Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-28
THE PRESIDENT WARNED

Risk His Life on a Special Train.
INDIANAPOLIS, November 27.-ln CON
nection with the announced intention OF
the President to attend the Hendricks OBJ
sequies on Tuesday next, the Journal OF
tomorrow will say:
While the citizens of Indianapolis and
of the State of Indiana would be both
proud and pleased to meet the President
Of the United States for a plurality Of them
cast their votes q year ago with
such honor and respect as the
uropristies Of the sad event Of
the funeral of the late Vice President
would permit, and while the friends and
ueighOors Of Thomas A. Hendricks fully
appreciate the honor that would be done
to his memory by the presence Of the
Chief Magistrate here on Tuesday next.
the Journal feels constrained to say that
il believes Mr.. Cleveland should not leave
the White House at this juncture to make
the Journey. The perils incident to the
necessarily rapid movement OF special
railway train should not be hszarded
BY the President, whose life and act
i've services are now peculiarly valuable
to the whole people. There are too many
risks attending the trip as it will necessa
rily have to be made. As was remarked
when the honored Vice-President was so
suddenly taken away, it Is the unexpected
that happens, and against the unexpected,
and, wa trust and believe, the improbable,
it is Mr.. CleVelsnd's imperative duty to
take all proper precaution. The country
has gone through successfully many perils
during the last quarter Of century, but
the line has on more than one occasion
been drawn to its highest tension. There
should not be q possibility of strain if
human prudence can prevent it. Every
honorable citizen of the country, regard.
less of party faith, prays for the life and
health OF the President, who stands alone
now IS the embodiment Of Constitutional
power aud authority, and from the moment
he should leave the Capital until he
reached it again in safety, the country
would ba in patriotic unrest and
anxiety. The journal teels free to
make this suggestion as a Republican
newspaper and as one published at the
home of the late Vice President and as
one against which the charge cannot be
made that it would do or say anything
to interfere with the largest possible meas
ure of honor TO the memory OF the distin-
guished dead. But Mr.. Cleveland is not
his own; he Is not his partys; he cannot
follow merely the dictates Of his personal or
political friendship. His the nations
hesd-the only life between the govern
ment and an interregrum. In view of this
we would not have him take the risks Incl
dental to the rapid transit that would make
his Journey from the National Capital to
Indianapolis. Let all the Secretaries come
who can be spared from their official duties,
b1t the President should not lesue Wash.
ington.
ANOTHER WARNING.
WASHINGTON, November 27-The even
ing Star in its news column says several
prominent Democrats have advised the
President against his proposed visit TO
indianapolis to attend the funeral of Mr..
Hendricks, and in its editorial columns
publishes the following: The intention
expressed by the PresideDt to go to 10
dianspolis for the purpose OF attend
ing the funeral Of Vice President Hendricks
next Tuesday is in the highest degree cred
liable 10 himself as q man and citizen,
but il is, nevertheless. to be regretted that
he he is not able to see that higher duty to
the Republic entirely absolves him from
any supposed personal or official obi
cations 10 be present on that occasion.
The present juncture in public affairs is
such as to make the seat Of government
the true place for the President for some
time. and it is to be hoped that such coun-
sci may yet prevail as will persuade
him to forego his intentions Of at
tending the funeral Of Vice President
Hendricks. He is quite liable ro accident
in travel by land or water. The country
will need no outward show 10 prove the
depth and sincerity Of the Presidents griet
at loss which is equally felt by it with
| himself"