SPfpSoTCETK! Arc priBtcd to-day in THE DIS Then read tke Special Advertise PATCH. If yoH are going to moTe you slionld read tliem carefkilly. Tlicy will gnide liome-hunlers. ments In THE DISPATCH To lAst f CoIbhib to-day. They are most Mtisldctorjr. FORTY-SEVENTH TEAR PrrTSBUEG. THURSDAY, EEBRTTARY' J8, 1892-TWELVE PAGES. THREE CETNS. P01SF?I5!BHBP?S I 9iWim&StmBiJVr Wrr . r. t-V-HHRRH9HI BHM T rtm I I H .VV .k " wl H bpW MibM t-.P m bVs j.bV A. i eW A. 2JbpppV j " JOfQ.t& t J B H W .r V W aaV ww .eV W MT 1J.i"iJfT. "v Tha fa a HbaHciI & dVMlttfBAa i T:. -C rmiHR ? IE1BHI IfFII PI TO With the Way in Which They Scored First in Their Big Game. PIE FOR THE CRANKS Who Seize Every Opportunity to Air Political Speeches. SERMONIZING VERY TIRESOME' .-Even to the Most Sympxthetio. Ears Then Heard Every Day. tfCliainpions of Labor to Have a. Chance i to "Make Themselves Heard Bills Demanding That Eight Hours Be the Legal Day Are to Be Passed How Some of the Chiefs Take Holidays "With Pay While the Common Laborer Is Docked if He Loses an Hour Mr. Tarsney's Committee Professes to Be Anxious for Business A Demand to Be Made for Data to "Work Upon It May Be a Ruse to Delay Immediate Action. IsrzciAi. TttrGJiArmc ucttie.J BrnKAtr op The Dispatch, 1 N AsmsoTOX, D. C. Feb. 17. t As was to have been expected, the free coinage men grow more and more pleased with their little -victory of yesterday in showing Mr. Tracer that while they are not disponed to push things with undue rapid ity, they can push them quite successfully when the time comes. It is claimed by the anti-silver men that the vote that crushed Filibnsterer Tracey was not a fair test of the strength of the two factions. It was not, assuredly, be cause the silver men did not anticipate the action ot Mr. Tracey and could not muster their full strength at once. Possibly it was not anticipated, either, by those of Mr. Traccy's way of thinking, but this leaes it that there was an average attend ance of the Home, 3nd, logically, an aver age attendance of the two factions, leaving the Republicans out of the question, and therefore the vote must have been in a way a test. Free Coinage Hen in Great Glee. At any rate, the free coinage men are laughing at their easy victory, and the anti- silver men are snnbbing'Tracey for precipi tating a test of strength the result of which they admit is having the e0ect to carry some doubtful members into the free coinage rants.. "' .Mr. Bland himself treats the matter -with lofty indifference, and sits in his seat chew ing his everlasting gum as though there was nothinc on his mind more important than to sit through the sessions and listen to the tireome demagogism of his associates with as much philosophy, as the circumstances x will allow. He is as mysterious as a sphynx in regard to his intentions, but everyone knows that Tie will have up the silver bill before the tariff bills come, and anyone who imagines he will be defeated without a great struggle does not know the man. Demagogues and Cranks In Line. The .debate in the House to-day on the In dian appropriation, bill is an jexample of w bat may be expected all through the ses sion. Every measure before the House will be seized upon by the demagogues and cranks as an opportunity to make political speeches. By those objectionable and very common noun I do not mean the "Tom" "Watsons and the "Jerry" Simpsons of the House. Thee may seem to be somewhat cranky, but for demagogy, compared with a hundred others in the House, ou both sides, they are all earnestness, all sincerity. Their efforts this afternoon, howeter, are igood sample of their intention.. They put themselves forward at every opportunity not to speak to the question before the House, but to repeat and to re-repeat their honest but doleful story about the wrongs t tbe poor farmer, and to urge as a panacea Goernment sub-treasuries, loans at 2 per cent, ind all tha rest Too Much of a Good Thine. This is all very well. It is in a way ex ceedinglj rcrrevhipg to hear someone on the floor of either Chamber give evidence that tbe evils that arise from weak spots of the social structure touch his heart sorely, and Vth.it be "aruestly desires to apply some rem t dy, but the best ot sermonizing grows tire- fome even to the -most sympathetic ears when it is heard day after day with scarcely a change of i,ote. Already the Alliance gentlemen have oc cupied much more than their share of tho time time hitherto happily quite unimpor ant of the House and they are already dubbed "calamity howlers." " They are not interesting, either as to personality or ora tory. Not one of them but is of remarkably insignificant appearance. Senator PefFer's head alone almost fits him to be a freak for a dime museum. AGJ hat would drop down on his very conspicuous ears, snd I do not think there is higher than a No. 7 that in that extraordinary little circle of en r thusiasts. Not Exactly Revolution llatert. j . Such men may excite curiosity for a time, then amusement, then annoyance and dis- l gust, but they never make revolutions, and thelr many utterly absurd propositions, "Vthough intermixed with much borrowed common sense, must really tend to retard vastly greater movements which have been thought out with scientific exactness by some of the greatest minds of the world. Again it seems the "champions of labor" "are to have a chance to be heard before "' Congress. For years under Democratic rule the Chairman of the Committee on .Labor has been from Missouri. The first two or three terms it was Hon. John O'Xeil, but as that jovial gentleman sup ported Mills for the Speakership, Mr. Tarsney, who supported Crisp, was