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CoIbhib to-day. They are most
Mtisldctorjr.
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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
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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
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for local sb. '- o
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"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
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