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ALL EYES
PON
MAJOR M'KINLEY.
Ohio's GoTernor in a Position
Not at All Unlike That
of Garfield.
A YOUNG, HEAET&Y MAN
Once More Steps in Between Sherman
and His Ambition.
Placed In a Peculiar and Prominent
Position by Both Sides, Who Are
Equally Afraid of Him What the Ohio
Governor Eeprosents The South Once
More a Bothersome Element Colored
Delegates Shipped Off on an Excur
sion to Prevent Their Breaking Away
From Harrison Mooringrs Fifty to One
Hundred Dollars the Quoted Price of
Seats.
rrROM A STAFF COBBEIPOVDEST.J
MnrsEAPOLls, June 8. Harmony and
quiet rnles the convention, without hostility
roni anyone, ias
sett, of the Blaine
side, became Tem
porary Chairman,
and McKinley, of
the Harrison side,
Permament Chair-
luau. uuiuBiuctncic
afraid of McKinley,
for among their fol
lowers are persons
anxious to vote for
ma rt W n.li mi , a it
R. A. jllycr.
him from'all sections of the country.
One New York man, who says that his
factory he is a cutler was preset-red by
McKinley, means to vote for him on the
first ballot When they proposed in Niw
England delegations to take up Reed for
the dark horse they found McKinley sup
porters there. He is a man of pure char
acter and equally pure appearance. At the
lat convention, when he read the platform,
which was adopted without a dissenting
voice, most people were impressed with his
nearly sacred appearance. Now and then
he looks white, as if something lite predes
tination had intentions upon him, yet he
would avoid the appearance of assisting
himself at the expense of Harrison, and his
rectitude is genuine.
Something; About Major McKinley.
Xot a man of extensive scholarship or
versatile parts, there is nothing restless
about McKinley. His domestic life is
happy, in spile of years of invalidism of
his wife. He is a strict Conjjressraan, pay
ing attention to all things, but particularly
to tariff legislation, for his father before
him was an ironmaker, some say only a
foreman in a mill, who never had luck in the
manufacture for himself. His stock, Scotch
Irish, from among the charcoal furnaces of
Pennsylvania, which were established in
the first quarter of this century. In the
course of time the family passed up the
Mahoning Valley into Ohio, and McKinley
represented a part of the Garfield district
There is a higher idealism, it is said, over
in Ohio among; the iron men than among the
substantial Pennsylvanians, and Ohio poli
tics more frequently produces national
leaders, as if the blending of the New
England Puritans on the Reserve had
tninned the corpuscle of the Kevstones.
Allison, Rusk, McKinley and Garfield
came out of Pennsylvania to Ohio, and
Husk and Garfield drove the canal mules
between New Castle and Cleveland.
Education Acquired in Pennsylvania.
McKinley studied at college in Pennsyl
vania, and about finished up at the law
when a company marched away from his
litile town. He reflected perhaps he had
better cone also, so he set out next day with
a companion, who is now Police Commis
sioner in Boston, and walked to a camp and
enlisted as a private soldier. He is the fol
lower of the rank. The death of Garfield
uncovered him as a rising Republican.
Passim; the McKinley bill was in reality
his entrance in politics. As the executive
of Ohio he added the captivating role of
Governor of his State to his youthful fame.
One learns of McKinley, after knowing
him for some time, that mightiness is his
representative quality. He is mild and
active and in good health. His face, which
has undoubtedly the Napoleonic look in it,
has nothing swarthy, like the Corsicans.
His hair is dark, and his skin gives the ap
pearance of abstemiousness and office habits.
He is a little disposed to be corpulent, vet
may be regarded as one of the handsomest
men and sons.
McKinley "ot a Bit Handicapped.
McKinley has a little start in his favor,
for in spite of all movements of population
westward, Ohio continues to be the reserv
ing station between the East and the West
From it depart to the farther west the well
mingled emigrants which have come from
the East
A son of iron mills, with a legal educa
tion and military experience in the war,
and a thorough reasoning in politics and
Congress make him what might be called
the American Cobden, in spite of the diverg
ing views the two names represent, Cobden,
a spinner, went into politics to get legisla
tion favorable to his trade. So has McKin
ley been devoted to the iron which, from
Pittsburg districts, sends out a mountain
development South and a lake development
North. Iron and coal formed their advance
camps at the head of Lake Superior.
The author of the McKinley bill owes
to his personality, rather than to his legis
lation, the strong secondary support which
liascome to him here. In the midst of it
he is possessed and solid in countenance,
like one growing older under a strain. He
is a magnificent youth, has not the years of
Blaine or Harrison, and his influence has,
exceided the popular understanding. In
188 he produced the platform of the con
lention, probably his own composition.
He followed up with extreme legislation
in the same direction.
Made a Governor by Democrats.
The Democrats were kind enough to make
his district tne scene of a national contest,
where manifestly the cards had been
stacked against him, and he was tnus side
tracked into the Governorship. Now, at
the head of the national convention, he will
be closely watched, but the average man
inhales from McKinley, coming near to
him, more of the priestly and supernatural
ether.
