SEBPi3!gaiiSBgQfflg wse?Jt?9Jf FTWSy-ps : .j ADVERTISERS APPRECIATE The excellent returns from The Dispatch's cent-a-word colnnins. Rooms to let advertisements more than doubled last month! ADVERTISERS APPRECIATE The excellent returns from The Dispatch's cent-a-word columns. Booms to let advertisements more than doubled last month! f 5 wa&m FORTY SEVENTH TEAR. PITTSBURG THURSDAY, MAY 26 1892-TWE1.VE PAGES. THREE CENTS. mmtm WW WHEN OUT! CALLS HEJLL OBEY, Quay Positively Asserts That Blaine Is to Bo the Nomi nee of His Party. STILL NOT' A CANDIDATE, Cut a Unanimous Demand for Him Would Be Acquiesced In. Tho Ex-Chairman and His Successor Talk In Exactly the Same Strain Only tne Secretary's Health to Be Consid ered A Further Putting: Aside of the Honor Not Anticipated A Man to "Win Demanded by the Leaders of the Party Sentiment of All Kinds Thrust to One Side All Tongues Wagging; Alike. rpFECIAI. IIIEGEJM TO Tnx DISPATCn.l Philadelphia, May 25. It is Blaine unless he breaks down in some unforeseen physical way before the convention. It Eeems to be a cock-sure thing now that Philadelphia Republicans have had time to digest what Senator Quay told his friends here Tuesday night To Dave Martin, State Chairman Frank Reeder and others the Senator spoke in no uncertain tones. He said to one of these gentlemen: "I am convinced that Harrison will not be nominated. I am also con vinced that Blaine will be nominated. It is more than unlikely that Blaine will make any communication to the Republican party before the convention meets. I do not think it is his intention to say or do any thing which will check the current of opinion which points to him as the man who can most assuredly win next Novem ber." Quay Repeats Ills Assertion. This was repeated in substance to several of the men in whom Senator Quay has the most confidence. He said that the nomina tion of Blaine would come of its own weight and on its own merits without any boom by mere politicians. To one of his friends the Senator is reported to have said that it is true that Secretary Blaine would not return to "Washington until after the convention. "While saving all these things the Senator did not pretend to say that there was any understanding between Blaine and those who are leading the anti-Harrison fight. Quay was asked if it was not probable that Alger would be nominated ior Tice Presi dent, and he replied that it looked that way. He added that Piatt, Clarkson and the others were convinced beyond hope of re call that Harrison could not be re-elected. 'oir AH Blaine In I hlladelphla. It is understood that Quay will go to Minneapolis early, and will be joined there by Senator Cameron, who will co-operate in getting together the Blaine managers. It is all Blaine in this city to-day among the Quay people, and only the administra tion men like Charles Emory Smith are saying that it is a cry ot wolf. This is the first open and direct declara tion by Senator Quay that Blaine would be nominated and would not try to prevent it, and it can be relied upon as absolutely re liable. ALL TONGUES WAG ALIKE. Clarkson Talks In "Washington Just as Quay Does Elsewnere An Authorized Inter view With the Chairman of the National Committee Blaine 2?ot to Ketuse a Spontaneous Call. "Washington, May 25. Special A two-column-long "authorized interview" with Chairman Clarkson, of the Na tional Committee, published in the 1'ott of this morning on the Presi dental nomination topic, has set every tongue wagging at even a livelier rate than before on that all-absorbing question. Tho interview was undoubtedly dictated by Mr. Clarkson. Coming from a man who is almost as baffling in response to efTorts to induce him to talk as is Senator Quay himself, who is the very embodiment of profound silence except when he desires some publication, the pronunciation of Mr. Clarkson, prac tically written by himself, is indeed ex traordinary. It was written for a purpose, and what that purpose is is not hard to dis cover to those who have followed closely the movements of Mr. Clarkson's circle seen at short range. While the "interview" is spread over nearly two columns, most of the space is devoted to generalities and verbiage which is wholly foreign to Mr. Clarkson, who, as a newspaper writer of distinguished ability, has acquired more terseness and directness of speech, which is a distinctive feature of the most attractive and successful modern journalism. Two Points Made by Clarkson. Stripped of the verbal ornaments, Mr. Clarkson makes two points. One is that the aim of the National Convention must be to nominate the man who will give great est promise as a winning candidate. He has had no personal preference. Were he to permit his personal feeling to intrude he would choose neither Blaine nor Harrison, but another whom he does not name, but whose idendity may be easily guessed. Ills second point was in answer to the question (put to himself): "How about Blaine?" In answer to this the Chair man describes, with charminpe naivete, how "the Chairman ceased whirling an envelope which he held in his hand,'7 and turning in his chair hesitated a moment and then said: "Blaine's all right" And then, in various ways and with many reiter ations, he rings the changes on the assertion that "7,000,000 of Bepublicatt voters" would rather have Blaine for President than anyone else. Seven miHions,ai every body knows, comprises about all the Re publican voters of the United States. The plain deduction is that if all the Republi can voters of the United States want Blaine he is the one man. to nominate. Blaine the Man to Be Run. It is a virtual declaration from the Chair man of the Republican National Committee that Blaine is the candidate with whom to run, and that with Harrison or any other candidate the chances for success would be greatly lessened. The interview is un doubtedly one of the results of the conferences held between Colonel Clarkson and Colonel Quay, on Monday evening and on Tuesday morning. In other words, it is tha intsired oSsnring of conferences of anti- Harrison Republicans with the Chairman ot the National Republican Committee, and that gentleman was selected as the personal sponsor of the interview, because it would come from him with all the force of the highest official authority of the national party organization. In all the history of politics probably there is no parallel to this, in which the chief executive of the partv as an organiza tion declares against the Chief Executive of the national administration, who is of the same party and who is a candidate for re nomination. Praise President Harrison as he may and does, Chairman Clarkson vir tually declares war upon him, and announ ces that Blaine is the candidate with whom to win success, and that the whole weight of the national organization will be thrown against Mr. Harrison and his contingent of officeholders in the National Convention. The One Question or the Hour. The question that agitates the minds of both theHarrison and the anti-Harrison men is: "Does Mr. Clarkson mean what he says?" There has always been a strong belief among the most sagacious who are not in the swim that the anti-Harrison leaders were merely plaving-Blaine to divert the popular mind and the State Conventions from Harrison to secure the election of a vast body of uninstructed delegates to the National Convention which might be or ganized asainst Harrison after they had reached the ground. If that was the plan, it certainly succeeded. Harrison has less than 300 delegates Instructed for him. Of the remaining COO it is doubtful if any can be secured by him with Blaine in the field. If, therefore, Blaine has been used merely for a stragetic diversion, the tactics have succeeded admirably. On the other hand, it is claimed by Mr. Clarkson's friends that he would have never used the language he did in his "interview," at least at this late day, had he not had as surances from Mr. Blaine that if the con vention declared for him with anything like unanimity he would not refuse. ot a Candidate, bat Would Accept. I am told by one who has been in close conference with the Chairman since his ar rival here that Mr. Blaine has given this assurance. He is not a candidate, as he said in his letter. ' His name will not be presented to the convention. That is, neither Maine nor any other State will iormally present his name. But if, with out such preliminaries, the convention with an overwhelming voice should insist on his nomination, he will accept This recalls an inoident which I described to The Dispatch about a year ago, and for whose truth I can personally vouch A friend of Mr. Blaine, in a brief conversa tion with him, abruptly put this ques tion: "Mr. Blaine, you know you could have been nominated in 1888. If yon had been at home, within touch of the convention and of the people, would you have rejected the nomination as you did by cable?" "I would not,"" was the emphatic re sponse of the Secretary. "Well, again yon are not a candidate. You are probably even less a candidate than you were at that time. But, suppose the next convention, not feeling any great con centration of enthusiasm on any other can- uiuaie, snouia name you as the candidate with such unanimity of enthusiasm as no other name could inspire, would yon again reluse?" "I would not," was the response, with greater emphasis than before. He Is Never Seeking the Offlci. In the light of the present conditions these replies are of great significance." They show that at the time this conversation oc curred Mr. Blaine was determined in his own mind not to be a candidate. That is, he would not appear as seeking the office. They show also that he was determined if the nomination came to him unsought and, as a result of a general popular feeling, he would accept Apparently he had the same plan of action in his mind when he wrote his letter, and when, instead of positively saying he would not in any circumstance accept a nomination, he merely said he was not a candidate and that Tiis name would not be presented to the convention. Has Clarkson, then, full assurance that Blaine will accept if he be nominated, or is he using Blaine's great name to hold senti ment aloof from Harrison that he may se cure the nomination of Senator Allison, who is his personal choice? If this latter view were the fact Blaine would be quick to recognize it and would certainly at once in some way put a stop to such use of his name; unless, indeed, having determined not to accept, he is yet willing to loin so far in the movement to defeat Harrison as a revenge for many slights, one of the chief est of which was the President's somewhat shabby attempt to take the credit of origin ating the scheme of reciprocity. A Genuine Movement to Kame Blaine. Does anybody believe that Blaine would engage in such an indirect fight against his chief in office? Turn the political mirrbr as one will, it seems to reflect only a genuine movement to nominate Blaine, and that not because he is the only man with whom to defeat