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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1892. ,
THE THIRD PARTIES.
Political Eruptions That Mark the
History of the States.
A X1TI0KAL WAR OH MASOKRT.
Etory of the Abolitionists and the Enow
Xotliing Departure.
THKlflVIXG TOTES TO THE WIKDS
IWRITTEX TOR THE DISPATCH. 1
One of the most interesting developments
of American politics is the -hird party."
Por nearly 40 years after the adoption of the
Constitution the American people got along
very comfortably with only two political
parties, and daring the brief period known
as the "era of good feeling" without any
parties at alL Eveiybody belonged to the
came party.
That state of affairs, however, was of short
duration. Men would differ as to their
Tiews of the Constitution, and because of
these differences speedily divided again into
two political parties. In 1828 the Jackson
jnen dropped the word Kcpublican from
their party designation and came out flat
footed as Democrats, and the Adams men
took the name National Republican. It
.was under this name that Henry Clay ran
for the Presidency in 1832. In 1836 the
name of "Whigs was assumed, and in 1840
that party swept the country. Since then
there have always been two principal par
ties in the country and generally one or two
' others, these latter being classed in the com
mon category of "third parties."
History or the Anti-Masonic Tarty.
The first political third party that this
country ever knew was the anti-Masonic.
It grew out of the disappearance of "William
Morgan from his home at Batavia, X. Y.,
in September. 182G. He was a "Virginian
by birth and had servedVn the "War of 1812.
He was a member of the order of Free
masons, and at the time of his disappear
ance was known to be engaged on a book
exposing the secrets of the Masonic order.
"Without goins into the history of that cele
berated case, it will be sufficient for the
purposes of this article to state that this oc
currence led to an intense and widespread
feeling against the Masons, who were held
responsible as a body for Morgan's disap
pearance. 'It was charged that they had
abducted him and then drowned him in
Lake Ontario.
This charge was strenuously denied by
the Masonic body, and there is but little
doubt that that body, as a whole, was inno
cent in the matter. Certain Masons were
arrested and brought into court charged
with the abduction of Morgan and pleaded
gnilty. Morgan himself was never seen
ncam, though it was to the interest of the
Masons to produce him, and his production
would have allayed the excitement and ex
asperation of the non-Masonic mind. In
the beginning there was no politics in Jthe
movement to discover the fate of the miss
ins; man and to punish his assailants, were
it found that he had been foully dealt with.
Cost a Tenth ot New Xork'n Votr.
The movement grew in spite of all the at
tempts of the Masons to arrest it, and at the
elections of the next year after Morgan's
disappearance the anti-Masons carried lour
counties in "Western Xe w York. A' consid
erable number of Masons had seceded from
the order, and they were strenuous in
pressing for political action as the only
u ay in which the order could be success
fully opposed. In 1828 the anti-Masonic
element held a State Convention and put a
ticket for Governor in the field. It received
ban a tenth of the total vote cast in
ensuing election, and left
a winner, in a minority of
j.u. the populjir-A-ote.
Two years lUrOr-UiiSiational Republicans
and anti-Masons fused on the State ticket,
but were defeated by more than 18,000 ma
jority. This result was brought about by the
".National Republicans in the Eastern coun
ties of the State who still held to Masonry,
going over to the Deinociatic party, where
they stayed.
iy this time the anti-Masonic movement
had'spreud lar beyond the limits of New
York, and in September, 1830, a national
convention of anti-Masons was held" in
Philadelphia. It w as the first national po
litical convention ever held in the United
States as lar as the records show. The only
business it transacted was to call a national
anti-Masonic convention to meet in Balti
more during the next year.
rennsylvanlas .Anii-Mnsotilc Governor.
This convention met in September, 1831,
most of the tree States being represented,
and put in the field a Presidental ticket,
the nominee bcinz ior President, William
AVirt, of Maryland, and lor Vice President
Amos E'.lr.ia'ker, of Pennsylvania. This
ticket carried one State and received
seven electoral votes. This State
was Vermont It remained under
anti-Masonic control ior a cumber
of years, but there, as elsewhere, the party
laded out and v as absorbed by the "Whigs",
Iu Pennsylvania an anti-Masonic Governor,
Joseph Rittner, was elected in 183-j. In
February the opposition to Jackson, who was
then in the midst oi his light against the
"United Slates Bank, took the name of
"Wiig. Instantly the anti-Masonic party
In New York disbanded and joined in with
the new organization, a course which was
speedily imitated in the other States. Ma
sonry was at that time practically dead in
"Western New York, Vermont and in other
States and sections. That it is again flour
ishing in those regions is a tribute to the
pood sense of the American people, as well
Masons as non-Masons, and to the solid
worth and real benefits of the once pro
scribed and hunted order itself.
