The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-01

NRW YORK, November 30.-The follow
ing is the correspondence which has passet
between Congressman VIM. Walter Phelpl
and ex-speaker J. Warren Keller:
TRAYEcK, NEAR RSG LEwooD, Mil
81. November II, 1888.
Hon. j Warren Eeitet Springfield, Ohio:
DEARSiR-I write 10 ask OF you sacri
flee in the interest oil the party; and there
fore, as you and | think, in the interest o
the country. 49,
have not the honor OF your acquaint
ance, which is one oil the reasons why Il
wss considered proper that / should be The
one to make the suggestion for neither
you nor any one else can suspect that It Il
consciously or unconsciously the prompt.
ing Of personal feeling.
Another reasonls, that l represent the
Republican party in State where 1t Ii
homogeneous 30 that neither you nor any
one else can cay, He speaks for the Hall.
breeds only, or only for the Stalwarts, y
And while am naturally classed with the
new members In the Forty-eighth Congress
and share more largely in their views and
wishes, have never forgotten the friend
shirs made with some OF the Republican
leaders in an earlier Congress, who are still
in service, and with whom in a more
moderate degree l sympathise. In fact, ]
believe that In following thevery consider.
able number Of old and new members
who have expressed the wish that you
might see 1t your duty to adopt the course
I am about 10 suggest TO you, the number
Of the new members would be larger than
Of the old. @ H.. ), u
| E THE SACRIFICE ASKED.
The sacrifice suggest and the course
that many Of your fellow members in the
next house wish You to take is this: Tell
your friends that you are nota candidate
lor the next SpeakeIship.
This will set the example for the other
officers, and the Republicans Of the next
Congress car, without contest or discus.
sion, signalizs new and harmonious de.
partnrc by presenting brand new ticket.
We are both anxious for the success Of
our party; you are, | believe, as strongly
desirons as i that II shall be in position
next year 10 eli lis candidate. think.1
do not mistake the position OF our politics
when say that the only thing We abso-
lutely need for success besides a good can
didate is united action in the party. Such
united action can be attained; but, after
the wide disagreements OF the past two or
three years, only by mutual, full and
friendly concessions. 10 these concessions
must 1in al who, whether for good or for
bad reasonp, have attracted personal hos
tility to themselves. =,
As Speaker OF the last House, you could
scarcely avoid doing this. You made strong
and devoted friends, but you made also de-
termined enemies. In the discussion and
contest which will necessarily accompany
your denomination, possible harmony is
shattered at The start. Animosities now
ready to sleep will be awakened and in.
tensi.ied. And for whatp In the empty
honor, which assume there Is no doubt
you willget II you claim it, is there any
condensation Wilt not be q greater
honor to refuse, in the interest OF the party
and country, to be candidate? a
hope you will pardon the liberty j have
taken and recognz q, in the assumption oi
your disinterested patriotism, upon which
this request is based, the assurance OF my
personal respect. Truly yours,
HFt Wv. WALTER PHELPS.