The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-04-17
wAsHrnaron GOSSIP

There isne falling how such Or how littls
Of the eos1ip that il .sent fem Wokatfon,
With references u ImpAcAnsah iaitu& We
think there is much greater disposition On
the part d The pnbiic 70 iscrsdsliAg THIN
credslky il he natase Of thsss rspstt. We
are ali disposed to lift the men Who ell high
place as high y the place thsy Gil, and -.
sumo the common weaknesses and eys9-day,
eharseteristics Of their fellows dout belong
tothem. And, for the greater part, ~ 81
ways 6nd W have bsen sgrsiseasly wrong 10
our assumption. The wsaknassss Of great
men are always greater than those Of The
common sense mass Of csdinaU 3atA. Hor-
ace walpole governed England. and, q The
same time, ninsty-sias out sf every hundrsd
of English mechanics would have felt it
shandal % thair snanhood TO hAvs nd the
attention to Eosip and "old vivss taiss'
thss Walpols did. Andrew Jackson id
ministration vss the most eminent one, nave
Lineeln's, that hss ever bssn in this country.
And, whils paxtof The people we're smltiss
him - dsnissd, ssad he otA~ dsaoaAcins
him as Napolscnie syrant, and Europe va
canvassing whether he was Despot or Demo
cras, Jackson himself wss busy with . social
wrangle IN Washington ~ 70 how Mrs. Eaton
should be treated by Society, and JAckson
changed Cabinet and convulsed the coun.
try because certain ladies wouldn't visit her.
We hunt for reasons why some eminent msn
has not done this, that or the other act, and Ne
call it Craftsmanship, or diplomacy, or wis
dom, or craft, or very deep. when il was I'll
probably TO please the vhim Of some woman,
or to crafty spite. And having sAid this,
We make this extract from the Washington
correspondent Of the Chicago Pos. he
says:
The Washington gossip of political M.
ture now -ardays is, not the Impeachment
per se, nor the condition Of johnson, nor thu
probable position Of this or that SenAaor, bu
the relations Of Chase and Wade, and thei
mutual "home thrusts,' the railying aroun,
their respective banners Of this and ths
public man, and the probable effect this sub
upon Vcs- Presidential matters, ct least, Z
Chicago next month.
nr I-,-a.1 s'y Hrn ~ KNOWN anu prove'
facts shall be repeating 10 you what tn
wires supplied you days ago; and il I drau
my conclusions from the incoherent and cha
otto mass Of "rumor," drawing-room CONVEX
sation. and political gossip of hotels and pub
lie and private places you might imagine 10,
making desperate efforts ct editing the Post
But will split the difference with Jon .thi
time, and give you some of the rumors ID TIL
rough. You have already some knowledge
OF the lifelong i'll feeling existing between
Messrs Chase and Wads-as least, Of lsts
years, between their respective friends.
think, too, that they have been Jealous escl
OF each, being rivals for the honors Of IN
leadership in thu great State Of Ohio. Hva,
noble rivalry till il has become dissustinsly
personal, and threatens the entirety Of III
hepuoiican organization, or at least lie Ell.
clency Chase thinks Wade . bschvood,
rudian; Wade thinks Chase 50 bloAted ar;s.
tocrat whose abilities are greatly ovsr-rased
and whose ststesmanship 10 myth. Chase
thinks the Wade men 10 Ohio have preyented
him-Chass-frcm carrying the Ststs con
ventions for him for the Presidency. Wade
thinks the Chase msa. ara nov doing All +
their power 70 defsst Iupeachmsnt, simply
out OF piquA against Wade, AID deeir,
70 keep him out Of the Whiss House
and they cite, q strong circumstaut;al proof
the Mack : exposition Of y Talk With Ber
Nade,' Published in the Cinoiunati COmsser
e,at last autumn the late pretended exposs
Of usorke Alfred Townsend, 10 Usvslaae
Paper. Of Brief Intsrviswn With NJ
mads and Of ~ aeticls six colunns ionf, d
the Coppeshead NatGo~sl Im1s1Hoe,oee AZ /
recent dsas, n a. londvritiac 81 Jsdo
ChaH's Ystssts sscrstery, II. Dehrckefs. s.
euinR WaAnta vlshH e., IL EH...a..A -:I65.