THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH PAGES 17 Wl THIRD PART. ,.. v THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. STJND. 'AT. OCTOBER 1892. A POWERFUL CIRCLE, The Little Band of Hen Who Surround and Counsel GroYcr Cleveland. GIANTS IN BUSINESS And Quiet but Influential in Field of Political Action. the W. a WHITXErs KAPID PROGRESS. Dow Tan Lamont Has Fixed Himself Kicely in a Financial Way. profession, and the adroit and conspicuous part nhlch be took in the successful rerolt against Tammany, led by Tilden, showed clearly that be was a nan who mmt ba taken into acoonnt in all future combina tions of his party managers. It was in 1880 that Mr. Whitney first attracted national attention. At the Democratic National Conrention held in that year Mr. Whitney sought to prevent the renomination of Til den, and the nomination instead of Henry B. Payne, his father-in-law. He sncceeded in the' first part of his enterprise, but failed in the latter part because of unexpected op position in the Ohio delegation. Still his work on this occasion showed the clever OTHERS CLOSE TO THE EX-PRESIDEST jooKKtsrcxDrxcE op rax nsrATcn.i New Toek, Oct a William Collins Whitney, ex-Secretary of the Navy, stands as the personal representative of Mr. Cleve land in the present campaign. Mr. Whit ney is in many Trays a remarkable man. His first meeting with Mr. Cleveland was quite out of the ordinary run. It was at the State Convention held in Utica and which nominated Cleveland for Governor. Mr. Whitney was present as a delegate, but before the assembling of the convention he received a telegram inform ing that his wife was ill and requesting his instant return to this city. Before respond ing to this message he hastened Jmjjm fit fl P. Tfk iy 4S HE KJflJisssssl w?s JiS rii.ii m fflfmlW Iff E. Cornelia Benedict. TTiUiam C. WiUney. to the room of the late Daniel ' Manning to confer with him the best means of defeating the nation of Eoswell P. Flower, the guberna torial candidate of Tammany Hall. As he entered Mr. Manning's room he saw a gen tleman seated near the door. Passing him with a bow he went up to Mr.vManning, and after informing him that imperative necessity called him home, he outlined the situation as it seemed to him, and concluded by advising Mr. Manning to unite with the County Democracy of New York in defeat ing Flower by "nominating that man Cleve land from Buffalo." Mr. Whitney Introduced to the Governor. Mr. Whitney left Utica at once, but Manning took his advice, and Cleveland was nominated and elected. When Cleve land was inaugurated. Governor Mr. Whit ney was introduced to him, and discovered much to his surprise that the man who had heen sitting in Manning's room when he announced his desire for the nomination of Cleveland, then comparatively unknown, was Cleveland himself. Thus began a friendship that has had a most potential bearing on the political history of the last ten years. William a Whitney and David B. Hill are the most conspicuous disciples of the late Samuel J. Tilden now in public life. Both were highly esteemed by that master of astuteness and subtleness, and both have made splendid use of the training which he gave them. Whitney, who is now a little past 50, was bred among the hills of Mas sachusetts, and came to New York irom Yale College. Aristocratic In his tastes and surroundings, polished and courteous in his bearing, patient, subtle and acute, and with an abundance of self-confidence, he early achieved brilliant social and pro- things of which he was capable in the larger and more complicated field of national pol itics, and greatly increased the respect in which he was held by the astute politicians of this city. Ills Street Railroad Manipulations. Between 1880 and 1884 Mr. Whitney took only a passive interest in pnlitios. A com mercial scheme, which is just now being brought to completion and which will place the control of nearly all the surface rail roads of New York in the hands of Mr. Whitney and his friends, in the main occu pied his time and attention daring these years. This enterprise, requiring for its conduct the very highest order of talent, promises golden returns, surpassing in vol ume and regularity' those of the famous Comstock lode. At the Chicaeo Convention of 1884 Mr. Whitney again came to the front, And had much to do with securing the nomination of Cleveland. He did more to turn the .Ohio delegation into line for Cleveland at 'the moment when their votes -would have the Greatest efiect than all the other Cleveland leaders combined. In the" exciting and historic campaign which followed, Mr. Whituey took a quiet, but for that reason a most effective part. He led in the work of supplying cimpaign funds when they were most needed, and had much to do with lay ing out the plan ot battle by which Cleve land was elected. Whitnev's appointment as to as Secretary of the Navy was somewhat of a nomi- . surprise to the general public, but not so to lie inner history-of the men familiar with th the campaign As Secretary of the Jfavy. i Mr. Whitney was in many respects an ideal Cabinet officer. He was courteous to eyerybody and approachable' by all, an fey : r(xjrJ f X llvll OiarXa S. FaircMd. ' WOton S. BistelU fessional success, and won the friendship of Tilden, who, always wise and cautious in his choice of lieutenants, found in the brainy and rising young lawyer a man after his own heart What Whitney Owed to Tilden. At tne instigation of Tilden, Whitney was appointed corporation counsel. This is the law officer of this city, and the position offers unequaled advantages to the man who eeks advancement in the practice of his profession, especially in its more profitable branches. In this office Mr. Whitney found free scope for the ambitions which swayed him, not the least among which was the de sire for great wealth. His marriage to the daughter of one ot the richest men in Ohio aided him greatly in the accomplishment of this desire, and with the financial prestige which this alliance gave him he has since acquired a fortune which now amounts to many minions oi aoiiars. IMr. Whitney's 'course as corporation counsel placed aim in the front rank of his active, intelligent, modest official, who'd Is' charged with vigor and impartiality the ob -ligations and responsibilities which hit office laid upon him. In a word, he was a distinct and conspicuous success, and the triumphs scored by him and his accom plished wile in the social world at Wash -ington were also memorable and splendid. Following his retirement Irom the Cabinet, Mr. Whitney again devoted his time and attention to his large and Increasing busi ness interests in this city, but also took care to maintain and strengthen the valua: ble and important alliances he had formed while in Washington. Mr. Whitney's political course during the past year has been thoronehly charac teristic of the man. While Grace, Fair child aud other friends of Cleveland were manifesting their opposition to Senator Hill in various ways, Mr. Whitney did not appear in the foreground, and It was stated by those who enjoyed his confidence that he was out of politics. For some time preced ing the convention at Chicago he was absent jn .Europe, out returned in time to take personal charge of the movement for the re nomination of Cleveland. His work .at Chicago last June was brilliant in the ex treme. Ha outwitted the enemy it every point, discovered and instantlv took ad vantage of every opportunity thai presented Itself, and from start to finish showed that he possessed the political generalship that never falters and never makes mistakes. Might Have Had Harrlty's Place. . He returned from Chicago, aside from Mr. Cleveland, the most conspicuous mem ber of his party, and could his party asso ciates have had their way he would without division have been made Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The dis advantage and annoyances of the position, however, impelled him to decline the posi tion, but he has from the first taken a very active part in the campaign and is almost daily at the headquarters of his party. 'The effect of the greater part ot the work-performed by Mr. Whitney at the present time does not appear upon the surfacs,-but it is nevertheless adroit, well timed and of the first importance. As a politician he has.thoroughly mas tered and iu some respects improved upon the methods employed witn. such wonderful success by his old leader, Tilden. He be lieves with Tilden that political rlctoriet can best be secured by an open and sggrea- .ivl hattlfk thftt Annta tn flic, in..-1-.ilju. . - . , . jc.