"Both sides are afraid of him," said
newspaper talk this morning; "they have
Cut him in the place he might be dangerous,
ut they probably have put him in a place
where he will be guarded from committals
and become the portrait of Providence in
the eyes of the convention."
It seems to be the fate of John Sherman
for Ohio always to have some younger man
man xie! 10 retract uis innuence at tnese j
te lllll
conventions. Blaine was half Ohlan,
Haves came next in the way, then Garfield,
and" there is McKinley. Though he has
drclared for Harrison, his situation as
Chairman will protect McKinley from any
further expressions of opinion. If he
could be a Presidental candidate, the Senate
is open to Governor Foraker, his young
rival. '
For years McKinley was a pupil and
admirer of Blaine. In the course of lime
Mr. Blaine has had the whole nation for his
constituency.
Solidity of Ills Constituency.
While McKinley has remainedfast in the
Ohio iron region, New England has dropped
out from among the iron leaders, and the
Secretary of State has been compelled to
look at" the world with reference to its
broadening future and the exchanges which
make a healthy circulation around the
globe. Where McKinley lives the iron in
terest is more solid than ever. The pig
iron of Alabama comes to the furnaces of
the Monongahela and Mahoning Valleys to
be manufactured.
Reciprocity, protection, free trade,
Blaine, McKinley, Cleveland confront the
day. The business interest, quickly ad
hering itsel! to either policy, resists being
detached. We await what we shall see;
Mr. Cleveland aeain represents revolution.
Mr. Blaine compromise or evolution; Mr.
McKinlev the old Harrisonism of 1840 and
ihe patriotism of Henrv Clay. The South
makes all the contention here, and prob
ably always wilL The safety of these con
ventions lies in the quarrels of the South
ern white politicians.
You see Kellogg and Warmouth con
fronting each other as of yore. Warmouth
got the collectorship and Kellogg has ever
since been unhappy. The head of the
custom house at New Orleans comes at the
head of hi delegation, but when contestants
appear from Alabama to unseat the Har
rison men, that is thought to be tuurpticn
itself
Alabama Always a Bother.
The colored man, if he has intelligence
enoneh to hold office, cannot be blamed if
he prefers to draw a salary of $1,200 a year
tolying back as a barber or field hand at
$10 a month, which he cannot collect In
Virginia Mahone had the sense to go over
to Langston, the negro, and save the ap
pearance of a contest
For some years Alabama has been the
most exasperating State in Republican con
ventions. Both Sherman and Alger worked
it all over in the last convention, and Sher
man has been mad at Alger since. The
sequel: Alger is playing his hand here for
the second place on the ticket, while Sher
man, witn generally conced merits both as
a statesman and a candidate, is very little
spoken of.
The convention threatens to be lengthened
out by these contests, which each side is
doing its best to take advantage of. The
pot calling the kettle black is a very old
sarcasm to the cut and thrust of these
black delegations. General Sherman in the
South, the administration at Washington is
one party, and the other party consists of
the disappointed.
Fred Donclass Still on Deck.
Old Fred Douglass is up here, the great
est man the Eastern shore of Maryland has
ever produced; the principal orator, author
and biographer of that section in his earlier
youth; a negro Patrick Henry, and the
most hated object by the slave masters in
the world, who has had for many years past
a widow's crust of 'coon and possum's lat
He has been in office almost ever since the
Republican party, and a negro Bishop is
well thought of. He has had the bigeest
office in the District of Columbia, a foreign
mission, and with these possessions he has
become a conservative, and is always in
favor of the man now in power, and against
those who would tear down and break in.
The old man, with his white side-whiskers,
a fine combination of the African and Cau
casian, is asking about the force bill of
Grant's time, saying that Mr. Blaine is
not the colored person's friend.
Tne only humor in America is negro min
strels, of which we had a melee on Tuesday
night, when the Harrison managers shipped
all their negroes to Lake Minnetonka, that
their presence might be fewer with these
pestiferous Blaine men. It had been
whispered that colored delegates came into
Harrison headquarters and innocently said
that a man had just offered them $50 for
their tickets to the convention, but they
would not take it not they. The prepos
terousness of a negro wanting $50 in hand
rather than a salary for 12 months is ex
pressed on all countenances.
SUudlnc Oat for Their Price.
Directlv a particular negro came baok
with $100 and said he had just sold his
tickets. Immediately all the other negroes
were shipped to Lake Minnetonka and
these tickets put in screw.
There are contentions in families between
Blaine and Harrison. Here is Mr. Richard
Kerens, formerly Mr. Blaine's supporter,
and now, as the "partner of Mr. Elkins, Is
supporting Harrison. He belongs to an in
structed delegation, of which an instructor
was Mr. Kerens. He is unable to violate
his own instructions to himself. But Mrs.
Kerens, a fine-looking lady, and her bloom
ing daughter, observed with rejoicing yes
teiday that the Missouri delegation Is
divided as fair as Lot and Abraham, one
half going to Blaine, and said Mrs. Kerens:
"After one vote cast for President Harrison
everybody, I think, will have no instruc
tion1!, and there need be no more delay
about nominating Mr. Blaine."
