Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-05

Yesterday, and invited him to talk on
politics.
| told him l wanted him to talk poll
tics, and that l wanted to print what
ever he said in the Herald. He hesi-
tated a moment, as if thinking over the
expediency OF saying anything, but
finally replied:
"All right. Isuppose 1t is fair and
proper that l should say something. L
suspect | know the questions that you
have In mind to ask me, and so, consld-
ering that perhaps it is suitable for me
to say something, shall talk frankly
and clearly"
"You talked that way just before the
Minneapolis convention" l ventured to
remark.
"Well, yes, so l did," the Senator re-
plied. $50 | did, nor have | anything
to take back nor anything to regret. l
did then what | thought was my duty
70 the Republicans of New York and Of
the country. am going to do what l
think is my duty now. We live In a
land where the majority rules, must
rule. and is going to rule every time.
The majority did not agree with me at
Minneapolis. l did my best to defeat
the President, but he had more votes
than the other candidates and
that settled it. Now he Is
the nominee of the Republican
party. l am a Republican. | was a
Republican in 1885. l have been a Re-
publican every hour Of every day from
then until this minute, never falterlng
in my support of Republican principles
and Republican candidates, no matter
whether the candidates were men Of my
choice or not. The aims and policies
and characters of parties in this coun-
try have got to undergo wonderful
change before shall be anything else
than Republican"
Senator Platt paused a moment, ana
during the pause suggested th2t new
ertheleSs he had been rather quiet since
the Mnnea polls convention and per-
hans a source of some solicitude among
the Presidents friends. Mr.. Platt
smiled and said, "The weather has been
pretty hot, you know" Then he went
on more seriously, "YeS, | have been
quiet, though | shall not fatter myself
with the idea that have heen source
of much solicitude. 1t would be the
shallowest kind of pretense for me to
claim that l was not greatly disappoint-
ed by the result at Minneapolis. Ny
friends and my enemies have gener-
ally agreed, l think, in charging
me with strong feelings and
| fancy they are right. What l believe,
l believe, and | know l believe it, and
as far can, l try 10 act accordingly.
do not get over such disappolnt-
ment as | had at Minneapolis in twen-
ty-four hours and confess there has
been in my mind grave question
whether it was my duty to go into this
campaign with the activity have uSu-
ally put forth. Because o man keeps
quiet under pitileSs attacks, lends his
shoulders to take il and smiles more or
less cheerfuly, when he rights himself,
il does not follow that he has expert
enced agreeable sensations, nor that he
is proud or pleased at what has been
said. do hot know that there has
been a man in this State and perhaps
ia the whole country who has been more
roundly aud indecently abused than l.
''In so far as this comes from Demo
cratic and Mugwump sources, that Is,
from the common enemy, | expect II,
and am ready for it; but when | spend
dav and night In the service OF the Re-
publican party doing what / can 10 pro-
mote the success of its principles and
its candidates without thought or hope
or expectation OF Office and reward, il
seems little hard that l should have tc
take from Republicans what even Dem
ocrats ought to be ashamed to give me.
| suppose that our friends, the enemy
and perhaps some of our sincerer friends,
will think it vastly amusing when tel
you that
AN NOT A BOSS,
That do not want to be boss, that
hate nothing so much as tC
have to do with patronage and that my
actions in occasionally undertaking tC
direct Republican methods and policie:
and in urging candidates. and recon-
mending persons for Office are dictated
solely by what conceive to be the in
terests aud necessities OF party and
nublic welfare. But that is true"
There was another pause here ard
filled il In with the question $50 you
waited?"
eyes. I waited. l waited to hear
from President Harrison. Some people
said that waited to hear from him q
reouest TO take Office, that l waited tc
make a sordid bargain; that l stood like
a road agent, holding up coach.
These were lies, and they were among
the meanest snd most painful and
most hurtful lies l have ever had tC
endure.
president Harrison like all men IL
high power has 2 great number OF Zoo
friends more or less close 10 him. These
creatures are inseparable from high po'
litjcal station. Some are very artfUl a:
well as silly ana from some the quality
Of malice is not wanting. But he ha'
too a large number OF friends closely
attached 20 him, proud of him. zealou:
in his Interest, men who profoundly ad
mire him and profoundly love the party
he leads. They probably told TIT
President that l was not as oaC
as these imaginative people bad paint
me. but was furnished with tha
nroper measure Of seli-respect which
ouubt to be the equipment OF an Amer
lean citizen. They probably said, too
that I loved the Republican party |
good deal more than / disliked him, ant
perhaps that my prejudices agains