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PITTSBURG. THURSDAY. OCT. 27. 1892.
TWELVE PAGES
MR. HEED IN FITTSCUEG.
In expounding the )rinciples of the
Republican party and comparing it with
its opponents, last night, ex-Speaker Reed
showed his ability to combine instruction
and entertainment in a. marked decree.
He knows how to speak the truth, and he
can do it more interestingly than most
speakers. He is a past-master with the
weapon of ridicule,, and he turned
its keen edge against the Demo
cratic party with killing effect. His
arraignment of the organization which is
based upon denial and skepticism., and
filled with inconsistency, was as crushing
and complete as it could be in a one hour
speech. Sir. Reed began by asserting that
he would handle the Democratic party
gently, but it is a question -whether his
pity for misguided people, who were
Democrats simply because they could not
help it, was more mingled with contempt
or whether his contempt was more tinged
by pity.
Mr. Reed stands by the Republican plat
form, as all the Protection leaders are
doing, in strong contrast to the Democratic
orators, each of whom'has a platform of
his own. He does not claim that Protec
tion is a panacea, a cure-all or the mil
lenium. He pointed out that tthe pros
perity of the country is due largely to its
vast natural resources and opportunities.
But he also clearly showed that the policy
of Protection is the only one by which the
riches of America can be preserved to.
Americans. There is no other bar
rier between this country and European
wages than that of the Protective tariff.
"Give us the American market and wo
will see that we have our share of the
profits," was the way that a labor delega
tion replied to the objections of a Demo
cratic committeeman, who suggested that
the employer profited .more largely than
the employe by the advantages of Protec
tion. The benefits of Protection are ex
tended to the whole country and every
citizen thereof, and the issue before the
voters is one to be decided purely as a
matter of business.
"With the Republican parry in power,"
said Mr. Reed, "the ship of State is headed
in the way it will go. With the Demo
crats in power it will be headed in no
man knows what direction." The least
evil which a Democratic victory at this
time would involve is the evil of uncer
tainty, which means the partial paralysis
of commerce. This being bo, Mr.
Reed's announcement that he would
judge the common sense of the
voters by the side on which their ballots
are cast is manifestly a just one. And it
only remains for the American people to
once again vindicate their common sense
and business instincts by securing the con
tinuancy of a policy which experience has
identified with prosperityand by refus
ing to open a hazardous era of no man
knows what
THE DANGEKOCS WIRES.
The fatality which occurred yesterday
by an employe of pne of the electric com
panies of the city coming in contact with
an electric light wire shoyrs where there
is the greatest peril to life in the overhead
wire system. In other parts of the land
there is a great outcry against "the deadly
trolley," biit the fact is that the trolley
wires are not nearly so fatal as the highly
charged wires that carry electric light to
arc lamps throughout the streets.
The trolley wire is a disfigurement and
r.n incumbrance, and may administer a
severe and fatal shock. It should be re
moved whenever and wherever a practi
cable substitute can be found for itj. But
the high power electric light wires are
simply deadly. They are generally insu
lated and out of the way; but they are all
liable to accident, and when one is placed,
by casualty in a position to transmit its
charge to persons or property the result is
destructive. Yesterday's fatality illus
trates this danger more clearly than any
collocation of words can do. The electric
light wires should be among the first to go
underground.
AN ELECTION" LAW KOOKBACK.
The period of roorbacks with regard to
the new election law is not entirely past
A report is in circulation in some quarters
that it will take the election officers jn
some precincts three days to count the
secret ballots, and that as the law forbids
them to take food and drinic until the bal
lots are counted they will be in danger of
perishing for want of sustenance. As a
clief-a" autre in the way of making a bug
bear of 'the law this rivals the effort of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth's office
to establish the celebrated 22 by 52 inch
ballot
One correction is necessary with regard
to the report: It is made out of the whole
cloth. With the ballots reduced to reason
able size there is no reason why the count
should take much if any longer than
under the old system. The straight
tickets indicated by the cross-marks at the
head of the ballot can be counted as un
scratched tickets formerly were. Those
which are marked so as to show a break
of party lines can be bandied and tallied
with very little if any more tronblo than
the old scratched tickets. Tfio respect in
which time will be lacking will not be in
the count of the ballots, but in the time
alloted for making out the ballot where a
voter of limited clerical capacity wishes to
write in names.
Furthermore.the law does not forbid the
election officers to take necessary sus
tfiiance before the count Is finished. It
forbids any person except the police offi
cers and constables to communicate with
them until the count is complete: and that
will ensure that no precinct will require
either three days or one to finish counting.
But there is nothing to prevent meals
being passed in to the election officers if
necessary. It will probably not be neces
sary, however. Except for the time con
sumed in gaining an understanding of the
new methods, there is little reason to ex
pect that the count will take much longer
than in former elections.
There is plenty of food for fair criticism
in the new law; but the persistent inven
tion of imaginary objections to its work
ings reveals a widespread determination
that it shall be condemned before it has
even had a trial.
QUEEK PAKTT FEALTY.
The decision of Judge Simon ton in re
gard to the right of the opposing candi
dates in the Third Congressional district
will produce an interesting state of affairs.
The Court decides that Captain Ker is the
regularly nominated Democratic candi
date, as it had to do from the fact that he
received tho nomination from, the regu
larly organized Democratic convention.
McAleer, however, is not shut out Ho
received the Republican nomination from
an authorized convention, and will there
fore go on the ticket as the Republican
candidate.
The peculiarity of the state of affairs
thus presented is that the official ballot
presents as the Republican candidate a
man who is now a Democratic Congress
man, and who if elected1 will -remain a
Democratic Congressman. This is not the
fault of the law. It is the legitimate re
sult of the action of the Republican poli
ticians of Philadelphia. They have un
dertaken for a consideration, the nature
of which does not appear, to deliver the
Republican vote of the district to a well
known and unalterable Democrat. Tho
law only emphasizes the phenomenal
nature of this transaction by giving Mc
Aleer his sole place on.the official ballot as
Republican candidate.