Harrison, but above all because it is away down in their hearts a firm conviction of the leaders that Blaine is the only candi date with whom the Republicans have any show of success. Of course, last of all, crops up sarely and somewhat pathetically tne question of Blaine's healtlu The Secretary has un doubtedly said that his health stood in the way of his acceptance. He could not en dure the trying duties of the "White House if elected the constant stream of office seekers, the strain of official duties, the re ceptions, the handshaking, the exhausting social demands. It appears, however, ac cording to the best authority that of his doctors that he is in as godu health as he has been for years, and that he has stopped worrying on that 6core. Well, these are the phases of this manv suled, speculative situation, and upon which discussion is unceasing. Every day brings its new grist of speculation, which, it is very gratifying to sav, will next week be sent for grinding-to the mill at Minneapo lis instead of that of Washington. THE STRONGEST REPUBLICAN. That's the Reason Quay Xj for Blaine Hamilton Disston Admits the Secre tary's Strength Be Will Vote for Har rison, ThouBh A Republican Tear. Newt Yokk, May 25. Special Hamil ton Disston, of Philadelphia, a delegate to the Republican National Convention, talked politics with a reporter to-day at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He intends to vote for President Harrison at Minneapolis. "Do you think the President will be nominated?" he was asked. "les, it looks so now. A majority of the Pennsylvania delegation will vote for him. Senator Quay, I think, is for Mr. Blaine because he thinks he is the strongest Re publican. He would be for the President if he were not for the Secretary of State. The opposition to the President does not seem to Be able to concentrate on any one man. If the opposition could all "agree upon a candidate thev might stand a better chance to make a fight in the convention. Since I have been in New York I hear that a few of Warner Miller's friends are for Senator Sherman, who is not a candidate. In Michigan General Alger has friends, and in Michigan General Jeremiah Busk ii considered a possibility. In every conven tion, as a rule, any number of men are com plimented by having their names presented as candidates. At Minneapolis I have no doubt that some complimentary nomina tions will be made and seconded in eloquent speeches. Then, when the strength of the various names presented is tested by a bal lot, I think it will be lound that President Harrison is the strongest of them all." "What about the talk of nominating Mr. Blaine?" , "We all know Mr. Blaine is popular, and that if he were a candidate he would cer tainly have the delegation from his native State, Pennsylvania. But his letter de clining to have his name go before the con vention, it seems to me, was very explicit In view of that letter, many delegates have been instructed for the President I have no right to assume that Blaine is a candi date, while his letter declining is so fresh in my memory. As I have said, no one doubts Mr. Blaine's popularity, and no one doubts that he could be nominated if he an nounced himself a candidate. He has done the very opposite." "What do you think of the cry raised by the opposition, that the President cannot be elected?" "It is no argument, because I believe anv good Republican candidate can win. Thfs is a Republican year, and President Harri son will certainljtjbe elected. His admin istration has been one to inspire confidence in the people. Even his enemies, the Dem ocrats, cannot criticise his administration. He's given the country a safe administra tion, and I think he will get every Repub lican vote." ALLISON'S FISH FRY. The Senator Gives a Dinner to Several Political Friends Be Denies That There Is Any Politics in Ir, Though His Relations With Gorman. Washington, May 25. Special Sen ator William "Bee"Allison smiled one of his regular sweet William smiles, to-day, when questioned about his boom and the dinner he gave to-night, in honor of Mr. Clarkson. "There was no political significance attached to it," said he, "but simply a desire on my part to entertain one of my constituents and a few of my friends. Quite unexpectedly to me, some one sent me a large fish, and, as General Clarkson is fond of good fish, I concluded I would ask him to help me dispose of it. As it is larger than the general and myself can con sume, I asked Senators Aldrich and Hale, Representatives D. B. Henderson, Doliver, and two or three other friends to join the party." "Is it a Presidental fish that some one has thrust upon you so unexpectedly, Senator?" was asked. "Oh, no," was the reply, with a merry twinkle. "I believe it is a salmon." "Was the political situation discussed during the dinner?" "Oh, no. It there is any political move connected with the dinner I am not aware of it As far as the Presidental race is concerned, am not in it" "There is some talk among the political gossips. Senator, of putting you forward as the Republican nominee to content for Presidental honors with Senator Gorman or some other Democratic nominee. 