The look of mild determination which
accompanied this expression boded an at
tentive behavior on the part of Mr. Kerens
to his family during the ensuing summer.
The Blaine ladies here are numerous.
They say that Mrs. Lowry stands at the
head of Minneapolis society, and Mr.
Lowry, avoiding the intrusion of his prefer
ence as one of the hosts of 30, is all the
more dangerous beneath the surface for his
steady Blaine feeling. The Minnesota
delegation had Harrison men it, ,bnt they
are in the minority.
Cuilom Knocked nt by Cannon.
Said Samuel Raymond to me, last night:
"Cuilom would have a big influence in this
convention if he would exercise it, but he
lets Joe Cannon pull his leg. Joe has no
expectations. He lets Cuilom think that it
is Cuilom who has the expectations. Cnl-
lom claims that he discovered Blaine and
made him the Speaker of Congress. Until
within two or three months Cuilom has been
growling at Harrison. They cannot keep
half the delegation from Blaine."
I need not send you probabilities, but It
is significant that Mr. Seckendorff, the cor
respondent of the New York Tribune, had
ciphered out 410 votes for Harrison on Mon
day night, and last night his information
and intelligence compelled him to take
about 80 votes off that figure. The Har
rison men made some gains in New York,
but their border delegations, like Delaware,
Maryland, Tennessee and Missouri were
badly shaken up.
The departure of Mr. Blaine from Wash
ington for Maine yesterday, and the con
tinued presence of his son Emmons here in
communication with Mrs. Blaine and others,
gave assurance to all that Blaine was a
combatant, and laving aside his official
gown, had buckled the champion's belt
around him and thrown to the windward his
lurid eye.
Blaine Sentiment at n Show.
Tuesday night I went in the midst of a
great rainstorm to the principal variety
theater here, and the improvisatore on the
stage put out this feeler: "You may fight
with might and main, but you can't beat
Jim Blaine." Whereupon the amusement
character of thebouse ceased, and everybody
rose and roared their cheers.
Blaine is strong with the laboring middle
class who look lor natural qualities in a
man as they would in a horse or a dog; they
like his vitality, his ever-recurring business,
his smartness and his occasional combative
nest On the other hand, the forces of con
servatism, the man with a stock of goods on
the shelves, and the head of the corporation
with stock and bonds out and dividends may
count on loans on the Presidental breast
George Alfeed Towksend.
So Tliey 1 ere Marrl-d.
How beautiful were tho jewels of the
bride and how lovely the Rifts in silver, cut
glass and bric-a-brac The selection of a
weddins gift from our extensive stock is a
great source or pleasure. We have hundreds
of appropriate articles.
tiis E. P. Honnnrs & Boss.
THE
BOTH SjDESjCARED,
The General Opinion of Con-
serTatiye Men on Con-
yention Delays.
SC0EING TO GAIN TIME.
Blaine's Leaders Deny That They
Need Any Such Advantage.
VISITORS TIRED OP LONG WAITS.
The Harrison Forces Are Eampant for an
Early Ballot, Bat
THE OPPOSITION II0LDS THE TRUMPS
PROU A STAFF COKBESrONDENT.l
Minneapolis, June 8. Conservative
men on the outside thins: that both sides
are badly scared.
This ii the only way
they can account lor
the numerous delays.
All kinds of reasons
are given for hold
ing back the conven
tion. There are signs
of impatience on all
sides. Visitors are
becoming weary of
Jfcrraktr.
the long watis between acts, and they de
mand something more entertaining for their,
money. A little blood would make them
smile, and a pitched battle on the floor, of
the convention would put them into the
seventh heaven of ecstatic bliss.
The Harrison forces rail at the Blainiacs,
as they call them, and are rampant for an
early ballot At least, they make a show
to this effect, but it is significant when men
like Ingalls and Cuilom are anxious to
stave ofl the crucial test as long as possible.
The sanguine Blaine leaders compare the
situation to a cat with a mouse. Tom knows
he has a "cinch," but delights in worrying
the lite of his victim before he eats him.
Blaine is the cat, oi course.
Conger Allows Harrison 428.
Colonel Conger, who Is close to the throne,
says Blaine has enough votes to elect him
without the contested seats. He allows
Harrison 428.
"In Ohio," he continued, "nine out of
every ten Republicans are for Blaine. Mo
Kinley's stand by the administration is not
with the sanction of the Buckeye voters.
Through his personal influence he is holding
some of the Ohio delegates in line for the
President, but I want to say a word about
the contested seats in Alabama. I sat in the
committee and listened to the evidence. I
never heard of such political rottenness as
exists in that State. Think of a postmaster
voting 28 proxies at a timet Carrying 28
men in his vest pocket!
"What would your people in Pennsyl
vania think of a route agent calling conven
tions, making himself chairman, and then
shutting out everybody who did not hold
credentials signed by himself! Think of the
district being reorganized In the interest of
Harrison by Federal officeholders, all on
the committees not favorable to his renom-
ination being picked off.