taken and O'Xeil was left Mr. Tarsney cannot discover that anything tangible has been dene by Labor Committees in the past, or "that any data are available on which to proceed in the futurt. He wants data and to get them asks to call for persons and papers, as the saying goes. BIlIi Demanding 8 Hours' Limit. A host of bills have beentintroducad and referred to his committee. Many of these demand that eight hours shall constitute the legal working day for all laborers, mechan ics, and so forth, employed by the Govern ment, or by any person having a contract for Government work. Chairman Tarsney finds there is an eight-hour law on the stat ute books, but has no data to show whether it has been enforced or violated, though a bill has been before Congress for years, ac companied by a voluminous report, asking lor the pay due to Government workmen who ha e beep compelled to work for more than the legal eight hours. Again, Chairman Tarsney finds a lot of bills demanding that convict labor be pro hibited on all public works, and declares he cannot discover that any such labor is em ployed, and wants the lormcr to investi gate. He knows very well that whether convict labor has been, or is, or is not so em ployed, it could do no harm to urge the passage of such a bill. The honest laboring people of the country want it, not only for prevention in the case of the Government, but as an example to the States. TT hero tbe Itab Comes In. And here is where the rub comes. On Mr. Tarsney's commmittee there are per sons who represent States where convicts are leased to contractors of all kinds and these members want no such law and dare vote for no such law, because the highest influences in their States would resent it as a rebuke to them. The fact is there is no law asked for by the laboring people that does not meet with this objection, that whatever is done to favor workingmen in Government employ impeis workingmen in private employ to demand similar privileges and ameliora tions. Employers, asked to grant eight hours as tne working day, answer that the Government tried the eight hour system ana it was a failure. They do not know or do not? explain that it was deliberately made a failure. I do not sav this to be partisan, but merely to state a fact that has been and can be proved. General Grant, a great soldier accustomed to think that men were made to obey and not to suggest nor complain, did what he could to vitiate the eight hour law, and as no way of enforcing it was provided, it was violated continually. The Sport and PIj thine of Public Officers. "When Hon. Eobert Lincoln was Secre tary of "War he deliberately ordered the ' violation of the Jaw and that against the repeated protests of President Arthur, who finally had to is sue to him an absolute command to have the law obeyed. And so on. This law has been the sport of public officers, obeyed or violated as the private convictions or social influences actuated them. Mr. Tarsney gives the two instances of a lack of data, cited above and asks in a re quest of about 2,000 words to be permitted to investigate. It is to be hoped he will get what he wants and investigate honestly and earnestly. Usually, .taking the historic treatment of labor questions as a basis for judgment, it would be said that such an investigation could be intended for no other purpose, than to delay action on bills till so late a day that their enactment would be impossible. Let us assume that Mr. Tarsney is in earn est. If so he can collect and furnish many interesting things in connection with the treatment of laborers and labor questions by tbe Government of tne United States. Thirty Day Leave TTUa, Pay. Tn this connection T may state that it has been decided to report avorably a bill giv ing the employes of the"Bureau of Engrav ing and rnnnng 30 days leave with pay each year. Two or three yeare ago the em ployes of the Government Printing Office were given IS days and the period was sub sequently increased to 30. It may be as sumed that the Bureau, of Engraving" and Printing people will cet their bill through. "With this, one is led to wonder when me chanics of a possibly less skilled class will be given a holiday with pay and then when the boon will be extended to the poor watchman, laborers and multifarious work men, who are now many of them half paid and half starved. The President of the United States gets $50,000 a year and goes fishing and duck hunting and kiting around the country' making a circus of himself, drawing his pay all the time. A Cabinet officer gets 58,000 a year and stays away indefinitely from his workshop. Assistant secretaries, heads of bureaus, deputy commissioners and chiefs of divisions drawing 50,000 down to 52,000 a year may go and come at leisure, but must request leave of absence and must hot exceed modesi bounds. Deputy commis sioners and chiefs of divisions must go but little beyond the allotted 30 days of the clerks of various grades -who have had this 30 days for long years. "Watchmen, mes sengers, mechanics and laborers of all kinds hae no Mich blessing allowed them and lose thoir pay if thev are absent from their pbsts, yet it "is said there, are no classes in this country. Laborers Have No Surh Privilege!. Going up the grand stairway of the Capi tol this morning, I came upon an aged Irishman with bowed bact, wrinkled face and grizzled beard and hair. I asked him what wages he received and was answered that his pay is 51 25 a day, but that he was only allowed to work 13 davs last month. There were two lorces, each working 13 days. They lost pay for rainy days, but were required to sweep the stairs, terraces and porticos