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

got the collectorship and kellogg has evel
since been unhappy. The head of th'
custom house at New Orleans comes at the
head of his delegation, but when contestants
| appear from Alabama to unseat the Har
rison men, that is thought to be usurpticr
itself
Alabama Always a Bother.
The colored man, if he has intelligence
! enough to hold Office, cannot be blamed il
he prefers to draw salary of 81, 200 q yeal
to. lying back as barber or field hand a,
$40 month, which he cannot collect In
Virginia Malone had the sense to 60 ovel
to Langston, the negro, and save the ap.
pearance of a contest
For some years Alabama has been the
most exasperating State in Republican con.
ventions. Both Sherman and Alger worked
it all over in the last convention, and Sher-
man has been mad at Alger since. The
sequel: Alger is playing his hand here for
the second place on the ticket, while Sher-
man, with generally coDced merits both as
statesman and candidate, is very little
spoken of
The convention threatens to be heightened
out by these contests, which each side is
doing its best to take advantage of. The
pot calling the kettle black is very old
sarcasm to the cut and thrust of these
black delegations. General Sherman in the
South, the administration at Washington is
one party, and the other party consists of
the disappointed.
Fred Douglass Still on Deck.
Old Fred Douglass is up here, the great
est man the Eastern shore of Maryland has
ever produced; the principal orator, author
and biographer of that section in his earlier
youth; a negro Patrick Henry, and the
most hated object by the slave masters in
the world, who has had for many years past
a widows crust of coon and possum's fat
He has been in office almost ever since the
Republican party, and negro Bishop is
well thought of. He has had the biggest
office in the District Of Columbia, a foreign
mission, and with these possessions he has
become a conservative, and is always in
favor of the man now in power, and against
those who would tear down and break in.
The old man, with his white side-whiskers,
a fine combination of the African and Cau-
casian, is asking about the force bill of
Grants time, saying that Mr.. Blaine is
not the colored persor's friend.
The only humor in America is negro min
strels, of which we had melee on Tuesday
night, when the Harrison managers shipped
all their negroes to Lake Minnetonka, that
their presence might be fewer with these
pestiferous Blaine men. IT had been
whispered that colored delegates came into
Harrison headquarters and innocently said
that man had just offered them $50 for
their tickets to the convention, but they
would not take it-not they. The prepos-
terousness Of a negro wanting $50 in hand
rather than salary for u months Is ex-
pressed on all countenances
Standing Out for Their Price.
Directly particular negro came back
with 500 and said he had Just sold his
tickets. Immediately all the other negroes
were shipped to Lake Minnetonka and
these tickets put in screw.
There are contentious in families between
Blaine and Harrison. Here is Mr.. Richard
Kerens, formerly Mr.. Blaine's supporter,
and now, as the partner of Mr.. Elkins, is
supporting Harrison. He belongs to an In
structed delegation, of which an instructor
was Mr.. Kerens. He is unable to violate
his own instructions to himself But Mrs
Kerens, fne-looking lady, and her bloom
ing daughter, observed with rejoicing yes
terday that the Missouri delegation is
divided as fair as Lot and Abraham, one
half going to Blaine, and said Mrs Kerens:
After one vote cast for President Harrison
everybody, think, will have no instruc-
tions. and there need be no more delay
about nominating Mr.. Blaine."I
The look of mild determination which
accompanied this expression boded an at
tentive behavior on the part of Mr.. Kerens
to his family during the ensuing summer
The Blaine ladies here are numerous
They say that Mrs. Lowry stands at the
head of Minneapolis society, and Mr..
Lowry, avoiding the intrusion of his prefer
ence as one of the hosts of 80, is all the
more dangerous beneath the surface for his
steady Blaine feeling. The Minnesota
delegation had Harrison men it, but they
are in the minority.
CulIom Knocked Out by Cannon.
Said Samuel Raymond d to me, last night:
"Cullom would have big influence in this
if he would exercise it, but he
lets Joe Cannon pull his leg. Joe has no
He lets Cullom think that it
is Cullom who has the expectations Gull
lom claims that he discovered Blaine and
made him the Speaker of Congress. Until
within two or three months Cullom has been
growing at Harrison. They cannot keep
half the delegation from Blaine"
need not send you probabilities, but 1t
is significant that Mr.. Seckeudorff, the cor
Of the New York Tribune, had
out 440 votes for Harrison on Mon
day night, and last night his information
and intelligence compelled him to take
about 80 votes off that figure. The Har-
rison men made some gains in New York,
but their border delegations, like Delaware,
Maryland, Tennessee and Missouri were
badly shaken up.
The departure of Mr. Blaine from Wash
lngton for Maine yesterday, and the con-
timed presence of his son Emmons here in
with Mrs Blaine and others.
gave assurance to all that Blaine was a
,ombatant, and laying aside his official
gown, had buckled the champions belt
around him and thrown to the windward his
lurid eye.
Blaine Sentiment at n Show,
Tuesday night went in the midst of a
great rainstorm to the principal variety
heater here, and the improvisatore on the
stage put out this feeler: "You may fight
with might and main, but you can't beat
Jim Blaine" Whereupon the amusement
character of the house ceased, and everybody
'ose and roared their cheers.
Blaine is strong with the laboring middle
lass who look for natural qualities in a
nan as they would in horse or dog; they
ike his vitality, his ever-recurring business,
lis smartness and his occasional combstiye-
less On the other hand, the forces of con-
ervatism, the man with stock of goods on
he shelves, and the head of the corporation
With stock and bonds out and dividends may
ount on loans on the Presidential breast.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND.