THE -PITTSBURG DISPATCH. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1. 1892.
BELIEF
IN BLAINE
That Makes Millions of Men,
and Old, Shout for
Him All the Time.
Young
DAN EAMSDELL'S , TOIOE
Baised in a Protest Against the
Secretary's Accepting Kow,
AFTER HIS LETTER TO CLARKS05.
Wolcott Expected to Present Blaine's Name
to the Convention.
FATHER DUCEI'S TRIP 10 WASHINGTON
SrECIAI. TElEGBAMnc LETTZB.J
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Washih-qtos. D. C ilay 3L (
Daniel Bamsdell is the United States
Marshal of the District of Columbia. He
Is the warmest friend President Harrison
has, and their friendship began at a
time when the mind of man runneth not to
the contrary. They were chums in the
army, and in Indianapolis they always
pulled in doable harness. Marshal Bams
dell was appointed to his present position
before Mr. Harrison got the chill off the
Presidental chair, and the pair hare been
hand in glove together ever since, jnst as
i they were before. The Marshal has been
a looked npon as the personal mouthpiece of
the President, and he was interviewed this
morning, after any number of attempts had
been made unsuccessfully to make him
talk.
"I believe now, as I have believed from
the beginning," said he, "that President
Harrison will be renominated, and I be
lieve now, as I have always believed, that
Mr. Blaine will not be a candidate against
him."
All Officeholders Shouting Alike.
Of course everyone knows that every
officeholder says the same thing, but mark
what follows, keeping in mind the fact that
the speaker has never been known to talk
on administration affairs without getting
his inspiration directly from the White
House.
"Mr. Blaine has for the last three years
acted in perfect accord with the President,"
continued Marshal Bamsdell, "and I am
cure that if he intended to be a candidate
he would have frankly told the President
so. I have no reason to believe that Mr.
Blaine is any less loyal to his chief than
any other member or the Cabinet, and I
believe that when the time comes to take
action at Minneapolis he will be found en
c ouraging every effort for the indorsement
of the administration oy tne renommation
of its herd."
Between the linesof that interviewa great
deal may be made. The friends of Presi
dent Harrison do not longer conceal their
anxiety regarding the meeting at Minneapo
lis. They have lost their air of consummate
confidence and their smiles are pitifully
loroed when they endeavor to treat the
nomination question in the jocose and play
ful manner they were iormerly wont to as
sume. Bamsdell as a Mere Mouthpiece.
Mr. Bamsdell's remarks are merely the
President's announcement that Mr. Blaine
will act in a dishonorable manner if he does
not come out flat-footed and unequivocally
in his favor before the convention meets.
But the Premier will do nothio; of the
kind. His letter to Mr. Clarkson was writ
ten in good faith, and he is not a man who
believes in reiteration. And neither is he
a Republican it ho will sacrifice the interests
of his party to his own personal comfort.
To save the army he will be a Leonidas
and will not flinch, even though he knows
his election to the Presidency means his
death warrant.
The administration supporters are moving
heaven and earth to secure a word from
Blaine, but no one leaves the State Depart
ment or No. 17 Madison place 'one whit the
wiser as to the Secretary's intentions. If
he were in the hands of his friends things
would be different, but he realises he is in
the hands of his countrymen, and that he
could not, if he had the power, stop the
tumultuous pulsation that throbs from
Maine to Mexico and from Caliiornia to
Cape Cod.
Many Millions for Blaine.
Clarkson was right when he said 7,000,000
Republicans demanded Blaine's nomination.
only ne did not include tne million ot
young men who think for themselves and
decline to absolutely subscribe to the entire
doctrines of either party, but who toss up
their hats and yell themselves hoarse when
ever Blaine's name is mentioned. That is
the thing that is making his nomination
more probable every day.
Mr. Harrison has made a splendid Presi
dent, but his administration has been cold.
One has needed winter underclothes in
July when the President was to be ap
proached. The air in the "White House
has been refrigerating in its character ever
since Mr. Harrison entered it One of
Green B. Baum's patent refrigerators could
not have increased its chilliness an iota,
and perhaps the natural frigidity ot the
President caused him to have that wonder
ful sympathy which has sustained the Com-
raisuiuiier ui ireubiuus uiruutu an uis irjaia
and tribulations, and caused him to order
out his executive street-sweeper to remove
the avalanche of mud that threatened to
overwhelm the Pension Office, and which,
despite his efforts, has thoroughly dirtied
all the corridors and oozed into the room of
Baum himself to leave an indelible stain on
the occupant.
Harrison's Car an J Co Wagon.
For a verity, Mr. Harrison's triumphal
car khas been an ice wagon with a fire ex
tinguisher attachment which has been
worked so effectually as to drown out every
spark of enthusiasm so thoroughly that the
most energetic manipulation of the political
bellows cannot kindle it back to life again.
He has no sounding brass or tinkling cym
bals. His piean in heard from muffled
drums, and no matter how much the stlck
wielders snare tbem up, or how energeti
cally they pound away, they can bring
forth only a lugubriously doleful sound,
like the foghorn playing the Dead March
from SauL
On the other hand, Blaine's name is the
talisman that opens the gates of exuberance
and makes the dancing elves throng forth
in fantastic array. His name is as exhila
rating to the masses as moonshine liquor is
to a-Kentucky mountaineer or religion is to
a darkey camp meeting. It mates men
feel good and jump up and shout and do all
sorts of things, and if all elkns do not fall
it will have just such an effect next week
on the delegates who will assemble in
Minneapolis.
H the programme at present agreed npon
by Mr. Blaine's friends is carried out at
Minneapolis the convention will be a brief
affair. Alabama will be called first, and
no candidate will be named. The same
course will be pursued with Arkansas and
California. Then Colorado will be called.
the olean-out wounds bis rhetorio made.
After he had finished a friend asked him
why he had not gone deeper with his olinio,
"I could hare said a great deal more,"
was his response, "but I do not oare to
place myself in such a position where I
could not, as a good Republican, take the
stump for him in case or his nomination."
It is now down on the bills for Wolcott
to nominate Blaine when Colorado is called.
The Coloradan is a master of the language;
his presence is more than pleasing; his
voice is marvelously rioh and vibrant, and
he is easily the most impassioned orator in
publio lite to-day. If he nominates Blaine
no other name will be mentioned in the
convention. That is the present programme,
and only some decisive announcement by
the man in whose interest it has been drawn
can prevent its being carried out
Father Ducey's Errand Analyzed.
The story comes around to-night that
Father Dncey, who married young James
G. Blaine and Marie Nevins, came here
yesterday to see Secretary Blaine as the
representative of Mrs. Blaine, Jr., and
discover what Secretary Blaine was willing,
to do toward providing for his ex-daughter-in-law
and grandson. It Is said that 5,000
a year is the "figure demanded by Father
uucey.
The Impression prevails that Ducey's ap
pearance nere just now is brought about by
me irienas oi tne administration, to brow
beat and put a damper on the Blaine senti
meat The ridiculous part of it is that the
people who are industriously circulating
the story assert that Bliane is willing to
pay the amount demanded if ex-Mrs. Blaine
will give up the letters which she has from
Jimmy Junior, casting obloquy and re
proach upon the Catholic church, and
which, it is believed, would have a bad
effect in case Blaine was nominated. L.
WOLF WILL BOX BUR.
Bam Fblpps a Probable Democratic Candi
date for Congress From Youngstwwn.
Yotjngstows, O., May 3L Special
A. J. Wolf, a prominent member of the
bar who has been urged to enter the race
for the Democratic Congressional nomina
tion in this district, said to-day that he has
decided not to be a candidate, pressing law
business demanding his entire attention.
Since the declination of Mr. Wolf it is
probable that Sam Pbripps, of this city,
will be presented as the candidate from
Mahoning. Mr. Phipps is a hustling Dem
ocrat, and will be Sergeant-at-Arms at the
Democratic State Convention.
The Prohibitionists of this district have
nominated Matt Shaw, a prominent local
locomotive engineer, for Congress, and
predict, by reason of his extensive ac
quaintance among labor organizations, that
he will poll a large vote. t
sioner. TJirough a mistake they were
tallied as his votes for delegate. This threw
him six votes ahead of the Walker dele
gate, but the mistake was seen when,it was
noticed that the tally shee't showed'but 81
votes polled.
A Farmers' Alliance Officer Flops.
Carbomton-, Mo., May 31. The Demo
cratic Congressional Convention of the Sec
ond district, at its meeting here to-day,
nominated V. S. Hall, late President of the
State Farmers' Alliance, for Coneress.
Charles II. Mansnr, the present incumbent,
and E. M. Harber were the opponents of
Mr. Hall.
Politic in Small Doses.
CotiQRESSXjix Outbwaite, of the Columbus,
O., district, was renominated yesterday for
the fllth term. The nomination was by ac
clamation. At the local option election yesterday, in
Toronto, O , a heavy vote was polled. The
"wets" won by 45 majority In a total of 603,
and last night celebrated tbelr vlotory.