Prepared to Make It Hot.
'The President's backer has been making
threats all the week that the committee was
packed against them and they would not
get fair treatment, but they were prepared
to make it hot for us in the convention.
Well, I hope they will stir up the political
pot in Alabama. If they don't strike a
lively hornets' nest I am very much mis
taken. Again, I repeat that Blaine will
have more votes in Ohip than the Harrison
people believe."
There is considerable bad feeling in the
Ohio delegation. Foraker is in an ugly
humor and he docs not try to conceal It
The ex-Governor likes nothing better than
a lively scrap, and McKinley would rather
eat his hat than fight The delegation held
a caucus on the floor of the convention this
morning over the vice chairmanship. Ex
Attorney General Nash and Foraker are
candidates for the place. It's pretty cer
tain that Hash has the votes, though he
may give way to the fire eater in the inter
est of harmony.
Foraker wore a frown during the m orning
session. When McKinley was escorted to
the chair as permanent presiding officer of
tne convention, all tne Ohio delegates ex
cept Cox, Lew Hadden and Foraker rose to
their feet and cheered him. Foraker
clapped his hands and smiled a little, but
Cox and Hadden were sullen and disgusted.
Cincinnati Hot for McKinley.
The Cincinnati crowd is not satisfied, and
under no circumstances will they vote for
McKinley if he should be entered in the
race after the others have had a heat and are
found wanting.
Judge King, of Youngstown, and Colonel
Chase, of Dayton, visited the different
headquarters during the day, arranging for
a big Blaine demonstration. The Pennsyl
vania boys were invited, and they turned
out in force. The Judge said McKinley
was working the Garfield racket, and he
disapproved of his course. He added that
the Ohio people want Blaine and nobody
else. He claims half of the Buckeye dele
gates will be found in the Blaine column on
the first ballot Alleged Harrison men dis
like ignoring McKinley'i wishes, but they
will break from the President at the first
chance. Colonel Chase spoke in a similar
strain.
The Pennsylvania delegates and visitors
are spending the time between sessions ad
miring the beautiful women of Minneapolis,
and it must be added that the city is full of
rosy-cheeked females. Pure air, minus
smoke, keeps their complexions fair and
spotless. Lakes Harriatt and Minnetonka
and Minnehaha Falls are visited by crowds
daily, who have tired oi yelling for candi-
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PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
dates, and are saving their strength until
something is done.
Grow Flops Over to Blaine.
At the Pennsylvania headquarters thore
was considerable talk about Tower's flop to
Harrison. The truth is that he was in
structed for Harrison, and is liable to be
with the Blaine people after the first ballot,
if not before.
The surprise of the day was the rightabout-face
of Galusha A. Grow. He's now
out for the ex-Secretary. When he saw the
Harrison people could not and would not
make him Permanent Chairman he soured
on the outfit and got under the Blaine ban
ner. The general comment is that he waited
too long before he made the break.
The delegates from the Seventeenth and
Nineteenth districts in Pennsylvania are
also instructed for Harrison. Dick Murphy,
who is Quay's private secretary, says the
delegation will stand 62 to 2 in favor of
Blaine. He thinks that all the delegates
but Magee and Von Bonnhorst can be won
over. Sir. Magee is very confident of Har
rison's success, apparently, although the
men in the delegation believe he is making
a great bluff They fail to see why he should
be under obligations to a man who for three
years in his administration gave him noth
ing, but at the last comes around with the
Internal Collectorship as a sop. Magee,
however, is looking to ttie future, and is
content to bury the past
Mo Changes Yet In West Virginia. -
No changes are reported in the West Vir
ginia delegation. The poll to-day showed 9
votes for Harrison, 2 lor Blaine', 1 absent
Hewitt and Berry are the Blaine admirers.
Thev come from the southwestern part of
the State, and refuse to obey instructions.
The Harrison people are having prominent
West Virginians wire the recalcitrants to
stand by their colors and carry out the
wishes of their constituents. This plan
doesn't work, either, and Berry and Hewitt
are as firm for Blaine as ever. They are
not the only Blaineiacs at heart in the
delegation. At least three others will
vote for Blaine after the first
ballot if no nomination is made.
West Virginia is at the bottom of the
column, and will be among the last States
called up. If by the time the State is
reached it is seen that Harrison is defeated,
nobody need wonder if the delegation goes
VIEW OP MINNEAPOLIS, BIXOWnTO FALLS OP ST. ANTHONY AND
solid for Blaine. Like other Southern peo
ple, the West Virginians like to be on the
winning side. Th ese pointers come from
the inside, and can be relied upon.
The feeling between Harrison and Blaine
forces is so pronounced that a pollef most
of the delegations will be demanded by one
side or the other during the ballot Neither
is willing to take the statements of the op
position. The Harrison people applauded
the rule giving any delegate the right to
demand a poll If he is not satisfied with the
announcement of the vote by the Chairman.
Israel.
FAILED FOR $40,000,000-
The Oriental Bank, One of London's Great
est, Forced to Soepend.
