Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-05-20

delta. NOMINEE,
Ia au Interview which I have Just had
with myself l have positively stated, ana
now repeat, that at neither the ST. Louis
Tor Chicago Convention Will my name be
presented rs = candidate
But NY health is bully.
W. are upon the threshold ola most bit.
ter and acrimonious fight. Great wisdom
Ard foresight are needed az this hour, and
the trCe patriot will forget himself and his
own interests in his great yearning for the
good OF his common country ard the sue
Cess Of his party. What we need at this
time is a leader whose name will not b.
presented at the convention but whose
hearth is good.
No one has fuller or better conception
Of the great duties OF the hour than |
How clearly to my mind are the duties OF
the American citizen outlined to-day !
have never seen with clearer, keeueT vision
the great needs OF my country, and my
pores have never been more open. Four
Yeas ago | was in some doubt relative to
certain important questions which now are
clearly ard satisfactorily settled in my
MUD. ! hGsItated then where now ! am
fully established, and my tongue was
coated IN the morning when arose, where
~ now bOund lightly from bed, kick cut
q window, climb 10 the roof uy means OF
the lire-c,capc and there rehcaTse speeches
which ] will make this tall in case it should
be discovered at either OF the conventions
that my name alone can heal the rupture
in the party aud prevent IT. works from
falling ont
think my voice il better also than it
WAS either tour, eight, twelve or .iXlsen
years ago aud il does rot tire ME 50 much
| 10 think Of things to say rom the tail-gate
OF n train "a il did when first began to re-
| train from presenting my name to C0uyea-
tons
According to my notion, our candidate
| should De plain man, magnetic bat
hairless patriot, who should he suddenly
thought Of by majority OF the convention
and nominated by drclamatinn lie should
not be hide bound politician, hut on the
contrary he should he greatly startled,
while down cellar sprouuug potatoes, to
learn that he ha4 uGeu nominated. That's
the kind OF man who always surprises
everybody with his sagaCity when an
emergency arises.
In going down my cellar stairs the com
mittce will do well 10 avoid stepping GA
large aud yrnemous dog who sleeps on the
top stair. Or ! will tie hin in the barn il
| can lac informed when an liable to be
startled.
have always thought that the naate-.
method Of calling 9 Nan 10 public lie was
! the one adopted some tine since Ia the case
OF Clnciunatus. lie was one day breaking
nervous pair Of red steers Ia the north field
! Ii wa7 q hot day in July, aui h. was try
! Ing to summer tL,iow piece OF ground
where llmsOu weeds grew seven feet
| nigh. Enc plough would not scour, and
! the steers had urHed the yoke twice on
! him. Ciurinr0ius had lung his toga on
a tamarac pole to strike a iurrOw nv, and
hadn'l succeeded in getting tao plough in
more than twice ~ going across. D-.salug
~ he did in the Roman costume a. los L.
! { the black cherry VINES tIi scratched bis
massive legs till tacy we're a sight 10 be-
| hold. lie had scOurpsd Old Bright and
twisted the tail OF Belly I'll, he was tiel. at
heart Ali through toe lon, afternoon,
wearing hot, rusty helmcl with rabbit
skin ear-tahs he had to.l,d on, when sad
denly majority OF the Roman voters
climbed over the fence and asked him To
| become dictator IN place Of SpurU- hcilu-.
Putting on hls toga and huakliug AN old
| hame strap around his l0ius ne said Gen
tlcmcn, il you wait till 90 to the huusr
and get sons v,lscline on my limbs will
do your diC,aung tor sou a. low a. yOu
have ever had itdo0e lie then lcl, his
team standing njhe turroY whl!s he served
his country III an oilicia! capacity for = lit
tie over twenty nine year., alter which he
went back and resumed his farming.
Though , 300 ycaIs have since passed
away aud historians have been busy with
/ that epoch ever since, no one has yet dis
covered the methods hy winch CtnclnnatUs
organized and executed this, The most sue
cesslul "pcopIe's Movement Of which We
are Informed.
The great trouble with the modern boom
is that II is TOO precoIoGs. II knows more
before It gets its clothes on than i,s rufs',
the physician and iis parents. 1t then die,
before the up charts IN the maple forests
My object III writing this leotCr "a large
| ly to tone down AID keep IL cheek any
| popular movement in my behalf until tn"
weather il more settled. \ seas1a-cTacEyd
boom is a thing dtspise.
| | iucl0se my picture, however, which
shows that ! an 20 healthy that it keeps
me awake nights 20 about the house
! singing all this time and playing praDk-
on my grandparents My eye dances with
! llCorcealtd merrimcnt, and ny Cruyer-
sation is Just as sparkling ~ it can he.
! / believe that during this Camp.iyn we
should lay aside politics as far ~ possible
and unite on an unknown, homrly but
sparkling man. Let us lag aside all race
prtiudicrs aud old pa'ty feeling and elect
magnetic chumy who does not look 50
very well hut who feels FIRST rate.
Towards the middle OF June [ shall %
away to an oh'curc place whore ! cannot
| he reached. Ny mNil viii De forwarded to
me by a gentleman who knows how ! feel
m relation to the wants and needs of the
country.
To those who have prosPsred during the
paat twenty years let me say they owe IL
! to the perDetuution OF thu principles and
institutions towards the establishment and
maintenance cf which I have given tn
best energies of ny life. To those who
have been unfortunate let me say frankly
! that they owe il to themselves.
have never bad lc-s M tlagIa or depend
eucy in my system than have This sprint
| My cheeks have a delicate bloCm on them
/ like a russell apple, and mY step IS light
and elastic. In the morning arise iron:
my couch and touching concealed ep,IrG,
it becomes an upright Pjlno. / then hathe
in low divau which contains a joiuttd
tank then sing until !ut,rlrrtd With by
property owners and taHpayer- who reside
near by. After l'ght breakfast o.
calls liver ard cu,tard pie, ! 20 into
/ the rsrrniipD-rOOw and wait tOr ptup'. to