Gkmeral Jas. S. Clabksos, .Chairman of
the Republican National Committee, and J.
Bloat Fnsoett left Now York last night for
Minneapolis to attend the Republican
National Convention. Thoy will spend to
night in Chicago.
The State Prohibition Convention of Wis
consin met at Madison yesterday and ad
journed until to-day after electing a tempo
rary chairman. William Alexander, of Eau
Claire, and T. C. Richmond, of Madison, aie
talked of for Governor.
Tim Illinois State Prohibition Convention
was held at Sprinzfleld yestorday, with the
full number of 765 delegates and several
hundred spectators. Rev. W. II. Haignt, of
Rockford, was Temporary Chairman. The
Committee on Permanent Organization
elected Hon. Robert II. Patton lor perma
nent Chairman. The district caucuses
selected district delegates and alternates to
the National Convention, and district Presi
dental electors.
ENDED THEIR LABORS.
The Presbyterian Assembly for 1892
Winds Up Its Affairs.
FAITH INSPIRED, WITHOUT ERROR,
Declared as the Tosition of the Church in
Closing Resolutions.
WASHINGTON THE NEXT MEETING PLACE
THE GBANT FUND BAISED AT LAST.
KIKE HABTEB RENOMINATED.
but
TTolcott to Nominate Blaine.
Senator Edward O. Wolcott is a delegate
from the Centennial State. Two months
ago he electrified the Senate and the coun
try by bis attack on Mr. Harrison. Calmly
and deliberately, and with an oratory that
excels that of any other man in either
House of Congress, the Colorado Senator
proceeded to dissect, or rather vivisect,
President Harrison, and put red pepper in
He Has 1,700 Majority to Overcome,
Thinks He Can Do It
Mansfield, O., May 31. Special
Hon. M. D. Barter was to-day renominated
by acclamation for Congress from the Four
teenth Congressional district at the Demo
crat io Convention at Shelby, this county.
Dr. B. Myers, of Ashland, and Hon. C E.
Crltchfield, of Knox, were elected dele
gates. It is understood that both delegates
are anti-Cleveland, although they go to the
convention uninstructed. W. G-. Sharp, of
Lorain, was nominated for eleotor.
Mr. Harter, when presented to the con
vention, made an eloquent address on the
Issues of the day. He his 1,700 to over
come in this district, but thinks he can
make it.
An Odd Slmfilo in Politic.
MoKeespobt, May 81. Special It
was fonnd to-day that Walker got five dele
gates initead of four here. James Z. Andre,
delegate for Stewart, was also a candidate
far County Commissioner, He got 34 votes
far delegate and 22 for County Oommls- J
Half a Million Collected for the Construc
tion of the General's TomD.
New York, May 31. Special' General
Horace Porter announced to-day that the
entire amount ot $350,000 which the Grant
monument trustees determined two months
ago to collect, had been subscribed, with $700
to spare. Of this amount 239,600 is cash.
In the years that the old management had
charge or tne uranc mna iou,uuu naa oeen
raised, and this now brings the whole
amount of the fund to a round half-million,
which will complete the monument in
accordance with the accepted design.
During the past 60 working days ending
with DecoratMn Day there had been sub
scribed to the Grant tomb fund $350,700,
exclusive ot the deposits in some of the
public contribution boxes, the contents of
which have not yet been collected. The
exhibition of paintings and works of art
contributed by the artists for the benefit of
the Grant fnnd will begin at Ortgie's to
morrow aud continue until June 7, when
the paintings will be auctioned off by
Chauncey M. Dcpew and General Porter,
the proceeds to be added to the fund.
GAMBLINO. LICENSED IN OMAHA.
Houses Mnst be Open and Proprietors Pity
a Monthly Fine.
Omaha, Neb., May 31. Mayor Bemis
to-day signed an ordinance which practi
cally licenses gambling in Omaha. The ordi
nance imposes a monthly fine of $25 on pro
prietors of gambling houses, and provides
that all gambling shall bo run openly and
not behind closed doors.
The ordinance is in direct violation of the
State statute- which became a law four years
ago and under which all the gambling
houses in Omaha were closed.
Portland, Ore., May 31. To-day fonnd
the great issues in the Presbyterian Church
settled and only the echoes were heard of the
protest of Dr. Agnew, of Philadelphia, and
others that the action taken in the Briggs
case was unconstitutional; the protest of
Dr. Spratrue and numerous other Commis
sioners who consider that a precedent had
been established that was ill in giving such
width to the committee; and in the Union
Seminary case the directors of that institu
tion are to be heard from in regard to the
proposed arbitration about the transfer.
