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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCE
. PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER l, 1891.
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CLUBS AND STONES
The Host Potent Factors of
Politics in and About
Cork Just Now.
TACTICS OF THE TOEIES.
Sudden Change of Policy on the Eve
of Election Expected.
1I0XTE CABLO TEET PBOSPEROUS.
A Remarkable Cass Beported hj an English
Surgeon.
PRINCE OP WALES AND HIS BIRTHDAY
TET cable to ths DISPATCH. 3
LoxDOjf, Oct SL Copyright The
pent-up passions of the Irish politicians are
finding vent in Cork in a manner Terr
pleasing to those Englishmen who regard
inch faction fighting as a proof that Irish
men are unfit to govern themselves. It
seems a pity that arguments should be
driven into the head with blackthorns and
principles inculcated by brickbats, but after
all, election riots have occurred in more
sober countries than Ireland, and a little
blood letting may do the plethoric body
politic some good
It must not be supposed that the fighting
has been on one side in Cork. To judge
from the speeches of the Parnellites they
have been long-suffering lambs, while the
anti-Parnellite leaders talk in a style that
one might expect Irom the worm that turns.
Both sides eem keenly to relish a scrim
mage, and the loudest shonters for peace
thoughtfully provide themselves with
cudgels and fill their pockets with stones on
the principle made familiar to us by the
great military powers in Europe.
Rattling of a Thousand Blackthorns.
"We don't want to fight," said John Red
mond, yesterday, "but if these men who
drove Parnell to his grave.and betrayed Ire
land, interfere with us we will know how to
protect ourselves," and the peaceful senti
ment was emphasized by the brandishing
and rattling of a thousand blackthorns.
"If we are attacked and hunted in the
streets of Cork," said John Dillon, "we
should be cowards and fools if we did not
strike back, and the other side will get
more than they bargain for," and the audi
ence indorsed the fraternal warning with
wild war cries.
"I did strike men Thursday night," said
Dr. Tanner, "but not till they had struck
me, and if I did not hit back I would be
unworthy of the name of a Cork man," and
the peaceful air was rent with warlike
whoops.
But concurrently with this froth and fury
the humdrum election week proceeds stead
ily, and the canvassing of the voters con
firms the belief that the worthy butter dealer,
Flavin, who carries the true Ifationalist
flag, will be elected by a triumphant ma
jority. Bntplclons Tactics of the Tory Unionists.
The tactics wf ths Tory Unionist party
are suspicious. They have been holding
hole and corner indoor meetings, not daring
to show themselves in the light of day, and
each gathering passed a resolution of confi
dence in the Government and the Tory can
didate, Earsfield, but a whisper of some sud
den change of strategy on the eve of elec
tion has became louder and more persistent
It is said that the leaders have lost control
of the rank and file, and that Sarsfield may
retire at any moment The meaning of this,
of course, is that the Tories, knowing
they cannot return their own man, want to
rote for the Parnellite candidate, in order,
at any cost, to defeat the moderate Nation
alist and thereby give heart to their natural
allies, the Extremists, all over Ireland.
That this desire is real is proved by the fact
that at a Tory meeting in the Assembly
rooms last night all the speakers referred to
It and implored those present to resist the
temptation. The danger would be serious
If the Parnellites were as strong as thev
profess to be, but those best qualified to
form opinions declare that Flavin's votes
will outnumber by at least 500 the combined
poll of the Tory and Extremist candidates.
Prrparatlona for a llie'y Time.
The voting will take place next Friday,
and in view of almost certain rioting, what
ever may be the result, arrangements have
been made for placing on the streets no
fewer than 2,000 soldiers and police. The
unopposed return of the anti-Parnellite in
North Kilkenny is a sign of Parnellite
wucoo, tan u is peuevea mat the tame
thing will occur at the general election in
three-fourtlu of the Irish constituencies.
The fact is notorious that the Extremist
eichequiri! Already almost empty, and if
funds be not sent from America the Parnell
ites will not havs money enough to contest
more than half a dozen seats next year.
The situation is becoming so alarming
that special deputation will be sent to the
United States as soon as the Cork election
shall have been decided.
Sir John Gorst, under Secretary of State
for India, is one of the ablest men in the
Government, and aspires to the leadership
of the new Tory Democratic) rarty, which
he believes it is possible to organize. Two
years ago he made up his astute mind that a
general election would bring back Mr. Glad
stone to power, and since then he has lost
no opportunity of posing as the workmen's
friend
Elr John Gorsfs Revolutionary Ideas.
