Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-28
POLITICAL MENTION.

POLITICAL MENTION.
While cnat about dressing and
fashions may interest the lady readers oi
the REGISTER, still in order to make let
ter entertaining 10 the gentlemen some
thing must he thrown in about politics.
Here is the place to hear anything IN
that line that YOU want to hear. Drop
ping down in the reading-room the other
afternoon | fell into squad oil promin-
ent politicians. Here was our own
Senator Hereford who has an extensive
acquaintance with public men OF nation
al reputation, and who never forgets to
Introduce his friends and has happy
faculty of turning the conversation into
lust the exact channel you want 1t to
take. 4 great deal oi llerefOris pOpu-
lari,y arises from his attention To these
little matters, which some statesman,
when elevated ~ high position, are apt
70 allow To be oyershadowed by their
own seli-esteem. There is nothing like
a man keeping his heal level, and thus
preserving his equilibrium ail around.
Here also was Judge Carr, oil Indiana,
the gentleman who succeeded Ex.Speak-
err Kerr from the New Albany district.
Putting away at his favorite cigar is the
rotund form and jolly lace OF Senator
Motfett OF Virginia, he OF Bell-Punch
fame. and who il now making an earnest
effort To- bring over the Readjuster ele-
ment i'm his State 10 the support OF the
rayular Hancock ticket. Standing just
there with pleasant smile (which seems
10 plav perpetual on his face is the
soLlierly figure OF Dan Dougherty whose
speech AT Cincinnati made him famous
in an hour. But the centre OF attraction
in every group, because oil his splendid
SOCIAL qualities and tine conversational
powers. is the gentleman who is CONVEX
Sim with senator Hereford, and taking
my seat between them | SIT Tor TWO
hours listening to the talk OF man
who. vet in the prime and vlgor oil lille,
il Ia make his mark IN American poll-
Ties. IL is General Randall l.. Gibson
oi Louisiana. ten. Gibson iStall, rather
slender, graceful in his carriage, high
forehead. well cut features, frank open
countenanre. looks like Senator Butler
nf south Carolina, and in his face and
manner BEATS every impress oil gentle
man. Sufficiently Ji:nitied he still is so
cordial in his intercourse that any one
can approach him. lie possesses a con-
sentative, high order OF craftsmanship.
We il Democrat but no great admlrer
of Thomas Jefferson. He takes Wash.
inyton As his model thinks the world has
presented no equal to him. HE IS OF
the opinion that Alexander Hamilton
WAS a greater character than Jefferson,
but thinks that llamiltons ideas OF a
National government were extreme.
Gibson is "A hard money man and Tor
that reason preferred Bayard to Han
cocS. Thinks that Bayard's stand in
defence of his principles was one OF the
most exalted pictures ever presented In
American craftsmanship. At the same
time he Yields cordial support to Han
cock and thinks him more available than
ever Blvard would have been. He re-
cards HancOck'S letter 10 Sherman rs an
ADLER document than the famous Order
No. 40, and ought to convince the peo-
ple that Hancock ia man capacitated
to administer this government.
Gibson also relates an interesting ac-
count of his connection with the nego-
tiations which led To the recognition OF
the Nichols government. The story Is
long one and while there is nothing con-
nected with il that is improper for the
public ear, still as il was not detailed for
the papers | will not rehearse 1t. His
opinion is that, from his opportunities
10 iudye of the capacity OF the man,
Grant is a man OF marked ability and
Possesses more statesmanlike qualities
than he generally receives credit for.
Gen. Gibson has the singular dlstinc-
ton OF having been elected to the United
States Senate by the unanimous vote OF
the Legislature. Since his election he
has served one term in the lower House
OF Congress and will serve another be-
fore he takes his seat in the Senate in