run thar!
Johnny Bellows-But he couldn't ketch ys,
could he?-Ne,o York Herald.
Last Sunday morning Deacon Smith
In service slept awhile.
And Deacon Jones sat watching him
With grim and malicious smile,
Which Droadened when the preacher cried,
My friends, the Lord doth caIl.''
And Deacon smith, but half awake
Said, lone small pair, that's all."-Lie.
"You heard the last witness, did your
asked the lawyer of Spatts.
''Yes, sir.''
\ what do you know of his reputation for truth
and veracity?''
''wen, sir. he makes his living writing poetical
epitaphs for tombstones. ''-Frarak LeslleS Weekly.
Hostess-Mr. Trotter will take you in to
dinner. He is a charming man, but cohrned
dyspeptic.
Chicago Girl-oh. how nicel He can do all of the
talking while eat.-Nsso York Herald.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
THE CRY FOR HELP.
A Stirring Appeal for Eastern Aid for the
OIL Creek Sufferers.


OIL Creek Sufferers.
New York World.l
Mayor Grant recognized, even before the
direct call for help was received, the neces-
sity of assistance to the sufferers OF Oil
Creek Valley, and announced his readiness
to receive subscriptions.
The appeal will meet q prompt and gener-
ous response from the compassion OF New
York. The suffering, present and to come,
is terrible; the need is sure to be great.
The valley is a busy hive of industry,
thronged with a population dependent upon
present earnings for present support Ithas
been suddenly devastated. Flood and fire
have combined to destroy life, to sweep
away property, to paralyZe industry, to re-
duce the very means of bread-winning Work
to nothingness.
1t is estimated that $50 human beings have
perished there, but even such loss does not
measure the extent of the calamity.
Fathers. husbands, brothers and other
breadwinners have been done to death,
leaving helpless women and children with
out support But in still larger numbers the
people of the valley have been bereIt Of
their means of livlihood by the destruction
of the industries in which they worked and
Of the prosperity that employed them.
The destitution is widespread and the suf-
fering is sure to be great. Both will grow
worse before they can grow better.
How much will you spare from your abun-
dance to relieve this want3 How much of
compassion have you for the suffering of
these, your sorely stricken fellow-creatures?
Send your answer to Mayor Grant, either
in a check or IN greenbacks.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

THE trouble with his eyesight from which
Senator Hoar Is suffering is now reported to
be more serious than was believed at first.
YOUNG Edwin Gould is in supreme
charge of the Gould affairs in the absence of
his father, Jay Gould, and his elder brother,
George j. Gould.
THE late Cardinal Manning was fond of
"tipsy cake''-a sweet biscuit soaked in
except in this form.
The late President Balmaceda, of Chile,
was educated for the priesthood, but fortu-
nately for the Church, he renounced his in
tention and became a lawyer and wound up
as political shyster. s, ~.
President HARRISON has three ways
of amusing himself-to wit, playing bill
lizards, driving and shooting. He does not
countenance horse-racing and takes very
languid interest in baseball.
PREMIER LoUBEr NJ. RIBor, NJ de
Freycinet and Mr.. Coolidge, the new Ameri-
can Minister, were among the guests ut a
dinner given to diplomats IN Paris Tuesday
evening by Lord Dufferin at the British EN-
bassy.
Mr.. ScHNADHoRsT is perhaps the only
English counterpart to the American politi-
He has never held office. Yet he has great
influence with his party and has a lot of
patronage to dispose or He is a Liberal.
The youthful King of Spain, Alfonso
KILL. who was born on May II, 1856, has
completed his sixth year. His Majesty is
said to be uncommonly intelligent for his
age, but continues to be very obstinate. He
has a great desire to be a man. and above all
is anxious to have moustache.
A RUMoR is current in dramatic circles
in Boston that Mr.. Booth intends to make a
short tour next year, finishing his career in
Chicago, in accordance with long cherished
purpose; but the story is received with
doubt by those who have grave misgivirgs
about his health.
MIR. TRUxToN BEALE, American Minis
ter to Persia, who is now. home on leave of
absence, has secured for the State Depart
ment several plaster casts OF the cuneiform
Inscriptions at Persepolis, and it is expected
that they will reach this country before
similar ones are received in England, al
though British scientists have been eagerly
seeking them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTSBURG. THURSDAY. JUNE 9. 1892.
TWELVE PAGES
PATRONAGE AND THE SINGLE TERN.

