Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-18

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beat them in caucus and n~ominsed Beaver.
The Cameron clan Is agar limited.
Cooper and Quay and fagee and
tho lesser lights are vordG IN com
pIete harmony. Bot Don ia NJ Obliged 70
look forward TO the use Of Feeral patron
age within the State to break pwn his own
power. as he would have beslf Blaine had
been elected. and everything Is lovely tor
the machine.
The original supporters CIR. Blaine feel
that they have been euchrsS and are not
happy. But Cameron had his hand on
their threats, and fit is se5ened bya velvet
glove, the fingers are nonskhs less OF iron.
He will be his w successor, and they can
not prevent him. 0nce iJthe Senate. again
| Don will be able to do a freat deal to keep
his fayorites in the fedfal Offices, aud TO
check, as a promipht member iu q
| Republican Senate majyritY, the appointing
power of President Cleveland under the
| tenure of Office law, d it is still in force,
the same law which hade it possible for
Roscoe Conkling to retain Chester A.
Arthur as collector Of the port ofNew York
for over six month"; in defiance Of Presideq'
Hayes.
Tom Bayne.
Perhaps Congressman Tom Bayne may
be fairly regarded as the leader of the anti
Cameron forces in Pennsylvania. He has
never gone outside his party lines to conduct
q fght against the "clan," but in season
aad out Of season he has taken occasion to
make his opposition felt in caucus and con
y~eution. Bsyne is one of the most familiar
figures about Wizards Hotel, and almost
any evening can be seen in that in
s~titution chatting with his friends and
ENJOYING himself always in the
most chaste and temperate fashion. His
appearance to the casual observer Is decep.
tive, conveying something Of the dude i'm
precision. He is a tall, slim man, with a
gray black beard, square cut and parted in
The middle after the English fashion, He
walks with a little stoop, has fine features
and wears gcld-rimmed Eyeglasses. But IN
spite Of all these minor discouragements Mr..
Bayne has succeeded in making himself
very popular with those who. haze met him
/ in Washington. He is genial and whole
souled in bis demeanor, altogether too frank
TO make an extremely successful politician.
Probably no man in this city was
more deeply interested in the success OF the
Republican candidate for the Presidency
than Congressman BaYne. Nobody ever
accused the latter Of aspiring to be q Boss
himself, but in the events of Mr.. Blaine's
success, the new President could not have
failed to reward his friends who had fought
the perpetual battlein Pennsylvania against
overwhelming odds with the common power
which has controlled the federal officers ever
since the beginning of Grants first term in
spite OF the eyanescent influence OF Wayne
McVesgh under Rutherford B. Hayes. And
in that case McVeagh would not have been
The trusted, counsellor Of the President.
Neither would Senator. Mitchell have occu-
pied that position. Nobody knows where to
iind either one Of the gentlemen in an
emergency. NcVeagh is a son-iu-law Of
Simon Cameron, and Mitchell has been a
member of every faction that ever existed
in the licpublican politics Of the Keystone
State. Bayue, on the other hand, had been
a Blaine mar, a yeoman in the service OF
the Plumed Knight, sans peur ct sans
reprockc, for a dozen years. But in spite
Of his chagrin over the defeat of Mr.. Blaine,
Tom Bayne is not discouraged. He has
once more flung his banner to the breeze as
an advocate Of Blaine's nomination in
1883, aud thinks there is no doubt
that the Pine Tree States candidate
can be elected if he goes before
the people for their suffrages a second time.
'Roiled."
If you want 10 get the calm and courteous
hero of the goId-rimmed eye glasses rolled"
Just suppose that Blaine lost every doubtful
State and claim that Arthur could have
been elected. He looses no time in an
nouucing his opinion that Blaine did better
than any other candidate could have done,
and that Arthur would surely have lost
Chic in October, making his defeat a fore
gone conclusion. He insists that there are
a hundred men in his acquaintance who
voted for Cleveland and who would change
their votes if the election were to be repeat.
ed. He claims that in his own State the
Blaine element is stronger than ever before,
bot does not attempt to deny that the re-
election of Don Cameron to the Senate is a
certainty.
OAANA
The death Of Schuyler Colfax has re-
yiyed some little discussion in Washington
over the Credit Mobilier transaction, in
which tho deceased was supposed to have
been implicated. Colfax is one Of those
statesmen who have had occasion, even in
their prime Of manhood, to evolve the
mournful query: Are we so soon forgot
when We are gomez A peaceful, molten
sive man VAS Colfsx, a good fellow, whom
even his political opponents liked,
and SO intensely genial that it is
said he wore invariably a smiling
c~ountenarce. So generally was this pecu.
'liarity recognized that the b~ootblscks in
the streets of Washington know him always.
Not as Schuyler, but as "Smiler Colfsx.
Those who watched him while he was giving
his testimony before the House InvesGgat.
ing Committee, when other men fer less
deeply involved were watching the proceed
ings with strio-s brows an more than once
with blanched lips, say that he never more
Tran once'lost his Characteristic smile. 1t
was not in any way an exhibition Of frozen
eHrontery. It was only something which
could not avoid, . facial eccentricity with
which nature had apparently endowed him,
and which he could not shake off