He is the most active member of the
Labor Committee, and has more than once
given offense to old-fashioned Tories and
imperilled his chances of promotion by the
broadness of his views on social questions.
ast night at "Wolve-.'hainpton he talked on
the eight hours' day and kindred subjects to
an audience of workingmen, and expressed
opinions which would have been called
revolutionary a generation ago. Sir John
Gorst is too sensible a man to advocate a
compulsory eight hours' day for all trades,
but he is prepared to support the restrict
tion of miners' hours, and is of the opinion
that an experiment on the same lines might
be tried with advantage in governmental
and municipal establishments at the cost of
the taxpayers.
Apparently the report which has been
current for some time past that the Govern
ment has in hand a scheme for carrying out
that experiment is not well founded!, for
the Standard, the Ministerial organ, to-day
Jails foul of Sir John Gorst, and remarks:
"Is is hard to conceive ariy step more de
moralizing than to create a privileged class
of employes endowed from public funds."
A Prlvl ecd Class of PnbUc Employes.
The Standard forgets, in its horror of the
ucw socialism, mat tne clerics in the Gov
ernment departments work irom six to eight
hours daily, compared with mercantile
exerts, whose noor ! w. xu.
day, constituting a privileged class of em
ployes endowed from public funds.
A'nother significant sign of Mr. Glad,
stone's confidence in his early return to
power has been afforded this week by the
presence of Lord Kosebery at Hawarden
Castle for several days. The visit was not
an ordinary one of "friendship, but one al
most entirely of business. Lord Kosebery
will be minister for foreign affairs in the
next liberal cabinet, and he and Mr. Glad
stone have this week been settling the gen
eral lines of policy, more particularly in
regard to England's ablations with the
triple alliance and British occupation of
Egypt
The supposition that Mr. Gladstone de
sires to scuttle out of Egypt is not correct
Such a policy would be very unpopular in
the country, and Lord Eoseberry would not
consent to'carry it out, but as soon as the
Liberal Goernment resumes office, Prance
will be informed that the British troops
will be withdrawn when Egypt is "fit to
run alone." As to the general European
policy, the Liberal principle will .be to
keep England free or all entanglements,
understandings and alliances whatsoever.
M0XTE CARLO PROSPEROUS.
THE
GREATEST SEASON IN THE HIS
TOKr OF THE C4SINO.
New 'Wing a Necessary Addition to the
Famous Gambling Resort Profits of the
Present Tear The Expenses and How
They Are Divided.
rBT CASUS TO TIIE DIBPATCTI.1
Loxdoxt, Oct SL It will interest those
who have moral scruples against gambling,
as well as those who have not and those
who are indifferent in the matter, to know
that the "Soclete Anonyme des Bains de
Her et du Cercle des Estrangers de Monaco,"
otherwise the gambling company of Monte
Carlo, far from being on the point of closing
shop are opening a new wing, in which ten
new roulette tables are to be placeJ, so that
in the height of the season there will be ten
roulette tables and two trente et quarente
in operation at the Casino.
The shareholders of the company met
yesterday, and their reports showed that
the past year had been the most profitable
of anv in the historv of the tocietv. the
total receips from the gaming tables having
amounted to 21,000,000 francs, or 1,200,000.
This is an advance of $200,000 over the
previous year, notwithstanding the fact
that in March last some half dozen -plungers
were breaking the tables daily and
walked off with about 51,000,000 francs, an
item which, of course, made a perceptible
difference in the dividend declared.
How the Profits Are Distributed.
Instead of distributing 12,000,000 francs
among the 60,000 shareholders, the directors
were only able to pay out a little over
11,000,000. Each share bears a fixed annual
interest of 25 for 5 per cent upon the orig
inal value. This is paid after the October
meeting, and in April what is called the
dividend is declared, and the profits cprn
the season are distributed accordingly. In
April last this amounted to 165 francs,
which made the total revenue, per share,
190 faancs, which is at the rate of 9 per cent
interest upon the present value and 38
per cent upon the original value.