Among the distinguished names anti
Masonry contributed to the country and
this was perhaps its greatest and only per
manent benefits are Francis Granger,
Harrison's Postmaster General; John C.
Spencer, Tyler's Secretarv ol War and of
the Treasury; Millard Fillmore, Vice Presi
dent and President, and William H. Sew
ard, Governor, Senator and Secretarv of
State. These in public life, and in private
station Thnriow "Weed, the renowned journ
alist, who, disdaining office, yet with a
genius for politics and diplomacy, became
the power behind the throne of more than
one State and national administration.
Origin ot the Abolition Movement.
Opposition to slavery in this countrv
first took a political lorm in 1SU9 when, in
the bleak November, a little band of the
faithlul met at the little town of "Warsaw
suggestive name in the great State of New
York, took the name of Liberty party,
adopted an abolition platform, and nomi
nated for President James G. Birney, and
for Vice President Francis Le Moyne, of
Pennsylvania. These leaders of a "forlorn
hope received some seven thousand votes
throughout the United States. "When the
campaign of 1844 opened it found the
Abolitionist already with a ticket in the
field, Birney for President again, with
Thomas Morris, of Ohio, for Vice Presi
dent. This was the year that the two-thirds
rule had operated to defeat Van Burcn for
the Presidental nomination in the Demo
cratic Convention, while Henry Clay had
been nominated in the Whig Convention by
acclamation.
In 1848a convention of delegates from 57
States met at Bufialo. It was presided over
by Charies Francis Adams, and nominated
for President Martin Van Buren and for
Vice President Mr. Adams. The platform
adopted was a three-fold preamble and 16
resolutions, closing with this ringing sen
tence: We inscribe on. dur banner fre soil, free
epoeol:, fiee labor and tree men, and under
It will light on aud fight ever until a
triumphant victory shall reward our exer
tions. The ticket received nearly 500,000 votes,
a third of them in New York, civine the
electoral vote of that State to the "Whig j
candidates, Taylor and Fillmore, and elect
ing them.
A National Convention at Htttbars.
Four years later the "Free Soilers met at
Pittsburg in National convention, every
free State and Delaware, Kentucky, Mary
land and Virginia being represented. The
convention was presided over by Henry
Wilson, of Massachusetts, and nominated
for President,John P. Hale, of New Hamp
shire, and for Vice President, George W.
Julian, of Indiana. Its platform denounced
the fugitive slave law as unconstitutional
and of no binding force, declared slavery to
be sectional and freedom national, and in
sisted that "the Free Democratic party is
not organized to aid either the "Whig or
Democratic wing of the great slave com
promise party of the nation, but to defeat
them both." The Free Soil vote fell off
over a hundred thousand from that of four
years before, about two-thirds of the loss
being in New York alone. Pierce and
King were elected by a large majority of
the popular vote and by more than 200
majority in the electoral colleges.
This was the last appearance of the
Abolitionists as a separate political party.
In 1856 the present Republican party, in
heriting the broad constitutional principles
of the original Federal party, the economic
views of the "Whigs and the slavery doc
trines of the Free Soilers, took the field.
On its broad and ample plattoAi every
shade of opinion in the opposition to slav
ery found standing room.
The Know-Nothing Order.
Exit the Abolitionists, enter the Know
Nothings. Native Americanism, as it was
called, appeared in our politics first in the
early 'Forties, and gave to New York a
Mayor in the person of James Harper, one
of the famous firm of publishers, and to
Congress several members lrom New York
and Pennsylvania. That movement, how
ever, speedily died out. Iu 18o2-53 it had a
sudden and widespread revival. This
time the movement was direct
ed not ouly against citizens
of foreign birth, but against the Uoman
Catholic Church as well. The movement
took the form of a secret society with an elab
orate ritual, signs, grins, raps, passwords,
and all the paraphernalia of innocuous mys
tery. Its cardinal principle was "Ameri
cans must rule America." The real name
and objects of the older were only revealed
to members when they reached a high de
gree. Until that time, therefore, these
members upon being questioned as to the
name and object of the order were obliged
to answer: "I don't know," and this reply
ga've to the order and the political party it
iormed their popular name, "Know-Nothings."
They themselves gave to their party
the official name of "American."
At the State elections of 1835 the new
party carried New Hampshire, Massachu
setts. Rhode Island. Connecticut. New
York, California, and Kentucky, elected a
part of their ticket in Maryland and Texas,
and only lost Virginia, Alabama, Missis
sippi and Louisiana by small majorities.
Thousands of Whigs in the slave States
joined the Know-Nothings on the downfall
of their own party as arel'uge from the Dem
ocratic party.
Third Parties Since tho War.
