Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-07

speaker OF the New YORK Assembly, WIG
is here as a delegate, with his friend
Robertson. Five or six years ago he told
me if Mr.. Blaine could not get the Pres
idency for himself, his next choice for ii
was ChauncaC NJ Depew. At that time
Hustled and Robertson were both Depew
men, if Depew had chance.
The situation is now changed, perhaps, te
Depew having chance to be Secretary OF
State. Husted is a bird of passage, but
Robertson is a domestic person, and nc
doubt if he could nominate Blaine to-day
and fail to do so, it would be a sore point
with him in after years. I wrote an in
terview with him Just as he was leaving the
Custom House in New York, at the com
mencement of Cleveland's administration,
| when his successor was already in the chair.
Said TO Robertson: "How came you to be
such friend of Blaine?"
Why Robertson Loves Blaine.
81 met him in Congress" said Robertson,
''when we were both private members
there. was charmed with his intelligence,
freedom and fidelity. The longer I have
known him the more 1 have liked him,
and," said the Collector, who is not too
positive man, using slow emphasis, these
men VINO propose to be better than Blaine,
and who have habitually prosecuted MIN,
are not WOfInV-nO, nOI Que Ol W VIC
his shoe-strings
The present occasion is not like those
where Robertson has made his fame. 1t
was he who organized mainly the revolt
against the 306 in 1880 was ct the con-
vention in New York State, where the unit
rule was put through by Conkling, and came
down that night on the private car OF Sher-
idan Shook, in which was Judge Robertson.
Said Shook to me that night: 'This collar
they have put on us we will not wear. We
are free delegates to that convention and
you will find it out before we get through. q"
Conkling came in person with all his host
to see that the unity was observed. Robert
son watched the proceedings all through,
saw Ccnkling defeated and Garfield norni-
mated, and when Arthur was presented on
behalf Of New York he arose in his place to
protest. He perhaps saw then the sequel
of that "bloody combination" The con-
vention was in no mood to listen even to
its friends, and the friends of Garfield
whooped through the nomination of Ar
thur, in whose interests Guiteau appeared
in time The two men are still living who
entered their protests at that time-Ro bert
son and Archibald Campbell, of West Vir-
ginia.
The Judge Not Feeling Well.
Said to Sheridan Shook Yesterday: IT'S it
true that Robertson must now abandon
Blaine?"
"Well, said Shook, ''the old Judge feels
mighty bad 1 think he may come out all
right vet. He is fond of Depew."
Hustled, who went to Yale College at the
same time with Depew, has been taken very
i'll here with a spasm of the heart-a disease
one might think would be more current, in
view of the violent changes of mems con-
ditions, which little patronage has brought
about
If you would see the power of the Presi-
dental Office for but few months. come
here and look for these old manufacturers
and moneymakers whose wives behind
them press Tor single summers recogni-
tlon in Senatorsnlp, a Cabinet place, or
a foreirn mission. You almost hear Sir
Giles Overreach saying to Lord Lovatt:
You do not know what it is to make my
daughter right honorable" The smaller
the State the bigger the ambition; the
smaller the goose the bigger the liver for
the pate.
Few indeed are here working for the admin
istratio against Blaine OF whom the states
man could say: "Why does he abuse me;
| never did him a favor" and perhaps there
Is no favor which presses harder upon the
intelliSents mans conscience than the
friendship of his great superior, which
Blaine has so often given unstintedly and
raised to mental affluence some would-be
scuilion who. forthwith, from the ugly
duckling turns out to be a swan on his own
account, and is heard to say that he doubts
whether Mr.. Elaine is entirely reliable on
great occasions.
Warn-r Milier's Eternal Enterprise.
Here is Warner Miller, an interesting
study, and at the moment President of our
only external enterprise, the Nicaraguan
Canal. He is grave, thoughtful, perhaps
man: in type. a combination of
the old Mohawk and the New Englander.
In early life school teacher, and SUBJ
seQuently a paper manufacturer. He went
to Congress. had a good standing, and OBJ
tanned Mr.. Piatt's seat. while Lapham got
Conklings. Lapham had bad habits and
came to nothing, but Millergathered to him.
self the young men of Western ana
middle New York, and stood almost
in the situation OF Harrison at
Platt and his friends were under obliga-
tions to Levi p Morton, who had helped
them financially in many campaign.
There was no place to reward Morton like
the seat of Miller.
Miller, however. was on the point of going
through triumphantly when Belden. ofSyra-
cuse, came on the spot-some say with q
iull trunk, as it was the winter season-and
the extraordinary scene was witnessed of
military evolutions in politics. The order
Went out of "Change front, by the lett face,
march" and every vote which had been for
Morton reported to the handful of men for
Hiscock, and Hiscock got Miller's seat.
This was enough to make anybody mad.
Now, Hiscock had beer all his life Blaine
yet to-day he's for Harrison, while Platt
and perhaps Belden are for Blaine, and Mil
Ter is Tor Blaine also.
Where Harrison Has Made Mistakes
Mr.. Harrison has surely not managed his
affairs with skill. He has in his favor the
like Depew and Horace Por-
ter, but having stripped Miller to supply
Platt, both Miller and Platt are against him.
Hiscock has probably got the Republican
patronage from the President for New
Y York. and stands by his new maker 1t is
believed that the Mlleryote in New
York State has been. held back for several |
years and beaten the Republican ticket on |
account of the trading off to get Miller's |
seat. If such should be the case there should |
be no man in this convention more significant |
than Miller His attitude for Blaine is hardly |
that of ambition. He might still settle his |
scores with the President Now that Mr. |
Platt has come ont or Blaine Miller could ,
get almost anything in the next nine |
months. His friends say he has been for |
Blaine because he believes Blaine can carry
New York and the North, and that Harrison |
can't.
In point of fact the Republican party.
nnder Blaine President, would undergo /
many changes whereas, under Harrison, no
change is probable to be. Mr.. Harrison is q
pupil of the Republican party, Mr.. Blaine n |
founder of it. Within the past few wears
Blaine has adopted the English view of !
namely that it is to serve n usefnl |
passing purpose and not to be a Standing
Bourbon policy. 1t is perfectly true that
Blaine went before the House WAYS and |
Means Committee and endeavored to have
them understand, in McKinley's time, that
protection was a policy, and must be
adapted to the passing wants of the people
and their investments and not to be an
Chinese wall. They laughed
him to scorn.
BIaine's Prediction as to Tarfr
One day Blaine lost his temper in another
O.
way, gentlemen, and the time will be when
Z on can count Your voters in a feu ho,,,.s ;, |