In 1690 the total revenue was 170
francs, and in 1889 it was 160 francs. At
the end of the last winter season the shares
fell considerably, on account of the large
winnings referred to, but they have now re
covered, and are quoted to-day at 2,000
francs, as compared with 1,700 francs at this
time last year. One million francs have
again been placed to the reserve fund, es
tablished five years ago, with a view to the
expiration of the concession in 1913. so that
in case it were not renewed the society
might be able to liquidate its affairs and re
imburse its shareholders in full.
liberal Concessions and Bribes.
The amount set aside for working ex
penses ww therefore 9,000,000 francs or 51,
800,000. Of this 5250,000 is paid for the
concession, though the correspondent of
the London Timez says he is told upon good
authority that Prince Albert of Monaco,
whose hands are tied by the contract made
by his father with the company, no longer
touches this money, but that it is spent
upon the palace, in completing the
Cathedral and in carrying out other im
provements in the principality. Then
550,000 is placed to the "account of pub
licity," which is the term used by the man
agers for payments to certain newspapers
for their tolerant attitude toward the con
cern. The actual working expenses in salaries
to the immediate staff of croupiers, police
and detectives, to the theatrical tronpe, the
orchestra of the Casino, and the like,
amount to considerably over fl,0C0 ,000 a
year. The balance is devoted to the ex
penses of the municipal government of the
principality, which the society is bound by
its contract to pay.
E0W AH EYE "WAS SAVED.
Remarkable Use of an Electric Magnet in
an Optical Case.
fBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
LOKDOir, Oct 31. A remarkable case of
the successful removal of a piece of metal
embedded in the retina is reported by Dr.
Thatam Thompson, ophthalmic surgeon to
the Cardiff Infirmary. A blacksmith was
engaged in December last, at a colliery near
Pontypridd, in stamping some new tools,
when a small splinter of steel flew off and
struck him in the white of the left eye,
causing irritation and other symp
toms which eventually rendered it
necessary to remove the eye or to make
an attempt to extract the cause of the
trouble. The latter daring experiment be
ing decided upon, the patient was putnnder
the influence of ether, the little wound was
then reopened with an instrument known
as a cataract knife, and the curbed pole of
an electrio magnet was introduced. This
was then passed across the vitreous body, as
nearly as could be judged in the direction
traversed by the splinter. t
On the first withdrawal nothing ap
peared, but the second attempt, in which
the pole was passed still further, ended in
a fragment of steel passing easily through
the opening, in tow of the magnet The
sufferer is stated to have since resumed his
duties with restored sight
VIVE LA EUSSIE.
Naval Scenes in the Harbor of Brest, Where
Two Squadrons TVere Anchored.
Pabis, Oct 3L Telegrams received here
from Brest describe in glowini terms the
imposing spectacle which that harbor pre
sented when the French Northern iron-clad
division, under the command of Admiral
Gervais, left Brest for a cruise. As the
French warships passed tho Bnssian iron
clads now visiting France, salutes were
hred from all the ships, forts and shore
batteries, the yards of all the war-shs
.were manned, ensigns were dipped and the
v rencu auu Russians aninems echoed Irom
the quarter decks of the vessels of both
fleets.
As Admiral Gervais, on board the French
flagship Marengo, passed the Busslan flag-
mp, ne crieu v ive la iiussle, " Admiral
Gervais' exclamation was greeted with en
thusiastic cheering.
Raraces of the Grip In ifurope.
IHfDOK, Oct 3L The epidemio of influ
enza which has been raging in Moldavia,
Boumania, has reached Bucharest, where
the disease is accompanied by a skin erup
tion. Advices frpra Berlin state that influ
enza has also broken out there in an alarm
ing manner, so much so that the training
college has been closed on account of the
prevalent sickness.
THE WOES OF OPERA.
How Three Jealous Husbands Make
Music Not on the Bills.
MINNIE HAWS FIERI LORD
SoS
Some Queer Things, bnt There Is
Method in Hit Madness.
INSIDE HAPPENINGS OP LAST WEEK
"As jealous as a prima donna," is a
metaphor in as good standing among actors
and actresses as "as black as the ace of
spades" and as "true .as steel" etc, are
among us in the world at large. Bu the
prima donna's day as a star in that line of
work is over. She may be leading woman
henceforth. But then she must play up to
a star rather than be played to
as a star. And her rival, her
mastermaa is, her own husband. Her
jealousy is but a pale washed
out counterpart of hit It is only the echo
of the echo of his reverberating roar. In
comparison with her husband, the prima
donna nowadays is considered the embodi
ment of good nature, humility and unassura
ingness in Bhort, she Is an angel.