London, June 8. The Oriental Bank Is
in trouble owing to the decline in silver and
losses in the Mauritius cyclone. The Bank
of England is considering measures for its
relief. Its capital Is 2,000,000; liabilities
estimated at 9,000,000.
The directors recommendthe depositors to
withdraw only 20 per cent of their deposits
in order to allow of the successful recon
struction of the bank.
The suspension is largely due to the de
preciation in the value of silver, to the con
sequent increasing distrust in Great Britain
of investments in silver countries, and to
the withdrawal of capital in the Fast
coupled with the unprecedented condition of
trade in China, Japan and Australia and
losses incurred through the hurricane at
Mauritius. The report concludes with the
statement that steps will be taken to pro
tect the assets of the bank. The Immediate
liabilities are believed to amount to
5,800,000.
HABBISBUBQ SENDS C01I TBIBUTIOHS.
Money and Clothing Forwarded to the
Stricken on Oil Creek.
Habrisbubo, June 8. Amos Beno, of
Simsburg, Conn., has sent Governor Fatti
son 250 for the sufferers in the oil regions.
This afternoon the Evening Telegraph for
warded 100 to Mayor Emerson at Titus
ville. beinc the first instalment of the dod-
ulr fund raised by.this paper.
Mrs. cnarles L. iJailey sent a large box
full of clothing contributed bv merchants
and others. Other boxes of clothing will
follow. It is probable that the Harrisburg
Operatic Society will reproduce the opera,
"Pearl of Persia" for the benefit of the vic
tims of fire and flood.
EMIN FASHA IS DEAD.
Smallpox, From Wh ch He Was SnfTerlne; ,
' Carried Him Oft.
Berlin, June 8. The Tageblalt to-day
confirms the recent rumors of the death in
the interior of Africa of Emin Pasha. If it
is true that Emin is dead, the natural sup
position is that be has fallen a victim to
smallpox, from which, reports in April
stated, he was suffering.
Turned Completely Topijr-Tnrvy
By the mallolous sprite, dyspepsia, the stom
ach may still regain Its accustomed order
and equilibrium by the use of Hostetter's
Stomacn Bitters. Heartburn, wind on the
stomach, sour eructations, nervous annoy
ance and distmbed rest, all indicative of
clironio Indigestion, are obviated by It It
Is unparalleled for malaria, constipation,
biliousness, lheumatlsm and la grlDpe.
Showing; Talues.
On April 21 Mrs. Caroline Keltz, of Ken
sington, purchased from tbe Burrell Im
provement Company, lot No. 21, In blook 5,
situated on Nlnh street, in the new olty of
Kensington, for which she paid $1,600 cash.
She sold the same lot on May 17 (less than
one month) for $2,300 cash. Similar cases are
frequently occurring in this property.
More money can be made, and made In a
shorter time, In putting your savings In lots
at Kensington than In any Investment you
can make. Come to our offloe, No. 79 Fourth
avenue, and get free railroad tickets.
Everythlnc New Ladles Shirt Waists.
Special styles opened to-day In our ladies'
suit department Dark colors, figured and
plain and fancy white ground effects in
French percale waists.
White linen waists.
New styles In Bilk waists.
Speolal orders taken and filled promptly.
Jos. Hoairi & Co.'s
Penn Avenue Stores.
. Sitlne Barcalns.
20c, ISo and 12o American satines. Clos
ing out this week at 7c a yard. Greatest
bargains In satines ever offered at H. J.
Lyn ch's, 438 and MO Market street.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 9,
TAKEN BTSURPRISE.
The Blaine Majority in the
Committee on Creden
tials Disappears
AFTER MANY VICTORIES.
Skillful Conp of Harrison Men
Meets Transient Sncces3 on
THE LAST OASES CONSIDERED.
Their Foes Soon Rally, and a Reconsidera
tion Hotion Is Pending.
WILT. FIGHT IT OUT THIS MORNING
Minneapolis, June 8. The Blaine peo
ple met with a surprise this afternoon in
the Committee on Credentials. They found
a counter-plan at work to defeat their pur
pose to approve the proceedings of the
National , Committee in the matter of
the contested seats, and when a vote
was taken on the delegates at large and one
district of Alabama contested, they found
themselves in the minority after having
confidently looked forward to continued
victory in all the contests, a previous test
of votes having showed that they were in a
majority and controlled the committee by a
majority of six votes.
It was only one vote by which they lost,
and subsequently they pulled themselves
together and carried a motion to adjourn,
CONVENTION HALL.
with another motion to reconsider pending.
Blaine men on the delegation said it was a
set-back, but predicted that things
would come out all right in the end
and before the report was prepared for sub
mission to the convention it would be found
that they were again in the majority. They
said that to-night the fight would be re
newed, and that they would carry their
point and seat the antl-Moseley faction in
Alabama, who have been given seats by the
National Committee.
Why Harrlsonites Shrink From a Fight.
The news, however, gave a great deal of
encouragement to the Harrison men, who,
up to this time, have been bitterly com
plaining of the way in which they were be
ing treated by the Committee on Credentials.