There was no third party during the war,
nor did one appear at the election of 1868.
In 1S2 the self-styled .Liberal Republicans,
whose banner bore the strange device,
"Anything to Beat Grant," nominated
Horace Greeley for President, and B. Gratz
Brown, of Missouri, for Vice President, and
this ticket was adopted by the Democrats. It
was beaten out of sight. The Prohibition
ists are a persevering party. They have
been in the field for 20 years and snow no
signs of abandoning it, though in all that
time they have never carried a State nor
secured a single electoral vote nor
had a Senator or Representative in Con
gress.
The centennial year saw another third
party take the field, the Greenback, which
grew out of the panic of 1873. Its chief
tenet was that the general Government
should issue paper currency and plenty of
it, "the issue to be based upon the re
sources of the country." Its nominees
were for President Peter Cooper, of New
York, aud for Vice President Samuel F.
Cary, of Ohio. They got upward of 80,000
popular but no electoral votes. In fact,
no third party since the war has so far re
ceived an electoral vote. In 1880 the
Greenbackers took the name National, and
nominated lor President James B. "Weaver,
of Iowa, and for Vice President B. J. Cham
bers, of Texas. They received 507,740
votes, the high-water mark for this party.
Ben Butler Is a Candidate.
In 1884 General B. F. Butler, the irrepres
sible, ran as the nominee of this party, his
sole aim being to prevent the election ot
Mr. Cleveland. The bow was bent with all
the archer's skill, but the bolt fell short.
He received only 175,000 votes. In 1888
the Union Labor ticket, headed by Streeter,
of Illinois, polled nearly 150,000 votes,
and the United Labor party, the rem
nants of the Henry George party, gave
Cowdrey a few more than 3,000.
Most of these elements are now in
cluded in the new People's party together
with those members of the Farmer's Alli
ance and kindred societies who are dissatis
fied with the old parties to which they for
merly belonged. Their strength is ot course
an unknown quantity, despite the turning
over the Alliance gave both the old parties
at the elections of 1890. This, however, is
the first third party since the disruption of
the Know-Nothings to secure a United
States Senator, and is the only one since the
war which has, unaided, elected a Repre
sentative. From the Forty-sixth to the
Fiftieth Congresses the Greenbackers had
one or more members, but they were in
each instance elected by a fusion with one
or the other of the old parties, while David
Davis was as close as they came to having a
Senator of their very own.
Other Vot.s That AVnt to "Waste.
Besides these third parties, votes have
been thrown away in other.directions. In
1872 a faction ot" Democrats calling them
selves the "straightouts", put np Charles
O'Conor. He was indorsed by the Labor
Reform party and got 29,000 vo'tes. In the
same year a few people in whose minds
there still lingered a prejudice against
secret societies tossed away their votes on
Charles Francis Adams. A handful of radi
cal free traders did the same thing on "Will
iam Groesbeck, of Ohio. In 1876 the anti
secret society people to the number of 539
expended tueir energies in voting for
James B. Walker. In 1888 a Know-Nothing
ticket was in the field. It polled 1,500
votes, mostly in California. In the same
year a Socialist ticket got 2,000 votes.
A man must indeed be infatuated with an
idea, or what he mistakes for one, when he
deliberately votes in the air. Yet a strong
third party is not without its use. It tends
to keep the regular parties np to the mark
and makes them mind their political ps and
qs. Edwabd Weight Beads;
TOTAL ABSTINENCE NOTEi.
St. Michael's SociETr, of Loretto, has one
of the best-arranged halls in the diocese.
Father Devlin hopes his prospective mis;
sion will result in tho permanent organiza
tion of a society.
The union meets at Mansfield, Fa., at 2
o'clock this afternoon. The train leaves
Union station at 12:35, city time.
St. Thomas, or Braddock, will hold its
sixth annual field day at Idlewild Tuesday,
August 30. All members are invited.
A third edition of tho school children's
pledge cards is about to be issued. Twenty
tbreo hundred havo been circulated.
St. Michael's Societt, of Loretto, the
scene of Fat..er Prince Galltzln's labors,
Father Ferdinand Kittell, spiritual director,
has joined the union. Ic has a membership
ol 45 and w ill send delegated to Indianapolis.
It only requires a few persons in each
parish to form a society. If the leaders
make a start and the union will come to
their assistance the 45 per cent increase in
the movement last year should encourage
action.
An Appeal for Slercjr.
If you have any regard for your physical
welfare, have mercy on yonr bowels, ceaio
dcluginsr them with drenching purgatives
and relax them without pain with ilostet
ter's Stomach Bitters. Subdue with it, too,
malarial and kidney complaints, kidney and
rhoumatic ailments, dyspepsia and nervous
ness. Tx TTrn's'Uttle Karlv Risers. No erlnlnir.
no pain, no nausea; easy pill to take.
