Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-07
A LONG LIST PICKED OUT
From the Delegates Who Are Loudest
and Strongest.
EVEN THE BENCH Is REPRESENTED
The South Solid in More Than One Way
Just at Present.
A SIGNIFICANT BIT OF INFORMATION


office-holding delegates to the convention is
a most formidable one On the New York
delegation there are George Sharp, a
member of the Board of General Apprais-
ers; Edward c. O'Brien, Commissioner
of Navigation, the young protege of
| Warner Miller. who has been here for a
week telling everybody whom he meets that
| two-thirds of the New York delegation is
for Harrison; S. w. Allan, of Auburn, one
of the Worlds Fair Commissioners; Charles
H. Murray, Superintendent of the Census,
and Jake" Patterson, who was to be one of
the commissioners for the building of the
new Custom House.
In Indiana there is larger proportion of
ofice-holding delegates. The leader is
Stanton j. Peele, Delegate at Large, who
holds the high judicial position of Judge of
the Court of CLAIMS 1t is probable. how
ever, that the spectacle of Federal Judge
lobbying will be two much for even this
office-holding convention, and the Judge
will probably be represented by an alter
nate.
In Michigan, where General Alger is sup
posed to be the choice of the delegation,
there are one OF two oficeholders who are,
Generol X. H. Midd, Postmaster at Ionia.
Lots of u hem From All Over.
The hero of the New Hampshire delega-
tion is Frank Churchill, brother of the
Postmaster at Lebanon, while Delegate
George 2. Croft is Postmaster at Maple
wood.
From North Dakota, John A. Percival
Receiver at the Land Office at Devils Lake,
is a delegate, along with Thomas Marshall,
a favored Government contractor. In Kan
sas, Cyrus Leland, delegate from the First
district, is the Internal Revenue Collector
for that State.
There are many more oficeholders from
the Northern States, but the list has not
yet been completed. 1t is in the South,
however, that the otfice-holding Harrison
men are really strong. Georgia leads the
list with % officeholders out of &c delegates
Here is the list:
A. E. Buck, U. S. Marshal; W. A. Pledger,
Railway Mail Service: w. W. Brown, Rail
way Mail Service; NJ. j. Doyle, Postmaster:
Il. B. Morse, Custom House employe; B. +.
Brimberry, Postmaster; C. B. Barnes. Inter-
NAL nal Revenue ai,m, Service; vice; Charles E. Cole
Richardson, Railway Mail Service;
A. J. Laird, Postmaster: John r.
Sheppard. Internal Revenue; c. C. Wimbush,
ant District Attorney; D. d. Lock, Post
master: Frank Dissror, postoffice employe;
W. S. Blackford, Internal Revenue service;
District Attorney: A. J. Spence. Internal
Revenue service: j. NJ. Barnes, Postmaster;
j. III. Revraux, Custom House employs; w. II.
Matthews, Deputy Collector Internal
Revenue.
In Alabama there are two sets of dele
gates, one of them representing what is
known in that State as the Mosely faction,
hapor of Poh L. -
the Federal Collector Of Internal Revenue.
Alabama's Significant List.
While Collector Mosely is not person.
ally on the delegation, he has seen to it
that there is no lack of other Office holders
Here is list of them:
William H. Smith, Special United States
Assistant Attorney: D. Barker. postmaster
at Mobile; Charles o. Norris, mailing clerk
Montgomery; Henry Boyd, postal clerk,
Selma; Julian H. Bingham, Register United
States Land Office; Benjamin w. Walker,
Marshal Southern district; T. a. Miller,
Postmaster at Tuscaloosa; Owen Harris,
Special Receiver Public Lands; NJ. F. Parker,
sistant United States Attorney; Robert L.
Houston, Postmaster at Birmingham; A. L.
Matthews, mail carrier.
The anti-Mosely wing will send only one
Alfred H. Hendricks, a postal
clerk at Opelika There is also contesting
delegation from Mississippi, but office |
holders are in both. The regular delegation |
there are the following:
James Hill, Postmaster Vicksburg: Fl. Pow
Burton, United States Marshal Northern |
District; f. P. Hill, Deputy Revenue Col |
lector Fourth district: W. D. Fraze Assist
shall Southern District; John R. Lynch, |
Fourth Auditor, Treasury Department.; |
George NJ Buchanan, Deputy Revenue Col |
lector; w. H. Gibbs, Postmaster at jackson. |
Two more of the Is delegates from Missis-
sippi, State counted in the Harrison col |
umn, are A. Twimberlv, the Internal Rev. |
enue Collector, who was recently deposed |
by the President, and s. S. Matthews, the |
United States Marshall, who was recently |
In Texas w. Cuney, the Collector of |
CT stoms at Galveston, leads the delegation |
with Deputy Internal Revenue Collector |
John w. Rector and L. NJ. Dandiel re-
Gently appointed an alternate on the Worlds |
Fair Commission.
Among his numerous office-holding col |
leagues in Arkansas, Henry NJ Cooper,
Revenue Collector, is the most |
prominent Delaware's small contingent
G. contains George V. Massey, who was ap-
pointed Worlds Fair Commissioner by !
the President, while North Carolina comes
E. A. White. Collector of Internal Revenues;
John G. Dancy, Collector of Customs. Will
nington: G. A Cook, United States District
Attorney; j. II. Harmon. Postmaster al Hall
fax; John Nichols Chief of Division Treas
lry Department.: James H. Young, Inspec-
,or of Customs: Archibald Brady, Postnas-
er at Charlotte.
Half of FIorida's Men in Office.
Florida has eight delegates, and of these
our are otiiceholders, as follows: Joseph E.
Lee, Collector of Customs, Jacksonville; E.
R. Gunby, Collector of Customs, Tampa;
J ohm +. Horr, Collector of Customs, Key
West; Henry Schubb, Deputy Collector of
Internal Revenue.
In the proportion of officeholders to dele
rates, South Carolina makes even a more
generous showing than Florida OF the 1S
men who will go from the Palmetto State
% Minneapolis II are drawing paw out of
he United States Treasury through the
,indness of the President. The instructions
therefore, to vote for MIN are borne with
very grace. The officeholders are:
E. A. Webster. Collector OF Internal Rev.
nuei E. II. Deas, Deputy Collector OF Inter-
lal Revenue; G: j.. Cunningham, United
tates Marshal; c. II. Fordham, Deputy Col
ector OF Internal Revenue; s. c. Smith.
'ostal Clerk at Aiken; j. P. Scruggs,
Deputy Collector OF Internal Revenues:
; +. Enson, Deputy Collector of Internal
nee: j. b. Johnston, Collector OF Customs
{ Charleston; j. H. Ostendorf Deputy
collector OF Customs; T. H. Richardson, post
naster at EGgefieid.
There are no Federal officeholders on the
Vest Virginia delegation, although Prot.
. c. White. the Geologist Of the West Vir-
ina University and one of the district