'Well," said the Senator, "if Gorman and I should be. the nominees of our respec tive parties the campaign would be con ducted on a most amicable basis." In spite of the light manner in which the Senator from Iowa alluded to his dinner party, it is said that something else besides ''fish" was discussed between the clams and cigars. The Clarkson interview has naturally caused much interest in political circles to-day. It proves what probably the President's friends have known all" along that the National Republican Committee members are almost without exception anti Harrison men. This fact, together with the further and still more important one, that the very strongest and shrewdest political workers of all factions ot the Republican party are in the anti-Harrison ranks, make the lriends of the President very uneasy, indeed. They know they have an unusually strong convention to beat, whether its candidate is Blaine or some other man like Sherman, McKinley, Alger, Rusk, Reed, Lincoln or Allison. - HARRISON SHOWS FIGHT. A Concerted Attack on the Blaine Boom Not Much Encouragement for Ben In Washington Significant Admission of a Shrewd Politician. Washington, May 25. Special The advocates of President Harrison's renomina tionhave begun a systematic and determined attack upon the Blaine boom of the past week, and while professing to believe that "there is nothing in it," they are neverthe less fighting it with every means at their command. The President's newspaper or gans this morning announced in concert that there was a Harrison tidal wave in Washington yesterday that fairly over whelmed the men who are talking about Blaine, and they quoted at length dozens of m en of more or less prominence who have all sorts of reasons for pretending to be friendly to the administration at this time. The fact is that there was no Harrison tidal wave in Washington yesterday or at any other time. One of the men whom the Harrison organs quote this morning as predicting the Presi dent 8 renomination is tne aged Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, who has long since relinquished the management of Republican politics in the Badger State. The man to whom the Senator gave up the reins of power a few years ago is his protege, Henry O. Payne, of Milwaukee, the Wisconsin member of the Republican National Com mittee. Simnltaneous with the publication of Sawyer's prediction that Harrison will be nominated, Mr. Payne has written to Secre tary Rusk that in his opinion Harrison wonld lose Wisconsin and Illinois if nominated, and that the man whom the people want is Blaine. When it was announced in a Washington dispatch to the Chicago Herald a few days ago that Mr. Payne had written such a let ter to Uncle Jerry the statement was at once denounced as an anti-Harrison canard. Now Mr. Payne confirms its accuracy and states further his opinion is based on an intimate knowledge of the Republican senti ment in both of the Western States men tioned. Mr. Payne is one of the shrewdest and best posted Republicans in the West, and possesses the confidence of the Repub lican leaders generally. His prediction of disaster in case Harrison is nominated has made a deep impression among politicians here. BLAINE IN GOOD HEALTH, And His Wire Thinks He Conld Stand a Campaign and an ISIectlon. New Yobk, May 25. Special Before 7:30 o'clock this morning Secretary Blaine was up and astir. After reading the morn ing papers the Secretary slipped out of the Twenty-third street entrance and drove up to Central Park, and then to his daughter's house. Secretary Blaine went down into the main corridor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel at 12:15 o'clock. He spoke to several acquaint ances, and drove to where Dr. Noyes, the oculist, lives. Dr. Noyes told him that there was no organic trouble, but that he needed principally a change of glasses, dueto advancing years and much work. Shortly after Mr. Blaine returned to the hotel Dr. Depew called. When he came down he said: "Mr. Blaine is looking better than I have seen him for a long time. He is in very good health. Yes, we had a' pleasant social chat" Mr. Blaine left his room at 4:20 o'clock and walked ont to Fifth avenue. As he leaned against the pillar and looked over the trees in the park, people stopped and stared at him. Then he walked slowlv to and fro in front of the big doors. A close friend of Mrs. Blaine's said that Mrs. Blaine had informed her.friends that her husband would write no more letters, and that he would take no more steps to prevent his nomination at Minneapolis, and, further more, that Mrs. Blaine believed her hus band was physically able to go through the camnaign. and. if elected.-to assume the 'duties t the office. DUOLEfJENIES IT, The Wily Old Campaigner Doesn't Own Up to That Blocks- of- Five. SOME LEADING QUESTIONS Asked During Anna Dickinson's Suit for a Campaign Balance. SHE- MADE FIFTEEN SPEECHES, Bat the Committee, She Claims, Flatly Kefnsed to Fay Her for THE SEASON FORWIHCH SHE WAS HIRED ISrECIAT. TKLEOBAM TO THE DISPATCn.l New Yobk, May 25. The trial of Miss Anna Dickinson's suit against the Repub lican National Committee of 1888 for $1,250, which, she alleges, is the balance due for her services as a lecturer in the campaign .of that year, was begun to-day before Judge Truax, in Part III. of the Supreme Court Of the four persons mentioned particularly as defendants., in Miss Dickinson's complaint United States Senator M. S. Quay, J. S. Clarkson, Samuel Fessenden and Colonel W. W. Dudley only the last named was present in court He sat beside Colonel George Bliss, his counsel, with a grave but non-committal ex pression on his face. Miss Dickinson was in cojirt also, with a large number of letters and about a dozen sympathizers, mostly women. She sat close to Lawyer Able Hummel, who, in opening the case for her, referred to