- v .no iiuuiu.uu. i ana eniausissm oi me masses, supplement- ,eu dj machine, the scope of whose influence, though exerted quietly and secretly, includeaevery voter in the land. He it strategic and re sourceful and as a fighter. is perhaps at his best when on. the defensive. His toll-control it perfect and he it always cool without being cold. He possesses, moreover, what Tilden never had. the power of making friends and winning popularity without provoking animosity. He knows, too, how to be gentle without appearing" to be vacil lating, and he can when occasion demands say no in a way that leaves no sting behind iu Whitney and the Court of St. Jaines. Snch, briefly sketched, is the man who stands as the personal representative of Mr. Cleveland in the present campaign. In appearance Mr. Whitney it tall and erect, with a handsome, well-carved face and an air that suggests health, vigor and good spirits. Hit manner is always genial and cordial, and impels respect while re pelling familiarity of any kind. His future, should Mr. Cleveland be elected, suggests some interesting probabilities. It is well known that he does not desire to again serve in the Cabinet. He regards a Cabinet position at little better than a' clerkship, and by no means the road to take in order to reach the higher goal which he now doubtless has in bit mind. It it stated on good authority that should Mr. Cleve land -be the next President Mr., Whitney would like to be our Minister at the Court of St. James, a position for which his' wealth and social gifts brilliantly equip him. When Franklin Pierce made James Ba-' cbanan Minister to England in 18S2, by taking the latter out of the field of actual politics at a trying and critical period, he pavea tne way lor .Buchanan s nomination and' election' to the Presidency, and it is within the range of possibilities that Mr. Cleveland may perform a similar service for Mr. Whitney. At any rate, the latter is now regarded'as Mr. Cleveland's political legatee and, though it is a tar cry to 1896, the opening of the next Democratic Con vention , will probably, find Mr. Whitney's name heading the list of possible Presiden tal candidates. How Dan Lrmont Helped Cleveland. Mr. Whitney has done -Sir. Cleveland many a good turn in the past ten years, but none greater than when he advised Cleve land at the opening.of his term as Governor to make Colonel Daniel S. Lamont bis pri vate secretary. Lamont supplied just the qualities which Cleveland lacked, and never did a subordinate render chief better or more timelv service than the ex-Presi dent for nearly eight years received from Colonel Lamont The latter was in his early days a newspaper man, and a very good one, too, ana there is not day a man better informed on State and national politics than he. During the early Sart of Cleveland's pflbllc career Lamont's lscretion, shrewdness and experience. saved him from, many serious and perhaps fatal blunders, and when Cleveland removed from Albany to Washington he insisted that Lamont should acoompany him, and from his own pocket paid him annually a sum en tiki to the salary which he received from the Government as private secretary to the President juamont enjoyed ,CJleve land'a confidence in iullest measure, but he never abused it nor used it to his own ad vantage. Those who know the inner politi cal hiatory of the early months of 1888 hare long ago been aware that but for the advice Mf Daniel S. Lamont. nry hi to- I i which Lamont gave Cleveland at a critical and trying moment, and which the latter with some reluctance finally accepted, his nomination would have been rendered im possible. When he left Washington Colonel Lamont' became identified with Mr. Whitney's Metropolitan Traction Company, from which he now derives an income of some 830,000 a ear. lie has been lor some montus at ah- les-Baint in France seeking to recover from the effects of overworked insomnia, but were- he at home he would no doubt be found", taking an active interest, in the tor tunes of his former chief, as the warmest friendship still exists between the two men. Lamont is now about 36 years old, of slen der build and diplomatic temperament Sir. Cleveland's Old law Partner. Aside from Whitney and Lamont, Mr Cleveland has a small coterie of personal friends, all of 'whom are interesting and some of whom are remarkable men. In cluded in this list is Wilson S. Bissell, of Buffalo, Mr. . Cleveland't former law part ner. Years ago Mr. Bissell was a law student under Mr. Cleveland and he has ever since been one of the ex-President't most devoted .admirers. It was upon the advice ofMr. Bissell that Mr. Cfeveland became a candidate for Mayor of Buffalo, and it was Mr. Bissell who managed the canvass for the gubernatorianomination which rendered possible Mr. Cleveland's nomination for the