On what theory of party fealty the Re
publican managers of Philadelphia have
omitted to improve the opportunity offered
by the division of the Democrats of the
Third district to gain another seat in the
House, but have chosen instead to throw
the official Republican support to a Demo
crat, has not yet been explained. There
does not seem to be much probability that
an explanation will be given.
HARDLY CREDIBLE.
The revealing of an alleged plot to
assassinate the eccentric but harmless
Simpson, of Kansas, contributes to the
humor rather than the sensations of the
campaign. The allegation of the plot
rests on the production of a letter or let
ters from some person unknown to an
other a3 yet unidentified making aeon
tract to "plug" Simpson for the sum of
$2,000 legal tender, we presume, as no
one would add insult to injury by getting
Simpson killed under a gold contract
There are numerous reasons for hesitat
ing to believe that the sockless leader of
the recalcitrant West is doomed to death
by a secret Vehmegericht of the prairies.
In the first place it is yet to be proved
that the terms of the contract call for his
death. To "plug" a man is not neces
sarily to slaughter him. In the antiquated
slang the meaning was similar to t hat of
the more modern slug; and it is no more
than just to Jerry to presume that so
robust a statesmen is not to be knocked
out by one slugging. Next the picture
drawn of one man conducting negotia
tions to have another man killed, through
a mail correspondence, as if he were or
dering an invoice of lumber, may be
comic, but it is not calculated to elicit Im
plicit confidence In its accuracy.
Finally, why sUould an3'one desire to
slay the enthusiastio Jerry? We cannot
believe that there is on the plains of Kan
sas a man with soul so dead that Jerry is
not a delight to him. That large numbers
may refuse to indorse him for re-election
is quite conceivable; but that any man is
so devoid of appreciation for the humor
ous and delichtful element of a campaign
as to contemplate the deep damnation of
his taking off we must decline to recog
nize as among the possibilities.
NOT GIVING UP MUCH.
The manner in which England is mak
ing that proposed "retirement" from
Uganda is characteristic It seems that
Lord Rosebery, while consenting to the
abandonment of that kingdom by the
British East African Company, which was
a Tory creation belonging distinctly to
the last century, has no more idea of let
ting go the English hold on it than he
has of evacuating Egypt The British
Minister of Foreign Affairs proposes to
establish a "protectorate" which will
leavo the British grasp on the country
about as firm in proportion to the remote
ness of the region as it is in India.
This is characteristic of the British in
disposition to let go its hold on any terri
tory that it once has in its bands. , It also
demonstrates that the Liberalism of Lord
Rosebery is not very different from the
Conservatism of Lord Salisbury in thi3
respect Both know equally well that
John Bull as a whole will not be satisfied
at letting such opportunities for extend
ing his trade slip out of his bands, know
ing that while, terminology of tho land
grabbing may be alleged the English grip
on the territories in question will con
tinue very firm.
All things considered, this is just as well
for civilization. Whatever we may think
of the remarkable superiority to interna
tional equities shown in the partition of
Alnca, it is beyond dispute that those
countries will be the better for a civilized
rule than to remain under the tyranny of
Mohammedan slave hunters or savage
knights. The revival of the African com
panies, British and German, was distinctly
gqing back on the dial of civilization; and
in substituting a British protectorate for
the British East African Company's sway
in Ugauda Lord Rosebery has made an
improvement It would have been better
than all if Europe had joined in a protec
torate for all legitimate trade in Africa
without any partition of the territory for
selfish purpose. But Europe has not y?t
reached the stage of civilization necessary
for such a step.
THE RESULTS OF A STEAL.
The decision of the Court of Appeals
in New York sustaining the partisan ap
pointment made by the New York Legis
lature is balanced by a decision of the
same body showing that the Democratic
majority in the Legislature is maintained
by a stolen seat. Tke famous use of the
"quad-marked" ballots has reached & final
decision, and the highest tribunal holds
that the Democratic action in refusing to
count those ballotSf was unwarranted.
This is one of the famous disputes of a
year ago, in which the Governor and Slate
Board of Canvassers united in the deter
mination to grab the seat by all the means
of dodging within their power and with
out regard to the question who was fairly
elected. The result of the chicanery was
to secure the Democratic control of the
Legislature, to enable the gerrymandering
bill to be passed, which is expected to
make Democratic suprcmacy'in that body
permanent, and to permit some under
handed changes in the election laws by
which Democratic supervisors in New
York can run elections to suit themselves.
The decision of the New York Court of
Appeals now shows that these political re
sults were stolen by the State officials
under the orders of David Bennett H.1I.
It is to the discredit of Ihe judicial system
ttiat it did not reach this decision in. time
to slop the steal. But that blot is not half
so great as tho one arising from the
triumph of partisan dishonesty in the great
est State of the Union.
The time will come when the people will
see their interest in wiping out parties in
which party feeling is pusjied to the extent
of stealing elections. The sooner it comes
the better.
i
Senator Quay's expression of con
fidence fn President Harrison's re-election
is the more valuable from his dubious opin
ions before a visit to headquarters had given
him material for forming a sound Judgment.
There is at least one Englishman who is
frank enough to state his mind, no matter
how ttie free traders arc shocked. Sir. La
bouchere says that "Ameiica is the most
piosccrous country in tho world, despite
our assertions that protection is luinons."
"Tho proof of the pnildlnir," continues Mr.
Labouchcrc, "is In the eating." That is how
the caso strikes sensible peoploeverywheic,
Mr. L. When tho frco trndo idealists can
show any country undor their policy with
prosperity equal to, or oven aDprouchlng,
that or tho United States, thoy will have
some claim to Do heard. But not before.
A. MAX may be at liberty to believe that
renl cold weather is not due yet. But ho
will bo unwise to risk his health and tempt
Trovidence by going out theso evenings
with thin underclothes and without an over
coat. It is to be hoped that the rule which
provides for tho closing or the World's Fair
at 8 T. St., unless in caso of some special ex
hibition or event, when it will close not
later than 11 r. m., will receive a very radical
revision. Tho great mass of visitors to tho
Fair will find their time far too short to see
all there is on exhibition, and it would be a
gicat pity to prevent them from using their
evenings in tliis unique collection of speci
mens from tfio wealth of nations. More
over, 'the rule as it stands would completely
debar the immense working population of
Chicago from visiting the Fair without
taking a special holiday for tho purpose.