Among prima donne's husbands the
prince is the Baron or Chevalier Wurtegg,
Madame Minnie Hank's tpouse. Surely
never was there a husband so devoted as the
Baron WurteggI Surely never was there a
wife so cherished as Madame WurteggI If
the Baron is not exactly on his knees to his
wife, at least he is on his knees for her.
Her troubles are multiplied in
him a thousand fold. If one of her high
notes is disordered, the Baron's organs of
speech era dumb. If the cantatrice is
hoarse, the Baron is done up in red flannel
and has an odor of galloping consumption
about him. If Madame Hauk has profes
sional annoyances, her husband is a demon
of jealousy. It is Minnie Hauk with him
from daylight to dark. He sees Minnie
Hauk in the stars, on the pavement, in the
heavens above, in the earth beneath and in
the waters under the earth.
Where HI Value Lies.
The Baron is an artistio and economical
advertiser. There's his value. He will cive
a newspaper man an hour's interview if
Madame Hauk be only introduced in it as a
prologue or epilogue. He precedes Minnie
Hauk to the towns she visits, and preceding
him is a 'gentle breeze of dainty advisory
notes. When the Baron arrives a strong
wind of them is blowing, and then Minnie
Hauk comes in on a perfect hurricane. This
is the Baron in his orthodox state of mind.
A time comes when he is otherwise and
then he rises to an unapproachable height
That he has often an opportunity to do so
can easily be imagined by remembering that
including Miss Hauk there are six prima
donne in his company. They go three and
three three sopranos and three contraltos.
The sopranos do not mingle and neither do
the contraltos, but a soprano may know a
contralto and vice versa,and they sometimes
take sides in what therefore might
be termed a contralto-soprano fracas.
Then add to each prima donna her husband.
In Minnie Hauk s case you might count the
Baron as two husbands, for he is worth that
to her. But one mustn't be mistaken about
Chevalier Wurtegg, who is a gentleman, a
scholar, a diplomat and a writer. Keep
him off the subject of Minnie Hauk and he
is all right, but mention her and he is daft
Another Case of the Green-Eyed.
The premonitions of Madame Tavary'i ar
rival come in the form of a little gentleman.
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who is Madame's husband. "What Hank's
voice is to Hauk, what Hauk and her voice
are to the Baron, all this is Tavary to Mon
sieur. "When Tavary sings he goes through
precisely the tactic that Wurtegg does
when Mrs. Hauk appears. Tavary dances
from one door to the other with one eye on
the stage and the other on the audience.
When it is unappreciative he frowns, and
when it is pleased he goes wild with delight
As Hauk usually opens the week with
Carmen, her favorite and famous role, she
gets one ahead of Tavary, who retaliates
by sending Monsieur Tavary to the man
ager. "Madame Tavary must," t her hus
band, "sing in 'Cavalleria Ensticana' on its
opening night, or Madame Tavary will not
ing all week."
Of coarse thU brings everyone
to time or to despair. Madame
Hank, who knows Tavary is ambitious to be
varmen, gracefully waives her privilege and
permits Tavary to be Bantitzza. Tavary says
she signed a contract to be the first prima
donna, and never knew that Minnie Hauk
was in the company. When she found it
out she subsided into tears and stayed in
them all day.
The Chevalier In a Rage.
There was a performance last Monday
night, to which only a limited number were
invited. Minnie Hauk was playing Carmen.
Tavary was in a box dividing the attention
of the house. After a while a well-known
critic dropped or was enticed into the box
where Tavary sat She was relating to
him her successes, showing him her rings
and telling him what a Carmen she could
make, when Wurtegg caught sight of them.
The plaudit-to-be was squeezed to death, as
he convulsively doubled his fists.
"Why was Tavary in the box; who had
sent the critic there; she should not be in
the box at all," he yelled at the manager
whom he had pulled into the house. When
the chevalier appears in evening dress with
his silk hat on at the theater Madame Hauk
is in the leading role. On her off nights he
is never seen at the theater.
The third husband is Edward Graham,
who married Madam Natalie. She as well
as her husband is an American. Graham is
a good fellow, devoted to his wife as his
wife, but steering clear of the pitfalls of the
advertising husband. He is never seen in
the theater. The existing jealousy is the
reason that Madam Natalie did not once
sing alone in Pittsburg.
The men singers have their jealousies too.
