Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-21
GROVER CLEVELAND.
rFRoM HIS LATEST PHOTOGRAPH, BY PAcH BRoTHERs]

the Young Pretender of this celebration.
Though he wears glasses his countenance
and profile are youthful and practical. He
looks Ikea protector of the fancy" when
there is to be little "mill" at the corner
of three estates. He inherits the Federal
role as part to play, for 1 think his father
was superintendent of the Springfield
Armory, in Massachusetts,, and perhaps
Collector of the Port once at Boston, in some
such palmy days as Pierce and Buchanan.
He knew the good Office, when others saw
it not, and that OF corporation counsel is an
appointive office, removed from the hue
and cry of newspapers, but fat Office, for
it conducts all the suits or compromises
them, on behalf of the city, against such
machines as the ferry companies, trespass-
ers on the dock, and even unfortunate house.
holders, who, finding no boy to clean the
pavement in the morning OF the fresh ice,
90 down to business and get sued Tor main
tanning slippery pavement
A Power in a Smart Mans Hands.
Four thousand to 5000 suits are some
times conducted on a slippery day by the
corporation counsel. This Office, in the
hands of man suptemely great, is mightier
u. L
counsel's Office emanated Mr.. Cleveland. as
from the manger came the star of our Chris
tian era Whitney kept the office SO long
that there was not chalk enough to inscribe
the years on the head of the bed. Then he
handed it over to Stetson, who had the
Broadway and other railroad bills signed by
Governor Cleveland, and is now his legal
partner.
Whitney, Stetson and Cleveland form
business combination which anticipates and
survives Presidencies. "Come in, fellow
citizens" was the talk, "and see how we
can explain to you that it is very proper
for you to inquire about u.s. There is moth
ing concealed about u.s. as you will see.'
Up here at the Auditorium Hotel, where
Tammany sits like the Spanish Inquisition
and permits nobody to enter, especially
not newspaper "chiels,' there they stood in
a row, Whitney and Fairchild and all the
old Cabinet, somewhat in the manner of
Madame Toussaud's gallery of kings The
effect was overpowering upon those al
ready for Cleveland
Then Mr.. Whitney walked home to the
Richelieu, swinging his head from side to
side, as is his want. and studying natural
history about the pavement, now swinging
his arms nonchalantly, and looking as if
these small Presidential matters gave him
no trouble whatever. 1t was the inhuman
capacity to deal with the voter he got from
his, Whitney forefathers in the Bay State,
and with him success succeeds. At school
the BOYS liked him, and especially the
Pavne boys, whose sister he married, and
Oliver Payne has never found enough to do
for his handsome friend. He lives opposite
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
A Free Liver at the Capital.
he did not ask the price OF terrapin by the
champagne by the case, but by the invoice.
People who did not know q diamond
back" from snapper" got the gout in
single night upon the Secretary's terrapin;
men whose only notion of champagne was
derived from the brands Of California and
st. Louis had whole bottle of Epernay to
themselves. He ordered John Roach alott
so high that he has never come down, and
took his shipyard and started the navy.
Grown tired of the sea he came ashore and
has ever since been riding in street cars
which he controls, as the only proper form
of recreation. "Charlie is my darling, the
young chevalier."
Said to an old friend who knew the
Cleveland outfit: 'Tell me il, Grover has a
wire to this convention"
'Not bit of it; not improbably they
have some method Of communicating with
him as by cypher, more probably with a
mutual friend, but Cleveland is not smart
in handling conventions. Like Harrison,
his province is to cut out measures He
lacks the patience, tact, and the obtuseness
to do practical politics. He entirely trusts
the men he has here, and it has appeared
they are trustworthy, for Whitney seems to
be the only man in sight who could get
away with Cleveland's strength and become
the candidate. F."
'.You do not believe that he would re-
fuse the Presidency"
Whitney Able to Wait.
81 do not see how any man could refuse
the Presidency, Whitney is young fellow,
still he knows that faith is the way to the
Presidency; that fidelity enlarges respect.
Less than any person who has been around
these conventions has he winked toward
drawing his friend Cleyeland's support