Some of their leaders expressed a
fear that the committee did
not propose to report at all,
and were in favor of fighting the
committee on the floor of the convention.
From this they were restrained by the fact
that defeat almost inevitably meant a loss
of prestige, and they realized that on
an indirect proposition, the delegates not
there being bound by instructions, they
were weaker than on a ballot Some votes,
it was evident, wonld also be lost through
an indisposition to condemn the party
leaders by such a rebuke as would neces
sarily be implied in an attack on the com
mittees constituted in the regular way.
The first movement on the part of the
Harrison men, looking to more speedy work
on the part of the Credentials Committee,
was made in the convention, when Cogswell,
ot Massachusetts, as unalrman or the com
mittee, asked for more time. The move
ment was cautious and involved no fight
It was simply a preliminary skirmish for an
advantageous position. Spooner, of
Wisconsin, was put forward by the adminis
tration men, and in two questions he have
the information that with good luck a re
port ought to be made to-morrow, and that
the permanent roll might be made up at
any time, so far as uncontested cases were
concerned.
Antl-Admlnlstratlon Men In Majority.
An effort, made in committee previously
to have these cases reported in advance of
the report on the contested cases, had failed
by a vote of 22 to 26, and it was for the pur
pose of eliciting the fact that Mr. Spooner
had made his inquiries. In speaking of his
report Chairman Cogswell acknowledged to
a reporter that the anti-administration men
were in a majority and controlled affairs.
Whether or not the tactics pursued had
the effect of accelerating the movements of
the other side for fear ot a fight, or whether,
they were willing to show some
signs of acceleration, is uncertain, but
when the committee reassembled it pro
ceeded with a little more expedition,
and by the time for adjournment for sup
per, had almost completed consideration of
tbe Alabama contests, which, being the
worst contests, were first taken up. It is
not probable, however, that the work can
be completed and a report made before to.
morrow evening, and a night session
to-morrow must be ordered by the
convention if tbe third day of its
session is to see it permanently organized
and in full working order. This will throw
the nominating speeches over until Friday,
and later, if there should be a hard fight
waged against the report, as has been
threatened by the Harrison men.
Smooth Sailing for a Season.
The first case called was from the Eighth
district, and here the report of the National
Committee was approved with substantial
unanimity. The anti-Moseley delegates
were permanently enrolled. A fight was
made on Hendricks and Fifzpatrlck, the
representatives of the faction headed
by Stevens and Gee, of the "New
Idea," and known as the "Anti
Moseleys "in the Third Alabama district,"
but a poll showed 27 Blaine to 21 Harrison
votes, and they were also enrolled. In the
Fourth district it was also demons
trated that there was a good work
ing majority, and Bland and Wilson, the
anti-Moseleyites, were sustained in their
right to seats. The Fifth district was, also,
carried; but when it came to the delegates
at large and the contest over one contested
seat in the Ninth district, the administra
tion forces mustered strong and executed a
skillful coup d'etat They surprised the
other side and carried the day temporarily
for the Moseley, or officeholders' faction, by
a vote of 24 to 23.
In describing how it was done, one of the
members ot the committee said a couple of
1892.
fellows suddenly jumped over to the other
side, one sneaked and ano'her was absent
Amotion was made to reconsider, and an
adjournment was carried until 8:30, when
the motion to reconsider will come up and
the fight be renewed.
The Alabama contest was again taken up
on reassembling, but left for the time in the
shape they drew it The Fifth Kentucky
was taken up and Matthews and "Winstell
seated. This case has had several turns,
and its significance is not apparent on the
surface. Matthews has been usually
classed as a Blaine man, but it is not
certain that he is.
HE HAS A DOUBLE.
Strange Story of a Man Sentenced for
Bigamy He Says Hlj Cousin Trans
ferred to Him a Home, Wife and All,
and She Never Knew the Olffarenc.
Y0UNO3T0WN, O., June & Special
Milton Dean, indicted in Trumbull county
for bigamy, came here to-day to consult his
attorney, and made the following sensa
tional statement showing his innocence and
presenting evidence to support it The
accused is the son of Israel Dean, and was
born in Michigan. When quite young his
mother died and his father remarried. After
this the home life ol the boy was not pleas
ant, and when 12 years old he struck out
for himself and earned his own living. He
adopted the occupation of a driller, in
which he was very successful.
When he arrived at manhood he visited
Cleveland, and later his cousin, Miles
Dean, a son of John Dean, who was a
driller. The resemblance of the cousins
was striking, and the workmen frequently
mistook one for the other. Miles became
dissatisfied with his home; and decided to
leave his young wife and go west He
made a proposition to turn over his per
sonal property to Milton, provided the lat
ter would support bis family, and in
formed him that if he would call upon a
certain lawyer at Newton Falls he would
be given a valuable paper. Milton inter
viewed the lawyer and received a deed
transferring to him a drilling machine and
other property. Miles left the same day
and Milton, after waiting until late iu the
evening, went to the home of Miles. The
wife had retired, but called, supposing it
was Miles, and said he would find supper
waiting. After finishing his repast Milton
entered the room of his cousin's wife. The
couple lived together four years as husband
and wife, tbe latter not suspecting that he
was other than her lawful husband, and
two children were born to them.
