Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-07
Why FoIgsr Is Out OF tie Prssldsn-
tlaI Race
IN EEINe The scAPEeoAT oEoTHsRs
A Touching Letter from jeffsrsOn's Favor
its Grandchild-Gsnsral BoyntOn
and Keifsr-0thsr Washington =
Matters.

government Of the city. The robberiss
that have been perpetrsted in the Sherif's
ofhce," said he, "ought to be enough to
sink any party responsible for such mis-
creants as we have had feeding upon Us"
Tildeh's Income Tax.
Tilden, consciously or unconsciously,
helped cne or two attorneys to make more
than one fat fee in bis efforts to battle the
Government in the suit it brought against
| him to recover income taxes Edward Pierre
| pont, the Attorney General who succeeded
Williams got good slice. The case was
carried from one term Of court to another,
delayed, postponed, continued down to
Stewart J.. WOodfords time. Secretary
| Folger, sn honest man, not believing
| much in the methods that mske the fees
| and costs more than the amount involved,
| ordered Woodford to have done with 1.-THE
| U. s. vs. Tilden," and not let il so on for
ever, like Jarndyce sgsirst Jsrndyce. This
| cut cf special counsel fees and emolu-
ments of every kind, much to Woodford's
| chsgrin, have understood, and it may be
\ that his opposition to Judge Folger's nom.
| ination snd election as Governor OF New
! York could be traced to motives not so
high IS patriotism or hostility to machine
I mt IhOds.'
FoIger.
|, have alSsys thought that the meanest
way to do dirty work was to do it under
some sort of pious guiss, Just as the most
contemplate way to kill is through love
for the slain-in q sort Of fear that they
might do some wrong or commit sin if per-
! mltted 10 live. We might strangle ali our
babies on that principle as readily and with
as much justice "a We drown puppies TO
keep them from doisg harm or becoming
nuiSances in the community.
Folger's deteat was very much after this
| system. He was an honest, upright man,
suEerr or to most men at the bar or on the
bench in New York, known as Just Judge,
Of stainless life, simple habits, and unas-
| suming manner, respected for. his great
worth, beloved by those who knew him in
| timstely--s man whose every footprint
Sss in the narrow way OF right and justice
| AID hOnoT-this man was defeated, so the
zealots and their kind said, on the theolog-
ical principle that have Just announced.
I'm not going into the uestion OF trick
cry or treschery, II any there was.
Killed by Kindness.
And you see what kindness does! Judge
Folger was not the objective point, said the
EeforHer; it was the machine. Everybody
respected FOlger. Nobody was against
! him individually, He was too good man
| to be the tool OF the machine, they said, and
they couldn't permit him TO be elected.
And yet where is he as a presidential
| candidate? Why should mere technical
| defeat have been justification for setting
| him aside or eliminating him from Presi-
| Dental calculations?
ways That are DARK.
As Mr.. Blaine sayes, you can't MAKE
| s;I ged cat out OF Bengal tiger So it Is
impossible to make a politician, given to
the trade, out OF Mr.. Folger. He can
| neither be bought nor brlbed, nor tamper-
ed with. He is so far above the temptation
| Of the fellows who would vote twice the
same day that standing with outstretched
| arms, they cannot even touch the heels OF
| his shoes. The chaps who play political
games as they do draw poker don't want
| him, nor do the fellows who believe IN
ways that are dark"
A Secretary OF the Treasury.
There hss been no aber Secretary, with
| the possible exception of Sherman, since
| Alexander Hamilton, than Judge Folger.
| bsve often thought that possibly his best
| attribute, if may so call IL, is his kindness,
| a kindness based upon impsruallty ana
| justice.
| str'vss TO 90 right And j; has always
| ser. ~ 10 z. thlt our thoughts are truer
| measure ut ourselves than our actions are.
| rhey srerCt under the control OF human
| -Pypect lt il not easy for them TO oe
| a. si~Is,d II themselves Our character is
i .o-,rsd Within. The fountains OF word
| 1I.U action have thttr untTodIen springs
| n he CsyGIrs Of TIE world OF thougnt.
| ~ Fu.r.r's tliOugntS areall kind, and
| ne does not checker them with unkindiy
| CEts.
JeHsrson's Granddaughter.
The speeches made in the House against
ths bill to pension Mrs. Septimia Randolph
NeikIeham were, in the main, for home
consumption.
The poverty that forces Congressman to
seize upon such an issue as means OF re.
| mIndipg his constituents that he IS dong
| snnoething. is the most pititul indication
| YSat bnncomb and demagogism sometimeS
| peID fellows with nothing In their heart
| nd less in their heads. One or two with
| beId tbsir "rs marks for revision as If the
| sun could be made easier to swallow.
Living I'm Poverty.
know that this sole surviving grand
| child Uf Thomss Jefferson is living IN pow
er,y and suffers priva,ion and hardships'
| Sbe pavs twenty dollars q month for
| vsrv bnmhIs cnttsCs on the OUTSKIRTS OF
| Gecrretowp. Besldes herself, there are
tbres children, a son and two daughters.
! TEs SON hss been in miserable health Tor
| Tn,ny wears and unable TO assist her. Inc
| rsughTers are very dellcste- rGon AetteL s
| ,b;ch had from Mrs. Meikleham lew
| days ego, her stustioh eau Oe O''' -A-N
SsIjce is the bread winner, Eleoncra the
| borsskpsnsr and mothers nurse. we are
| - bsrnv family in our domestic circle, anu
| ,h;S cfrcumstapce has carried US cheertnlIy
| tIrough great priyation and hsrdsnlps.
| Alice was i'll for seven months lsSs yeSs
| - isroy on q weeks leave OF aos9acs
| 90, sicknsSs l am obliged 70
10, .UII for the interest you take. This spo9-
| ysnsors recogpition of my grandtatners
ss.S;ca to his country from the people Is
go, Tonching, Their free will offerings
.n,'I5 bs nearer to me than any pension
| tbejr representatives could offer, Jeuerson
IoTed ne people and looked on them as nts
| children. / love them from lnnerisAn0e
sh1 soWi,b NV very lame haud, blind eyes
ard a dark day have endeaVored TO wrtse
von A tolerably distinct letter pu' 0AA
| see II is failure"
General BoyntOB.
A newspaper man like boJnson SS S@
4, . recent letter cannot be set aside WIN
opt hearing. Asarule, newspaper men
are ike wolves, when one gets do"n tue
o,hars eat him up, bat Boyntos nss oone
oIneIs S - tbs wsy of making the press
sInosoSere 80 I pure aud reforming ssd rs9uS; Z;
] ;nn, vi Soers that he has the GOOD wiz OF
i ipg esa esan,c.sbIe elements of the press.
Tbis & Is What be wrote me for %hat Pr,n ss ssa
about him in the REorsTEs- IL SHOWS '"'
| character of the msn.
'N'- ' WASHINGTON, March p.
Ito Charles Seibg: ,,.,.h,,k, for vour
.-;nrSiS lords The course Of the gentle
Irieno,y ct ~ SoT nrss. toward ms in the psn;;
dSs @rS G matter tie has touched me- deeply Ian aud in
try hard to spPreaiats it II % mas msEs Tpsu this
snoh abounding measure as 70 "SA'
difficult -;.h cordial re-
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