Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-03-08


EDS. OLEvEEAnD LEkDEE Before leaving
home, / promised 70 writs YOU from this
Capitol few lines on the Senatorial ques-
ton, and l shall very hastily do 80, II
seems to De generally conceded that when
the caucus meets It will carry out the will Of
the Union majority Of the State and re-elect
Hon. B. F. Wade. He has been slandeEed
and abused by ell snrts Of fellows, and at
tackled with ell kinds Of implements, but he
stil holds his way boldly and well. The
other candidates have been or are generally |
here, 10 show and speak for themselves. Mr..
Wade has been attending to his duties faith |
fully, and knows the people win do right
Our city has furnished about all the material
which has been so fercely combating Mr..
Wado. A dbintsrested body Of patriots,
sentsr, Griswold, and Gray, have combined
theiE mighty powers and vast influence. Re-
lying upon their venom for energy, and their
imagination for their facts, they have cireu-
lated reports without number and without
much effect. Ssnter seems to be most exer
cised about Mr.. Wsde's religious character,
and weeps most constantly when speaking on
the subject. Being SO piOus himself, his aP-
peAls have great weight with the members.
Senter is himself pattern christian. The
very air around him is sauctifed BY his pres
enca, and his garments have holy Oder
His religious views are vast and grand, and
II his body corporsal were commensurate
with his spiritual and religious scope, his
name should be changed from senter to Cir
eumfrence, for he would make creation re-
sound with his pious teaching. think he
ought to become the property Of the State
and be sent around to the different Sabbath
schools to incite children to emulate so glori-
Gus a sample of fuIl-grown christianity
Won't it astonish the devil when he hears
that Senter is opposing Mr.. Wade because of
profanity2 BE viii be opening bis eyes for
the much hoped for Millennium.
Our representative Griswold, is very hos
tile, and refuses to be reconciled. The peo.
pie of Northern Ohio have said that he was
a great ofice-seeker, and like Virginia mil
itsry warrant, ready for location on any va
csncy-that like young black-bird, his mouth
was opened wider than his head, to have some
thing dropped in, but deny these ungentle
attacks. BE absolutely refuses to be candi-
date for United States Senator His supreme
and concentrated modesty OveIpowers his
laudable ambition, and he is not Gin the
ring" You are authorized to announce the
fact grievous as may be its effect. he, how
ever, magnanimously opposes Wade in def
ance of the will of his people, and to the de-
struction of his own brilliant career, because
Wade drinks too muchll If cur Represen-
tative were in the habit of using liquor him
self, we could well understand his making
such basis for opposition, for the use of i
by Wade might increase the price or tend tt
the sdultsratiOn of a good article. But BIZ
abstemious habits are well known. he rum
down the best cogniac, and turns up his nos'
at the smell of it. His early Iaste for mill
is still fresh and uncontaminated.
He neve2 believes in man having a bran,
dy-sms sh in his eye, a whisky-sling in thl
i. mouth, q hot punch in the stomach, or GIN
cocktail anywhere abont hissystem. BE can
not tolerate sitting around hotels, restaurant
or drinking houses, nor will he look viii
compassion even upon a private t'smile." HI
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intellectual vigor, which looms him so proud
ly above his fellows; principally to his sb
stemiousness, and to the same cause can b
attributed his magnificent physical develop
ments, which, seemingly clothed in perpet.
ual youth, have conferred on him the envi.
able title Of 1.-THE FAT BOY" Who would
not practice self-denisl for 90 grand q Fesult
Our Representative at present drinks Con
I gress water to prepare him for the arduout
duties he expects 10 assume before his polit.
icaI eyes are 5ot ~ A
You know I am peaceable man, but I fell
very mRch like striking a fellow last week
for telling ne that he thought our member
becauss Of his great total sbstinence-ouaht
to be refsFred 70 the COmmittee on Fiaisk.
I Cd BHliEssE / explained to him that our Rep.
ressntatiFe had q natural aversion to drink.
ing men and liquors, which was greatly IN
tensided By his abstemious life. BE opolo-
gized and handed me dollar. There are q
great many here who regret the stringency
Of our Representatives, views on this sub
ject but be cannot be moved and as he saw
Wade drink hard cider in 1910, he yet remem.
bers it in wrath. he is very busy writing to
different portions of the State to manufacture
public opinion and carries on very core
slant confidential intercourse with the
straight Locofocos, from whom his tenn
peranee notisns obtain great support, and
who join him in whatever will tend to the
defeat of the peoples man for the United
States Senate.
There is another patriot here by the name
Of Gray His name being mixture of ali
colorss defines his political character. A
more heartless mercenary never diseraced
any public print, by intrigue and falsehood.
he, too, is opposed to Wade, just as be would
fight any honest man, because Of natural
and cultivated sntipathy' BE keeps the
Plain Dealer (What name for & newspaper
teeming only with arti6ce and hypocrisy
filed mp with slang against men whose mo-
tives and conduct be has not the honesty to
comprehend or appreciate. From his place.
as Clerk of the Seaste, he keeps that de.
lectable sheet full Of slang whangers end
ialsehoods. BE dare not preach political in
tegrity in his paper, or it would bankrupt
the concern, just as would the diffusion Of
/ virtue in baWdY house scatter the indwel-
lers. The concern was 80 degraded that
even old James Buchanan, who tolerated all
kinds Of iniquity, found it too rotten for
him, and be kicked it overheard, and the
Is ''whangdoodle mourned" Gray has been
on all sides Of ell questions, for and against
all men, doing all he could to excite HOSTILE
ly to the Government before the breaking
out Of the rebellion, denouncing It as Re-
| publican war, and be came In 20 the support
Of the Government when il was not safe to
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