when It snowed. The army of laborers employed about the grounds get 51 50 a day; but are also divided into two "eangg," to use the word of the old man, each working 13 dajs in a month. Now while Mr. Tarsnev s Committee 'might not find it convenient to criticise the potsiblr undue privileges taken by some high officials who do not seem to feel the fact that they are just as much employes of the Government as is this poor Irishman, they might well inquire if great wrongs are not'perpetrated by this great Government against the poorer and.poorest classes of workmen like this poor man and his thou sands of fellow workers. The spirit of the Government must be reflected in the spirit of the whole country and- if it oppress its poor what shall be expected of the individ ual and the corporation? . LlOHTNEn. THE HEW STAS BRIGHTENS. Astronomer Servlss Doesn't Thick It "Was Caused by a Collilloli. New Tokk, Feb. 17. Special.' Garrett P. Serviss, a member of the Stin' editorial staff, whose articles on the subject of astron omy have gained him a reputation in this country among astronomers, has been closely observing the new star Auriga for some time "I have observed to-night," said Mr. Ser viss, "that the new star Auriga is brighter -than it was last night. There seems to have been a sudden accession of licht in' the star since Tuesday night. This would indi cate that the star (is a variable of long period, but that it has rapid fluctuations of brightness when near its maximum. "Thelater spectroscopic observations tend to throw doubt on the first assumption that the star was caused by a collision,, and these fluctuations rather fall in with the idea that it is a variable star whose maxima had not hitherto been observed. At the same time, it is possible that the outburst may hare been the result of a collision, ana mat me apparent brightening to-night resulted from the falling of another mass of meteors into tne star," f JHOTHEfiJEAL ON, An Open Secret That Cam eron and Quay Are Eecon ciled "With Harrison. OPPOSITION IS DISARMED By tho Satisfactory Conclusion of All the Arrangements. DUDLEY THE BEAL MASTER SPIRIT. Negotiations Conducted While the Princi pals Were .Absent. CAMPBIIiL GOES TO MEET CLEVELAND rSridAI. Tlt-SGHAU TO THE DISrATCH. Philadelphia, Feb. 17. A special dispatch to the Times from "Washington, D. C,lsays Itis an open secret within liniited political circles in this city that a move ment for a reconciliation between the Presi dent and' Senators Cameron and Quay has been in progress for some days, and it is confidently asserted that it will be con summated before Senator Quay's return from Florida, by which our Pennsylvania Senators will resume their control of Penn sylvania patronage and Harrison will be" given lhs vote of Pennsylvania for renomi nation. This is not a "mere rumor, and I speak ad visedly when I say that the effort to recon cile these parties has taken positive shape, and has been steadily progressing since Quay left on his southernjourney. Strange as it 'may seem, negotiations are actually conducted by Dudley, although he is not brought into personal relations with Harri son. Dudley now regards it as his interest to have the 'present administration continue for another four years. "While the Presi dent is personally distasteful to him, he is not only in the, deal to aid in' Harrison re nomination, but he is really the master spirit in conducting the negotiations. I have every reason to believe that these ne- fotiations will be successfully constituted v the time that Senator Quay returns from Florida next week. He did not choose to ap pear in them at all, but that they have been conducted in his absence with his knowledge and with the assurance that if satisfactorily concluded, he would give his assent there is no reason whatever to doubt. I have reason to believe that the President confidentially expects in a few weeks to have the support ef Quay and Cameron in Pennsylvania and tthus prac tically control the delegation in your' State and to have the active co-operation of Dud ley in Indiana, which would disarm the op position to Harrison in his own State. If so, the renomination of Harrison will be ab solutely assured, and with the announce ment of such a combinatipn in the interest of Harrison no opposition candidate could take -the field with any reasonable hope of success. ' , ANOTHER HARBISON INDORSEMENT. The Anti-Lottery KepuDllcans of Louisiana Bold Their State Convention. Kew.Obi.hans, La, FeT). 7. The State, Conventron of the "WarmSuth faction: of'lhe ltepnbllcan party of Louisiana -was called to order shortly after noon to-day. All per sons' of the .other faction "were rigidly ex eluded. Besolutions presented by the committee were adopted. They recognize with satis faction the proud achievements of the party in the last tour years, including the adop tion of the McKinley bill, congratulate the people of the State on the .overthrow of the Louisiana LotteryCompany and credit the Republican .party with -the good work; condemn the action of the majority of the Re publican Central State Committee in attempting to control the party; repudiate tbe boodle convention held under their auspices, and claim that tne convention was dominated by lottery money; call attention to Mr.. Leonard's record when lie was a leader of the "White. League. The last plank indorsed President Harrison for re election., For Governor, John E. Braux, of Pointe Coupe, was nominated. HILL HA8 INDORSEES. - They Pass Resolutions Approving of Ills Midwinter Convention. KlNGSTOsr.Feb. 17. ISpecial' The First Ulster county district has elected Dr. Dayid Kennedy, John F. Cloonan