Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-01
SELBY'S NOTE BOOK.
A Pen Picture of President elect
Cleveland.
A SKETCH OF DANIEL MsNNlNe
No Extra Session Of Congress UnIes
the Silver Men
Force II.
eoRDoNs DEATH, HUMANITTs LOSS

WASHINGTON, February 28.-There is nc
question about the correctness Of Mr.
Cleveland's position in the coinage o.
ilver. He is right. To-day there is piled
up in the vaults ofthe Treasury and sub
Treasures the weight of the Washington
monument in silver dollars.
Silver Men.
Nobody wants it when it is possible to gel
paper. The only use it serves now is as 8
market for the Pacific coast people who
have stocks and blocks to get off theil
hands.
1t is not possible to keep the silver dollar
going the rounds of circulation. As soon as
it leaves the mint it goes into the vault, and
there it stays.
Jones, of Nevada, is the great silver mau
in Congress. He is part owner of silver
mine.
Mr.. Cleveland.
Mr. Cleyelands coming here next week
will not be his first trip. He has been be-
fore the Supreme Court, associated with Mr.,
Richard Merrick, who looked after his law
business in this direction. He was here in
1878 and stopped at the Riggs House, in
company with Dan Lockwood, who nomi'
mated him at the convention. Time has add
ed much to his honor and credit, but moth
ing has it taken from him. The honors
have not impaired his manhood or inter
fered with his modesty. He is now, as he
was then, business ike, upright, honorable
man, bent upon doing his duty and doing ii
irrespective of consequences.
Manning.
Mr.. Manning who, take it, will be Secre
tary of the Treasury, is the editor Of the
Albany Argus, a man of business, well
acquainted with public men, thoroughly
posted in fiscal matters and holding Mr..
Cleyelands and Mr. Randairs views on the
tariff. AS editor he has been liberal and, al
times, even magnanimous, commanding
and holding the respect Of his Contempora
ries and in the confidence of Mr.. Tildeu
who, with Mr. Randall, urged him to take
the Secretaryship Of the Treasury.
Congress.
There will be no extra session Of Congress
unless the silver men force it, but now that
the clause prohibiting its further coinage has
been dropped from the civil sundry bill, it is
not likely that they will have any cause to
make an extra session probable.
Mr.. Randall, for the past month has
been working day and night, every
day in the week, Sundays not ex'
cepted. AS a result he is nervous,
somewhat pulled down, and looks like a
man who has been carrying u great load.
Randall is one of the few men who work per
petually, giving no time to what's called so
cial life, which has no charms, and few
snares, for him. He is an early riser, and
by halt 9 o'clock every morning he is
hard at work in his committee room. To-
wards the end of the session, the chosen
time for putting up jobs and raiding the
treasury. the strain upon him is terrible.
Then the final plunge is made, and it takes
a man of iron to stand the assault.
The attacks are made in many ways and
from every quarter. Every sort of means
is resorted to, and the power OF rascality is
exhausted.
Appointments to Office.
There will be much disappointment to
the politician who comes for an office with
no other qualification for it than the fact Of
his having been useful to somebody else.
Mr.. Cleveland will not pay other people s
debts bv giving their creditors Len upon
public office. They are the estate Of the
people, which he will hold in sacred trust,
giving the management of them to those
who have the character, the capacity, the
honesty of purpose TO do in their line what
he is doing in his. Mark it. This policy
will be impressed upon his administration.
He will demand, fIst Of al, proof of fit,
ness from every applicant who seeks office.
The mere politicians have made the
worst public officers. They live upon some,
body else's power to take care Of them.
They are contingent beings and have meth,
ing of their own. They are ostensi6ly, do.
ing the peoples work, but in reality they
are incapable Of doing their own. As the
heads Of bureaus, they are utterly worthless
ignorant of their legitimate duties, uncon-
scious Of what goes on around them, at the
mercy of their official subordinates upon
whom they have 10 depend for information.
As a result the public business is badly con-
Quoted or wholly neglected.
No man should be appointed head of a
bureau who doesn't know at least as much
as the clerks in the bureau. And II is an
outrage upon Justice and decency for Sena-
tors Sr others to recommend any others.
Gen. Gordon.
This heroic soldiers death is loss to hui
manity. The great feature Of his remark
able life was its simplicity. There was
nothing complex about him. All truly
great men are given to simplicity OF lite, as
they are characterized by modesty. Never
was there a more unsel6sh man than Cor
don. He cared nothing for praise, and less
for glory. riches and worldly honors. He
was as little bound by earthly ties as Francis
Xavier the Apostle of the Indies.
Don't scatter your men, said he to
Wolseley. The same said Grantin his sgreat
campaign that closed the rebellion.
ill know where my enemy is, think
know how to reach him, he wrote from the
Soudsn waste.
There has been no such soldiers except
Grant since Napoleon. He did all his
writing keeping no military secretary and
and despising the foolishuess and tiummery
we see every day in our army officers. The
nearest approach We see to Gordon, OF all
in our army, is Gen. George Crook. He
is a Gordon Of tie United States Army.
CHARLES SELBY.