The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-05

will appear in the New York Herald
Dem. to- morrow morning:
l visited ex-senator Thomas @. Platt
at the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach,
Yesterday and invited him to talk on
politics.
"All right, suppose it is fair and
proper that should say something. l
suspect l know the questions that you
have in mind to ask me, and SO, con-
sidering that, perhaps it is suitable for
mo to say something, l shall talk
frankly and clearly"
"You talked that way Just before
the Minneapolis convention" ven
tured to remark.
well, yes. so did" the Senator re-
piled,
$50 / did, nor have / anything to
take back nor anything to regret. l
did then what thought was my duty
to the Republicans OF New York and Of
the country. l ain going to do what |
think is my duty now. We live in q
land where majority rules, must rule,
aud is going to rule every time. The
majority did not agree with me at Min
neauolis. 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 RepubH-
can party. l an a Republican. The
aims and policies and characters OF
PARTIES in this country have got to un-
dergo wonderful change before shall
beanything else thana Republican"
Senator Platt paused q moment and
dnring the pause suggested that new
ertheless he had been rather quiet
since the Minneapolis convention and
perhaps source of soiicitude among
the Presidents friends. MIR. PIatt
smiled and said:
THE weather has been pretty hot
you know" Then he went on moro Sc
riously, ayes, l have been quiet though
l shall not flatter myself with the idea
that have been source OF much So
lCtude. 1t would be- the shaltowest
kind OF pretense for me to claim that |
was not greatly disappointed by the re:.
suit at Minneapolis. Ny friends and
my enemies have generally ogreed,
think, in charging me with strong
feelings and fancy they are right.
What ] believe, | believe, and
knowI believe it, and, as faras can, try
to act accordingly. ] do not get over
such disappointmentas had tMinne-
apolis in twenty-four hours, and con-
fess there has been in my mind grave
question whether it was my duty to go
into this campaign with the activity /
have usually put forth. Because man
keeps quiet under pitiless attacks,
bends his shoulders IS take it, and
smiles more or Ices cheerfully VIXEN he
rights himself, 1t does not follow that
he has experienced agreeable sensa-
tions, nor that he is proud or pleased ut
what has been said. ! do not know
that there has been man iu this state
and perhaps in the whole country who
has been more roundly and indecently
abused than I.
IN so far as this comes from Demo-
cratic and Mugwump sources-that is,
from the common enemy-T expect it
and am ready for it; but when spend
day and night in tho service OF the Re-
publican party, doing what l can to
promote tho success Of its principles
and its candidates without thought or
hope OF expectation OF Office and re-
ward, it seems little hard that should
have TO take from Republicans what
even Democrats ought to be ashamed to
givo Ice. suppose that our friends,
the enemy, aud perhaps some oil our
sincerer friends will think it vastly
amusing when tell you that am not
n boss that do not want to be boss;
that hato nothing 80 much as to have
TO do with patronage, aud that my ac-
tions in occasionally undertaking to
direct Republican methods and policies
and in urging candidaoies and recom-
mendinG persons for office arc dictated
solely by what conceive to be the in
terosts and necessities OF party and
public welfare. But that is true,
There was another pause hore and l
filled It in with tho question, $50 you
waited?"
Yes, waited. Iwaitsd to hear from
President Harrison. Some people said
that waited TO hear from him re.
quest to take Office; that waited to
make sordid bargain; that | stood
like 4 road agent holding up coach,
These were lies, and thoy wcro among
the meancst and most irritating, most
painful and most hurtiul lies / have
ever had 10 endure.
president Harrison, like all mon in
high power, has o great number OF fool
friends, more or less close to him.
These creatures arc inseparable from
high political station. Some arc very
artful as we'll as silly, and from some
tho quality OF malice is not wanting.
Bnt he has, too, largo number OF
!rionds closely attached to him, proud
Of him, jealous in his interest, mon
who profoundly admire him and pro-
ionndiy love the party he leads.
"Thoy probably told tho President
that was not as bnd rs these imagi-
native people had painted me but was
furnished with that proper measure OF
sc!i.respect which ought to DO the
equipment OF nn American citizen.
They probably said, too, that ] loved
tho Republican party good deal moro
than ! disllk0d him, and perhaps thai
preludices against him, like those he
entertained against INC, wcro duo in n
large measure to misapprchcnsion. ]
suppose they said these things and
possibly Others even more kind, II luss