Presidency. Mr. Bis sell is one of the leaders of the bar of West ern New York, a man of fine intellect and resolute and forceful character. He mar ried " the college chum of Mr. Cleveland't wife and the relations between the two men have all along' been close and confidentah I asked Mr.' Bissell not long since what he regarded as the secret of Mr. Cleveland's success, and he promptly replied: "His untiring industry and energy, allied to un flagging honesty and an abundant stock of hard common sense. His miud is eminent ly impartial and he wonld have made a splendid judge. Asa lawyer he prepared himself thoroughly for the trial'ot a case, and once enlisted in a cause he carried. the battle to the end. He never belonged to the class of money making lawyers; he met the poor client and the rich one on the same footing, and he often gave his services to those in distress without the expectation of compensation. To younger members of the bar he was always most generous and helpful I think it can be truthfully said of Mr. Cleveland that never in his life has he slighted any task he has undertaken." Elected to Office Without Knowing It Another of Mr. Cleveland's warm per sonal friends is Cornelius Benedict Mr. Benedict is senior partner of E. C. Bene dict & Co., bankers and stockbrokers of Wall street. He has been a member of the New York Stock Exchange for 30 years and is a man of large means. He resides at Greenwich, CL, and" though essentially a business man has lound time to take an oc casional hand in politics, and in a quiet way has often exerted a strong influence in the councils of his party. He has never been an office seeker and the only public position be has ever held was that of war den of the town of Greenwich. To this office, strange to say, he was nominated and eleoted while on' a Western trip and v j1 v V 1 1 . ' jtSP ' r. -LET .. ME THINK ! EREvs' Your Sook- EQSTflUCTlOflS OF SEE., 4 1) P nfriR-EE' Mnutes" op .40U-M r. y- COrtFINE memt; n-T-r-TT YouVu J GO" TO-rOTfllL IF Y6U VOTE THflT' TROUBLE AUEAD FOB THE AVERAGE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTOR. knew nothing of it nntil his return. He was a delegate to the late Chicago Conven tion and could have been the Democratic candidate for Governor of Connecticut this year but declined the honor. No list of Mr. Cleveland's personal friends would be complete without mention of the name of Charles S. Fairchild, ex-Secretary of.the Treasury. He was one of the leaders of the movement that culminated in the Syracuse Convention, is a man of intellect and virility.and enjoys in exceptional meas ure the confidence and esteem of the ex President IiUFUS E. Wilsos-. Royal Egg Macaroni Is a superior article. Some Italian macar oni is not fit to eat HOW IT FEELS TO DIE. The Experience ot a Skater Who Was" Drowned Beneath the Ice, bat 'Was Brought Back to Ufa The Sensation,' Not Half as Bad as Breaking on Ann, A recent number of the proceedings of) the Society for Psychical Research con tains some remarkable experiences by con, tributors who 'claim to have been at least temporarily dead. In both cases they al-, lege that they passed into a new and con-; scions after-death existence. The follow ing is from the rail Mall Budget: One day while skating on a lake I plunged through a bit of thin ice and was carried on under tbo thicker ice beyond. The flrstl thins I knew was that I found myself plunged suddenly into ice-cold water and! struggling for my life in skates and, winter, clothes against cnlll and drowning. I wens down like lead. When I came up airain is was with my bead against the solid ice. I was numbed with tbo cold and stunned with the suddenness of tne unexpected, ducking, so instead of looking for the soft place by which I bad got in, X. tried in effectually to break the thick ice over my' head by bumping and baiting against it, and was soon completely numbed by tha; cold. I gasped and swallowed a great deal of water. I felt my lungs Qlling. A momen) of suspense, during which I knew perfectly1 well I was drowning, intervened, and then l! died. 1 was drowned and dead. I knew ioi then and I have never since for a moment) doubted it. Just before I died, however, I noticed-., deliberately noticed for I am psychological by nature that mv whole past life did not como up, as I bad been Riven to understand) it would, in a single flash before me. On the contrary, I felt only a sense of cold and! damp and breathiessness, a fierce wild! struggle, a horrible