Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-22


The utter impracticability of federal iu-
reference ia Southern elections has
been definitely shown and tine question
decided long ago.
HARRIsONIAN PRIVATE sPECULA-
TON.
When President CLEVELAND bought
q summer residence at Oak View, fact
which naturally caused land TO rise in
that locality. our Republican friends
were yirtuously indignant, and accused
the President Of specializing on his posi-
,.on. ~ hc sold his summer home 40 al
considerable advance Mrs HARRISON
has openly expressed her disapproyaL
al least 10y Inference.
But what has happened since then?
There is scarcely member of the
HARRISON family. with the possible cx-
ceptiou Of Baby MCKEE, nor any one
connected with the White House, who
can raise the "stuf, who is not up to
his or herneck in real estate speculation.
based solely ON the fact that the land
is. on adjo.us presidential property.
II it was a crime for MIR. CLEVELAND
to purchase summer home and. after
Doe wa, done with it. sell it for more
than he paid FOR it, what is to be said Of
the Harri>ouian purchase Of a large
section Of Montgomery county. Mary
land. where the President intends build
Ing summer residence, the sole i'm
centiyc being the enormous profits that
will Doe made by the boom in real estate
resulting from the fact that the PreSi-
dents summer home is there?
The facts. dates, figures and purchaS-
crs were given in Washington dis
patch iu the IEcI>rEE OF yesterday. 1t
seems that the euterprisiug owners of a
tract of suburban property have pre-
scutcd the IlAEEI>oNS with $4,000
worth of town lots. Glen Echo Heights,
"a suburb of Washington. on the Mary
land side of the Potomac river, is the
place selected for the new boom in
property. Most of the property was
purchased according 10 O"' uo'' vi ''''
decd. about the Time MIS- IL '''''>"'
denied reports 'ha' n'' '''''''''" I'll"
tended purchasing property u" W '''''
Washington Tor Speo"'"'''' pun poS'S'
The eminent ''uy N"'' %" '''''' '' ''' ''''''
10 VIII oc rem'moereu'
There nave oet1 , SU5o os;jcnt n ,or ,
in- a summer home in the suburbs Of
Washington, which, at the end OF ms sPe-
49, '',. NJ have had am example of this.
but tae President will not use his oiie' a,
he i''.N ex,cn, Of purchasing home for his
summer use and selling y when he retlreS
rom o, S,, , he The commissoners Of
the District Of Columbia, his own APP
po'ntees, Wout1 uVuEo',S rs, 5jre, ;o ybicb
would still further give the transaction the
appearance Of deliberate money i'"N'"E
-. '-'' ,i... ,,,oar,ncc
,r,.. ,s.., -, - cash involved in
IN. 49, ..,....,,,.. IN which ,be HAZE
80 h,,.. e,rr.J will raacb over $50
49,, ..id m. ci,n Echo
NJ, -, -. ,... o,.I,. ,,.,, .n sale
.,.or, ,,,no and m. ladies of the pres
an, administration. at least have evil
IDENTIFY realized the utility Of getting in
an the rrorpd floor i'm their trausac-
tions Miss ALICE Il. SANGEE. who
,,d. orite extensive purchases. is the
,vnevriter M .bc White House. and the
si,.. If her investments would indicate,
If s,eis operating ON her own capital,
and NOT being used as a screen 10y some
else. a remarkable degree of thrift for
even Presidents typewriter. The deed
for Mrs. HAEElSoN'S purchase having
been recorded July :, the first lady of
the land must have already embarked in
, ,..,.t,,r.. whom She rX-