Tne first topic of interest to-day con
cerned the World's Fair, in disapproving
of the sections styled the "The Parliament
of Beligion."
A mass of overtures from Presbyteries
and Synods on Sunday opening led to the
adoption of a resolution to the effect that if
the Fair shall be opened on the Sabbath the
exhibit of the Presbyterian Church shall be
closed on that day.
A resolution was adopted as follows:
"Our church holds faith inspired as it came
from God is without error. The vow of or
dination recognizes that the Bible is the
only infallible rule of faith and practice,
and it was recommended that those officers
of the church who have ceaBed to hold this
view should seek a congenial place outside
of the denomination without waiting for
discipline."
At the afternoon session, an earnest plea
for a deliverance by the Assembly against
"the lvnchine of neirroes in this country"
met with decided approval.
Elder McCook withdrew his statement of
a year agy concerning donations made to
Union Seminary upon the basis of its doc
trinal soundness, saying that he had no
desire to wound the feelings of any mem
ber of any family and no intention of char
acterizing the intent of any donor.
The Committee of Conference with theo
logical seminaries was announced as fol
lows: Drs. Hays, Young, Blayney, Mutch
more, Moore, Bartlett. Hayley. Holmes,
Wilson: Elders McDousall, Cincinnati:
McCook, New York; Gray, Chicago, Bon
ner, Indianapolis; Joy, m Detroit; Negiee,
Pittsburg: Knox, Minneapolis.
An amusing scene occured upon the in
troduction ot resolutions calling the atten
tions of ministers, elders and students to
to the evils of the tobacco habit. Finally
the resolutions passed with a shout-
Washington was selected as the place of
meeting ot the Assembly ot 1893.
After the adoption ot the usual compli
mentary resolutions, the One Hundred and
Fourth General Assembly was dissolved.
Tho Baltimore Puts Oat to Ssa,
Portland, Ore., May 31. United
States Cruiser Baltimore, whioh has beon
hero for the past three weeks, left here to
day, presumably for Pugat Bound.
NEGROES OH THE WAB PATH.
TUey Threaten to Hold a Woman for Han
som Ont of Revenge.
jAOKSONVlliiiE, Fla., May 31. Deputy
Sheriff Williams and a posse of ten went
out to Greenland to suppress a negro upris
ing there. Early last week Section Boss
Henderson, of Greenland, which is a small
station on the St. Augustine road, shot and
killed a negro workman under him, it is
claimed in self defense, as there were three
of them fighting him at the time. Hender
son, who is a white man, fled.
Since then the nesroes have been search-
ing for him and under the pretext that they
believed that he waa concealed in his own
house, they set an armed guard about it and
refjised to let Mrs. Henderson and her two
children go out. For tour days, Hender
son's family have"' been living in constant
terror and it was only to-day that word was
sent here for help. Williams and his posse
found nearly 300 armed negroes riding and
walking abont the village and threatening
violence to the Hendersons or to hold them
as a ransom until the death of their negro
comrade had been avenged. The posse soon
scattered them and made some arrests.
THE WHISKY TRUST AT BAY.
Its Members Indicted at Boston Refuse to
Go There for Trial Delay In the Suits
Sare to Knsne Government Officials
Pazzlrd.
Boston, May 31. Special There is a
new turn of affairs in the Whisky Trust
case. District Attorney Allen has been ad
vised that an attempt will be made by the
indicted officials to resist all attempts to
brine them to Boston on the warrants issued
by Judge Nelson on the indictments re
turned by the last grand jury. The infor
mation toMr. Allen comes from Cleveland.
O., where the District Attorney finds that
Messrs. Corning and French, who were
arrested last week, have determined to re
sist the efforts to bring them to Boston.
The District Attorney in Ohio has written
to Mr. Allen requesting the latter to come
to Cleveland and assist the Government
there, but it is doubtful if Mr. Allen goes,
as the pressure of business in Boston is so
great
The importance which the Whisky Trust of
ficials attach to the litigation now going on
begins to be made manifest It is under
stood that the new indictment is regarded
by the Trust's lawyers as much more diffi
cult to throw out than the first one, and
that while dilatory motions and tactics
were not advisable in the case of the other,
they will be of advantage now.
