Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07
Is What New York Politicians Are
Calling Grover Cleveland.
HILL AND HIS MACHINE WORK.
A Murderer the Most Interesting Character
in New York.
HIS EXECUTION AN APPROPRIATE ONE
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DrsrArcH.l

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Carlyle Harris convicted of his young wife's
murder are the important actors on the
metropolitan stage this week.
Of course the murderer is the most inter
| esting of the three. We never weary OF
| intelligent murderers; in fact. we never
have enough of them. Harris is the first
that has turned up in a long time. His
name and doings make conversation
everywhere. When an ignorant brute
commits a murder and dies for it, no
one cares but himself Here is an intelli-
gent young man, tall and slim, who has a
young woman on his hands, finds the load
embarrassing, and decides to kill her. That
interests everybody. 1t is well worth while
to study young chap able to win the
affections of numerous young women, and
possessing, at the same time, character
that made it possible for him to kill girl
who loved HIM as calmly as that girl would
have drowned batch of kittens that she
was not prepared to entertain. Any num-
Der of women thought great deal of this
diluted, vulgar little beast of nineteenth
century Henry VIII.
women's Intuitions Not Infallible.
Therefore what is the Use of talking any
more about the value of women's intuitions.
That is one disillusion. Here is another.
Many good people have had great faith in
/ stirpiculture. That is to say, they felt that
in the important matter of the perpetuation
of the human race too much was left to
luck. The mother of the young murderer
is stirpiculturist and has written book
protesting against the prevailing principle.
In her book she lays down rules which she
doubtless followed and which were to i'm
prove future generations very greatly.
Her son turns out murderer; an intelli-
gent fellow and lovable, as his friends put
it, but murderer That seems to discour-
age the stirpiculture idea.
1t is almost enough to cause revision of
his views BY the young man of the period
who does his thinking on all subjects for
himself, and who just now usually decides
against the existence of soul because he
can't see it. Here is young man, enter
tanning, gay, intelligent and lovable, with
the added advantages of stirpiculture tried
on himself, who commits cowardly mur-
der. It's enough to make 8 young thinker
believe that there are some things in nature
with which his mind is not ftted>to wrestle.
The killing of Harris by electricity, if it
ever takes place, will, in the language of
newspaper men, be a great story. Electri-
cal killing seems hardly fair treatment for
the sturdy Straightforward laboring man
who commits his murder. with an axe or a
billet of wood. He seems to haye almost a
right to.demand that he be punished with
the rope in simple fashion.
An Appropriate Execution.
But for scientific, medical murderer who
uses drugs, prescriptions, and a knowledge
of human nature in his work, the complex
DYNAMO, with its alternating currents, volts
and wires and the knowledge it demands of
nerves and other medical things, appears to
be singularly appropriate:
Harris passed his medical examinations
most brilliantly. He will know what is in
store for him quite as well as those who kill
him. That will enable those who write
about the electric killing to give new
color to the affair. There will be interest
ing copy also concerning the professional
feelings of the doctors who constitute them
selves executioners and who will have to
operate on one of their brethren.
The action of the Legislature admitting
reporters to electrical executions will make
of the Harris execution notable event in
the history of newspaper work.
That action, by the way, is sad thing for
the unhappy prison wardens. They can
only admit six reporters to each killing and
will have to deal with at least % news
papers, each thoroughly convinced of its,
right to send a man. Warden Brown, of
Sing Sing, has two men to kill next week.
After careful thought he has decided that
the reporters from morning newspapers
shall witness one of the executions and
those from evening newspapers the other.
Hill and Cleveland the Big Men.
The two political big meu are in the sight
of New York once more. MI. Cleveland is
back from his fishing and doubtless very
busy at Lakewood. Senator Hill in Albany
sees so many callers, according to reliable
reporters, that they keep the snow from
falling on the sidewalk of his house, No.
123 State street, and save the expense of
sweeping.
Hill is now far beyond the stage in which
it is necessary to speculate concerning him.
From his early manhood he fought series
of political fights, always winning, and
finally crowned his work by fight for
Democratic control of this State, at the end
of which decision of the Court of Appeals
made him tor the first time serious candi-
date for the Presidency.
makes no secret Of his ambition or his
efforts. He has preferred to the advice of
disnterested friends the old advice about a
bird in the hand, and has decided to have
his midwinter election of delegates and get
the right ones while he is sure that he has
the power to do it.
Among those who criticise him many
declare that success has at last turned his
head. His head is not one that turns. He
is mighty able man, "forcing his luck" as
gamblers do by increasing their stakes when
fortune smiles.
Cleveland the Silent Mystery.
: Grover Cleveland of all men on earth is
now the mysterious one in the eyes of those
who discuss politics in New York.
He has returned from the South with tales
of fat. woodcock and painful swamps. On
the train from Washington on Wednesday
he was exceedingly merry, speeding the
hours with fishing and shooting yarns, and
the other pastimes of great men turned
loose He did not look at all like. one
bowed down by the weight OF scheming
Hill.
Everyone is waiting now to hear what
Cleveland will say if he makes up his mind
to talk. There is much speculation as to
what the inside workings OF his mind are.
Does he worry about Senator Hill, is be do
ing deep political scheming on his own ac-
count, or is he simply drifting with the
tide, and how much interest has he in the
committee organized to protest against the