Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-11-23

| gentleman is notify any means the largest
stockholoer or the most prominent official
Of that monopoly corporation, and there is
much error in the common supposition
that every political movement aided BY Mr..
Payne is in the direct interest of the Stand
ard. Oliver is in politics much for the
same reason as Bookwalter, for amuse.
ments sake; though in his case there are
no personal ends to be served, the nearest
approach to 1t being an eagerness to elevate
bis father, for whom he has most loyal and
admirable affection.
An important source OF the strength of
the Paynes in Democratic politics is their
habit OF spending money for party good
BY thisimproper use OF money is not meant,
nor even use Of money with invariable ex-
pectation Of value in return; for of what
use TO the Standard Oil Company could q
few Democratic Congressman be-? Or few
Democratic Assemblymen here in Ohio?
While it is obvious that it is not the policy
of the Standard Oil Company to discourage
those in public life who would be its friends,
much that has been written Of its gigantic
power in political and official circles is i'm
aginarySor imagined. As the world goes the
candidate who is at all close pressed needs
money not all ambitious men have money;
Colonel Payne has money in abundance
and so in the past many candidates, some.
for county offices, some for city, some for
the Legislature and few for Congress, de-
serving men working hard not only for
themselves but for the Democratic party,
which Colonel Payne loves, have received
financial assistance at the proper moment.
The natural result is large number of
Democratic workers who have feelings of
gratitude to the Paynes, which they are
anxious TO repay.
The Paynes UnseIGsh Democrats.
Democrats above any mere sordidness de.
clare that these Payne tactics have been in
valuable TO the party, and that they have
not been employed with an exclusive
motive Of selfshness OF this liberality-the
iilial desire of son to elevate his father to
an honorable position for which he is well
fitteG-is pardonabe one. The fact seems
TO be that the Payne movement is one OF
complete respectabiEty; and the Payne
method OF gathering strength and organ
izatiOn, which aided by money in the way
above indicated, and by various business
interests, has been Oh high plan, Judic-
iOus and discriminating.
Above all the influences OF this kind
now and for some time in the past at work
in his behalf, Henry B. Payne is a popular
man. He has few enemies anywhere,
scarcely any within his own party. His
personal character is as high as the high
est; his qualifications for public place are
everywhere acknowledged, and his record
iii GciiC lie has Jeen uniformly credta-
bic ;O him. He is venerated by the rank
anG lie OF the party, and loved by the
leaders who know him personally.
In the campaign for the SenatOrship the
influence Of Tilden is for Payne, also the
fFNti EFnna nf Hat1 nd %
be sdded the assistance and good offices OF
David K. Paige, Congressman and Chair.
man OF the Ohio Central Committee, Con-
gressmen Foran, LeFeyre, and other pow.
erful workers.
1t is now almost certain that Mr.. Payne
will succeed Senator Pendleton. The latter
has been so unfortunate as TO arouse some
implaCable enmities, and his civil service
reform prominence has been TO his disad-
yantsge. Both the Cleveland and Cincin.
natl delegations are nearly unanimous for
Payne, and Pendleton has had to seek all
his strength in the country, with bad
start in the race and rough road to travel
On Tuesday last Payne manager declared
that two votes more than will be necessary
to nominate in the Democratic caucus are
already pledged to Mr.. Payne.
A Presidential Possibility.
The Paynes are close to Tilden, and are
for his nomination next year, in case he
shall be found sufficiently alive to accept
it. But if Mr.. Payne is elected to the Sem
ate, and Mr. Tilden declines the Presidency,
or dies, what then? Here appears the
possibility OF Mr.. Payne becoming Presi-
dent; and though some OF his friends who
are now pushing him on to the Senate say
it will never do 10 take the Democratic
candidate from Ohio. and win or lose all on
the desperate October chance, that he is too
talked In i sifhlaf epAirpa iGGv ea5ee they
election in ohio, when they said Mr.. Payne
was not by any manner OF means candi-
date for the Senatorship.
In viewing the chances OF the great
future it must not be overlooked that pow
erful national influences are behind Mr..
Payne, AMI if he should 60 into the Demo
rTstic convention of 1854 with Ohio in
struc,ed for him, the man that stood third
in the list in l@S0, without Ohio, might,
without exciting our wonder, go to the