Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-11

wounded Colonel Harrison led his men
gallantly in that action, his command rush
| ing sfrresistfbly over the enemy's terrible
lines & an9 oapfnrlng 6osh i lines ana guns; AZ Az
| brigade, his soltiery qualities drew from his
commanding officer, General "Joe" Hooker,
the most enthusiastic praise. On tho battle
field he declared that he would make
| Colonel Harrison Brigsdier General for his
| part In the fight, and he wrote dispatch TO
| Secretary of War Stanton, in which he
| In 1876 he was made the can te for Gov
1ernor, after he had declined to run and after
| another candidate had been nominated and
had declined. He finally accepted the NOM
ination but was defea ted at the polls. He
| emerged from that campaign with such IN
| creased popularity that his friends had but
States Senate in 1880. TO fill the seat to be
| vacated by Joseph E. Mcdonald on March
| L. 1881. He took his seat in the United
states = Senate on the dsy upon which IN the
| He served his full term of six years in
| that body. He did not force hil sell for
ward as q speaker. When he did speak he
commanded attention. He was the warm
| friend of the soldier, and he spoke cordially
| in his behalf. Upon Chinese immigration
he argued for faithful regard of treaty OBJ
legations in enforcing exclusion. Service
| on the Mississippi River Commission pre-
pared him to discuss Familiarity all propo-
sitfons brought forward for the improve
ment of tile navigation of that stream. In
| the second session of the Forty seventh Con-
gress Senator Harrison's principal speeches
were made upon the civil service, the
| sissippi river schcme of improvement.
While he favored the general purpose of the
Civil Service law then under consideration,
and afterward voted for 1t, he contended
Tor the perfect freedom of the Government
employe to contribute for political purposes.
While in the Senate he gained wide repu-
tation Is good lawyer and strong de-
batter.
General Harrison was nominated for
President by the Republican National Con-
vention in 1888, and after hot campaign
was elected. His career as President was
marked with strength and wisdom. Mr..
Harrison is an active member of the Presby-
terian Church. He Is a man of limited
private means and his fortune is entirely of
OF his own creation as lawyer.
whitcIaw Reid.
WHIrrLAw REID as born near Xenia, o.,
October 8. 1887. He WAS graduated from
Miami University in 1854, and for two years
taught school. He then bought the Xena
Ne,cs, which he edited for two years. He
sold it in 1860 and in the winter of 1s6O-61
wrote letters from Columbus to the Cleve-
land Herald and to the Cincinnati Times and
Gazette. He then became city editor of the
Cincinnati Gazette. When the war broke
out he went to the front the correspond
ent of the Gdz n-. He had the post of aide
de camp. with rank of Captain. Mr.. Reid's
letters were written over the signature of
agate After the war he became wash
ington correspondents of the Gazette, of
which paper he had become one OF the pro-
prietors. In 1865 he made tour of tie
South with Salmon P. Chase, then Secre-
tary of the Treasury. AS a result OF his ex-
first book, "Aner the War; Southern
Tour" After that he tried cotton planting
Tor two years, but was unsuccessful and
In 1868 he finished and published work
on which he had been engaged for three
years, entitled"Ohio in the War" 1t was q
comprehensive and complete history of the
part that State took in the Rebellion. and in
cluded sketches of number of the most
prominent Generals. Mr.. Reid had declined
an ofr.r to join the editorial staff of the
New York Tribune, and when. in 1858, Mr..
Greeley made him second offer. Mr.. Reid
accented it. In 1859 he succeeded John Rus
sell Young as managing editor of the T i5,nnr.
followed by the death of Mr.. Greeley and the
ascension of Mr.. Reid to the control of the
Tribune. In 1873 We was elected by the Leg
islature OF New York to be a regent Tor lie
of the University. Up to the election OF
President Harrison. in 1855, Mr.. Reid had de-
clined public office. Rutherford R. Hayes
offered MIN the post OF Minister to GERMANY,
and President Garfield made him a similar
oner, both Of which he refused. Three years
ago he accepted the post of Minister to
France. He succeeded in negotiating for
the entrance, of the American hog into
France. and on his return to this country a
short time ago, after having resigned his
post, ne Drought Win MN the draft OF a
treaty of extradirion with France, which the
Senate did not ratify.
Mr.. Reid married the only daughter of d.
o. Mills. the millionaire. He has two chill
dren, a son born in 1888 and a daughter 1t
is said that on the birth of the son Mr. Mills
gave Mrs. Reid his stock in the Tribune
building. Besides the books already men,
toned, Mr.. Reid has published Schools of
Journalism" (lS71( "The Scholar in Poll
tics" Qs73), "Some Newspaper Tendencies"
(lS79) and Town Hall Suggestions (SSD.
He is q director in numerous financial and
rchar1ta BILE coFporations. and was for num-
Der of Xeara President of the LntOs Climb.