PATRONAGE AND THE SINGLE TERN.
The spectacle presented at Minneapolis
of a force of oficeholders representing
in the convention and urging upon the
party the denomination of the President
under the spur of the recollection of past
favors and lively expectation of favors
to come, is calculated to inspire deep re-
Elections on the advisability of confning
the Presidency to a single term.
While President Harrison may be ad-
mitted to have had'a reasonably successful
administration and to have been personally
superior to attack, it is evident beyond
dispute that his strength at Minneapolis is
made up of placeholders, from Consul
Generals down to internal revenue col
lectors and postmaster. The contest is
the force of patronage against the popular
wish; and the power which can be brought
to bear by the Presidential patronage
against the popular wish is strikingly
illustrated by the fact that up to the
present stage of the proceedings the
patronage very nearly balances the popu-
lar demand
The contrast is all the more striking
when set side by side with the strong
declaration of the elder Harrison against
the evils of second term ambition. 1t is
again accentuated when we compare the
present use of the offices with the declara-
tions in favor of civil service reform and
the removal of the offices from politics
made by General Harrison four years ago.
If man of Harrison's respectabiiity can
be induced by the lust for prolonged
power to throw aside both family tradi-
tions and his own pledges in order to bring
the full force of patronage to bear for
denomination, what may not be expected
in the future if less scrupuous Presi-
dent, unhampered either by principles of
his own or those of grandfather, should
use the same lever to obtain, not only
second, but third or fourth term?
1t will not require many more such ap-
peals to the appetite of the off1ceholding
element for the creation of very decided
opinion in favor of restricting the Presi-
dency to single term.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
LAZY WORK IN CONGRESS-
Long List OF Legislation Proposed FOR
Benefitting the Farmers.

A Long List OF Legislation Proposed for
Benentting the Farmers.
WASHINGTON, June s.-Thore were just %
Senators present during the morning hour,
two-thirds of them being on the Democratic
side. Vice President Morton was in the
chair. Senator Sherman was the only one
of the Presidential possibilities present on
the Republican side and he did not appear
to be worrying over his chances, but to be,
on the contrary, in rather pleasant humor.
Mr.. Call gave notice of his intention to adj
dress the Senate next Wednesday on his
resolution for an investigation as TO whether
railroad companies interfere with the cleo
tion of United States Senators. The pension
deficiency bill was laid before the Senate
and referred to the COMMITTEES on Appropri-
at1ons. The Senate at las adjourned till to-
morrow.
The members of the House were in o very
nstless humor and 4 ma jority OF the few who
were in attendance loled back in their seats
apparently lacking energy to write, read or
talk. The House went into q committee OF
the whole to consider the agricultural ap-
diversion was occasioned by Mr.. j. d. Tay-
lor, OF Ohio, who made protection speech
with yigor for which he is characteristic and
was answered in II still more vigorous man.
ner by Mr.. Simpson of Kansas. MIR. Taylor
denied that tree trade. free coinage of silver
or the sub-treasury scheme would benefit
the farmers and proposed the following
legislation as tile great needs OF agriculture.
A merchant marine, internal waterways,
connecting the rivers of the South with the
lakes of the North; the prohibition of
gambling in farm products; the free delivery
of mails in the rural districts; the protect
of farm products and the creation of q
larger home market: the pensioning of all
the soldiers in the North and the education
of the illiterateS OF the South; more banking
facilities on the national banking system
and the abolition of the tremendous waste
of the liquor traffic. The committee then
reported, and the bill was passed and the
House adjourned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
eR0CERs AND THE SUGAR TRUST
Tho Wholesale Dealers Appoint a Commit
tee to Formulate Their Demands.

Tho Wholesale Dealers Appoint a Commit
tee to Formulate Their Demands.
NEW YoRK, June s-The wholesale grocers
are endeavoring to come to arrangements
with the Sugar Trust whereby reasonable
and uniform prices of sugar may be estab-
lished. This afternoon $50 delegates,
representing most of the States of the
Union, met here and discussed the matter.
Several plans weres proposed, but none
seemed to meet the unanimous approval of
the delegates, and tho matter will again be
the subject OF discussion tomorrow. 1t was
announced that the Sugar Trust had
promised to accept whatever arrangements
were made providing 90 per cent of the dele
gates approved the plan.
This action on the part of the wholesale
merchants has been the outcome, as stated
in a paper which was in circulation at the
meeting, of practice indulged on by "some
reckless dealers, of selling sugars below the
average cost of doing business, to entice
customers" The plan upon which the As
sociation is working is a rebate from the
Sugar Trust, and a committee was appoin ted
to formulate plan and report Mt meeting
to be held at noon tomorrow. j. W. Laugh
lin is the Pennsylvania member of the COM
mittee.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
CONVENTION TALK OF THE PRESS.