An enormous attraction of this kind can
best be made uso of by throwing it open to
all comers for Just as many hours as possible.
One of the Daltons intends to sue
Coffeyville for damages because his broth
ers' pockets were rifled alter their bodies
had been. It takes a Dalton to rival a rail
road company in audacious handling of the
law.
The Chamber of Commerce will do well
to discuij the matter of freight rates with a
view to removing unfair discriminations
against this locality. They will do better
still to set afoot a strong movement to build
the Ohio River andXake Erie Canal, which
will so vastly increase tho transportation
facilities of the country, enhance Pittsburg's
advantages, and force the railroad com
panies to equitable dealings.
?
WnATEVEK the result of the election
may be, the rest or the country would re
joice to see New York's arrogance lecelvoa
setback by the discovery that a Presidcntal
election had been decided without its help.
That little difference between Chief
Bigelow and tho Citizens' Traction Com
pany, In regard to tho paving of Franks
town avenue, is a wholesome indication that
the traction companies are, after all, not
monarchs of all they survey in this city.
Meanwhile the "residents around Pranks
town avenue are no doubt as much torn up
over the Inconvenience as the roadway is
itself.
There will be a large change of employ
ment necessary after November 8 among
.the people who are spending so much time
at present in guessing what tho votes of
that day will bring forth.
'
PRESIDEKTAL campaigns afford such
magnificent opportunities for cheap noto
riety that the wonder is there are so few
men who tako advantage of them to fill the
public eye for n day or two, by announcing
a change in their political opinions and
affiliations. One swallow does not make a
summer, and it needs more than a few
"floppers" to make a victory.
There arc still many citizens who are
nnable to decide whether the Baker ballot
law or their gas meter is most easily misun
derstood and misinterpreted.
There is no doubt that Pittsburg wants,
and ought to have, fiee bridges as soon as it
conveniently can. But if the bridges are to
be bought instead of built it will bo neces
sary to keop a sharp lookout to prevent
present owners from making undue profits
at the expense of tho city.
There is nothing parenthetical about
Thomns'Brackett Keed. Ho hits hard and
stiaight from the shoulder.
New York is becoming so convinced
that its political behavior elects tho Presi
dent of this country, that the proposal may
sooner or later be expected that the Empire
State save tho other forty-three the troublo
of voting by being left to manage the whole
business alone. s
Those who put on flannels now put off
colds.
To describe ex-Speaker Reed as one of
the most expert exponents of his party's
principles Is to compliment him as he de
serves, and leave a wido margin for excel
lence that Is great thongh it falls short of
his standard.
MASTERS OP MEX.
James McCoemick, of Seymour, Ind.,
who is reputed to be 1C9 years of age, claims
to navo talked wltll George Washinston.
The Empress or Japan is an adept per
former on the koto, a kind of lnrgo zither.
It is an instrument which is much played
and very popular in Japan.
Guy de Maupassant, the famous
French story writer, is out of tho lunacy
hospital. This news -will sot his numerous
admit ers wild with delight.
Archbishop Vaughan, of London,
was a soldlor in tho Crimean war, and could
handlo the sword as a brave officer boforo
lie took to tho canons of the church.
General Biciiter, confidential secre
tary and adviser of the Russian Emperor, is
a German by birth and a very devout Luth
eran, lie has been seriously ill lately.
Mb. Gladstone says that the four
authors who have had the greatest influence
in the formation of his-mind are' Danto,
Aristotle, Bishop Butler nnd St. Augustine.
Ex-Presidext CiEfaxAND has been
elected nn honorary member of, the Bagged
Island Gunning Association, of Norfolk, of
which club Piesident llariison is also a
member.
Xuther Weeks is dead at Plattsburg,
(N.Y'at the age of 02. In 18I on horseback
he carried the news of the vlotory at tho
battle of Plattsburg to Bennington, Vt., and
the neighboring towns.
Mrs., Harrison's portrait, to be paintfd
by an artist notyot selected, has been pro
vided forbv tho Daughters of the American
Revolution in Washington, and will bo sent
to adorn the gallery in the Whit House.
Miss Frances Willard, the Prohibl
tion lecturer, stronger advocates Jean In
gelow for- Poet Laureate of England, al
though she evinces m hope thatuch will
be the queen's or MMQIadstone's choice.
CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.
Ohio is practically certain to show a
larger increase of Eepubllcan members in
the lower branch of the next Congress than
any other State. Under thegerrymauderby
which Major McKlnley was temporarily re
tired the Democrats elected Hoi tho 21 mem
bers to which tho Buckeye State is entitled.
By the now arrangoment tho Republicans
expect to secure 16 districts,, and concede
only five to their oppononts. This would.bo
an addition of nine Bepublican Congiessmen
or a net gain of IS In the House. In two or
three districts, though''. Democratic candi
dates are making despcrato efforts to over
turn the natural majorities against them.
M. D. Harter, who led the Democratic oppo-i
sition to the Iree silver bill, is
making a most aggressive can
vass. Tho Republicans are disposed
to concede that he will run ahead or his
ticket, but have no idea that ho will over
come their lead of 3,000 in the new district. .
In the Twenty-nrst district, which includes
mostof tho city nf Cleveland, Tom Johnson,
the advocato of unadulterated free trade and
a single tax. is making a tremendous effort
lor rc-elociion. Ho is personally very popu
lar, but the Republicans believe they will
get the best of hfm this year. Another lively
struggle is that in the Eizhteenth district,
where T. R. Morgan is endeavoring to pla
cate tho disaffection caused by his being an
emplojor of non-union labor. In several
other sections a spirited canvass is being
mnde. But tho aggregate Republican gain
promises to be'ncarl v up to tho expectations
of the leaders.
Fusion in the Northwest causes "con
fusion as to tho political situation there.