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0. DE 'WATERMILLira.
A Northern Girl at a Melon Becep
tion in Alabama's Black Belt.
KICH VOICES IN AN OLD CABIN.
Fantastic Dances to Weird Mnsic and Merry
Clipping of Hands.
PBETTT HCCANIMIES IN CALICO
rCORRESrOXDENCX OF THE PISPATCH.l
Semia, Ala., July 21.
V'E been to a reception and
I am going to tell yon alt
about it from Alpha to Ome"
ga. What will Mrs. Grundy
say when she learns that I
went without a chaperone?
"Weill I did and I must find
a way to appease her right
eous indignation. I have it!
I'll tell her lots and lots of
things and it's every bit
gossip. My escort was Uncle Ben;
the invitation, verbal.
"Wouldn't to' like to go ter a 'ception,
honey; we'se only po're folks, but yo'll
have a good tim',"said Ben to me one morn
ing as he handed me the mail. "Ef yo' do,
111 stop fo' yo an' bring the ole woman,
too."
"Indeed, I should like to, Ben, but what
shall I wear? Is it very fashionable?"
"Lawd, chile, put on somefin' conl'lorble,
somefin won't spoil, yo' had better wear a
loose bass (basque)," und he left me.
Half ar hour later he returned, "carry
ing" his vife and seven children. How
fresh and clean the piccaninnies look in
tai.ys Got Rrligion.
their calico dresses! Mrs. "Uncle Ben"
wore a gown of figured cotton cloth and a
white turban. I noticed that she, as well
an the piccaninnies, was barefooted and
asked her if it was customary to go to re
ceptions without shoes.
Golntr Barefoot for Economy.
"Lawd, chile, we put on sho's when we
get to de hous. Yo doan know how to
'conomize. I always said white folks was
stravagant Ben, yo' jes" min' yo' own
affairs aid doan listen to de lady an' I talk;
doan vo' know women folks hab secrets
an' '' Here she was interrupted by the
shouts of the piccaninnies, and we knew
that we had reached the Greye cabin.
"Let us stop and listen to the music, Ben.
What rich voices your people have! What
quaint melodies! Let us catch the w ords
of the song they are singing."
To" mer talk 'bont yo' sparrib an' yo' back
bone an' yo' ham,
An' yo' coon an' yo possum an' yo' fattest
yallar ynm,
But do vc'y bc' an' sweetes' meat, wat ever
cross o' mouf.
Am de watermillyun growin' in de patch
down Son:,
O, ae watermillyun timel O, de water
millyun fine:
Nufflin run ter sweetness like de water
millyun vine.
As we stop at the cabin door the darkies
cease their singing and gather around us.
"W'at yo' bring, Masse Greye?"
"Wat yo' bring?"
What did I bring! Mrs. Greye 'comes
forward and explains that It is her hus
band's birthday and that they are "cele
bratin'." What shall I do! I have not
brought a gift, and I trust that my Yankee
ingenuity will help me out of this rather
Lot' Bless To' JlearL
embarrassing position. I stop and think a
moment, and then assuming an air of quiet
satisfaction, I take a little silver stickpin
lrom my blo'use and hand it to Dave Greye.
I wish you could have have seen his eyes
as he received the gilt, and then, recover
ing from his surprise, he said: "Lawd, see
what tneh lady gave me? Say,' missus, hab
yo' any moh?"
"Do3n yo' want ter see de 'millyuns?" I
said yes.
A Great Fl'e of Watermelon.
How strange it all seemed. The cabin
was entirely hidden behind a huge mountain
of melons and a large assembly of negroes
were gathered around it, eagerly waiting
for the time uhen the melons would be
stabbed.
The scene changed, and before I could
realize it, CO colored men, women and chil
dren were holding liberal slices of melon.
What a picture thev made; the women
and children in their bright turbans and
cotton dresses, the men in their red neck
ties, cotton blouses and blue overalls! How
they enjoyed the melons! Watch their open
eyes, open mouths and the juice running in
every direction! The best fun in the world,
(in the melon line) is to watch the "darkies
down Sour' eat "millyun."
Here a pickaninnie sits eating as if his
very life depended upon the amount of
melon he cats, and as look at him, he
shouts: "By golly, dis yere am good, yo'
white folks doan know how to eat millyun.
Say, niggers, de white lady done eat it wid
a fo'k. Ha! Hal O'h, Lawd! Lawd! Lawd!
who but white trash eat 'millyun wid a
fo'k!"
1 laughed at his remarks and moved to
ward the cabin. Is it so that the only ma
terial difference between these people and
myself is in color alone? Are my educa
tional advantages, birth, desires and ambi
tions to count tor nothing? Quien sabie.