Marital differences cansed a separation of
the couple, and the wife went to the home
of friends at Beaver, Pa., where she now re
sides. Shortly after the separation she
visited Milton Dean at Alliance, informed
him that she had applied for a divorce, and
expected it would be granted in a few days.
Milton Dean went to Cadiz, O., on business,
and while there became acquainted with a
young lady whom he married, believing that
there was no legal impediment to his mar
riage. In a lawsuit at Newton Falls re
garding a drilling machine it was ascer
tained that he had married a wife at Cadiz,
while he had a legal wife living at Beaver,
and he was arrested and indicted for big
amy. Believing that it might be of assistance to
him in showing his innocence, the accused
related the story of his matrimonial ex
periences with the wife of his cousin.
Nothing is known of the cousin Miles since
his disappearance. Investigation by rela
tives personally acquainted with the two
men, and the marks borne by one bears out
the strange story as related by Milton
Dean. Dean said to-day that he did not
have the means to secure all the evidence
Bhowing his innocence to find his cousin
Miles, and had decided to throw himself on
the mercy of tbe Courts This alternoon he
was sentenced to one year in the peni
tentiary. BOB FORD KILLED.
The Murderer of Jesse James Gets a Doid
of His Own Medicine.
Cbkde, Colo., June 8. Bob Ford, the
slayer of Jesse James, was shot and instantly
killed by Depnty Sheriff Kelly in Ford's
Dance Hall this afternoon. Kelly and Ford
hod a quarrel in Pueblo in February last,
and ill feeling has existed between the two
men since.
This afternoon Kelly was standing in the
doorway of Ford's Dance Hall, when an
unknown man was seen to hand him a
double-barrel shot gun, after which Kelly
stepped Inside the hall and called "Bob."
Ford, who was abouf five feet away, turned
around, at the same time reaching for his
hip pocket Kelly raised his gun and fired
a load of buckshot full in Ford's neck and
severed the wind pipe and jugular vein. He
died instantly. Kelly gave himself up and
refuses to talk.
NEW YOKE GIVES AID.
Contrlbutlons to Be Collected and
For-
warded to the Suffering People.
New York, June 8. Special Contri
bution In aid of the sufferers by the Oil
City disaster will be received at the Mayor's
office. They will be forwarded to the prop
er persons for distribution until the full
extent of the disaster is known, when a
-committee to take charge of the matter will
probably be appointed. The Consolidated
Exchange received a telegram from the
Titusville Oil Exchange to-day requesting
that trading in pipe line certificates be
sutpended until to-morrow. The request
was granted.
Frank Stack, Vice President of the Con
solidated Exchange, who lives nt Titus
ville, telegraphed requesting the Exchange
to raise money for the sufferers. This com
mittee was immediately appointed to raise
subscriptions. Manager H. B. Jacobs has
tendered every theater on his circuit for a
benefit performance for the sufferers. Mr.
Jacobs controls 17 theaters and the .entire
gross receipts will be given to the fund.
A PE0IE8TANT BHOIHEBH0OD.
Mass Meeting in Trinity Chnrch Addressed
by Bishop Whitehead.
A mass meeting in the interest of the
Brotherhood of St Andrew was held in the
Trinity Episcopal Church, on Sixth avenue,
last night The attendance was large, about
ISO members of the organization being pres
ent, besides a large attendance of friends
and members of tbe church. The speakers
were Bishop Whitehead, Key. Bogers
Israel, of Christ Church, Meadville, and
Mr. H. M. Clarke, of Christ Church, Tid
ioute, Ps.
The Brotherhood is an organization com
posed of Christian men ot the two cities
and has the good of the Episcopal Church
at heart Tbe speakers were eloquent and
spoke of the good the order could do and
was doing.
The expenses of the meeting were 520,
fITlH xl nnv vnif m rtnttanlinn wist tatran im
amounting to $45. The remaining $25 will
be turned into the relief fund of the Oil
City and Titusville disaster.
THE SIOEM AT M'KESP03T.
"Lightning Strikes Churches nnd D-rrIcl:s
and Many Places Arc riooded.
McKEESPORT, June 8. Special The,
storm was greatly felt in the small places
near here yesterday. At Christy Park, the
residence of C Halamer, and also tbe
Baptist Church were strue'e by lightning
and the roofs damaged. Just opposite, in
Lincoln township, lightning demolished the
derrick of the new Snell well, which is
down 1,500 feet The drillers working
there had a narrow escape.
At Lynch's, nearby, there was a sheet of
water 20 feet deep covering five acres of
ground, located in a valley at the upper
end of the place. It was ' feared that it
would break out and Captain Dave Lynch
with a gang of workmen, made a small
opening and allowed it gradually to run
out
OEMANOJOe BLAINE
Coming Prom Illinois, Despite
the Instructions for
Harrison.