Estimates are being made on the prob
nblo Republican majority in the city of
Philadelphia. Tho full Democratic vote was
polled at the last Presidental election, v. hen
the Federal ofllccweie all in Democratic
hands and that party had an organization
u hich it had not been able to boast in other
years. Tho total vote this year will likely
reach, ir it does not considerably exceed,
220,000, nnd it would bo a great surprise to
sco tho Democratic voto equal that of four
years ago. The Democrats themselves nro
not really looking for such a result, and in
tho present disorganized condition of tho
party it Is hardly possible. Thero is practical
ly no lea'dcrship in many districts, factional
differences disturb others, and many thou
sands of Democrats aro acknowledged to be
disqualified on account of non-payment of
taxes. On the other hand thero is very
ceitain to be an incrensu of some thousands
.in the Republican vote, exceeding even the
Increase irom 168 to 18S8, wnich was 10,070,
and tho majority promises to be proportion
ately gi eater than tne increase in the vote.
It is estimated by those who give careful
attention tn such matters that the majority
will not be less than 33.000 and it would not
be surprising it it wero much more. Colonel
McClure the other day practically conceded
thatathe Republican majority in Philadel
phia might he 40,003 because of Democratic
disorganization. This is double the figures
of four yeai s ago, and would makeup for
any possible losses in other sections.
It is claimed that the number of defec
tive ballots at sample elections held under
the Baker ballot law has been 20 per cent.
This would indicate the enormous total of
200,000 faulty tickets on November 8 if the
same proportion is maintained.
David Martin is very well satisfied
with what has been done by his branch of
the National Committee. "Tho arrests in
Albany," said he, "are but tho beginning of
our work. There will be a number of other
people arrested this' week. We have
positive and Indisputable evidence
aealnst hundreds- of men who
have been fraudulently registering under
tho direction or Democrats. Two of tho
Albany; men now under arrest each regis
tered 18 timesr Wo know every division
they visited and every name they used in
registering. It is a part of the Democratic
game of bluff over there to try to fasten
overy crime upon the Republicans. But they
can't do It. In Iditlontothe men already
arrested in Aiu.my warrants have been
issued for 0 others. After we get througn
with Albany -we will begin to make arrests
in New York: We have made a canvass and
have discovered great irands In the registra
tion. In one placofrom which 200 persons
were registered tnere are only 2i) qualified
voters. From another house whete there
are only ten qualified voters therefore moie
man iuu names registered. We ao not pro
pose that their names shall bo voted upon,
and evory man who attempts to voto upon a
fraudulent name will be arrested."
In several Pennsylvania counties the con
test for Sheriff, or some other profitable
county offlco with patronage attached, 13 at
tracting more attention than any other
feature of the campaign. Some of these
offices aro regarded as so valuable that in
tho struggle for them tho greatest bitterness
is cieated.
W. ,M. Hahn, of Ohio, who has charge
of the Speakers' Bureau of tho National Re
publican Committee, was engaged the other
evening in conversation with Mr. Smalley,
who runs the Speakers' Bureau of the Na
tional Democratin Committee, and inci
dentally lemarked that not less than 20,000
men were making campaign speeches
throughout the country that very night.
Mr. Smalley coincided with Mr. Hahn in
this statement, and those twogentlemon aro
certainly in a position that enables them to
form an intelligent opinion on the subject.
Yet if each speaker represented but a single
meeting, and the average attendance
at each wore 00. it would follow that
10,000,000 people, or about ten-twelfths of
the vholo number of voters, wore thus
cathered together. Even assuming that
each meeting were addressed by three dif
Jereht orators, and the average attendance
only 300, tho aggregate of hearers would ap
proach 2,000,000. The figures seem somewhat
large, but unless Mr. Hahn and Mr. Smalley
aio greatly mistaken in their estimates,
notwithstanding the alleged anatliy of tho
campaign, between 4,000,0fl and 5,000,000
American citizens aro drinking in political
eloquence evoiy night in the week, fortheie
are many local meetings which the National
Committees knew nothing about.
Eotjr years ago the Prohibitionists ex
pected to poll 1.0CO.OCO votes, but when the
polls were closed only a quarter or that
numbor'weie discovered. This year the
supporters ot Bidwcll and Cranfoll are
much more moderate. The Voice, tho organ
of the party, tells its readeis in this i eek's
issue: "Any increase in our vote is encour
aging. An increase or 50,000 votes will not
bo intoxicating, but it will be a triumph.
An inci ease of 100,000 will be verv gratily
iug. Anything beyond that will be ex
hilarating." SrEAKER Crisp, who has been endeavor
ing to convince the business men of New
York that the Chicago platform does not
mean free trade, professes to be very con
fident of the continued solidity of the
South. Ho savs: "I have been in Alabama,
Kentucky, Illinois and Michigan. I made
threo speeches in Alabama. It is foolish for
tho Democrats to talk as if they are going
to lose Alabama. I do not think there is
much moie danger of losing Alabama than
there was that we would lose Georgia. Tho
situation in the two States is something
similar. The Democrats in Alabama ate
making a very vigorous canvass; and tho
people of tlo State are beginning to fi-el
that it would bo unwise to desert the De
mocratic patty at this particular timo when
it would bo only giving tho Republican
party anew.lease of life. I met Mr.AIdgelt,
the Democratic candidate for Governor.
He told mo while 1 as in Chicago mat no
had no doubt us to his election by si hand
tome majority, and felt very confldeutthat
Mr. Cleveland Mould also carry the State.
In Michigan I Mas told that we would ic
ceivo at least seven of tho electoral votes.
Mr. Crisp is politically better posted as to
the Southern situation than on tho Northern
States mentioned.
QUAY'S presenoe at national Bepublican
headquarters is the apparent cause of
quaking among the Democratic managers.
THE SOUTH POBTLAHD'3 TE00BLE3
Still Continue, Though the Government She
Represents Is in Power.
La Gdatka, Venezuela, Oct. 26 Tho
steamer South Portland arrived hero ves-
terday after Malting two we.'.-ks a:" Pott of !
Spain, in the island of Trimdnd, until tlm
amount of l.er churicr ws piitd. !