and Lawrence Kelly to tbe Albany convention, and unani mously adopted the following: Wbereas, Certain alleged Democrats in the city of Hew York and elsewhere aie at tempting to promote discord in the ranks of the Democracy and discredit the action of the Stato Committee in calling the State Convention for the 22d day of .February next, the"Democrats of the First Assembly district, of the county of UlBter, assembled, do herebj' resolve that, the action of the State Committee be and. the same is hereby heartily approved and indorsed; and bo ft further . Kesolved, That the delegates to ba this day chosen to lepicsent the First Assembly District, of the conntyof Ulster, be and they are hereby instructed to vote for such dele gates to tne National Convention as favor the nomination of Senator V. B, lull for President of the United States. -SOLID FOR CLEVELAND IN OHIO. Ez-Governor Campbell to Tell Grover So at Detroit, lext Tuesday. Hamilton, O., Feb. 17. Ex-Governor Campbell will meet ex-PreJident Cleveland at the Russell House in Detroij, next Tuesday and confer with him. The purpose of the conference on the part of ex Governor Campbell is to assure the ex President of n solid delegation for him in Ohio at the coming National Democratic Convention. Ex-Governor Campbell, associated with certain other prominent Ohio "Democrats, proposes to try to make the Ohio delegation solid for Cleveland. CAHP2ELL AND CLEVELAND. They Are to Meet at the Ann Arbor Col i lege Exercises. Columbus, O., Feb. 17. Special Ex Governor Campbell was at Toronto, Can ada, to-day, in the capacity of attorney for a New York railroad corporation before the Canadian courts. He nas to return to New York to-night, "and will remain there until to-morrow, when he goes to "Detroit on busi ness. At the latter place he is expected to meet ex-President Cleveland, Senator Vilas ,and ex-Senator Bayard, who are attend the 'col lege exercises at Ann Arbor. A G. A. R, Defense of Alger. Minneapolis, Feb. 17. At to-day's session of the State G. A. B. Encampment the Committee on Resolution reported a resolution declaring the New York Sun's I attack on General Alger to he allbcl'ona brave and a generous soldier, and a disgrace to American journalism, which should be condemned by every loyal American citizen. The resolution was adopted. CDMH1NGS HAS AE00H. Nebraska Democrat Wear Badges With Bis Name Upon' Them. "WAsniNGiox, D. a, Feb. 17. It is not often that an American statesman of these days has a Presidential boom thrust upon him, but such is the enviable experi ence of Congressman Amos J. Cummings, of New York. During the session ot tho Houe, to-day. Congressman Bryan, of Ne braska, called Mr. Cummirigs to the rear of the hall, and in the "presence of a few ad miring members presented to the New York Congressman on behalf of the Democrats of Fremont, Neb., a badge bearing the follow ing inscription; "For President, Amos J. Cummings, of New YorK For Vice Presi dent, J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska." Mr. Bryan explained that this badge -was worn by the Fremont Democrats at Lincoln, last Monday, at the installation of Gov. Bovd. and that he bad been directed by the Fremont Democrats to notify Mr. Cnmmings that he was tneir choice lor the .rresiaency. LOVE AND THE, LAW. CHIEF JUSTICE FDLLER'S DAUGHTER VARRIED IN ITALY. Her Father Opposed the Hatch hnt Her Mother Finally Blessed tho Tonne Couple She Left Them to Spend Their Honeymoon Alone. "Washington, p. 0., Feb. 17. ISpecial There has been another romantic marriage in the family of Chief Justice Melville .Fuller, between Miss Mary, the eldest daughter, and Mr. Colin C. Manning, a son of ex-Governor Manning, of South Carolina. Young Manning at tthe instance of the Breckenridge family yras introduced to Miss Fuller and fell deeply in love. His affec tions was reciprocated and they made no at tempt to conceal the fact. Chief Justice andJMrs. Fuller did not look with entire favor upon young Man ing, but he continued his attentions until it was thought best for all concerned that the young lady should be sent to Berlin to fin ish her musical education. Several weeks ago Mr. Manning went abroad and joined Miss Fuller. About the same time Mrs. Fuller learned their daughter's health was not good so she also went to Berlim "While traveling in Italy, so the story goes, Mr. Manning met Mrs. Fuller and net daughter and without delay induced thesoung lady to marry him. When Mrs. Jnller learne'd what had occurred she exprssscd her surprise and disappointment, but finally gave him her blessing, and after attending the wedding immediately started homeward leaving the ?oung couple to spend their honeymoon a Europe and come back to America at their sweet will. -e . ... .. - SAWED HIS OWN THROAT With the Jagged Glass of a Broken 'Win dow Fane One of 'the Most Horrible Suicides on ltecbrd Happens Over in "Westmoreland County. Gbeensbueo, Feb. 17. Special. The grip claimed another victim in this vicinity yesterday, by suicide. A few weeks ago George Grnmbling.a citizen of old Nineveh, was stricken with- the disease, but during theilastfew days he, seemed to be convales cent. During the temporary absence of the nurse last evening, Grumbling arose from his bed, and, goingVto the window, broke a pane of glass. Then, placing his neck and throat thrqughAyjjJbole in the glasr, the man'delfberately "fiaweThls throat 'over the roughened edges of the glass. Blood spurted all over his clothes and the walls, but he sawed his throat until he fell to the floor exhausted. The nurse returned and found him unconscious. A physician was called, and 12 stitches were made in