When Del Puente got to Pittsburg last
Monday his name was not in the papers. It
was only after a deal of petting that he
promised to appear. Six weeks ago the
manager weighed 170 pounds and filled
every corner of his waiscoat To-day the
same jralstcoat is in creases and 50 pounds
of avoirdupois has gone to the heaven where
lost pins and pennies go never to return.
My facilities for obtaining fine diamonds,
watches, jewelry, etc, are such as to allow
me to sell goods at from 15 to 25 per cent
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WITCHCRAFT REIGNS.
Insanity and Disease Rampant in the
Hills Near Beading
AS A BESULT OP THE BELIEFS.
Unsernpnlons Quads Heaping a Harrest
From Deluded Victims.
CUEEENT ST0EIES ABOUT CTJEES
rsrzciAL mranAx to ra msrATca.1
Beading, Oct SL A veritable nest or
hot-bed of supposed witches and witchcraft
exists among the stony hills of Earl and
Douglass townships, eight miles east of
Beading. Strange as the statement may ap
pear in modern type, belief in this exploded
delusion forms to-day as important an ele
ment in the life of the the humble farmers
there, as far as can be judged, as it did in
that of the Salem colony fanatics of the
seventeenth century. "Spells," "influence,"
"magnetism," "witchery" and the "evil
eye seem actually to pursue these people
by day and haunt them by night, even exer
cising a more baneful influence than does
voudooism in the black belts of the South
em States.
What is worse, moreover, is the fact that
at least half a dozen "witch doctors" in this
very city carry on a nefarious practice
among them, and seek to promote their own
profit by fostering the strange error in their
dupes and extending it tdother neighbor
hoods. Tragic results have resulted from it
all within the past three month, and conse
quences still more serious are likely to fol
low in the near future.
Suffers for s Handkerchief.
Ten familes live within sight of one an
other near Greshville. The houses and
other farm buildings are uniformly of stone,
as are the fences. Much sickness has pre
vailed thereabouts of late. No less than
seven persons right there are regarded as
havincr close commerce with the evil one.
For miles around persons suffering from va
rious illnesses contend they have had spells
or enchantments, which ordinary physi
cians are impotent to cure, put upon them
by the malignant '."hexes" or witches and
their familiars living in that dreaded
vicinity.
In one of these stone houses live a re
spectable and estimable couple, a middle
aged farmer and his wife The wife suffers
from weakness of the throat and lungs, and
in consequence keeps a handkerchief tied
around her head and bound over her mouth
to prevent her from contracting colds. She
is blamed for much of the sickness and, suf
fering complained of, and her neighbors say
the white band about her mouth marks her
as a witch. They point the finger of scorn
at her and remark to one' another in whis
pers, "Look out, she's a hex!"
Close by another woman relates that her
husband was recently troubled by what he
first thought to be rheumatism, as he did '
not believe in witchcraft He had been
ailing all summer, 'and was grievously af
fected. Each evening he felt perfectly
well, but in the mornings his whole body
would be stiff and numb.
Cured by a Witch Doctor.
Three weeks ago he visited a Beading
"witch doctor," who asserted that he had
been "magnetized," gave him some
powders to take, and cautioned him par
ticularly against giving or receiving any
thing from any of the neighbors, or talking
to any one suspected of "magnetizing" him,
for the space of nine days. The husband
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obeyed the "witch doctor's" injunctions
carefullv,and although several neighbors
wanted him to receive things from them,
he is now entirely restored to health. "My
husband," declares this woman, "was
surely under a spelL I know it, and I'm
also certain who is to blame for it It's an
old woman who lives yonder, across that
hillside there. She's a hex!"
The same Beading "witch doctor" is
credited with curing a 14-year-old girl near
Colebrookdale Station, five miles north
ward, of a similar case of stiff "masnetism,"
A poor widow near Greshville, who lost her
voice last spring, and who was told by a
Beading "witch doctor" that, being "mag
netized," the "influence" would have to be
removed, else it would kill her, has again
lost her voice after a temporary recovery,
and now is hourly in fear of being carried
off by evil spirits. A dozen other cases
have developed in Earl township of like
character.
Insanity Results From It.