choking sensation, and then all was over. I was taken out stone dead. Unless extreme remedies had been applied I would have remained stone-dead, till the present moment Alter a while they' brontrhfme back; I began to breathe azairui But I call it absurd to speak of my condition: meanwhile as one of "susnsndoduniniation."' The phrase is unscientific. I was dead and nothing else, liero theological theorists may talk about something they call the soul not having yet loft the body. 1 know nothing of all that, though I don't see how they can tell so conndontly whether in such a caso' as mine the soul, if any, does not leave tbo body at once and then come back again. For all I know to the contrary, it mav have gone' meanwhile to the hypothetical place of de parted spirits always unconscious. So far as consciousness goes, I was then and there dead, and I never expect to be any deader. I know how it feels: and.thougn it is momen tarily uncomfortable, it isn't half at bad as breaking your arm or having a tooth drawn. In fact the actual dying itself, as dying, is quite painless as painless a" tailing asleep. It is only the previous struggle the sense of J its approach that is at ail uncomtortable. Even this is much less unpleasant than I should have expected beforehand; and I noted at the timo that there was a total ab-1 seneeof any craven shrinking the sensa tion was a meie physical one oi gasping and choking. IN COME.... snTHE PEOPLE OUT GO.... -THE GOODS Our fall. business promises to beat all previous records. If you'll pardon ' the illustration, how would .it do to call our selves die Nancy Hanks of the Furniture' .trade? But there's a reason for the unusual activity. The days have been crowded full of such values as were never 'seen in Pittsburg1 before. Our prices added to our terms, have kswept everything before them. ?i 11 g5i I 'ysjl Jyfl- mtW -1 Wm I itttttW , A FURNITURE FEAST , s J ?t . - A t - 'Of rare attractiveness is offered to the People of Pittsburg and surrounding cities in the splendid display we are making tnis tan. Jiach tloor is crowded to its utmost capacity with a collection of FURNITURE and- GENERAL HOUSE FURNISHINGS, each article of which has been carefully bought and-can be sold with confidence that if will please in the stylish appearance it presents and the service it will render. -THE- . THE SECRET, THE SPELL, THE CHARM, IS vTHE vPKICE I ' I DUR GRAND STOCK...". -OF- CARPETS Is being daily reinforced with the -newest; the brightest and the most beautiful designs- ever shown in this city. ' Sensible people want the worth of their money in goods, not in newspaper wind. Bun combe," Barnum-like "ads." are "notin it" with .quality, style and really low prices. The finest floor coverings in ' the city are here, and here in a quantity and variety not- to be seen outside our -mammoth carpet floora v A LARGE STOCK OF ALL THESE. ' Sideboards, OURS ARE PLEASiBIUI FRIGES. THERE S THRIFT AND PROFIT AND DOLLARS FOR YOU IN OUR FALL SHOWING OF FURNITURE rUnillUilL A royal assortment, embrac ing all the new styles as fast as they appear on the market and weeks before they are seen in the other stores about town. Not a wood nor a finish but is represented in our matchless assortment. Matchless, .we use the word advisedly. Come in and see whedier you ever looked upon its like before. Hall Racks, -Wardrobes. Book Cases, Extension Tables, Rockers, Easy Chairs, NO NEED TO PRAISE THE "GUNN" FOLDING BED. Entirely new' principle, which commends itself at sight. It is the happiest com bination of mbdern ingenuity, and turns a .sleeping apart ment into a parlor or library at will. COME IN AND LOOK AT IT. SCORES OF PEOPLE Have looked at the "MARKS" RECLINING CHAIR, for which we are sole agents in Pittsburg. IT'S SIM PLE, ELEGANT, PERFECT. Expensive only if you want it elegan'tly upholstered, but every point of real ad vantage can be had at small cost ( Lounges, Desks, Laqe Curtains, -Portieres, Crockery.. mtbusiasm or tae masse, supplement- I ' a comprehensive aud well-oiled carty , 923; m, W PENN AVENUE. X 923, 929, 927 PENN AVENUE. CREDIT! And our liberal terms put it within the reach of all to get at once all the things needed to completely furnish the home. DN'T IT Until you have all the money to pay for what you need. Get the goods now, and have the' use of them while you are pay ing for them. Many a man owes his com fortable home to CREDIT! BVBw.KffleiiJ' &.-
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