If the arrested men decide to oppose the
efforts to bring them to Boston on Judge
Nelson's warrants it will of course greatly
prolong the litigation, and consequently
delay the day when the courts will be
called to pas-, upon the real question
raised by the indictments. It is probable
that the case can be taken to the Supreme
Court of the United States on the prelimi
nary question.
BIVEBS BISIKG IK INDIANA.
Three People Drowned and Several nouses
Washed Away by the Water.
Indianapolis, Ind., May 31. The
floods in Indianapolis and vicinity caused
by the heavy rains of yesterday have caused
the loss of at least three lives, Carl Weaver,
aged 9, John Henderson and his 6-year-old
son. To-night it still rains, and the creeks
and rivers are rising. Many houses in the
lower portions of the city are flooded. Be
ports from all over the State show that.the
bridges have been washed away and much
other damage done.
The tremendous rains of the past six
weeks have pretty nearly submerged the
entire country around Wabash. All
streams are now out of their banks and
flooding thousands of acres of land. The
Wabash river as a consequence is higher
than it has been for a decade. The water is
up about several manufacturing establish
ments, which have been compelled to shut
down. The big levee on the Sal
amonia river at Lagro gave
way this afternoon, inundating the
surrounding country, and both the Big Four
and Wabash railroads are having serious
trouble. Freight trains are not moving
and passenger trains are transferring.
Telegraph wires are down in every direc
tion. To-night the Wabash river is rising
at the rate of two inches an hour.
Summer
brlggan.
underwenr, silk, lisle and bal
JiMza II. Aiken & Co.,
100 Fifth avenue.
i UNIQUE ACROSTIC
Discovered by a Bright Schoolboy on
a Public Library Building
CHISELED IN GRANITE TABLETS.
The Architects of the Institution to Be
Beaten Ont of
A TERY PECULIAR ADVERTISEMENT
ifFZCIAI. TKLXGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.l
Boston, May 3L This town is in a state
of shock over the action of some one in the
office of the architect who designed the new
public library bnilding. On the left hand
corner of the Eastern face are chiseled, in
granite tablets, the names "Moses, Cicero,
Kalidasa, Socratei, Milton, Mozart, Eu
clid, Aeschyus, Dante, Wren, Hcrrick,
Irving, Titian and Erasrau"."
The incongruity of the combination
caught the eye of some bright schoolboy,
who called the attention ot the trustees to
the fact that the names were so ar
ranged as to form an acrostic, the
first letter ot which, when read down
ward, spelled the name of the firm
of the architects who furnished the plans
tor the building. There is no reason to
doubt that the placing the names together
of men so far away, separated in rela
tion to their work and the time in
which Ithat work was accomplished,
was a practical joke or an intentional
advertisement The fact, too, that the
names of Milton, Titian and Dante occur on
other tablets proves that this act of dupli
cation was for a purpose, and not an over
sight. It is also interesting that the names
were approved by the late James Bussell
Lowell.
At a special meeting of the trustees this
afternoon it was voted unanimously that the
names should be erased and a new list
prepared to contorm to the others
on the face of the build
ing in chronological arrangement.
Appended is a list of dates that show the
times in which the men whose names ap
pear on the objectionable tablets lived.
One cannot fail to be struck with the
thought that the work of placing them in
this order was not that of an ignoramus:
Moses, prophet, ViOO It. C.
Cicero, orator, 100 IS. C
Kalidasa, Imlian poet, 1 A. D.
I. Socrates, Greek rhetorician. 400 B. C.
Milton, English poet, 1G75 A. D.
Mo7nrr. Austrian coraoosfr. 17561791.
Euclid, Alexandrian mathematician,
B. C.
Aeschylus, Greek poet, 500 B. C.
Dante, Italian poet, 1&0 A. I).
Wren, Enslish architect. 1850 A. D.
Hemck, English poet, 13C0 A. D.
Irvlnj. American llterutenr. 1800 A. D.
Titian, Venetian painter. 15T0 A D.
Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1500 A. D.
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St. Louis, Mo., May 31. Mrs. Lucy
Williams yesterday afternoon attempted
suicide by jnmping into the river at the
loot of Plum street She was rescued by
an officer and lodged in jail. It was her
third attempt at self-destruction.
She is the woman who called at the
morgue two weeks ago and identified the
body ot a man on a slab as her husband. At
the time she stated that her husband was
out of work, and rather than die jf starva
tion both agreed to commit suicide. He,
she alleges, and as her identification of the
body revealed, did so. She jumped into
the river twice from the foot of Spruce
street, only to be rescued after each attempt
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