The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-08-11
WHEELING, WEST AUGUsT .lss4 --
be goes a. under a iull head Of steam. He
loves BlaLnN,I eYnry hnlly .lnaa who knnua

he goes at under a full head Of steam. Fl
loves Blalno,ts every body does who know
nun and does notenvy him. lie believes |,
Blaine, believes he ought To bs elected an,
believes he will bc elected. No energy Q
bis will be rnared tha. can contrihuts t.
that END. kins is not the whole Nation
81 Committee, but he Is a considerable
alice oi Y, and lie Ia capable OF doing the
work Of two or three men. lie Is only forty
TWO, though bis hair 10 plsutlluliy pep.
pered with gray. = -
In this he resembles Blaine. Indeed
l. kins la very much "a Blaine kind o
msn-ot massive form, well educated, q
polihheo' 'gentlemsn who keeps up with the
progressive thought Of the day, who likes d
talk about the great thinkers, books and
ooook'maker; oil large human sympathy as
Ri men ara no come to anything in pub.
nc !!is. lie Ia Rs gentle as a woman In
social intercourse; ii he were aroused I
should think 1t well to ''stand from under"
liz hes the mind and the heart for grea,
enterprises, and we shall hear more oil him
IN West Virginia undertakings. His face
is smooth, showing 10 full advantage a
Goantenanee OF kindly, manly dignity. Col.
beall 81 Brooke, went homs quite In love
with lilkins' face. Itseamed that hs!would
never have done speaking Of 1t. "Dld YOU
evsr See such a lace J., hs said to me, "tha,
splendid counteuance ought to make his
Ioftnpe anywhere" Colonel 'B.all knows
3 good thing when hs sees It. Which
leauB me to Remark that he wes also much
taken with MIR. N GO. Church, Of Park.
eraburH, whom he lnst here ior the fist
time. He heard MI. Church talk and was
charmed with hia good style, good sensy
and comprehensive grasp OF tbs gu jsct In
hand. ! ought not to give away secrets in
public places, but the subject in hand had
something to do with polllics. Ji.,Ey ~ !
s..a. THE PARENT STEM. ~.
To "re.nrn to our mutton," MI, E'kins
is Of old Virginia Stock. His father ..wanl
Wtat" lron WtrrenLon, Virginia, in 1927
In those days Ohio IVES West. There Inc
senior Elkins planted himself, and there
the now famous Son was born. The father
pushed further we1l; went into stace.cosch
ins; wRs associated with Ben Holiday, who
has long banged at the doors OF Con.
gress for the settlement Of claim
Vi q million or tnsreabouts for 10. sea
80 S.'A y'aS tuo uhHe1 WhS
finally obsorbsd by Wells, Fargo 4
Co., and went to New Mexico seventeen
years sgo to spent a few months building
up hishealth. He has lived in the Terri.
tory ever since, ind from his re1snt ap.:
p.srancs think he found the Fountain OF
Youth in ont OF his numerous 6.hing ex.
cursiona. LIE lells me he is seventy, five
years old, and I must believe him; but be
hrs plenty OF warm blood yet, will walk
further and bring home mols 4 III than any
young man ut the Park. He IS
spending the summer hers at
hls sons cosy cot,sge, which his
sons good wife makes homs-like for
for everybody who conc, within its shad.
ow. But his heart ia in iar away Nav Mex
leo, where the air is better, the water
purer, the gnees louger aud the fish 6aer
tnan anywhere else on earth. He ia splen-
did company, an expert fisherman and a
Democrat. Elkins Jr, hr7 fine mis,iopary
frltsin his iather and her.in.law., But
ills hard to teach old Dtmocrats new tricks.
Mr.. q kins leaves this evening for New
Yorkto resume his COMMITTEES work.
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