her as "The Joan of Arc of the Republican party. " She wore a red chip hat with red and white ostrich tips, a richly embroidered black satin dress and a dark mantle. A heavy lace tie ended in a bow at her throat Her costume was completed with brown un dressed kid gloves. Miss Dickinson's Campaign Contracts. When Miss Dickinson went on the wit ness stand she opened her mantle and threw it back on her shoulders and beean to tell about the conversation she had had with Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Fessenden and Colonel Dudley, in Mr. Clarkson's room at the Everett House, in August, 1888, having gone there, as she explained, because Mr. Clarkson was confined to his room with a sprained leg. She soon branched off into an account of her experiences as a speaker for the Re publican party in the Molly Magnire country in 1863. Colonel Bliss objected to this, whereat Miss Dickinson cast a fiery glance at him, and said, haughtily: "I am not trying to exalt myself, gentlp men of the jury. For this work I was to get 52,000 a week, or 512,000 for the cam paign of six weeks. I would have been cheap, gentlemen, at $100,000., 1 had to work six hours a day, and was. sticked, stoned and otherwise abused, and had the hair cut from my head by a bullet" Mr. Hummel Interrupted thi3 time, and told the witness to 'continue with the) con versation in Mr. Clarkson's room. Thanks That Paid No Bills. "I told Mr. Clarkson this," she replied, with dignity, "and I told him also that after I returned home from this visit I was thanked by .the whole Republican partv, and Speaker Colfax asked me to address the House in the hall of the House of Repre sentatives. I was the only woman in the world that had that honor.I told Mr.Clarkson, but I never received the 512,000. I never received a cent of it It remains un paid to this day, and not even my traveling expenses were paid In those days my party was my country and my country was my God. But now times have change'd. I am broken down in health and I need the money I ask for mv services. I do not want to go into politics. I have had enough of it I need this money to keep a roof over the head of a dying mother." Miss Dickinson had been pulling at her handkerchief nervously. She now broke down and wept She identified some letters that Mr. Hummel passed up to her as cor respondence from Mr. Clarkson prior to her final engagement by the National Commit tee. She read them all to the jury, slowly aud with much elocutionary elteci. Plenty of Money After Success. In another interview with Mr. Clarkson Miss Dickinson said he told her that in the event of success there would be plenty of money, and she would receive part ot the 512,000 due her from the campaign of 1886. Colonel Dudley was present when Mr. Clarksou said they would pay her 5123 a night for 30 nights and her expenses. He said: "Since we are very poor, almost bankrupt, and have no money in the treas ury, we can do no better. We are endeavor ing to roast some rich Bostocians and Pennsylvanians. Then we will have some money. We will give you what I have raid, whether we are successful or not If Mr. Harrison is elected the amount that you demand in excess of what we offer will be a mere bagatelle. We will then give you the additional 51,250." They pledged their word of honor to this, Miss Dickinson testified She said to them: "My old friend. Governor Geary,-told me once, 'Anna Dickinson, never wait again for your money on the glory of the Grand Old Party for 48 hours, and they replied: 'Miss Dickinson, we pledge ourselves as men ot honor that this debt of honor shall be paid to the last dollar. Can't you trust us?"' Paid for Fifteen of the Speeches. She did. After she had made 16 speeches in the West she was notified that her ser vices were no longer needed They paid her 53,750 for the lectures and $750 for ex penses. The morning after election she sent a request to Mr. Claikson for the 51,250 contingent upon jur. Harrison s election. She received no reply. In opening for the defense Colonel Bliss said the only question for the jury to con sider was whether the contract between Miss Dickinson and the defendants had been correctly stated. He contended that she was mistaken about the extra 51,250. He read the minutes of a previous examina tion of Mr. Clarkson, in which the latter denied having said anything about an extra sum. , Colonel Dudley then took the stand. He corroborated Mr. Clarksbn, and identified a receipt for the 53,750 and expenses signed by Miss Dickinson. He had never heard of the 51,250 contingent fee. Some Leading Qnestlons Ruled Out. Mr. Hummel cross-examined Colonel Dudley. "Were you ever charged with the commission of a crime in Indiana?" he asked. Colonel Bliss I object Mr. Hummel I wish to show the credi bility of this witness. He has attacked that of my client. Judge Truax Objection sustained. "Did you leave Indiana because of the indictment found against you?" Lawyer Hummel asked. "No," replied Colonel Dudley. "Were you accused of corrupting Voters there?" v An objection to this question was sus tained and the examination went on, ENTIPELY DR. PLATT Yes, Sir; Youb Eyesight Is Perfect and Yotje Fobesight EXTBAOKDINARr. DBOP IN ABOUT JUNE 10 AND I WILL EXAMINE YOUB HIND SIGHT. New 7ork World. "Are vou known by any other name than that of William Dudley?" "No." "Have you not been called 'Blocks-of-Five' Dudley?" Objection sustained. After some minor testimony the defense rested. The case was adjourned till to morrow. AN ATTACK ON