Making Iove Behind the Melons.
As I pass onward I notice that manv a
sly hug and hand squeeze is indulged in be
hind the shelter of .the melons, and that I
am looked upon as an intruder. I enter the
cabin and look at the presents Greye re
ceived. They are many. Numerous ban
danna handkerchiefs, a pair of "shoes, a pair
of overalls, a rake and hoe, numerous cra
vats and gaily -colored neckties, my beauti
ful stickpin anda Waterbury watch.
I picked np the watch and looked at it
As 1 did so Mr. Greye came forward and
said: "Chile, doan yo' drop that watch;
better put it dowu ca'ful like; watches is
tender as triggers."
"Yes, Mr. Greye, some kinds are," I re
plied, for the one I had just seen reminded
me of a really truly episode that had oc
curred in my own home years ago. When
I was a little girl, my home was in the Alle
ii ft Ar fr ' j?i.feC.rfHi-i
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gheny Mountains near what city I shall
not tell. How long ago r will not tell.
We had in for our dining, room man a
young colored lad about 20 years fof age,
quiet,good-natured but lazy. Never around
when wanted and always in the way when
not needed. My father determined that
this state of things must be changed and
appointed each member of the family a
committee of one to investigate the matter.
Imagine our surprise when we found "Gus"
sitting on the ground behind the carriage
house studying a watch that would not go.
He taps it upon his knee, gives it a turn or
two and then holds it to his ear, muttering,
"I shuh 'claro 'de blame thing doan go only
when I do, I shuh believe." We wait for
no more but steal quietly back to the house,
leaving him to solve the mystery for him
self and the folly of buying a $2 watch.
. The Music and the Dance.
While I was meditating upon the possi
bilities of Mr. Greye's watch, the orchestra
(the instruments were a violin, accordeon,
banio. zuitar and "bones"), came forward
and took their positions. I knew that the
Tyvts Mom the Black Belt.
dancing wonld soon begin. Before one
could realize it the room was filled with the
guests and a waltz, polka, sauare dance
and then Mr. Greye and his good wife come
forward and give us a "breakdown." Now
they cut the "Holy Man," and the negroes
all keep time with their hands and feet.
Now they dance and sing "O, My, Sally's
Got Eeligion." What strange fantastic
figures! What music in their feet! Now
they "reck," and then all join hands and
sing:
Ob, de watermilyun fine! Oh de water-
rnilyun vine!
'Nuffln's nicer than de millyun vine.
Back yo po, fo'ward now, watch yo' foet,
step it neat.
Swing yo' partner nice and line
And slug of glory and de millyun vine!
Again the scene changes and Ben's wife
comes forward to "sing and shuffle." Is
this strange, wild creature the woman who
rode with me a few hours before? She
croons a low ditty, and the negroes rock
backward and forward, wailing what seems
the cry ot a desperate soul! Now she
laughs and the step changes; the women's
voices rise higher and higher above the
sound of the instrument. Then crash!
all is silent. Again the woman croons, and
this time the men sing the accompaniment:
"Risrht," "left," "backward," "forward,"
"whirl twice," "heel, toe," "right, left,"
"arms akimbo," "all dance."
The Excitement at Its Height.
And they do.
The bright eves and white teeth of the
darkies now fairly glisten. Even the pick
aninnies have caught the "fever" and are
dancing. Again they sin::; this time the
pickaninnies join in the'ehorus:
Sin?, laugh, coon, cry Sally's got religion
She'll neber die.
Fo'wad; fo'wad, no backward now
ro'wad, fo'wad all de time
Sully's lijjlous, and she lubs do millyun vine!
What strange people I am with. The
simplicity of their character is hidden from
the superficial observer. What emotion,
what weird and pathetic songs! They live
for reality and yet they pass along unper
ceived and rejoice in their obscurity.
The time comes for the merriment to
cease and I go to hunt Ben. As I pass
through the crowd of merrymakers I hear
Ben's wife say: "Come heah, yo' Ben and
stop dat gambiin'. Put de dice away. How
much yo win?"
I wait for Ben's reply. "Nuffin, ole
woman, we played wid the millyun seed.
I'se not a gambiin."
I pass toward the gate and enter the
wagon, that I may watch the leave takings
unobserved. What witchery is this? Are
these quiet and aflectionate people the same
creatures I saw in the dance? How affec
tionately they take leave of each other.
They possess one flower that the white man
cannot rob them of, "theflowerof affection."
A love for all that live, an anxiety lest any
one suffer, an eagerness that all enjoy! As
we drive out the gate we hear the pickanin
nies singing:
O. de millyun time, de millyun vine,
.Nuffin run ter sweetness as de millyun vine.
