Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-07
]. W. BREEN PLEASED.

! The Weather and the Ladies' Suit Him and
HIS Nomination for Congress Make q
Him Happy-His Proposed Campaign
! Outlined.
"a delightful day this" j. W. Breen said
as he sauntered leisurely down Fifth ave.
nue. yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Breen had on
Monday night been nominated for Congress
by the Democrats OF the Twenty second dis
trict. As result he was in delightful
mood yesterday when DISPATCH reporter
met him. "Of course I feel compli-
mented by receiving an unsolicited
nomination from the Democrats of my dis
trict 1t isa worthy ambition to want to 60
to Congress, and while am not confident
of election, can say truthfully 1 am hope
fnl. But" Mr.. Breen went on, laughingly,
"my interest in politics does not blind me to
this delightful weather and the many pretty
girls that are fitting like butterflies along
the thoroughfares."
Mr.. Breen is a TALL slim gentleman with q
shrinking face. His features are distinctly
marked. He does not wear q beard. His
lips are firm and positive and his whole ap-
pearance is that of a thoughtful, studious
man. He was born in lsl1 in Tronto Canada;
he received collegiate and legal educa ton,
having been entered as a law student in
Philadelphia away back in the sixties with
w. j. Howard, Esq, then solicitor of the
Pennsylvania Railroad He subsequently
studied law with the celebrated Charles
OConnor, Esq, of New York.
Mr.. Breen abandoned the law to enter tho
Union service in 1855. He served in the Mill
tary Department of the Mississippi until the
close of the war. He has been in the news
paper business in various capacities for
nearly % years, and was proprietor of the
Sunday & lobe for II years. He is q master of
several languages and a student and special
iss of economic problems, having furnished
as long ago as 1863 according to Lfppincot"s
Magazine of that year, the ablest financial
article In reply to the celebrated hard
money" treatise of the Hon. Amasa Walker.
of Massachusetts.
Mr.. Breen is identified with real estate and
manu- featuring interests in Pittsburs, Phila-
delphia and Washington City. He voted for
President Harrison in 1888. He is now sepa-
rssed from the Republican party on the
tariff issue. He was farmer in Ross town.
ship prior to his moving to the Fourteenth
ward, Pittsburg, where he now resides. tie
is not harboring any illusion and he says he
Will not be the victim of sgreat expecta-
tions,n no matter what happens in Novem-
ber. Whether the maj jority against him be
LOCO or 10000 he Is bound 20 enliven the CAM
paign by his views on trusts, tariffs and
taxes. The fact that he has a large maj ority
to overcome; he says, relieves him from an
enormous amount ofhand-shaking of and from
the necessity or kissing all the babies in the
district.
When asked what special features he
would present during the campaign, Mr..
Breen said! "Tne humbuggery of the tariff,
injustice to wage workers, undue prefer
ences to corporate interests" He added: 81
must not tell too much, as even good things
ought to be given in installments. and am
preparing sort OF campaign handbook
which will elucidate more or less the burn
ing issues which are now more than ever
seeking solution"
Mr.. Breen isa frequent and valued con-
trfbutor to THE DISPATCH. His letters last
fall from the Pacific Coast were the latest
piece of newspaper work from his pen.
They attracted wide attention the country
over