The local papers here last August told of
the sad case of Miss Mary Buth, of Gresh
ville, who lo3t her reason from nervous
worry over the gossiping accusations of the
villagers that she was a "hex" and re
sponsible for the long continued illness of
Mrs. Horace Boyer, her next door neigh
bor. Mrs. Mary Wentzel, wife of William
Wentzel, of Alsace township, and recently
adjudged a lunatio by the Berks Court,
is another victim of this witch
craft hallucination. Fifteen years ago
she was informed that certain neighbors of
hers in Alsace were witches and wizards in
disguise, who practiced the black art in se
cret, and the fancy so preyed upon her
mind that she became deranged. Now she
imagines that she is tortured by these dis
guised witches and wizards, and whenever
she sees any person not belonging to her
Immediate family enter, or even approach
723 and 725 liberty st., cor. eighth,
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her house, she runs to her room, locks her
self in and hides in a closet to escape her
supposed enemy.
Mrs. Elizabeth Weand, of 631 Moss street,
this city, just recovered from a singularly
tragic experience, was another victim of the
delusion, and chiefly of the vicious cupidity
of "witch doctors" here. Eight years ago
her health failed and she was seized occa
sionally with sudden flashes of heat in her
head, when she would rush frantically out
into the open air unprotected, even in cold
est weather.
Driven to Attempt Suicide.
Beadin? "witch doctors" were consulted
for her relief, and they cave her concoctions
to annihilate the alleged "magnetism"
under which she labored. Her malady con
tinued, and on September 1 last, her hus
took her to a new "witch doctor" to ascer
tain if an evil demon did not still remain
in her, and received sundry potions from
him. Shortly afterward, maddened by the
nameless drugs, Mrs. Weand attempted to
drown herself in the Schuylkill at the foot
of Franklin street, but was rescued. Next
day she tried to jump out of a tall window,
but was prevented by her niece. Finally,
September 10, she got possession of two
razors and with them horribly slashed her
throat and abdomen. Her wounds were
sewed up with over a hundred stitches, and
now. strange to tell, she has entirely recov
ered her health and reason.
Begular physicians here and the civil
authorities a3 well are agreed that this
witchcraft delusion must be wiped out at
any cost, but just how it is to be done is not
yet datermined. Meanwhile, it is extend
ing steadily.
The largest stock of fine diamonds and'
precious stones, watches, jewelry, silver
ware, etc, in the city, at M. G. Cohen's, 36
Fifth ave.
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name a household word still prevail.
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Tried to Heal Pennsylvania "Wounds
With a Foreign Mission.
HAD SOLDIERS SENT HOME TO YOTS
Purchased tha Elder Bennett's Favor With
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If Abraham Lincoln was not a master pol
itician I am entirely ignorant of the qual
ities which make up such a character. In a
somewhat intimate acquaintance with tha
publio men of the country for a period of
more than a generation, I have never met
one who made so few mistakes in politic
as Lincoln.
The man who could call Seward as Pre
mier of his administration, with Weed tin
power behind the Premier often stronger
than the Premier himself, and yet hold
Horace Greeley even within the ragged
edges of the party lines; and the man who
could call Simon Cameron to his Cabinet in
Pennsylvania without alienating Governor
Curtin, and who could remove Cameron
from his Cabinet without alienating Cam
eron, would naturally be accepted as a man
of much more than ordinary political sa
gacity. Indeed I have never known one wha
approached Lincoln in the peculiar faculty
of holding antagonistio elements to his own
support and maintaining close and often ap
parently confidential relations with each
other. This is the more remarkable from
the fact that Lincoln was entirely without
training in political management
His First Poll for the Presidency.
While Lincoln had little appreciatian of
himself as candidate for President as late as
1859, the dream of reaching the Presidency
evidently took possession of him in ths
early part of 1860, and his first effort to ad
vance himself as a candidate were singu
larly awkward and infelicitous. He had
then no experience whatever as a leader of
leaders, and it was not until he had mads
several discreditable blunders that hs
learned how much he must depend upon
others if he would make himself President
Some Lincoln enthusiast in Kansas, with
much more pretensions than power, wrots
him in March, I860, proposing to furnish a
Lincoln delegation from that State to ths
Chicago Convention, and suggesting that
Lincoln should pay the legitimate ex
pensenses of organizing, electing and tak
ing to the convention the promised Lincoln
delegates. ' To this Lincoln replied that "in
the main, the use of money is wrong, but
for certain objects in a political contest ths
use of some is both right and indispensable."
And he added: "If you shall be appointed a
delegate to Chicago I will furnish 5100 to
bear the expenses of the trip."
He heard nothing further from the Kan
head of wood st.
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