Tlieio is, ,ils, some triiuldo nhont the J
sahuy ortne Captain. of the South Portland, !
and he refuses to deliver the arms she car-I
lied without some guarantee that it will
duly be paid to him. The matter cunnot'be
settled until Gonzales returns from Haltli
v x i ' " f " . - "j&ia; jtZjatotit T&Mm&tL yitHA.- r v "rftiAr jmrtmSP
AHOIHEK OEJZCt LESSON.
Tho Difference Between the Workers in
England and Prosperous America.
Philadelphia Tress.
Over fc0,M workerR in tho cotton mills in
Lnncashiie, England, have given, potice of
an intention to strike on November Sagainst
a proposed reduction in their wages. They
assert that it wi 1 be imposiiblo for them to
live on lowor wnges than they now receive.
In this country the cotton mills are running
on extra timo, and in Rhode Island wages
wero recently volnntarily increased.
Why this difference' between tho workers
in tho mills In England and in thiscountnt
It would bo impossible for any man to fur
nish a sound reason other than the tariff. It
is the difference between protecting tho
workers and exposing them to tho baneful
effects of Irco trade. The consumer does
not pay moro for his cotton gnod3 either.
Fortunately we have the official report of
ono of Mr. Cleveland's Consuls, Mr. Schoon
hof, who is now assisting at Democratic
headquarters in New York, that cotton goods
Bre as cheap In the United States as in Eng
land. Theso were the exact words of the
report made by Mr. Schcenho":
So far as clothing nnd drygoods in general are
concerned. I Hndtliat cotton goods are fully as
cheap In the United Males as here (In Knglind).
Shirtings and sheetings, if anything, are superior
in quality for the same money. Articles of under
wear fur m omen mad" of muslin a'e far superior
In workmanship and llnlshand chesper in prlre
In the United butcs. Nor can I find that men's
shirts, when chiefly of cotton, are any cheaper
here.
Official British statistics state that tho
average weekly wnges of the persons em
ployed in the cotton industry in England
are $l 01, while like statistics of our Govern
ment uivu tho nvcrago In the United States
as $0 01, a difference of ovor 83 per cent in
favorofthiscountry. The American worker
not only receives 8J per cent higher wages,
but we have the official statement of Mr.
Cleveland's chosen investigp.tor that cotton
goods are ns cheiip in the United States as
in England, nnd. if anythlne, or better qual
ity. We also have a condition of prosperity
nnd satisfaction in tho American mills, but
distress, a further reduction of starvation
wages, and, as a consequence, a great strike
in Englnnd. What boitor proof could be
asked of the difference between a protective
tariff nnd free trade on this Important in
dustry! In the United States the manufacturers aro
assured of a large and Increasing homo mar
ket, and under our reciprocity treaties thoy
can creatly increase their exports. England
is losing her forelzn markets and her mills
are closing up and distress increases. The
object lesson is plain that it is hard to De
lieve that a patriotic American should wish
to bring our workers down to the English
level.
AEHY MEN AT SWORDS POINTS.
Generals Miles and Fitzsimmons at Odds
Over the Military Parade.
CniCAOO, Oct. 20 Special. Tho failure ot
a downtown parade of the militia during
the dedicatory exercises last week has caused
a hot war of words between General Nelson
A. Miles, of the nrmy, and General Fitzsim
mons, of the National Guard. Miles pub
lished a letter yesterday in which he said
that Fitzsimmons disregarded his orders to
place three regiments on tho grounds along
the line of march but instead marched the
three regiments to Washington Pork, re
fused to take tho position assigned to the
troop of this State, crowded other troops
out of their position, causing unnecessary
confusion, and delayed the entire proces
sion. "Such notion," saySiGeneral Miles, "would
Jeopardize tho safety of any army and dis
grace a Slate. This action of an officor,
together with the delay Incident to crossing
a dangerous and ill-co nsti ucted viaduct, was
tho only delav in the entire lino of march."
The General of the State troops said: "The
trouble with General Miles is that he trusted
too much to his own ideas. His alleged
military review Friday was a sloppy,
bungling affair, which could have reflected
no credit on tho greenest troops on earth. I
don't wonder he wants to find someone to
blame for it. That's what he did in that
Forsyth epiode at Wounded Knee two
years ago. Then he was so severely sat on
by the Washington officials that if he had
any spirit of honor he would have surren
dered his swoid, but the salary was too big
a plum for him to lose, evidently."
FIVE THOUSAND VOTES I03T. .
St. Louis Officials Strike That 3Iany Names
From the Registration Books.
.St. Locis, Oct. 26. Special. When the
Board of Revision got through with its
labors this afternoon it had stricken 5,000
names from the registration books of St.
Louis. "These names do not necessarily in
dicate fraud," said a membor of the board.
"It is to bo regretted that so many thousand
persons are so indifferent to the importance
of voting that they will not take the trouble
to see that thev aro properly registered.
Lots of these people will cry fraud on elec
tion day when they find that thev cannot
vote, but they aro aione responsible for tho
loss of their votes. Wo will make a thorough
revision of th6 books, and Democrats nnd
Republicans will suffer nlike. I think ut
least 10,000 or 12,000 names will be taken oft
simply because our canvassers have lound
that they do not l esido at the places now in
dicated nn the books."
Recorder of Voters James L. Carlisle says:
"Myprecedessor, the late Mayor Williams,
appomtod his own canvassers, but I pursued
u different course. I left It to the members
of the Boaid of Revision to name thorn.
They have done no, a Republican and a
Democrat working together, and there is no
chance for fraud. The members of the
Boaid or Revision have been careful to
select capable men, and this talk about
wrong doing will not affect the board which
will strike off overy namo which the Com
missioners show has no legal right on the
registration books."
NOT A POLITICAL SOMERSAULT.
. The Cliange in the Party and Not in George
Ticknor Curtis.
