Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-03-07
CAPITAL GOSSIP
Bent On EyangsIlzlng President
Cleveland.
Prominent Speakers In the Two Houses
---Labor and Capital'--The Wash
ington Society MAN.
General Tall.
sOssia Correspondence Of ne sunday Register.

the country seem 10 DC peat On eNahSeh@
ing President Cleveland" observed one OF
the Chief Executive mostintimste friends
to day. But presume there is nothing
strange in that" continued he, "for am
told the Presidents from f1e foundation OF
the Government have been more or less
advised By the Christians as to their sp'r-
itual welfare. Mr.. Cleveland was telling
me the other day that he sometimes
thought there was an impression in the
ninds of too many good folks that he pre-
sented rare Opportunity for the mission
aries. asked him WAY he thought so, and
he lsughiugly replied
Goa! if the advice given me was con.
centraled on Africa it would ciVllize aud
Christisnize that whole wild and wicked
and dark country.
Il had TO laugh for there was go much
seriousness and yet dry humor in 1t all
Mr.. Cleveland realizes, as he is reminded
30 often and 90 forcihy, that in certain
way he sets an example to the world; but
il worries him q little, | can see, to be told
By hundreds of people some times in one
week that he ought TO let his light SO shine,
etc. He believes that these people must
think he is very wicked, or else that he is
the spiritual guardian of fifty millions OF
people. Speaking Of this point he said to
me:
"a President or King or other high and
national officer should recognize the su-
preme power in every act committed. A
man or woman should never get
go exalted as to fail to do this
Only mention in public way
of this reverence can a President make
Now, few public men have as little oppor-
tuni;y to disseminate personal views as
have. If | were never co anxious to make
people believe | was the embodiment OF
goodness it would be up hill work to create
that impression, for President cannot cry
his wares from the housetops. If this adj
vice about being Christian and all that,
coming in every form and from every
direction is for my own guidance, very
we'll. If it is TO change the general course
of my public career it is i'll given. One
thing am bound shall never be laid at my
grave-the charge that was hypocrite
/ like Christians. They are the salt OF the
earth, A hypocrite, to my mind, is the
bRsest of sinners
The President must be o little ANNOYED
by these opportunities. is he notY
asked
"Not in the least. On the contrary, he
is grateful COR the interest shown in him,
if 1t is respectfully shown. He doesn't
seem to comprehend the fact, however, that
all Presidents have had TO withstand this
ordeal. This letters he receives are not the
only evidences given him of desire that
he shall be a moral man. You would be
surprised how many Christian people
breathe an audible prayer for him, how.
ever, when they grasp his hand; and it all
has very perceptio.e effect upon MIR.
Cleveland, for ne said that he didn't be-
lisve any man or woman with sense and
heart could fGll 10 be affected by the
prayers oil an earnest people, when ne or
she knew they were so constantly delivered.
It has been ascertained that the six pen.
ny-rate postal telegraph system adopted
by England on October LIST, last, has proven
very successful Sixpeuce is the price
adopted for messages of twelve words, ad
dress Included, for all distances, just like
letters are conveyed anywhere in this
country for two cents Penny postage is
uso a great success in Great Britain, and
the postal savings banks established have
gwen uniform satisfaction. All these
propositions are buing agitated i'll the
United States, and the success they have
attained in John Bulls country is pointed
to as evidence to prove that they can be
successful in the United States and that
we can afford to establish them.
~
"a great many OF the members oil the
House, who speak altogether extempora.
neously have good reason for doing so,
said an old stenogrspher at the Capitol.
"Why do they not write their speeches.
because they caunOt, was the firm
reply. II could name score of men who
often speak on the floor Of the House who
couldn't write speech they would let any
one see. Theirgrsmmar, their photography,
their composition, are horrible. {, But they
get up and grind out disjointed discourse
and the official reporters make pretty
fair speech out Of it. You'd be surprised
to know how many of those fellows ask
one reporter TO take all of their speech, so
that be can fix it all up for them. Why,
there are fifty men in the House who
couldn't write speech, and more than o
hundred who couldn't write newspaper
article three inches long that any publish
er would print Why? Because they've
no ability
1t is strange how many people think
that the Capital of the United States is q
place where all their ills will be healed and
al their troubles ended. Many county
people think that if they could only get to
Washington and to the big, white Capitol,
then the Congressman would listen to
them and help them, and many have learn
ed TO their sorrow how untrue their belief
Is. Only yesterday | saw an old woman,
fully seventy-fve years OF age, wandering
about the corridors of the big building in
search of friend 10 help her. At last she
got upstairs in one Of the lobbies of the
House gallery, and an old, one-legged, SOL
der doorkeeper had given her his chair to
sit in and rest herself, for che had no other
place 10 seat herself and rest her weary
bones. She had picturesque look, this
old woman, though her clothes were cd
and worn. On her head was an old bon
net OF a style Of many years ago. A white
band OF rusching was inside the great rim,
and large and rusty black ribbon tied it
under her chin. Her face was Yrinkled
and care-voFn, and pinched With age and
suffering. Around her shoulders was an
cid black shawl, and her dress was skinny
and aged. She rested their awhile and
then went downstairs. By chance she
came to the door of the House restaurant
and fell on the very threshold from fatigue
and hunger. Some one aided her to a
recess Of a doorway, and there she sat on
the cold marble thing, until the kind heart
ed lady cashier Of the restaurant heard of
it and sent her out chair. To this lady
the old woman told her story: Last Sat.
urdsy she lost her son by sp accident on
the railroad. he Wag her sole support, and
taking all the money she had, she had