And Ben's wife says: "I'se gettin nlo chile,
but darn lots o' fun in me yet. Doan
ou like that song?"
Eeader, do you? Miss Jo Nakt
1XC1TEJUENT INCREASES.
She Greatest Fire Sale on Record Crowds
Our Store to Suffocation Unprecedented
Bas Born the Boom Sine tha An
nouncement of Our Gigantic Fire Sale
F. C. C. C, Corner Grant and Diamond
Streets.
What a l ush we had yesterday! Our great
fire sale o:, slightly damaged clothing Is
taking the city by storm. Thousands of
purchaseis secured wonderful bargains on
Saturday, but we must apologize for being
unable toglvetxllourpations the propcrat
tentlon thoy deserve. Owing to the crowds
and excitement at our stores yesterday,
consequent ou the phenomenal value and
piiced we aro Riving at our monster
lire sale, e will to-morrow put on
many extra salesmen, nnd all may depend
on gettintt promptly waited on. Come at
once. Don't tnil to tako advantage of this
colossal lire sale. It's an opportunity seldom
ottered, so why not pet the benefit while this
solo of fligutly damaged fine clothing is In
progress?
Men's stilts, men's overcoats and men's
pant, hoys' suits and pant, hats and fur
nishing goods at lower prices than you ever
di earned of. At our prices it will pay you to
buy a heavy winter snit or overcoat now
anil lay It uway for future use. Don't stand
In your own light, but come as quickly as
possible and we will astonish you with the
jrrratest values ever offered at any sale'iu
the history of the clothing trade.
'This is io vain assertion, but an absolute
fact, whicu we will clearly demonstrate to
all by u visit to our wonderful fire Mile.
Who ever beard or men's black cheviot suits
being sold for si 41? Wo havo them in iack
suits with pateh pockets, and onlv slizlitly
soiled by smoke: they go at $t li. lien's
wood-brown suits at $2 IS. Men's black
fancy worsted salts at $J 45, worth $10. Men's
all-wool cheviot suits in sacks and lrocks at
$3 90, worth $12. Men's silk-mixed cassimere
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THE MUSIC WORLD.
Home Composers Do Not. Need Any
Protection From the Alien?.
HAHN'S ADDRESS TO THE M. T. N. A.
Wagner Opera in London, Both in the
German Tongue and English.
A BUDGET OP GENERAL HEWS ITEMS
Naturally enough the American com
poser was nnmerously in evidence at the
recent meeting of the Mnsic Teachers'
National Association. At snch a gathering
a more than usual prominence nay be very
properly accorded to him, even to the ex
treme, perhaps, of devoting to him two en
tire programmes and many other places of
vantage.
But it does not follow that like promi
nence and preference ought to be given to
the American composer in all other lines of
regular musical activity.
President J. H. Hahn, in his opening ad
dress, paid an eloquent tribute to the
lamented Calixa Lavallee, who had started
the vigorous campaign on behalf of the then
neglected American composer at the former
Cleveland meeting of the association. Mr.
Habn went on to say:
In the eight short Intervening years last
past more has been accomplished to pro
mote the culture and growth of American
musio than In (ill preceding time combined,
and the American composer of to-day Is a
potent factor in Amorican musical affairs.
What would be more becoming or would
more befltingly commemorate that histori
cal occasion the-Lavallee recital than Jor
this meeting to adont annronriate and de-
elded measures for carrying this laudable
work so auspiciously iiiuu&rurated-by'well
directed organized effort Into every home
and Into the teniotest hamlet in the nation?
With this object in view I beg to submit
as an effective auenoy forattaining this end
the selection or appointment of committees
to prepare a list ot American compositions
for both instructive and concert purposes,
embodying every department of music, ex
cepting perhaps the opera, and which shall
receive the endorsement or this association.
To properly cover the ground, the plan, It
seems to me should include a special com
mittee of not less than three members in
each of the following departments:
L Orchestral music, including sym
phonies, symphonic poems, overtures,
suites also concertos for various in
struments: 2. Choral music with orchestra;
3. Ensemble musio ot every character. In
cluding violin solos with piano; 4. Choral
works with piano; 5. Songs with piano: 6.
Pianoforte solos.
I yield to no man in veneration or love for
the classical oriecognized modern masters.
The proposition is not made that thev shall
be superseded, but the claim is made and
with iall the earnestness 1 possess, that
everything being eqnul for the purpose in
tended, ttie preference In study and per
formance be given American compositions.
Too Much of a Good Thing.
There is danger of pushing the good
work too lar, with all this committee ma
chinery suggested by the President and
adopted bj; the association. If the prefer
ence were in fact to be given upon the con
dition, "everything being equal for the
purpose intended," and upon that condi
tion only, there would be no harm done.