HARRISON Made by a Blaine Man From Iowa De fense of the President by a Booster An Arraignment Made for Effect on Colored Delegates From the South. Washington, May 25. Special A peculiar incident in the House to-day was that which occurred during the discussion of an amendment to the World's Fair sec tion of the sundry civil bill. General Hen derson, the one-legged veteran from Iowa, in speaking to the amendment which ap propriated 5100,000 for an exhibit showing the progress of the colored race since the War, read the President a somewhat severe lecture for his failure to urge a proper con sideration of the colored element of the population in his World's Fair message to Congress. It was plainly an arraignment Intended to prejudice the colored members of South ern Republican delegations to the National Convention against the President, and sug gested anew, what is well understood, that in case it is found unadvisable to nominate Blaine, the anti-Harrison leaders will en deavor to organize the uninstructed dele gates Tor Senator Allison, who, to-night, is dining Chairman Clarkson and other Re publican dignitaries. General Henderson was replied to by Henry Underwood Johnson, tne brilliant but somewhat intrusive member from the sixth Indiana District, who delivered an excited harangue in defense of the Presi dent, the force bill and everything else offensive to the Democrats. He created a great uproar, and later In the day, when he resumed the subject on another amendment, he went so far beyond the bounds of order that he had to be seated at the command of the chairman. He accomplished little more than to make more conspicuous the attack of General Henderson on the President HIGGINS HAS HOLD 07 THE EEI5S. The Young Delaware Senator in Ills First Important National Hole. Washington, May 25. Special Sen ator Higgins, of Delaware, has been made Chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee,and thus put in charge of the herculean task of electing a Repub lican House in the next Congress. This is "the only" Higgins' first appearance in national politics, although he has had things pretty much his own way for several years in Delaware, where he has been quite successful, his most conspicuous feat being the retirement of Uncle Fli Saulsbury from the United States Senate and the election of himself as his successor. Senators Higgins and Walcott, of Colo rado, were classmates at Yale, and are young men of brilliant ability. They are fellow members of the Metropolitan in this city. Their friends were greatly amused at a remark dropped by the Delaware Senator in the smoking room one day soon after his election. Said he: "Ed Walcott is a nice fellow and a smart one, but he seems to want the earth, and if he don't look out we will clash." A few days ago Mr. Higgins said another good thing. He was being bothered in the Senate chamber about some bill that he was not much interested in, and turning suddenly in his chair with a gesture of im patience, he said: "Well, I don't like legis lation, anyhow. I am a politician." A SUIIOa IN HABD LUCK. After His Priest Forbids His Marriage His Sweetheart Sues Him. Shahokin, Pa., May 25. The wedding of Miss Annie Micha and Joseph Diesch was to have taken place to-day, but as the priest was about to begin the ceremony a sister of the bridegroom came up the aisle of the church and forbade the marriage on the ground that the couple were cousins, and so within the law of consanguinity. The priest thereupon declined to perform the ceremony, and Miss Micha and Diesch left the church. Miss Micha wished her intended husband to procure the services of a minister and Sroceed with the oeremony. He refused to o so, as the priest had forbidden the mar riage. Miss Micha grew angry at the re fusal, and this afternoon had him arrested for breach of promise. Diesch furnished bail for court WINNIHG WOMAN WINS. The Methodist Protestant Conference Throws Down the Bars for the ladles. Westminsteb, Md., May 25. The ab sorbing question In the Methodist Episco pal Conference to-day was the seating of the women delegates from West Virginia, Indiana, Iowa and Kansas. A vote was taken by orders and resulted in the admis sion of the women delegates. The vote stood: Ministers 41 ayes, 29 nays. Laymen 34 ayes, 20 nays. The action of the Conference changes no law of the Church, but interprets the law to mean that women are eligible to ordination and to fill the office of delegate to the Gen eral Conference. SAM JONES PBEACHES LYNCH LAW. His Utterances May Besnlt in the Mobbing of a Tennessee Malefactor. Chattanooga, May 25. Weems, with officers, boarded the East Tennessee train at Coltewa this morning and they are now en route to Knoxville. The officers and pris oner walked all night long and must have covered 30 miles.' A crowd from this city will go over there and probably a lynching may occur before unset, as Rev. Sam Jones has been preach ing that outragers of women must oe the anchor of hempen ropes. SATISFACTORY. FALSE BIRTHS AND DEATHS. How a Detroit Census Enumerator Swelled His Fees New Babies Credited to Widows and Old Maids Tha Death 1.1st Fully as Peculiar. Dktboit, May 25. Special. Under the State law a county census of births and deaths is taken ever- year, and about one half the reports fr . vne county for 1891 are in. The entL-, receive 10 cents for each birth or u "orted, and as an unusual number of tt'O. -e turned in, the county auditors bee. j. Sq icious and started an investigation. o. So far only the returns ( '& First