sewing up the wounds. While the physi cian's back was turned the apparently dying man covered his head with the bed clothes, and tore out every stitch, lacerating the gaping wounds afresh. The physician tried to stanch the flow of blood, but before any thing could be done the man was dead. Grumbling was a prominent business man and leaves a wife and several children. HYER GIVES HIMSELF "UP. Tbe Man TVho Gave tha Police the Slip a Near Plttsbnrs Is Locked Up. New York, Feb. 17. Spendl. John Hyer, the clerk who is accused of embez zling f6,t)00 from his employers, William Harvey & Son, real estate agents of Jersey City, and who led the .police such a chase all the way across tbe continent to Califor nia, surrendered himself this morning:. He went quietly to the home of his iither-ln-law, ex-Alderman Harvey MarW, where his young wife has been staying since her return from Pittsburg, beyond which place her husband escaped from Detective Dal ton, who bad him on a train on their v, ay1 from San Francisco. Hyer remained at the house all night. In the morning Mr. Marsh sent for Police Cap tain Farrier, of the First precinct, to come to the house, and when he reached there Hyer was produced. The police were not surprised. They became convinced several davs ago that the storv of his sailing on a steamer for Australia was untrue, but had not abandoned their efforts to find him. Hyer pleaded not guilty and was remanded till bail is fixed. VINDICTIVE HH& MINT0N. She and Her Friends Won't Travel on the Same Train With Her Habby. Sioux Falls, a P., Feb. 17. All the parties in the Minton divorce proceedings left this morning for Parker. Jlrs. Minton, Colonel Weston, the co-respondent, and Edward Nicoll, brother of the plaintiff, re fused to go on the train on whicn the de fendant was a passenger, and drove across ,the country. Mrs. Minton took her chil dren. J. McKim0 Mintpn, accompanied by his attorneys, wentfby the train. The trial was begun this morning before Judge Smith and will occupy two or three davs. The day has been consumed in set ting a jury. Mrs. Mihtoa withdrew the more serious charges against her hqsband, and the trial will proceed on the charge of willful desertion and failure to support. She alleges that she has frequently been obliged to dispose of her property and jewelry to prpcure the .necessaries of life. The complainant further alleges that her husband sUfcceeded in kidnaping the chil dren in'June, 1891, and that he is now work ing at a salary of 300 amonth. 8T0LE ONE OF IIS OWN CABS. How a : Railroad Company Outwitted the Indian Territory Police. Lehioh, IND. T., Feb. 17. Special . The unique exhibition of a railroad com pany stealing one of its own cars was wit nessed last night. A car of. beer that was shipped in here last week was taken in charge by the Indian police, who have been holding it for orders from the Indian agent One engine and a caboose made a flying run, never erven stopping to couple n, and took the beer car out of town at the rate of 20 miles an hour, men having been pre viously placed at the switches to let them, out, - - E TO By Men of His Party Who Will Not Suj)poitHinr " for Re-Election. A LENGTHY ADDRESS, Issued by Officers of the Pennsyl .vania Republican Association. WITH BUT flNE'OBJECT IN VIEW. The Organization Enumerates Its Reasons for the Step. Names of the Prominent Originators of the Bolt Many PIttsburgers Among Them A New Man for Sena tor Demanded They "Want One Who Will Attend to His Duty at Washing ton They Also Claim He Hasn't Been True to Blaine They Say He Drives Many Out of the Party The State Divided Into Two Districts Members of the Legislature to Be Worked for Who Will Vote Against Quay. rSrrCIAI. TI1IORAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1 PniLADELPHlA, Feb. 17. The Republican-, of Pennsylvania, who believe that the great Keystone State is without adequate representation in the Senate of the United States have formed an 'organization, which already extends into every Republican county in the State, to elect Republican members of the Legislature who will not support Senator M. S. Quay for re-election. The movement began to take shape im mediately after the election last November, the anti-Quay Republicans of this city quietly talking over the matter at one or two informal conferences, and deciding to issue invitations to prominent Republicans of this State to meet in the city and agree upon a plan of organization. The first conference was held in this city December IS last, and was successful be yond the expectations of those who called it. About 35 persons rere present at the conference, which was held at 1520 Chestnut street, including one Chairman of a Repub lican County Committee, the publishers of half a dozen of the most prominent Repub lican newspapers in the State outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburg, and several others prominent in State politics. Organization Fonnd Necessary. The universal expression of the members of this conference, which held two long ses sions, was tha popular sentiment over whelmlnelv "Was in'favor of" new'man Ifor eirator; ahdlEafalf that was needed to in sure success was organization. It was decided then and there to perfect an organization of this kind and a provisional committee was chosen to select a State Committee of at least one member from each Senatorial district and county in the State, and in addition to organize a State Association, which all like-minded Republicans could be invited to join. This was a work of some magnitude, but as soon as the holidays were over the committee pushed its work so rapidly that it was able to call the