Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-01
WASHINGTON.
GORHAMS POLITICAL CHANGE OF
BASE.
The Republicans Thoroughly Disgusted-
Senator Hill 0ispOses Of Little
q stOy-The Sherman Boom
The British Mission.
Sonred Republicans.


WASHINGTON, July 3l.-Republicans
here are thoroughly disgusted with Geo.
O. Gorham's political change of base.
They are now unkind enough to say
that George is only soured because he
did not succeed in getting good, fat
office after he was superseded in the
Secretaryship of the Senate. He i'm
agined that his labOrs on the Republi-
can Committee last year made him so
solid with the party that he could get
any office he asked for. The Republi-
can organ here says sorrowfully: "Well,
ne makes his own bed, and no one has
a right to object to his occupying it.
The change has been made with such
precipitnncy that he has had scarcely
time TO Law aside his Republican cos
tune or forget his familiar Republican
phrases. Verify, this is a changing
world" ... l.r. ..
Alderman Kelly.
The papers in the case Of Alderman
Kelly were sent to the President to-day
FROM the Department of Justice.
..'. Senator Hill,
who is here on his way to Georgia, efiec-
tually dispOses of the story which has
been gleefully going the rounds OF the
Radical press about an independent
bolt which he and Mr.. Stephens pro-
posed to lead in opposition to the DEM
Ocratic party. The Senator said he had
not met Stephens since adjournment,
and he added that, in the face OF the
present contest for liberty, free elections
and constitutional methods the DemOc-
racy of Georgia can not and will not al
low themselves 10 be divided. The Sem
ator has been spending most of his
time North since Congress adjourned,
and after having talked with pub
lie men in New York and elsewhere
he is convinced that great good was
accomplished by the extra session,
and that the contest then began will
end in victory for the Democracy.
Speaking OF John Sherman's Maine
speech, Senator Hill said he got out OF
patience reading it. "He said," con-
tinued Mr.. Hill, "that the war was
fought against State rights. He knows
that was not true, or he ought to know
il The Republican leaders cOnfOund
secession with State rights, and many OF
them do it knowingly to deceive the
people. The war was fought to put
down secession, and it was put down
forever Ii was not fought to destroy
the rights of States, for that would de-
stroy the government, too. But am
glad that Sherman has stated it in that
way. The New England people are us
tenacious as aUy OF us for the rights of
their States, and will not, in my Opin-
ion, consent to yield those rights to- the
general government
Judge Settle,
who came here few days ago to get
control OF Federal patronage in his sec
ton with view Of advancing his own
interests in the direction OF the Vice
has not succeeded accord
ing to his expectations. John Sherman
is working for No |, without the slight
est reference to Settles aspirations. He
has converted Congressman Martin, OF
North Carolina, to the Sherman boom,
so they say. by the very simple act OF
turning ont an internal revenue collec-
tor who was a Grant man and putting
in his place a man recommended by
Congressman Martin, who is now con-
fdent that the Republican party in the
Tar-IIeel State is altogether for Sher-
man. If the Secretary continues TO eX-
ercise proper discretion i'll the distribu-
ton of patronage he will not be forgot
ten. The ofiicehOlders know how to
boom.
Secretary Schurz
will make but one speech in Ohio. lie
will leave here on August 18th for a
visit to the Indian
country, and on his way West will
make halt in Cincinnati on the l4th To
say few words on behalf of Citizen
Foster. The trip he has mapped out
for himself will occupy so much time
that it will carry him beyond the elec-
ton.
Congressman l.. Z. Morton,
OF New York, is now talked OF ior the
British Mission. The delegations have
not vet swooped down in force in be-
half of their respective favOriteS, but
they are expected along daily. Secretary
Evarts will visit Vermont next week,
and the matter will not be determined
until his return.