SOME HAED BLOWS STEUCX
In the Meeting of the 3Iissonri Dele
gation, hat No Bloodshed.
A EEED BOOM NIPPED IN-THE BUD.
The Massachusetts Delegates Won't Tote
Even Once for Him.
HARD WORK IN' STATE DELEGATIONS
Minneapolis, June 8. The sentiment
in the Illinois delegation is very much
mixed, and it is hard to say how the vote
of that State will be divided when a ballot
is finally reached. The Chicago Blaine
Club, about 800 Btrong, is in the city, and
has formally called upon Senator Cuilom
and the Illinois delegation, and presented
resolutions which are as follows:
Whereas, At the time of tbe meeting of
the Illinois State Convention, composed
almost entirely of delegates of prononnced
vlew9 In favor of the candidacy of James G.
illalne. It wa9 tlie prevalent opinion
thronzhout the country that Mr. Blaine's
name would not come Defore the National
Convention, and formal Instructions based
upon such belief were given to tho dele
gates at large to support the present Chief
Alasistrate (or a second term; and
Whereas, Similar resolution, under like
circumstances, were given ut certain dis
trict conventions in the State where the
sentiment of the voters was overwnelminKly
In favor of Mr. Blaine's candidacy, hut the
expiesslon of which sentiment was pre
vented by reason of the tame prevailing
sentiment; and
Contingencies Demand Blaine.
Whereas, Certain contingencies have
arisen In the State of Illinois which ren
der it a supreme necessity to place at the
head of the National Convention a man who
will arouse the most intense enthusiasm of
every Kepablican voter, and whose nomina
tion will, beyond question of a doubt, result
In a glorious victory lor the State as well as
the nation; and
Whereas, James G. Blaine Is the author of
the only new, practical political principle,
that of reciprocity, which has been given to
the country in the last 2D years, which as an
issue will command. In connection with Ills
name, not only the enthusiasm of the entire
Republican party, bat likewise the senti
ment of thousands of voters who have here
tofore been arrayed against the party; be It
Resolved, That we call upon our entire
delegation Irom tho State of Illinois to heed
the voice of the people In their almost unan
imous demand for the nomination of James
G. Blaine as the Republican candidate In
the coming national contest; further.
Resolved, That a commission ho appointed
by tbe President of the Chicago delegation
to present these lesolutions to the conven
tion. More Congressmen In View.
Mr. Barnes, in presenting the above reso
lutions, assured Senator Cuilom that the
club had adopted them, believing that
Blaine's nomination would be for the best
interest of the party.
"We feel that Blaine's nomination will
elect a greater number of Congressmen in
Illinois," said Hon. George Hasmon, one of
the members of the club indorsing the reso
lutions. "This is a practical question, and
we feel that the conditions are such that ne
need every vote we can get in our State.
Tnat Blaine has not been an avowed candi
date we all know. Ii he had been, the uni
versal sentiment would have spoken out
and the result of the State Convention
would have been different"
Senator Cuilom, in replying, said he
recognized that every American citizen had
a right to speas, and lie would taice pleasure
in presenting the resolutions at to-day's
meeting oi the delegation. The delegation
has been doing some quiet caucusing, but
the strength ot the Presidental candidates
cannot be learned. It is reported to stand
Harrison 23. Blaine 19, and six absent
There Is very little talk among the delegates
ol supporting Senator Cuilom for President
should an outsider be selected.
SOI FOB EX-SPJSAKEB SEED.
Massachusetts Harrlsonites Won't Allow
the Maine Xeader Even One Tote.
Minneapolis, June 8. Among tne va
rious rumors current to-day was one to the
effect that Massachusetts proposed to cast
its solid vote tor ez-Speaker Itecd, oi
Maine, and had so decided at its meeting
this morning. The basis for the story was
the fact that the delegation had met at 10
o'clock, and at once, after being called to
order, Colonel Faircbild, of Boston, moved
that in view of the delegations known as
leaning toward Beed a complimentary vote
AT LAT!
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be'east for that candidate. The Harrison,
as well as some of the Blaine people in the
delegation, were opposed to any such mo7e,
and it was not even put to a vote.
General Otis, of that delegation, says tho
delegation stands 19 for Harrison to 11 for
Blaine, and that as lar as the Harrison men
are concerned they do not propose to allow
their strength to be wasted m such a man
ner. Other similar rumorsabout other States
are claimed to be for a similar purpose and
with about an equal amount of basw in iaot
HABBISOS'S HASD "WOBKEKS
Include Two or His brothers anil Their
Strapping1 on.
HnrNEArous, June a Some very near
representatives of President Harrison be
side his recognized political lieutenants ara
in Minneapolis. The fact did not become
known until to-day that his two brothers
are on the ground, ostensibly making a spe
cial visit to the President's sister, Mrs.
Morris, of Minneapolis.
The brothers nre J. Scott Harrison, of
Kansas City, and Carter Harrison, of Nash
ville, Tenn. Stalwart sons of each gentle
n.an are also here.
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