State Committee together for organization on January 29, the day the Republican State Committee met at the Continental Hotel to fix the time and place for the Stat: Con vention. The first conference was held on the day pf Blaine's visit to this city, which made it comparatively easy for the participants to confer without attracting attention, and, the meeting for final organization being held on the day of the meeting of the regular Re publican State Committee, the presence of 30 or 40 strangers in the city led to no sus picion tbat anotner important political con ference was in progress. Organization of the Committees. The committee met at its present head quarters and organized by electing W. W. Justice, of the wool firm of Justice, Bate man & Co., President; Henry S. Paul, of this city, and George W. Dilwortb, of the firm ot Dilworth Bros., Pittsbursr, Vice Presidents: John Scott, Jr., son "Vf the former United States Senator, and Dr. Jo seph R. Neff, Secretaries, aad J. Bavard Henry, Treasurer. At the request of the country members of the association the Ex ecutive Committee of over 40 members was selected almost wholly from Philadelphia and Allegheny, with a view to dividing the State Into two districts, with a headquarters both in this city and Pittsburg. The men composing the Executive Committee from this city are too well known to need further Introduction to the public. They are all Republicans, most of whom were active sunnorters of Delamater in the last Gubernatorial campaign. The Western members include such prominent men of Pittsburg as Charles Arbuthnot, of the well known drygoods firm ot Arbuthnot, Ste phenson & Co., T. C. Jenkins, wholesale fjrocer; Colonel William A. Herron, agent tor the Schenley estate; ex-Judge Thomas Mellon, Henry Preston, of the Davis-Chambers White Lead Company; J. B. Ford, of the largest plate glass manufacturing estab lishment in the world; John H. Ricketson, of the Garrison Foundry Company; Thomas De Armitt, of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Companv; W. L. Chalfant, Charles W. Robb, Thomas Patterson and S. U. Trent, well-known lawyersthe remainder of the list comprising capitalists, bankers and well-known business men of Allegheny county. An Address Decided Upon. After electing officers it was decided to prepare an address to be issued as the first publio announcement of the organization which adopted the name or the Pennsylva nia Republican Association. This address, which will be issned to-morrow morning, gets forth the reasons for opposing Mr. Quay. It will be followed by active; work in all the Republican counties, those in which nominations are first held receiving first attention. The fight will be made strictlr within party lines, and those at the head ot the movement declare tbat they will not allow themselves to be forced out of the party by Mr. Quay or his friends, or permit them selves to be characterized by any other name than that of Loval Republicans. The motto of tbe organization is "Republican ism versus Quayism," and the movement in addition to the large number of promin ent business men who have identified them selves' with it, will include prominent political leaders who have tired of Quay's leadership. Tbe'Address to Voters. The movement is entirely separate and distinct from the Reform Republican "League, of which. Herbert Welsh Is Presl-. ORGANIZED IV QUEER QUAY dent, and while both are desirous of ac complishing the same end the election of some other Bepublican than Mr. Qnayto. the Senate the two bodies will work on entirely different lines. The address is as follows: A point has been reached where, nnlessr prompt action is taken wlthlb. the .Repub lican party to deprive Mr. Quay or runner capacity for disastrous leadership, the party iff this State will utterly fail to achieve its true mission, and will, sooner or later, meet with final overthrow. Wv have no personal feeling or grievance against Mr. Quay. Wo regret that his conduct as a party leader nhd United States Senator has rendered it impossible for ns longer to support him. We do not forget the services which he has ren dered the party, and while giving full credit therefor, cannot but feel that he has not only ljeen amply rewanjled by the bestowal of its abundant ofBcialand pecuniary favors, but that the scale has been turned against htm by tbe evils and defeats he has brongnt upon the party. in aaplrit orregretfulness at the necessity which compels action, without malice, and with a desire to be fair to Mr. Quay, but de termined to be loval to the Republican party, wo will briefly outline our reasons for opposing his re-election to the" United States Senate. "Why They Are Opposed to Quay. "Wo oppose him because he has forced un popular nominations and platforms which have brought defeat to the party. Because he has instigated, or countenanced, the de feat of tbe party's candidates to achieve some personal end. Because he has repeat edly induced delegates and Legislators to misrepresent tbe wishes of the majority of their constituents. Because he has aided in defeating legisla tion to secure a free ballot and a fair count in the South, to the enactment of which the party had been pledged, and which, as its 1 national (jiiairiuan, ne was in nonor uouna to have supported. Because, by reason ot his frequent absence from the Senate, and tbe diversion of his time to office getting, he has failed to do tbe wors: he should have done In behalf of legis lation of vital importance to the State of Pennsylvania, or to initiate and secure the enactment of a single important national measure during his live years of service at Washington