ward, where Charles M. Welch & fyraer ator, have been examined, but a . ty" Me state of facts has been disclosed. . a re ported 1,816 births and 1.270 deaths, hich would warrant his receiving 5308 60 from the county. Many of those who are credited with having received additions to their families will be astonished to know it Couples who many years ago gave up hope of any more children are calmly credited by Mr. Welch with being among' the luckv ones. Child births are located at vacant houses, at fur nace shops, etc. Mr. Welch has killed offpeople with the same expedition he used in bringing new people on earth, and in some instances he says people died in 1891 for whom their relatives left off mourning garments years ago. In many cases widows and old maids have been credited with children, the births of which are also located at houses occupied by bachelors. The ward is the aristocratic one of the city, and the publication of the returns made by Welch has caused no end of joking. Criminal proceedings will be begun against Welch for making false returns. It is supposed that when the investigation has been completed it will be found that twice as many births and deaths have been reported as have actually taken place. It is also probable that the county has been swindled ont of thousands of dol lars since 1869 when the census law was passed by false returns made by enumera tors. THE READING IN COURT. The Examiners In the Combine Salt Begin Their Task The Companies Admit Many Points, but Require Proof That Their Roads Are Parallel. Habbisbubo, May 25. This afternoon the examiners in the Reading combine suit, Charles H. Bergnoer and J. C. McClarney, of this city, qualified and had a brief sit ting. Attorney General Hensel, Deputy Attorney General Stranahan and George Nauman, of Lancaster, associate counsel ior the Commonwealth, were present, as were also M. E. Olmsted, general counsel for the defendant corporations, and Will iam B. Lamberton, resident counsel for the Philadelphia and Reading Company. Agreements were put in evidence and maps showing location of the different rail roads the Attorney General statin? that he was prepared to prove certain things un less the defendants admitted them. Mr. Olmstead agreed to furnish data as soon as possible showing the amount of coal trans ported by the various railroads to tide water, all general orders issued since the date of the lease by the Philadelphia and Reading and Lehigh "Valley Railroad Com panies, the promoters and stockholders of the Port Reading Railroad, the names of lessees of the Lehigh Valley Coal Com pany's lands and the relations of the coal and railroad companies. He refused, however, to admit the sug gestion of the Attorney General that the Lehigh Valley and Susquehanna Railroads are parallel and competing, or that thev have the same termini and extend through the same towns but on different sides of a river. On such points.he said.the Common wealth would have to produce proof. After replications had been hied by the Attorney General,joining issue on the matters alleged, it was decided to have another sitting Wed nesday, June 1, at 3 p. jl BULEBS OF GOLDEN EAGLE KNIGHT3. A Degree for Ladies Instituted at the Su preme Castle at Atlantic City. Atlantic City, N. J., May 25. At the afternoon session ofthe Supreme Castle of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, the fol lowing Supreme officers were elected: Su preme Chief, Ernest H. Koch, Connecticut; Vice Chief, C. H. Nuchell, Ohio; High Priest, Lyman P. Lewis, Massachusetts; Master of Records, W. Culbertson, Penn sylvania; Keeper of Executor, T. Mc Carthy, Pennsylvania; Sir Herald, Jacob H. Aull, Maryland; First Guardsman, F. O. Krentler, Michigan; Second Guardsman, D. E. Adams, Indiana; Lieutenant General, L. F. Stilz, Pennsylvania; Medical Examiner, Dr. J. E. Whitford, Pennsylvania. For the next place of meeting Baltimore was chosen. Other business transacted was the revision of the code of laws for govern ing the death benefit fund. A degree for ladies, the Knights' Wives and Daughters, was also adopted. THIS MORNING'S NEWS. Topic, Page. Quay Says Blaine Will Accept 1 Anna Dickinson's Sensational Fait 1 Pittsburg Republicans for the Knight.... 1 The Boom Banquet Catching On 2 InterestingMuntcIpalMatter 2 Editorial Comment and Miscellaneous.... 4 The Whipping Post for Murderers....... 4 Methodist Clergy nnd Laymen Unite & Philadelphia Preachers Not Fanatloil.... O Some Cleveland and Hill Conventions.... t Work of tho General Assembly 1 Florida Express Bobbers Killed 7 A Game Won From Cleveland 8 News of tho NearDy Towns 8 The Brewers Furnish Good Beading O Tax Collector Crier's Defense J Opening of the V. P. Assembly 10 The Oil Scout's Field News. 10 Work of the County Courts 10 Live Stock and Commercial Markets.... 