The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-07
How Pendleton Tried to Curry
Favor With Republicans
IN ORDER TO SAVE HIS HEAD.
4 Chapter from tho History Of the
Lntc COnsrcSs..D s..Dcniocrhtic Lead.
crs and Papers Disguised
With Pendlcton's Actions.

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tatives wao in progress. It will b,
remembered that OIL tho day tha
Speaker Reed counted Democrats "pres
ent and not voting" to make q quorum
there was intense excitement, and Mr.
Reed was denounced on tho floor OF tn,
House OF Representatives by nearly al
the Democratic leaders. The real ques
ton under consideration at the time
however, was the unseating OF Judge
Monroe Jackson and the seating OF Mr.
Q. Is. Smith, from the Fourth West Yir
ginia Congressional district. 1t is re-
called that during those exciting scenes
Mr.. Pendleton entertained tho hope
that the Republicans would not disturb
him. So strong was this expectation on
the part OF Mr.. Pendleton, that oil
through the exciting scenes referred 10
he attempted to cultivate the good will
Of the Republicans. u was noticed and
remarked upon at the time, that with
the single exception Of Pendleton, the
Democratic members Of the House re-
manned on their own side, none OF them
crossing the main aisle to the Republi.
can side, or had anything whatever to
do with their opponents during the
sessions OF the House.
pENDLEToN CURVED FAVOR.
Pendleton, however, was over there,
much to the disguat OF his party associ-
ciates, quite as much rs ho was on his
own aide, hobnobbing with the more
prominent Republican leaders; at times
gently stroking them on the arm or
shoulder. and at others coquettishly lay
ing his hands on their arms-as he tried
to converse with them. Those To whom
he spoke, however, would get rid OF him
as rapidly as possible, but with rs little
rudeness as they could. 1t was common
talk then that Pendleton was trying to
"curry favor" with the opposition in
order to save his own head and to pre-.
vent his ejectment.
During the same week it was called to
the attention OF ex-Speaker Carlisle,
Judge Crisp and Mr.. Outhwait, all mem.
bers OF the Committee on Elections, that
on several occasions, when division
was called for on any motion made by
Republicans, where the member did not
have to 20 on record by answering TO
his name, Mr.. Pendleton arose and
voted with the Republicans, but upon a
demand for call Of the yeas and nays
on the part OF the minority, he would
vote with his party. All these facts
were noticed by correspondents OF Dem.
ocratic newspapers and commented on
by several OF them at the time, or a short
time afterwards.
CAPPED THE CLIMAX.
But the incident that aroused the most
indignation against Mr.. Pendleton on
the part Of his party associates in the
House was one that occurred at the first
reception given at the residence OF Vice
President and Mrs. Morton to Senators
and Representatives in Congress and
members OF their families. This recep.
tien was given one evening while the
turmoil in the House over Speaker
Reeds new rules was at its most sepsa.
tional height. 1t was the very evening
after the session that the Speaker claimed
the right to count members in their
seats as present and not voting, to make
q quorum, and the Speaker had rendered
his ruling on that point, and had been
the recipient Of such vigorous denuncia.
ton on the part OF the members Of the
sfNPATHIzED WITH REED.
Both the Speaker and Mr.. Pendleton
were among the guests ut the Vice Presi-
dents reception. In the midst OF this,
and while the parlors we're thronped
with ladies and gentlemen represeutiug
both political parties, MIR. Pendleton and
the Speaker met. The former rushed
up to the latter and, grasping his hand,
feelingly congratulated him on his rul-
ings.
"Mr. Speaker" Mr.. Pendleton is re.
ported to have said 10 Mr.. Reed, "you
were grand to-day. You did nobly. II
thoroughly sympathize with you in the
rulings you have made. I believe you
are right in the position you have taken.
l would like to support you in it, but
you know that l must vote with my
party.n
This, possibly, is not literally what
Mr.. Pendleton said, but it is understoOd
to'be substantially, in effect, Just what
he did say. A lady, the wife OF prom.
inent Democratic member from West.
ern State, who knew Mr.. Pendleton
quite well, and having m intimate so.
cial acquaintance with the Speaker,
heard Mr.. Pendleton express himself to
Mr.. Reed, and was so disgusted and
shocked that she at once hunted up her
husband and repeated the conversation
she had overheard to him. The hus.
band the next day repeated the story at
the Capitol, and in day or two the
story appeared in several Democratic
papers, among them the Atlanta Consti.
tuition.
DIsGUsTED DEMOCRATS.
From that day the majority Of the
Democrats in the House lost all interest
in Mr.. Pendleion and cared little
whether he was "ousted" or not. The
minority on the Elections Committee
had submitted report to the effect that
Pendleton had been elected, and while
they believed this 10 be true, the effort,
after the incident referred to, to keep
John o. in his seat on the part OF the
Democrats generally, was only half
hearted. 1t is just 10 say that Mr.. Pen.
dleton denied the story after its publca.
ton, but to those who are acquainted
with all the facts and Witnessed his IN.
tics in the House and his attempt to
play the sycophant in order to retain a
seat in the House Of Representatives,
the denial did not go down." Those
Democrats who desire to see their party
secure majority in the next House, and
who know Mr.. Pendleton and are ac-
quainted with all tho details OF his Con-
gressional career, said that il his vote
could be spared they would be perfectly
willing to see him defeated. They ex.
press the regret that district like the
First West Virginia, containing 80 many
able and brilliant Democrats, should
offer no better material for Compression.
al service than Mr.. Pendleton.
Tho Presidents Trip.
WASHINGTON, Oct. G.-The President
left Washington this morning at 1855,
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