But no one can doubt that in such a move
ment preference will be urged for a home
composition that will in some sort answer
the purpose over a foreign work that would
answer better.
Such preference in the end will work more
harm than good to the cause of American
music '
Thepresent problem is not to increase the
quantity of America's musio production.
There is far too much of it already, such as
it is. What is wanted is to improve the
quality, to raise the standards. That is a
matter far above the Teach of protective
legislation, whether it be by Congressional
tariff acts or by M. T. N. A. '-preference"
resolutions. Statistics from Custom House
or music store as to the relative consump
tion of home and foreign music .have but
little bearing on the question, how to im
prove our product
Free and equal competition on their merits
is the fair thing all around; fair to both
home and foreign composers, fair to the"
great public. And that is the best nay,
the only proper way to develop the home
product to the highest degree of excellence.
To permit an American work on the ground
of its composer's nationality to occupy a
place that would be better filled
by some foreign work, is the best way to
encourase mediocrity. The American com
poser will be most likely to do his best
when his work has an equal chance, and no
more, with any other work, and must stand
or fall solely on its own merit?.
The campaign of the past eight years has
largely succeeded in getting a "hearing for
our resident composers. Musical circles and
the general public are now quite as
ready to acknowledge their merits as those
of their foreign brethren. The progress of
the international copyright idea promises
relief ultimately froni the hurtful compe
tition of cheap pirated reprints of the for
eign pieces.
Entire equality of opportunity is already
near enough to render unnecessary the ex
traordinary campaign now proposed to be
made under M. T. N. A. auspices. And if
the campaign should, as is most likely, go
beyoud equality and seek to establish a
preference for the American composer, It
would tend to do serious injury to the com
posers themselves and to the general cause
of music in this country.
Notos From Under the Sea.
Among yesterday's London cablegrams to
The Dispatch occur these musical items:
The royal Italian opera season, with its
performances in Italian and French, will
come to an end to-night, and on Monday
the German company will commence a se
ries of representations which are to be given
nightly for at least a week. It is intended
to prouuee -xanunaeuscr ' aim "xiaeito
will bo repeated. "Lohengrin" nnd the
"Meistersinger" being both included in
the rcpertorv of the Roynl Italian Opera
are, apparently for that reason, not to be
olaved by the Germans.
More than one operatic enterprise is con
templated for the autumn. At the Royalty
Tnenter, which has recently passed into the
hands of a new proprietor, a comic
opcr.t In two acts by Mr. Cobford Dick
will be produced early In September. The
composer has wiltten his own libretto,
which is entitled "Tho llaroness." At Co
Tent Garden it is still intended to bring out
In October an English version of Wagner's
"King des Nlhelungen."
Herr Pollini, the manager of the German
Company, now performing alternately at
Covent Gat den and Drury Lane, has ar
ranged to produce Mr. Isidore de Lara's
"Light of Asia." in a German version at
the Hamburg Theater under his direction.
With the prolozues shortened and with
the hist act and the epilogue omitted,
this work will have much more the charac
ter of an opera than it possessed when It was
brought out at Covent Garden half In opera,
half in Oratorio form. In the comptessed
German version the "Light ot Asia" can
scarcely fail to obtain genuine dramatlo
success.
MUs Agne4 Hart, daughter of Dean Hart,
of Denver, CoL, who has been studying In
London for several years made a successful
debut in concert at the Portmuu Booms on
Monday. In a criticism on her programme
the Times commends her tasteful and intelli
gent Ringing.
On Thursday Sir Arthur Sullivan directed
the choral rehearsal at the music festival at
Leeds. This was the first work he has done
since bis illness. He looked pale and weak.
He was given a rousing reception.
Itubinstein has definitely canceled his
contract to make a tour in the United
btates.
The Free Organ Recitals.
The fourth and last of the attractive and
creditable programmes psesented by Mr.
Charles Davis Carter, during his tempor
ary possession of the bench at the Alle
gheny .Free Organ Recitals, in Carnegie
Hall, reads as follows: '
1. Fuitue G Minor. Bk. 4, No. 4 J. S. Bach
2. Vocslsolo, 'The Old Guard" Kodney
Mr. Harry M. Jlays.
S. TanUstede Concert, -Slclllsa Mariner's
Hymn" Lux
4. Vocal solo, "The Stream "...,.......c.D. Carter
Mil s J ulla E. Beach.
.Snto i Intermezzo (Moder-5..KbelnberKer
t. Vocal solo, "lhe Happy Turee" .Eoeckel
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8. At Evening (Idylle) Dudley Back
S. Vocal sola. "Look in My Heart and See."
Wilson G. Smith
Miss Beach.