11 Congress Engages in a Bear Dance 12 Bill Again Dodges the Silver Issue 12 BLAINE'S ALL RIGHT, Quay Says the Secretary of State Is in. Good and Yigorons Health. THE SEtf ATOK IS FOR HOT. Pittsburgers Who Think the Maine Man Should Be Nominated IF HE IS WELL ENOUGH TO BUN. Chief EroTvn Says the People "Will Elect tha Plumed Knight. HIS NAHE AE0DSES ENTIIUSIAS1I Among the guests of the Duquesne Hotel yesterday was not Senator Quay. He had been duly scheduled to turn up at his Pitts burg headquarters, but he did not material ize, and Chief J. O. Brown and a number of others who were in waiting for him did not learn that he had gone directly to his Beaver home until the morning was well advanced. He left Philadelphia last night on the 9.20 train and sat up so late that he was too tired to stay in Pitts burg. Richard It Quay expected to meet his lather here and was as much surprised as anyone when told that he had gone di rectly home. Richard Quay, "Walter Lyon and several, others went down to Beaver on the 2.50 Lake Erie train. The Senator was seen at his residence in the afternoon. He was looking brighter and in better health than he has for many months. During the day he had a number of visitors from Beaver and the adjacent towns. Later in the day State Treasurer John Morrison put in an appearance and talked of politics for an hour or two. Came Purely on Personal Baslness. Senator Quay said he had come West on purely personal business wholly discon nected with politics, althongh he expected to include politics in his business while here. "What of the Presidental conferences we have been hearing about as likely to take place in Beaver?" "I'm afraid I will have to disappoint anybody who ha3 been looking for that sort of thing here. I came home on personal business disconnected with politics, but, of course, I will see some of my friends whiles lam here." "What is the outlook as to the opposition to Harrison?" "There seems to be a strong Blaine senti ment in all parts of the country that I have heard from. The stories about Mr. Blaine's ill health are untrue. He is in good, vigor ous health, or was when I saw him in Washington a few days ago. Everybody knows I favor Blaine's nomination." "There has been no change of front on tho part of any of the leading anti-Harrison men, has there, within a day or two, as has been reported?" "I have heard of none." The Senator's Plans for the Fntare. "When do you go to Minneapolis, Sena tor?" "I really have not determined the exact day, but will probably go about the second or third of June." "When do you come to Pittsburg?" "I shall go up on Friday morning to spend the day there, and will probably not return to Washington until Monday." "What about tha outlook on the Legisla tive fights in Allegheny county?" "I have full confidence in my friends and think they will win. Andnow what is new in politics in Pittsburg?" and the Senator following his usual custom, fired off a rapid succession of questions. It is understood that a large number of those connected with county politics in Western Pennsylvania will call on the Senator. Many" of the delegates to the National Convention will drop in on him both in Pittsburg and Beaver. There will be no attempt to gather the State delegation together for the trip to Minneapolis. Some will leave Philadel phia in special cars, some wilt go in the private cars of friends, and others will , gather in Pittsburg and make up a couple of carloads. Senator Quay's family are now all at Bea ver for the summer, or until such time as they go to the seashore. ALL FOR BLAINE. Local Republicans Who Declaro That ths Man From Maine Is the Proper Candi date or the Party Growing Sentiment Against a Second Term. A number of prominent local Republic ans were seen downtown last night and asked what they thought of the desirability of Blaine as a candidate, provided he i3 physically qualified. Their replies were unanimously and strongly for the magnetic statesman, as the following will show: J. O. Brown, Chief of the Department of Pnblic Safety, on the night that Blaine issued his letter stating that he was not a candidate, unqualifiedly declared for Blaine against all comers notwithstanding the let ter. Last night he reaffirmed his position in even more emphatic language. Said he: Thero Is only ono man talked of in either party big enoagh for the first place in this Itepubllo. I need not mention his name. It is known better than that of any man since Napoleon, and no matter whether you call him tho Plumed Knight, tho Magnetic Man from Maine, or James G. Blaine, It is known, and awakens enthusiasm in every heart wherever spoken. Seven million voters want him for President. Thero Is no getting away from tho wishes of the people, and if Blaine won't be a candidate the people will make him a candidate, they will nominate, they will elect him, and they will triura. Shantly install him at the head of this great overnment Always Enthusiastic for Blaine. If you want verification for my statements look back over the newspaper files through the County and State Conventions in every State In the Union. Ton will find that in every Iiepubllcan Convention, no matter who was indorsed for President, that the) mention of the name of Blaine created a sensation. If not that, some equally strong statement Bhowlng the Maine man's un bounded popularity. Blaine will sweep the country In June and he will duplicate tha performance in November. No man can stand against him. I don't say he la the only Republican that could bo elected, but) he is. the man for the nomination and he can't be deteated. A. E. JUcCandless, ex-Sheriff and candidate for Mayor It don't make any difference whether Blaine is physically able to stand a campaign or not, the people will make his canvass for him. Blaine's record has made him the candidate, and no one else nas any claim for consideration now. If there are any claimants they must stand back and wait their turn. I am for Blaine. Ihe Greatest Man In the Country. Ex Mayor Andrew Fulton There have been tn the last 30 years two really great men n this Republic, one not greater than the ' er, but either greater than any Eo- t
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