Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-27

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Republican party, is sure to make the
rascally tricksters squirm. To-day the
Plain Dealer correspondent asked his
vie rs upon Foraker as a senatorial can
didate. With his accustomed courtesy,
promptness and Eigor he gave them as
follows, and they make rich reading:
Foraker has been caught at his old
tricks again. Two years ago he was Os-
tensibly not candidate for governor.
He was apparently overlooking with
eagerness to resume his lucrative law
practice; the holding OF Office was a
great pecuniary sacrifice to him, and
besides all this he had had enough OF
politics-rather too much in fact, and
wanted TO fly, as rapidly as might be,
to the leafy groves and ripping streams
OF private life. This is the way, at any
rate, he put the matter to Dawes, Kenne-
dy, O'Neill and Lyon, four candidates for
governor. Hewould be overlooked, TO see
either one of them nominated, and any
thing it was possible for him to do for
them should be done. But while out
wardly maniiesting all this Indifference
TO public hOnOrs, and making all these
tenders Of profuse kindness to men who
had stood by him Loyalty in past cam
paigns, his machine was, with his
knowledge and consent, shelling the
woods, and raising heaven and earth to
pack the convention for him. And
finally, when the evidences of his du-
pllcity eosld no longer DO covered up,
he mOdestly confessed that he would
like the nomination, and would accept
il if were rendered him. II was ten
dered him by his own appointees, and
was accepted. But it didn't do him any
good; the people saw through the trick
and didn't approve Of 1t.
'eThis year the machine again packed
the convention In his interest with
view TO making him a candidate for
United States senator. He was made
the great man of the convention. His
stupid sentences and windy gush
elected storms Of applause from an or
ganized corps OF clackers. His bench
men had been driven from the State
offices and had been hungering and
LnIISLIuA NlLCL OAlEA1A pap III u AAAA
year. IN nosing around they diScov-
cred that there were richer fields than
those from which they had been ex-
PEELED. II Foraker could be made sena-
tor, Cappeller could be appointed Unit
ted States marshal for one of the dis
tricts Of Ohio, Cox could be made post
master Of Cincinnati and the whole
brood Of gungsters provided for at the
expense Of the federal treasury.
''This was a big scheme, and they
proposed to work It, 1t must be man
aged cunningly, however. And so after
the convention adjourned we find in
the Cincinnati papers an interview with
Foraker, in which he modeStly assumes
that Senator Sherman will be his own
successor, and thereupon his henchmen
begin TO talk about FOraker's unwilling
ness TO abandon his profitable law bust
ness and about his utter Indifference to
official promotion, and about his gener-
Osity in cOnceding all the good places TO
others, and about how harmonious and
lovely everything in the Republican
party was going to be during this cam
Daign. And while they were talking in
this self-Sacriiclng and magnanimOus
way, they were working like beavers
In the Republican legislative districts
to secure the nomination Of candidates
for the General Assembly pledged to
support Foraker for the Senate.
"When the evidence Of this fact
could no longer be disputed Sherman
thought best TO insist upon a fair I'M
derstanding and an open fight, and
hence visited Cincinnati and directly or
indirectly compelled Foraker to ac-
knowledge publicly that he was in the
field as a candidate and intended to get
the Office If be could.
''Now the political deadbeats who
have been making a sneaklng campaign
to obtain control OF federal patronage
through Foraker are endeavoring TO
make il appear that Sherman is to
blame for injecting an element of dis
cord into the party; that he was dis
posed TO deny to the gifted Foraker the
right to be q candidate; that he wanted
TO crowd him of the track, ETC., and
that in self defense, so TO speak,
the unambitious Ex-Governor was
compelled to say that he would
take the place II he could get it. From
this time forward, however, thanks to
the straightforward methods Of John
sherman, the contest will be no longer
left wholly In the hands OF tricksters,
but will be conducted openly and above
board, and the people will know, when
voting for men TO represent them in the
Legislature. whether they are for Eos
ter, Foraker or somebody else.
1.-THE Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
tells us that in political equity there
can be no reason why Gov. Foraker
should not be a candidate for the SEN
ate What Is political equity? 1t is
the promotion of the wiSest, the ableSt,
the most useful and the most deserving.
How in these particulars does Foraker
compare with sherman? What legiSla-
tive experience has he had? Now,
what does he know of the
business needs OF great
country? Comparatively nothing. In
what act Of his political life did he ever
manifest superior wisdom? In none.
His career as Governor was marked by
imbecility, egotism, petty spite and per-
sonal favOritism. His message betrayed
ignorance of business matters or which
= school boy should have been ashamed.
His clap trap speeches and exuberant
vanity rendered him the butt and laugh
ing stock Of sensible men. Political
guttersnipeS aud trucking party hacks
were, as a rule, his eOnhdents, counsel
ors and the benedciaries Of his official
power. The thing for the people to do,
when Foraker candidates present them
selves for the general assembly, is to
knock them down as freely as they
would pins on bowling alley. The
country needs brains in the United
States Senate, not cheek; experience,
not pretense; common sense, not empty