The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-04-22
EANpAlL,S RuGGEp HONESTY.
Tho Sincerity and Simplicity That Mnrkc'
Ills Career,

Tho Sincerity and simplicity That MARKED
Ills Career.
WidssiagiOa Correspondence Ntlp York Star.
One OF the browning, II not the crown.
irg, characteristics Of Mr.. lsaudall's
career has been his honesty and simpli.
city. Ills word has been implicitly
trusted by every II who knew him,
and in the heat OF politics, where pas
sions run high, no insinuations have
ever been made against his integrity.
With wonderful opportunities for max.
ing n fortune, he has, during his nearly
thirty years OF service In Congress, lived
absolutely upon the salary paid
him by the Government. During
most OF his Congressional terms,
when not in Washington. no resided
at a little cheap hotel on Fourth street
IN Philadelphia, and had Il small office
up among the lawyers on Walnut street,
near Sixth street. Within the past few
years he has owned IN unbrclen,ious
house on Capitol Hill, and al humble
home just beyond Berwyn station, OH
the Pennsylvania railroad, a few miles
out from Philadelphia. His home life
has been OF tho happiest and simplest
character, and Is doubtful il his accumu.
lasions during the thirty yearg OF his
public lie arc worth $4,000. His little
rural home is not more pretentious than
that OF ~ ordinary mechanic, and bis
| hose in Washington might readily be
taken for the home OF G department
clerk. Two years ago his financial con.
dition gave his friends in Philadelphia
much concern, and rich Giti1ens, regard.
less OF party, raised q fund quietly OF
$4,000, bu. when tho subject Of its &C.
ceptance was preached to him he per-
emptorily refused, saying:
"When | entered public lie l deter
mined, to live upon my salary as long
AS | was in public lie. cannot break
that determination, o can | accept ths
bounty Of my friends for doing simply a
duty that have taken upon myself"
Ills friends, knowing how sensitive he
was upon this subject, gave him to I'M.
derstand that the project had been sbau-
doned but the fund has been kept in
tact aud grown since that time, and IL
will be handed over to Mr.. Randalrs
family, that their iuturo may not be one
OF hardship. Ills thorough honesty
was so we'll known that no one ever
dared 10 approach him with i
questionable financial transaction. Not
three yeara ago y delegation came to
Washington looking alter q certain
measure. They approached an attorney,
a well known member OF the lobby, and
said that they would be willing to paw
Mr.. Randall $4,000 if this attorney
could get him to delay the report upon
the measure they were opposin. for
three days. The lawyer replied that he
would as soon attempt to bargain with
the Angel Gabriel for the pollution OF
the saints as to endeavor to suggest
money to Mr., Randall.
This was the reputation he ALWAYS
bore: although he delvcd in all the in
tr;eacies Of the practical politics from
the ward meeting in the fire engine
house up to the national convention
and the Presidency, it would have been
a serious matter, ut any time of his
career, for any mar to have offered him
money to influence his action upon INV
public matter. b