THE outlook at Minneapolis is still uncer-
tain. No man can tell the outcome.-Ne,D
York World.
MCKINLEY seems to be the favorite dark
horse but speculation on that point is use
less until in some way test vote is reached
-PhilddeI phia Inquirer.
ONE of the biggest men in Minneapolis is
Tom Reed. He is ready to be struck by
Presidential lightning, and the fluid seems
at times to be playing around his glstening
pate.-Ne,o York Adverriser.
AT present the outlook appears to be more
favorable to Mr.. Blaine. He has palpable
advantage over Mr. Harrison in the zeal of
his supporters and in the probability of
gaining converts.-New York He aid.
Ex-Governor FoRAKER's masterly speech
of welcome to the Young Mems Blaine Club,
of Cincinnati, on their arrival at Minneap-
oils, rang true as steel in its devotion to the
best interests of the Republican party.-Ne,D
York Press
WHATEVER advantage there wss in organi-
zation has fallen to the friends of MI. Blaine,
and the prospects are bright that the Re-
publican party will go into the battle of
1872 under the leadership of the greatest of
living Americans.-B,!1dloE Express.
IT was a rare compliment that was paid to
ex-Speaker Reed when the Republican Con-
vention with a unanimous voice called him
down from the spectators seats-Mr. Reed
is not delegate-and insisted upon O
speech. This episode was the high-water
mark in the enthusiasm of the opening ses-
sion.-Ne1o York Tribune
MIR. FAssETT's speech was in admirable
taste. Temperate in language and imbued
with the spirit of unselfsh Republlcanism
it must have had q marked effect in restor-
in ho tnun nf rtx 1ao hos
zeal has not always been tempered with
discretion and the cheers with which it was
greeted knew no factional divisions.-Ioch-
ester Democrat
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
THE REAsoNABLr VIEW.

In his address to the Diocesan Conven.
ton of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
yesterday, Bishop Whitehead took ground
on the Sunday opening of the Chicago
Exposition practically the same as that
indorsed by THE DISPATCH few days
ago. The Bishop in the remarks reported
elsewhere points out that the question is
between letting the thousands of people
at Chicago enjoy the elevatlng irfiu-
ence of the exhibits, or shutting them out
to 60 to the saloons and theaters which
will be open in the city. He proposes
that the exhibits which require but little
labor and attendance, such as the art and
agricultural departments, shall be open,
while those which would necessitate the
employment of many attendants, as the
running of machinery and the sale of
goods, shall be closed. This course will,
he points out, not only permit
the public to enjoy the good in
fuences of the Exposition, but
will afford the best opportunity to rea ch
the mass of visitors by religious exercises
on the grounds during Sunday afternoon
and evening The Bishop also makes the
strong point that closing the Exposition
on Sunday comprises the establishment of
private view on that day for a favored
class, as was the case at the Centennial
The course which Bishop Whitehead
suggests is in its essential points the same
as that proposed by Director General Da-
Wis and indorsed by THE DISPATCH about
three weeks ago MI. Davis proposition
contemplated religious services in the
music hall of the Exposition; the opening G
of the art, agricultural, scientific and other
exhibits; the shutting down of all ma
chinery, and the prohibition of all sales.
The only important point of difference is
as to the price of admission on Sunday.
The view thus presented by the Director
General and the Bishop of this diocese is
an eminently reasonable one. The course
they outline will result in better obServ-
ance of the Sabbath by thousands attend
ing the Exposition than if its gates were
closed and the crowds left to spend Sum
day in such ways as Chicago gives them
opportunity to do.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09

gigantic fraud has been committed the
only result so far is to render civil judg-
ment against the men, which will cost
them three or four per cent OF their
wealth. The worship of the DIVES
Pecuniae would undergo terrible shock
if men worth eight or ten millions were
thrown into prison for fraud, even when
their fraud has been judicially declared.
Only petty thieves, or those whose gigantic
plunder has come to wreck, get within the
clutches of the criminal law.
1t may be that the multi-millionaires
will escape criminal prosecution in this
case, but if there is any truth in the al
legation of the well-informed Engineering
and Mining Journal that the officers Of
the United States Mint at Carson City
were parties to the conspiracy, the public
will demand that exposure and punish
ment be visited ON those unfaithful public
servants
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
ATTACKING EcoNoMY's TREASURY.
A Little Matter OF S175, 900 Wanted Badl.
bya Withdrawing Member.