Because he has both by words and actions discredited the pledged policy of his party in bebalf of a genuine, efficient and business like reform of tbe civil service and has com pelled office holders to devote their time and money to political work in his behalt. . Because of his attempts to embarrass the present sounu ana patriotic administration, due to the fact tbat tbe Federal offices in the State were not placed entirely at bis dis posal. ' Because He Was Opposed to Blaine. Because he has repeatedly opposed the nomination of the Hon. James G. Blaine for tho Presidency when the overwhelming sentiment of the Bepublican voters of the State was favorable to his selection, and recently has pretended to be ardently In favor of him in order that he might seenre national delegates whom he could dispose of to his advantage. Because so long asJie dared to do in, he op posed every change of party rules calculated to increase the power of tbe voters in county, district, State or nation. Because he has bad primaries and conven tions called long before there wag any neces sity for so doing; in order to forestall a grow ing public sentiment against him or his can didates. Because he has insisted that no recognition should be accorded to any element of the party, or to any of its leaders who were not willing to act with or be subservient to him. Because tbe system, which he has upheld has driven many able andhonest men out of sue i&epuuucan party, or nas aiscnurageu them fiom taking active part in public lire. Because he has placed men in offices or positions so hamneied by pledges to him that they cannot 'faithfnlly perform their duties to the State or to their party. Because we believe the Republican voters have a right to choose their United States Senators, instead of their being selected by officeholders, without legard to character, ability or fitness. The Authority for the Address. We issue this address by tbe authority of tbe Pennsylvania Republican Association, whose Executive Committee we are, which organization has its representatives in every RepubI!cancounty of tbeState, and which wa. born, of the necessity1 tor concerted -action to oppose tbe banaed officialism, which has been at the becjwmd eall of Mr. Quay. It is the purpose of our orjranizatlon to carry on the contest strictly within party lines, and to secure the election of a major ity of tbe Republican members of tbe next Legislature who will unalterably oppose tbe re-election of M. S. Quay to the United States Senate; and who will faror the cfioice of any honest Republican as his successor, whose personal character, intellectual and forensic abilitv, statesmanlike qualities and loyalty to tbe Republican party shall stamp him as a fitting representative of tbe great Keystone state in tne upper nouse oi con gress. To every patriotic Republican of Pennsyl vania wbo believes that the advancement of the nrinciDles of the Renublican Dartv is above and beyond all personal interests, and wbo is opposed to political bossism in every form, to all wbo wish to see our great Com monwealth of Pennsylvania properly repre sented at Harrlsburg, at Washington and in our.N"atlonal and State Conventions by the ablest and best ot her Republican voters, to all such, and especially to tbe young men of onr party, in whose hands the future of the Republic rests, we extend a cordial invita tion to join us in this movement and to no tify ns of their willingness to do so by com municating with the Pennsylvania Republi can Association at its permanent head quarters. Rooms I, 5 and C, 003 Walnut street, Philadelphia. The Signers of the Document. The document is signed by W. AY. Jus tice, President; Henry S. Paul, George W. Dilworth, Yice Presidents; John Scott, Jr., Joseph R. Neft', M. D., Secretaries; J. Bayard Henry, Treasurer; Executive Com mittee Charles W. Schwartz, John F. Stoer, Henry C Townsend, J. Levering Jones, Henry L. Townsend, Frederick L. Breitinger,. Pemberton, Jr., Joseph De F. Junkin, Theo. Justice, Robert H. Hinck ley, E. W. Clark, J., Tatnall Lea, Charles W. Henry, Dimuer Beeber, J. C. Straw bridge, Ernst If. Davis, Caldwell K. Biddle, Robert C. Lippincott, William H. Haines, G. Harry Davis, John H. Ricketson, William L. Chalfant, Charles W. Robb, J. B. Ford, Major B. C. Bryner, William B. Ritter, H. D. W. . English, Charles Arbuthnot, Thomas C. Jenkins, Henry Preston, Colonel William A. Herron, Samuel B. Smith, Frank T. McClintock, Colonel E. J. Allen, Thomas De Armit, Thomas Patterson, John K. Collins, 3. U. Trent, Charles J. Clarke, Hon Thomas Mellon, George Wof ds, L. L. D., Snllivan Johnson and George W. Forsythe. UBS. MARIE BLAISE VEKY ILL. She Suffers a Hemorrhage of the Lungs and Can't Attend Her Trial. Deadwood, S. D., Feb. 17. Mrs. Marie Blaine arrived here this morning and was at once driven to the hotel, whtre she is confined with nervous prostration. She suffered a hemorrhage' of the lungs when she went to the train this morning, having left a sickbed to .attend the trial of her divorce case. The case will not be heard before Saturday. THIS MORNING'S NEWSr Topic Page. Silver Hen a Happy Crowd 1 Harrison and Quay Matins Up. -.-.. X New Independent Political Move 1 Promotions om the Police Force..... 1 Practical Betnlts of Smoke Consumers... 3 O'Donnell Not Ont for Mayor. 