Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-25
The Cleveland Lenders Respects
10 Senator Wades

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10 senator Wade.
The Ohio Republican State Convention |
,n the 4th of March, with the greatest kind |
,f positiveness, declared in favor of Sena-
Tor WADE for Vice President. A delegate
from Southern Ohio had the temerity to
object to this on the alleged ground that
he was not popular-that he was too much
Of a load TO carry--that wherever he spoke
in Southern Ohio last fall he lost votes to
the Republican party. This objection and
these allegations caused tremendous
storm ofindignation in the Convention,
and 1t looked at one time as though the
Southern Ohio delegate would receive very
rough handling. 1t seems that there are
other quarters than Southern Ohio where
Senator WADE is not looked upon as an
immaculate man, with gentlemanly
bearing enough to decently fill the
Presidential station. The subjoined
appeared in the Cleveland Leader of the 23d,
The Leader is orthodox Radical, and has
reasonable appreciation of what manner of
man should be President of the United
States. President JOHNSON has been sneer-
inely spoken of by those who elected him
as vulgar, untutored tailor, who by rea-
son of deficient breeding and bearing. was
unfit to give dignity and character to the
Presidential Office. In the following the
Leader makes out Senator WADE to be as
great q vulgarian: "A .-
SENATOR wADE's TREATMENT OF THE LEAD
Frs WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS.
On the 18th inst. Mr.. George Alfred
Townsend applied, as the Leader cores
pondent, to Mr.. Wade, as Vice President
pro tenn, for ticket to the Senate Report
ers' Gallery. MIR. Townsend received, in
reply to his gentlemanIy and proper re-
quest the following vulgar and ungram-
matical responses: Eg ~
"Well, that is the damnedest meanest
paper in Ohio. It's Chase paper all the
time. 1t don't owe me nothing, aud l
don't owe it nothing back. That's no re-
commendation to me.p
The explanation for Mr.. Wade's beha-
vior can be found in his answer-namely,
because :. the Leader is Chase paper ali
the time"
A few days afterwards, Mr.. Hudson, as
sociate editor of the Leader, called on Mr.
Wade, also for a ticket to the reporters
gallery, and he was received in the most
bland manner imaginable. This sudden
change in Mr.. Wade's course is accounted
for by the fact that Mr.. Hudson is wit
ment case, whose testimony may possibly
be one of the means of placing Mr.. Wade
in the Presidential chair.
We care nothing for Mr.. Wade's indi-
vidual opinion. His coarse remarks
against the Leader have just as much effect
as the barking of an ill-tempered dog has
against the moon. His shocking grammar
affects us more than anything he can say,
But we beg to remind Mr.. Wade that the
Senate reporters gallery is not his own
private property that he has no right, as
Vice President pro tenn, to use language
only fitted to the capacity of dock-loafer
In response to proper request of a gentle
man like Mr.. Townsend-even if he is the
correspondent OF "a Chase paper"
Mr.. Wade is correct In saying that the
Leader "dOes not owe him nothing" if he
means by that it does not owe him anything.
But he Is incorrect (and our readers will
agree with us,) in saying that he does not
owe the Leader anything, (''nothing." as he
says.)
:, As to the Leader being the damnedest
meanest paper in Ohio" that is purely a
matter of opinion. But Mr.. Wade did not
think SO in 1860, when he importuned one
of the editors of the Leader to advocate
his nomination for the Presidency. His
when she forwarded articles for publication
in the Leader defending her husband from
the execratiOn of the entire Union press OF
The country for issuing the "Wade and Da-
Wis Manifesto" He did not think so when
he requested the writer of this to deny the
charge made against him by the Cleveland
Herald that he drank intoxicating liquor
He did not think so when. through his man
Friday, he solicited the support of the
Leader to aid his efforts for q reelection
to the United States Senate. And, above
all, Mr.. Wade did not think the Leader
wasthe "damnedest, meanest paper" &C.,
when he paid his subscription for the tenth
or fifteenth year that he had been subscri-
ber, land he is still a subscriber.) This
last shows that his actions speak louder
than his words.
the prospect of his accidentally landing ir
the chair formerly filled by Washington
the 'Adamses, Jefferson and Lincoln-sC
much so that he imagines himself to be sort
of Tycoon. that he owns the Senate reporters
gallery, if not the whole Capitol. and that
lie can say what he pleases dd hbst1ns, with
out regard to propriety.
We regret exceedingly, for the sake Of
the great cause we are advocating, for the
credit of the honored chair formerly filled
by courteous and polished statesmen, that
Mr.. Wade does not conduct himself in 8
manner more dignihed and becoming te
the position he will in all human probable
ity be called to fill.
In conclusion, we would earnestly rec
ommend Mr.. Wade to commence immedi-
ately and prepare himself for the new posi-
ton he will undoubtedly succeed to, by
studying the sDecalOgue, Buffers English
Grammar, and new work recently issued,
entitled :. Manners and Habits OF Good
Society" 6.kl