New Yoiur. Oct. 26 Special. Tn hislatest
letter on tho tariff George Ticknor Curtis,
among other things, says: "Ifnny ono will
take the trouble to examine the national
platfqrms of all the political pai ties from
17S9 down to tho recent period when tho
present leaders of the Deinocrncy assumed
to spak for the party, he will find that tho
Democratic party has not been behind any
other. Federalist or Whig, in upholding tho
policy of protection. 1 have been a voter
since the year le33. nnd although I was bled
a Whig, and although thero wero lunda
mental diffetences between the Democratic
and tho Whig party all along, I never under
stood that one ot those differences was on
the subject of protection.
"let.wnen J. nowtieciaremy aunesion ioa
faith that I havn hold all my life certain
papers ai o pleased to sneak of my 'political
somersault!!!' Why s'hould I turn asoniei
isault at my time of life? What have I to
gain by passing ont of one party Into an
other? It any one will tell mo perhaps I
will pay him a picniium."
DEATHS IIEKK AND ELSEWHERE.
Sirs. Elvira A. Gilmorc.
Mrs. Elvira A. Gilniore, idow of the
late Hon. Hamuli A. Gilmorc, died at her home In
UnlontownTnesday morning. Mrs. Ullmorc has
been an Invalid fur a number of years. She was
born November 20. I62T. and m as the eldest daugh
ter of Hon. Arnold Pluinmer. of Franklin tuwn
slilp. In IS44 she was nurrled to Hon. Samuel A.
Gllinore. wlm presided over the courts or Fayette
comity for 21 ears. Mx children survive her Mrs.
iiead. ofKan.isi ltv:3Irs. Oeo-g.- It. Kn:i. Mrs.
A. W. Bliss and J hn au! Henry 1". Uihnore. of
Uulontowu, and Dr. A. 1. Ullrnure, of t'ulcago.
Dr. A. R. Moon, Beaver Tails.
Dr. A. J!. Moon, one of the oldest practic
ing physicians In tho Beuicr Va'.ley. died at IJea
ver Falls esterday. He was Tl years. He practiced
hlsproresslonrorS) jcrs at KucMsster, Pa., re
moving to Boaver Falls i.i 1ST5. Here he acquired
an etemlve practice, which has or late years been
incliarre or his son. Dr. A. a. Mojii. The dc
ileased was wealthy, an active intuiher of the
Presbyterian Church and a stanch Kcpublli&n.
Zenas ICiug, Clei eland.
Zenas King, oue. of Cleveland's most
wldily known citizens, and President of the King
Iroiillrldcc Company, died Tuesday nlirht at his
lesldeuce in that city. Mr. King was a pioneer In
iron bridge building, the most nMaule structure nf
that character being between t'ovlti-u, Ky., and
Cincinnati, lie Mas burn In Kingston, Vl.. May
1, 1813.
Obituary Notes.
Gr.XEn.si, J. 31. Tuitle Is dead at Casa Granda,
Ariz. lie was one orthc most prominent of Iowa
living war oKcers. He was stricnu with paral
ysis last Saturday and died Tuesaay.
Uriah Means,' nna of the oldest and most re
spected citizens of McKeesporr.dled J tsterdav. fie
wasa veter.ui of the H ar of the Itehellloi. AII
i, enti i.r.giniling I.i an attack of the grip wire the
caii-.-! hiilca'n.
WiLMAll Si IaVaii. the onlrsnn of Co' nej
Tliom-ii np' iv.dt. wimi wan I'lilteil titi s Cungtil
at j. nidim rioi.i :ilu ,gl. died lueJay In l:roiK
1 in, Mass.. ttlieit lie had iesh!edsluiclJ47. lie
'was 7. vearsold. He hart served In both ttrauches
of the Massachusetts Legislature, held niany town
offices, and was high in the council or the Demo
cratic party. 1
MARRIED AT HOME.
The Hoffmann-Steinmeyer Nuptials A
' Senator's Sister Wedded Went to
Canada for a Bride Announcements
for This Evening Gossip of Society.
A pleasant home wedding took place
at the residence of Mrs. Steinmeyer, in Oak
land, last evening. Her daughter, Miss
Annie Stein ineycr, became the bride of Mr.
Jallus Hoffmann, "of this city. Rev. Mr.
Rouff, or the Lutheran Evangelical Church,
Smitliflold street, officiated. The Dride wore
n gown of white silk, trimmed with duchess
lace. She carried a bouquet of white rose
buds and lilies or the valley. Miss Hoff
mann, a sister of tne groom, was the maid of
honor. She was dressed in pink silk nnd
carried pink roses. Mr. Theodore Hoffmann
was the uost man. Tho house was decorated
with pink and white dtnperv.and was re
dolent with the fragrance of roses. There
uas a rocentlon after the ceremony, and
lien thn brijo nnd groom left on an ex-
icnueu Eastern tour, mere was a largn
number of irtends to witness the marriage
from other cities as well as Pittsburg.
A fashionable event last evening was
the mairiago of Miss Gortrude Robbins, a
sister of Hon. E, E. Robbins, of Bobbins' sta
tion, to Dr. W. M. Carothers, of Braddock.
The coremony was performed at Mr. Rob
bins' residence, and was witnessed by a
lai-ge number of friends from Braddock and
other places in the vicinity, as well as Pitts
burg. Rev. J. B. Dickey, of Braddock,
officiated. Tho house was magnificently
docmated with flowers and palms, and pre
sented a truly arcadian appearance. The
bride woro tho usual whito silk, trimmed
with duchess lace and carried white roses
anil lilies. The happy couple left on an
Eastern tour aftor the wedding. On their
return they will reside in Braddock.
Another illustration of the undeniable
fact that muse men will go any distance to
obtaiu u bride lias Just been illustrated In
the case of Aldbrman James F. Madden, of
tho West End. Pittsbnrg, who was married
yesterdny in Osceola, Canada, to Sliss Mary
Keiinoy, of that place. The bride was
formerly a resident ot the West End, when
she became engaged to Mr. Madden. The
couple will bo at home to their Iriends lu the
West End after tho 1st of November.
To-mokkow evening a musical and liter
ary entertainment is to be given in the
Smithfield Street M. E. Church by the
Eptvonh League of that congregation. J.