by q Withdrawing Member.
BEAVER FALLS, June s.-[Specia. .J-From all
accounts the trouble between Henry Feicht,
of the Harmony Society. and that organiza-
tion, are not ended by any means. As is
well known, Feicht was dismissed from the
Board of Elders some time ago, but such OBJ
jections were made by the elder members of
the Board that the dismissal was recon-
sidered, and Mr.. Feicht was reinstated in
authority. All seemed to be lovely but it
seems that Henry Feicht and his brother.
the doctor, are not satisfied by anv means.
There is a little matter of S25 900 with in
terest they are now after, and their claim
promises to lead to no end of trouble. In
1906 the parents of Henry and DR.. Feicht in
herited the sum of S25 900 from their grand
parents. This sum wus then willed intact
with interest to Henry and his brother, but
by the peculiar conditions of the will they
were not allowed to turn it over absolutely
to the Harmony Society. rs they did their
other possessions when becoming members.
They were allowed, however, 20 turn it into
the treasury of the society, whore it has re-
manned ever since, they receiving no bene-
fltS whatever from the money. II is this
sum, with interest for sc years, they now
demand. The case will come up for consid-
Grafton some time this week before the
Board of Elders of the society. Should it
not be returned to them peacefully suit will
be brought in court. The original sum, with
interest for so many years, will reach in the
neighborhood OF $175,C00, and the cash pay
ment of this will make quite q hole in the
Economy treasury.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
UNEASINEsS IN HAITI.

Excitement Caused by tbs Report That q
Port Is Given to the Omitted States.
PARIS. June s-A dispatch received in this
city from Kingston, Jamaica, states that
great excitement has been caused in San
Domingo by the announcement that the re-
port that Samana Bay, in the western part
of the terminus of the Sanchez Lavega
Railway, Dominican Republic, had been
ceded to the United States had been con-
firmed.
The Haitian Minister, the dispatch ADDS,
has become alarmed, owing to the fact that
Mr. John s. Durham, the American Minister
to Haiti and Charge d'Affaires to San Do
mingo has taken a residence in the city Of
San Domingo. The German Consul at Port
au Prince, the dispatch further says, has re-
ceived instructions from his Government to
come to an understanding with the repre-
sentatives of France and England regarding
the steps necessary to be taken to safeguard
the autonomy of San Domingo. The news
has caused great uneasiness in Haiti.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
HARD ON THE RAILROADS
A Clause in the Appropriation Bill Which
Will Drive Their Business Away

A Clause in the Appropriation Bill Which
Will Drive Their Business Away
WASHINGTON, d. G., June S.-The following
statement was prepared at the Treasury De-
partment: "In the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill as passed by
the House of Representatives Monday, there
is a clause which requires manifests giving
detailed Information. including values, to
be presented before cars containing mer-
chandise passing in transit through this
country will be allowed to 90 forward. This
Requirements was necessary in order to fur
nish statistical information concerning ex-
ports.
ut is difficult to understand in what man.
ner goods simply passing through the
country are to be regarded as,exports, and
the practical effect of the clause in question,
If it shonld be enacted into law, will be TO
discriminate against American railroads in
favor of foreign lines, as shippers will not
consent to submit to the annoyance and cx-
poSure of their business which would result
from the filing of such manifests. A reeula-
ton similar to that referred to was incurred
some years ago by order of the Treasury De-
partment and revoked upon vigorous COM
plants being made by American railroads.
The Treasury Department protested against
the action which has been taken in this
matter by the House before the Dill was
acted upon by that body"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09
COLoRED CITIZENS IN ARMS.
They Advise Active Measures to Prevent
Promiscuous Lynching.

They Advise Active Measures to Prevent
Promiscuous Lynching.
Boston. June S-The colored citizens of
Boston held a mass meeting in fremont
Temple last night, heard stirring addresses
and adopted strong resolutions denuciatory
of the outrages upon members of their race
in the South and in New York, and de-
manded the punishment of the perpetrators.
They also demand that the word "white" be
eliminated from the Chinese exclusion bill.
Among the speakers were Bishop Grant, Of
Texas. and George W. Bryant. of st. Louis.
Mr.. Bryant said in part: 1--WE have met
here, not to condone wrong or shield over
acts committed by members of our race
against the States or municipalities where
they live. We are here for the purpose of
protesting against this promiscuous lynch
ing, burning, ETC.. whether it takes place In
the South or in New York State. If the Re-
publican party cannot take this mighty
giant of coercion by the throat and throttle 1t
to death now. the negro had better leave
that party. The praying time is over and
the reaping time is near at hand. The result
may be the annihilation of the negro race,
but there will be found a new Garrison,
Sumner and Lincoln. and If we cannot find
that class up this way to lead us, then there
will be found a black John Brown In the
South" Mr.. Edwin G. Walker said: "The
time for fighting has come. You will never
save our people from being murdered in the
South unless you get up off your knees and
kill the men that did it.