Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-07-06
VIM. A. WHEELER.
How He Is Appreciated in
Washington Social Life.
Correspondence of the Cleveland Lea
der

Correspondence of the Cleveland Lea
der.
The man who has three times
beaten Democratic Presidential can
didates for Governor in our own
State, would beat the fourth in the
national canvass even without the adj
ded strength of Mr.. Wheeler's name,
but that alone is tower. Mr.. Mon
roe, of the Eighteenth Ohio District,
says: "When the two candidates be-
come personally acquainted they will
be mutually delighted. Knowing
them both intimately, / am heartily
gratilicd with the choice of the Con-
ventiOn. There can be no stronger
combination of names. MIR. Whee-
leris a cousin of Rev. Alfred Whee-
ler, of the Methodist Church in
Ohio. He is devout communicate
of the New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church here, u man of fifty
seven years, and of quiet, rugged
strength of character. He repre-
sents to my mind more of the ideal
traits of George Washington than
any other man of the country. In
the midst of heated Congressional
debate he always sits calm and self
poised; in the familiar relations of
home life, in q crowded boarding
house, where 1 have known him
month after month, he presiding at
the table next our own, l dOnbt il
any one has ever seen a flaw in his
character. l have several times
spoken of him incidentally in my
Cleveland letters, as you will re-
| member, especially in connection
with his bereavement in March last,
by the death of Mrs. Wheeler. You
will, perhaps, remember that | told
YOU in connection with Mrs. Whee-
Ier's obsequies, that Randall stood
by with tears in his eyes, and that
Senators Conkling and Herman By
their special request, were placed
upon the list of pall-bearers.
never knew man more thoroughly
unambitious of Office than he, oil
more adverse to ordinary newspaper
mention. is by the solicitation ol
prominent Republican friends, that
he has consented at all to this ma
tional use of his name. He will ac
cept the trust as duty, to be grave
ly and conscientiously undertaken,
and those who know him best know
best how unsought and uncoyeted il
was, yet how high is his Difference
for the voice and mandate of the
people. / am indebted to Mr.. Whee
ler, and to his regards for my home
public of the Herald for some of the
best judgments of men and affairs
that / have ever been able to CLEAR
for you, but always coupled will
the statement that it was his habit tt
avoid any public mention of hi
name in any connection whatever
and it is only because it has so sud
denly sprung into national promi
nence that / feel at liberty to say
much about him now. II l were t.
recall, in detail, the most vivid memo
ries Of the past season, in connec
ton with himself AMI dear MRS
Wheeler, it would be an occasion al
ter-dinner hour in Mrs. Logan's par
lor, listening to her kindly chat, and
now and then pausing to hear tn'
sweet melody of those household
HYMNS we all love so well, floating
down from their parlor above us
where Mrs. Wheeler would be, sit
ting at some light, dainty feminin,
work, and her rich voice would hal
unconsciously begin,
Shall we gather at the river
or other kindred strain; and MI
; Wheeler, pausing at his busy writin