N.. J. M. anil R. L. swearer will perform
musical selections on gla-s goblets, ns well
as on mandolins and guitars. Recitations
will bo delivered Dy several well-known
elocutionists.
The talks on literature by Mrs. George
H.Taylor are increasing in interest, as is
shown by the largo audiences she has at her
nail. She spoke yesterday about Columbus,
with afew passing ruierences to John Smith.
It was n very amusing as well as instructive
address.
The reception given last evening by Mr.
nnd Mrs. J. J. Vandergrlit at their Fifth
avenue mansion was a delightful social af
fair. The decorations consisted principally
of pink roses, ns were also the favors,
loosely tied in bunches.
A lecture will be given by Rev. Dr. H.
G. Underwood, a returned missionary, in
the chapel of the First Presbyterian
Chnrch next Tuesday evening under tho
auspices of the Young People's Branch of
the Missionary Society of that church.
This evening a musical and literary en
tertainment will be siven in the Walton
Street M. E. Church, Southslde.
Miss Eleanor Q. Mason gives a din
ner this evening for several school friends.
A large number of New York's swell
society were out yesterday in their best bibs
and tuckers to witness the marriage of Sir.
Edwin Gould, the econd son of Jay Gould,
tn Miss Sarah C. Shrady, adopted daughter
of Dr. and Sirs. Georce F. Shrady, of New
York. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer, pastor of the Church
of the Messiah, Now York. AH the arrange
ments nere on a very elaborate scale.
To-day's social calendar is as follows:
The Minnemeyer-Tagsart wedding at the
home of the bride's parents, Arlington ave
nue, Allegheny.
The Miller-Pottor wedding in the First
United-Presbyterian Church, Wllklnsburg.
The Mct'leary-Castelle wedding at Salem,
Ohio.
The Hartie-nrene wedding in Trinity
Lutheran Church, Stockton avenue.
The first dnnco or thn Allegheny Cotillon
Club In the Mononcabela House ballroom.
Mrs. Aretns K. Brooks' reception m honor
of Edwin It. Sullivan and 31 rs. Edward
Graham Ferguson.
The Jlumn -Hard wedding at Sewickley.
The Riviera Tea at Sirs. Joseph Dilworth's
house, Firm avenue, for the benefit of the
Children's Hospital, Forbes street.
TWO SETS OF WOBLL'S FAIB BULES.
An Ugly Outcome of the Latest Squabble
Between Exposition Boards.
Chicago. Oct. 26. As a result of the quar
rels between national and local officers of
the World's Fair, two sets of rules have
been usued. Tho set prepared by local
directors is incomplete and does not furnish
exhibitors any information that they did
not have more than a year ago.
On the contrary, tnose prepared by the
National Commission cover the field thor
oughly and from them exhibitors may learn
Just w'hnt the expense of making an exhibit
will be. These are what have come to be
known as tho St. Clair rules.
THE FIK&T LADY OP THfTLAXP.
A woudeufci. woman. Oifo Slat e Journal.
True to her sex and her religion. J azhville
American.
She was good and gracious and genuine.
Baltimore Am'rican.
She proved herself a worthy daughter ol
America. liuffalo Express.
Ose of the fairest and sweetest women that
over graced the White House. Wheeling
Ser.sler.
Fob her noble womanlfbod she will be
longest and most lovingly held in memory.
Chicago Tribune.
Is a pnrely domestic sense the White
House never had a better mistress. JVWo
delphla Inquirer.
A cbedit to her country, which owes her
memory a debt of gratitude. Cincinnati Com
mercial Guzttle.
What would America be without the
homes of which Mrs. Harrison's was typical?
Columbus Ditpatch.
No woman ever died whose memory was
worthier of a,high place In the esteem and
affections of her country. Cleveland Leader.
Iy every sense worthy or the devotion of
her lamily and of the esteem paid her as the
wife of a President- Lou tviUe Courier-Journal.
She was a typical woman one of those
who make this country what it Is dis
tinctively, one of happy homes. Indianapolis
Journa'.
In hor girlhood a figure of grace, in her
young womanhood an . object or beauty, in
her matronly years a presence of dignity
and of repose. Ilrookiyn Eagle.
The embodiment of those virtues and
gracos unit Letoken a nature refined, pnro
and good, a mind thoughtful, practical and
comprehensive. Washington btar.
Heu po'sonallty w.-.s exeeellngly sweet
nnd n inning, hor demostic llfo serene,
happy and useful, and the circumstances of
her last illness were exceedingly sad. New
Yarn Tim s.
Serve the Public Better.
Chicago Tribune.!
Railway men say they did not bring ns
many visitors to Chicago last week as they
expected. I: was the ono and one-third
faro that did it. Try half faro next time,
gentlemen.
Only Pallbearer Tills Time.
St. Louis Globe Democrat.:
It is said that notwithstanding Cleveland's
g!nni 1IIII is cheerful. This is easily ex
plaitiLil. 1. 1- not Hill's functal.
The UtiuU HiT.c: cfa JZ!ss.
Philadelphia Tli..es". 1
What nioi e natural for the leaves on the
trees when kissed by the autumnal breezes
than to torn red.
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CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Uncle Sgm has 300 silk mills.
Gatling guns are now fired byjelectriciti
The unexplored area of Canada is l.ooo
000 square miles.
The population of America increase
by 7,000 persons a day.
A.maehine for imbedding wire nettin
in glass is a late invention.
AH ancient actors wore masks wit
metal mouthpieces to act as speakin
trumpets.
In the early English plays a boar
wlth'a name on it indicated the locality
tho scene.
The Clothiers' Gniid was establishe
by Henry I., A. D. 1112, as one of the Londo
companies.
The Bomaa catapults and balistas wei
transported in the train ofan army on cai
Hko artillery.
For over 900 yearvNnremberfr, B.
varla, hag made most of the toys use
throughout the world.
Chile is said to number among he
population more poets per capita than an
other nation in the world.
Stockings were first used in tt
eleventh century; before that cloth banc
ages were used on the feet.
Besidents of Helensburgh, Scotlanc
killed n centenarian last month a donke
claimed to be 102 years of age.