3 Classified Ads. and ToI.etI.Uts 3 Editorial and Miscellaneous 4 Gossip From the Nation's Capital A Fan In tbe National Clreas S "Enforcing Curative legislation C Need of a Canal U Pattison on tbe Beading Deal....... 7 A Peculiar Core by Belles 7 The Typhus in Fltub arc 7 News From Nearby Places a All tbe Sporting Intelligence 8 The Old World's Happenings 9 An Odd Washing Line Quarrel 0 Free Silver at an Option Hearing 9 News of tbeCoanty Courts , 10 Reports From the Oil Field 10 Heal Bstate and Other JUarkets '.....11 Sources of Fetrolenm.....,..................12 Pictures or Hades ...12 A Strange Story (Fiction)'. ....la. 1UTYUIED. Chief Brown Places Eoger O'Mara at the Head of Pittsburg's Police. SILYIS KEXT IS COWI&M, "While Coulson Is Named for the In spectorship Thns Vacated. ALL THE APPOINTMENTS POPDLAB, And Made in the line of CiYil Service Keform Promotions. SKETCH OP THE HEW SUPERINTENDENT Chief Brown, of the Department of Pub lic Safety, last evening announced the ap pointments of Roger O'Mara as Superin tendent of Police, Daniel Silvis, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and Sol Coulson, Inspector of Police. Roger O'Mara is one of the best known fig?''v,411 Pl'ce administration, not alone in jfx A T..t tT. A....I. .. 4l.n AA...t . IXa hasov s. i ?er in continuous service than any ttfTis ajrein the united States, and it ?-. "'id of him tbat he is in the first rank ition to his equipment '. .x . " . . -s. for local sb. '- o t A "jas been engaged in va- rlous parts tjs. casions, suchN v airy on important oo- Ci -al -conventions, the inauguration oi, A ?. ts and in other cir cumstances calcu'.' post him: Such men as Chiv Byrnes, of New York, the Pinkertons and others at the top of the Superintendent Roger O'Mara. ladder have frequent use for Mr. 0Mara' counsel and aid. on cases. Personally he has always been a favorite in Pittsburg, be cause with his detective skill is united cheerfulness, good nature and untiring in dustry. While mastering the details of his business, both in frustrating and catch-. ing1 law-breakers, the- -Superintendent haj been thrown in contact with all classes. Among business and professional men of the city he has a great number of personal friends. Connected With 3Iany Interesting Cases. A detailed biographical sketch of Super intendent O'Mara would either include or touch upon many of the interesting cases which have come up in the police adminis tration of the city for the past 25 years. Old-timers remember him when, only a stripling nnder 20, he was first appointed to the police force in the latter part of 18G6 by Mayor McCarthy. Roger was born near the village of JCelU, in the County Kil kenny, Ireland, in 1847. He came to Pitts burg in 1853, and' after a brief schooling, began to help himself early by working in a tobacco factory. This business he mas tered so well that on the one occasion when he left the force it was to take the foreman ship of a factory at Lancaster on .better terms than police service yielded. When Roger first took, "the mace under Mayor McCarthy in December, 180G, the police of Pittsburg were j. very different body from now. The city consisted then of what are now the first ten wards, Lawrenceville being a sep arate borongh, the whole East End being of little population with township govern ment, and the Southside under what was then known as the borough governments of Sonth Pittsburg, Birmingham and East Birmingham. The city force therefore was small. Only part of it was uniformed; and watchmen had only just relinquished tha primitive duty of "calling the hour" and the quality of the weather, winding up usually with the announcement "All's well." Peculiar Olden-Time Customs. Each watchman had a box where he shel tered himself on winter nights, and often drowsed the weary hours away; safe, if he could only awaken at the approaching tread of the Lieutenant. The custom of the shrewd ones was to drop into the Land of Nod, tilt their back upon a chair, with their knees npon tbe partially open door of the box, so that when the Lientenant should open the door the occupant was thereby necessarily awakened and thus escaped cen sure. Robert Hague was Chief of Police when O'Mara joined the force. The detectives at the time were Joe Couples, John Messner, Andrew Moon, James Scott, Fred Rivers and Bob McCreedy familiar names in those days and all the business was done at old Wilkins Hall, on Fourth avenue, where the Fidelity Title and Trust Company build ing now stands. That was the Mayor's ofhee ot the period. Roger was continued by Mayor Blackmore, who succeeded Mc Carthy; and under Mayor Brush he was given the district around the Union depot, which was then the most desperate in tbe city. A number of rowdies had made repu tations for themselves as fighters, and the policeman's lot was not a happy one. The "Rush House' opposite the depot, was the only all-night place for refreshment then running in the city, and brought the spree ing element- The emigrant depot was in the neighborhood and attracted swindlers to prey upon ithe ignorant: semi-professional rowdies who were not then as now in fear of the workhouse that institution not then existing all gravitated to that district O'Mara, after successful work there, was transferred as lieutenant to Bayardstown. After this he was offered and refused the position of county detective, and became corner-man at Fourth avenne and Smith field street Bobbers and Murderers Captnred. Next he was placed in the -Pipetown quarter, in the neighborhood of the coke ovens, and while there distinguished him self by capturing Murray and Meyers, two fellows who robbed and murdered a farmer named Walz on the Perrysville road, and were subsequently executed for the offense. Judge Ewing said in the Criminal Court at the trial that it was the best prepared case he had met, and recommended the County Commissioners to recognize rip- w . w wafts jJgIPm I ; t
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