10. March Rellgluese Gnllmant
When time and space permit, it is hoped
to prepare and print a succinct, but com
plete analysis of the programmes given ont
for the -sixty-third to the one hundred and
second of this series of free "organ recitals"
if only for the satisfaction ot the gentle
man who has publicly commended those
programmes so highly as being good enough
lor him. ,
Crotchfita and Quavers.
Berlioz' "Les Troyens" Is having great
success in 'Paris. Better late than never,
even though Hector is too dead to enjoy his
success.
Sib Aktbub SutttvAir is at work again. He
has been conducting choral rehearsals for
the Leeds festival this week, and to-day he
Is putting tne finishing touches to his new
play. j
Mb. George W. Moeoaw. the veteran or
ganist, died at Tacoma, Wash., on Monday,
the 11th Inst Ho was a pioneer of good
organ music In this country, and in his day
accomplished a great work.
Mb.' Franz Vetta, the very promising
young opera singer, succumbed a week ago
at Riverside, Cal., to the disease (consump
tion) that retired him from the stage during
tne jucn troupes last engagement in x'ltts
burg. Veudi, the great Italian composer, Is at
present in Milan and has closed with La
Scala management for tho first production
of his latest opera, "Falstaff," the coming
season. This news holds good until the
next contradiction.,
Patti says it is easier for a singer to mem
orize her role-than for an actress, because
the music helps the singer to remember 'the
words ot the libretto. What a commentary
upon the laziness of singers! The prompter's
box obstructs the stage only when opera
is on.
The first Berlin Philharmonic concert this
season will be conducted by Hans Bichter,
the second by Horlz Moszkowski, the third
by Joseph Joachim. These concerts take
place before Christmas. All the concerts
afterward are to be conducted by Hans von
Mise Host McKelvet's series of summer
night concerts, with the inevitable dance
attachment, have been very sneoessful in
entertaining the throngs of Sewickleyltes
that assemble on the beautiful grounds of
the Park Place Hotel. Next Thursday com-,
pletes the set.
SibAbthcb Sullivak's "Ivanhoe" will be
the principal novelty at the new season of
the Berlin Opera House, which will open on
August 16. Sullivan's work will be given in
German, and it Is expected nhout Septem
ber 30. Bizet's "Djamlleh" and Verdi's "Fal
staff" will be the other novelties of the sea
son. There is no donbt that the relative sal.
aries of New York, priest and choirmaster
are altogether too far apart, the former re
ceiving usually 75 or SO per cont nf the snm
total, or as 4 or 5 to 1. So writes 3llss Fannie
Elsar Thomas after Investigation of the
subject. In Pittsburg the choirmaster does
not get that much.
Mb. William Guehther'b next summer
entertainment at Silver Lake Grove comes
off Thursday of this week. The Amphton
Quartette (Messrs. Henry Gerding. W. McC.
Stevenson, John A. Hibbard and Charles F.
Harris) will sing, and the orchestra will
play Auber's "Fra Dlavolo" overture and
lighter pieces.
Mb. Joun Phillip Sousa's resignation from
the Government service as leader of the
U. S. Marine Band, takes effect Augnst
1, and he will at once prooceed'to organize
and drill the new band to be provided for
him by the Blakeley Syndicate at Chicago.
It may be presumed that the
Windy City's culture is broad enough
for the full appreciation of brass band
music; so Mr. Sousa need not fear those
newspapers that once welomed Mr. Thomas
only a little less boisterously than they now
welcome him, but have subsequently at
tacked the great orchestra conductor with
raro virulence and aslninity.
Eicardo Leoncavallo's one-act opera, "I
Pagliacci," brought out some time since by
Mr. Sonzognoat the Theater Dal Verme in
Milan, isattracting unusual attention among
Italian connoisseurs, and great things are
expected from the composer, who is as
yet but 23 years of ago. He Is a young artist
of considerable ambition, pupil of Lauro
Bossi, and Is said to be at present engaged
unonacturantic trilogv. which is to forma
kind of apotheosis or the Italian Renais
sance. Mr. Leoncavallo, unlike some of bis
Italian confreres, has gained artistic experi
ence in visits to Germany, France and Eng
land. In order to stimulate American -composition
the todies' Home Journal has Just made
public an attractive series of liberal prizes
for the best original musical composition by
composers resident in the United States and
Canada. The prizes call for a waltz, a piano
composition, a pleasing ballad and a popu
lar song, an anthem and the four best hymn
tunes. The composition is open until No
vember 1 next. The opportunity has an ad
ditional attractiveness since the prize com
positions will form part of a series for which
Strauss Is writing an original waltz and
Charles Gounod and Sir Arthur Sullivan
each an original song.
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