Old Neptune, generally believed to b
tho first horso purchased by the Governmer,
for the Lire Saving service, died a sbo:
time ago.
A man at Moorcsville, Ma, had th
mainspring of his watch broken byaflas
of lhzbtning a few days ago, and was totall
uninjured.
So remote is the planet Neptune frot
the sun, its mean distance being 2,715,0!
miles, that its temperature is estimated t
be 900 below zero.
In the last century the grave digger i
"Hamlet" excited Immense enthusiasm b
pulling off, ono a'ter another, a couple i
dozen waistcoats.
In the fourteenth century armor be
came so heavy that many soldiers only 2
years old wero deformed or permanent!
disabled by Its weight.
Half of ail the miles of railroad in ei
istence in this country has been csnstructe
since 1S-0. The totaladdition to ourmileag
since that date has been S6,0:5.
In 1870 we produced a,little more thai
one-fifth of the world's supply of lead; i
1388 the product of the United States ws
equal to a third of the world's supply.
No death has ocenrred in the lamily c
Rev. Samuel Wakofield. of Latrobe, Pa., i
61 years. He i3 in his 9i:n yean his wife i
iilewyea-s lii junior; they were marrie
in 1S21, and have 10 children.
Henry IL of England is represented
wearing green boots, his spurs fastened wit
red leather straD-s, black leather glove,
with on tside Jen els on each finger, and a sta
of gems on the back of each glove.
Paris gardeners bny toads, which the
rue as insect destroyers. There is a regnla
weekly r ale of theso hideons little animal
in the Fro-ich capital. A 5 franc piece wi!
Duy from seven to a dozen or tuem.
Durin; the reign of Louis XV. th
bodices of French and Italian la lies wer
cut with so liberal a hand that tne Pope ir
terfered nnd threatened the wearers wit
excommunication. The nienuco bad n
effect.
The rivers of Bussia grow shallow
year after year, and the Vorskia. once a
abundant tributary of the Duleper.and con
pared to the Hudson or Delaware, 250 mile
in length, has completely and pcrniauentl
dried up.
In some of the rugs from the Orient th
knots of the threads are so fine that the
cannot be seen by t'to eye. No mnchtner
lm-t been introduced there vot formakin
rugx or carpets, each tuf. or knot being tie
by deft fingers.
The German army has a swimmii
school for troops, where everyone must lea
to swim. Tho best swimmers are able
cross a stream or soveral hnndred yar'
width, even when carrying their clothin
rifio and ammunition.
An enormous ball buffalo;. which wa
shot in Montana abontn-yoarngoand isr
on exhibition in n. Buffalo, N. Y., store
dow, stands nearlv 13 hands high, meai
9 feet 6 inches in length, and weighed, Tl h
shot, about 3,000 pounds.
The hill near Jerusalem where th
crucifixion of Jesus occurred is formel r
limestone. The shores of the Dead Sear
lined nith pumicestone showoroJ out e
some volcano that destroyed Sodom an
Gomorrah, which cities finally sank beneat
the waters of the Dead Sea.
One of the latest applications of elei
tricity to mining operations is seen in
lead mine lu Belgium. Each bucket arm
ing at the top of the shaft makes an olectri
contact, nnd n needle in the office indicate
by ii led line upon a revolving drum, th
number or buckets brought up.
By placing two iroa bars at seven c
eight yards distance from each other an
putting them in communication on one si. I
bvan insnlatod wire and on the other si.I
with a telephone, it is said that a storm c.i
be predicted 12 hours ahead thromrh u ce
tain dead sound heard in the receiver.
The smallest wire is 1-500 of an inch i
diameter, which is of couise much fine
than tlie hair on one's head. Ordinary fin
wire is drawn through steel plates, but thes
smnllost wires are drawn through diamon
plates and are tnen run through tnnchlncr
which winds it nplrally with u layer or sil
thread which is l-iOOO ofan inch in dlametei
The red glow of the planet Mars hi
puzzled everybody but a French astront
mer, who give3 it ns bis opinion thatth
vegotation of that far-away world is crin
son instead of green. Ho also says that h
hasn't the least doubt but that there ar
single flowers on the war god's surfao
which are ns large as the incorporate
limits ot Paris.
So far from light being an attraction t
worms it has been found that a strong Ihth
concentrated for a considerable time, sa
five or six minutes, upon the head of th
worm will cause it to eradnnlly retreat lnt
its burrow, proving that though blind in th
ordinary cense, thero still is sufficient sens
bility in the nerves of the head to enable th
aninfal slowly to distinguish tho contint
ance of light.
JOLLYIS3IS ITtOMC JUDGE.
"Before I take board with yon," said th
applicant. "I wish to know if you ever have prune
on the table."
"No, sir." replied 3Irs. Small: we never hav
anything so common. The nearest 1 come to th
Is to serve the prunus doruesiica In a variety of dc
liclous -ways."
"An, that Is entirely lat'sfactory."
She Oh, father! Why don't yon lik
Mm?
Father I don't want any dude to visit my daugn
ter that wears diamonds and cats dairy lunches.
He Lon't you think Twonld make
good husband. I have snch good taste In woman'
dress that I could help you select all your gowns.
bhe-Iint there Is one objection to that.
He-WJiat. pray?
She-lf I married you I would have to get thei
all beforehand.
J. WARsrsa.
When Maud and I last chanced to meet
I made a vow In short meter.
And told her that she was so sweet
That I conld almost eat her.
That night I dreamed I had done so.
And took that meal with glee.
Was It a warning? Ibis I know -
She disagreed with me.
"I hear that Elamtnins won a big stak
Irom you last night."
"Yes. He played me a mighty small tries."
"What was that?"
"He whistled God Save the Queen when h
drew cards, and his hand was fall of kings an
aces."
Mrr. Darley Who was the author of th
brum "I Would Not Live Alway?'
.Darlcy-It couldn't have been Mefhusalan, coal
It?
Customer Will this ink fade?
Clerk-I think not, sir. It bas been Known to las
far years. , .
Customer-Weil, I wast to be dead sore about It
I am going to write a poem for a macailao with M
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