The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-16


MV Ttrt Sunday PraI
New YORK, August ia story told
by General George A. Sheridan recalls
an incident in his career in 1881 in
which President Garfield and Secretary
Blaine we're participants. The general
was register Of deeds for the District of
Columbia. The office is worth more to
the incumbent than any in the govern
ment service. It's tees aggregate more
than the American consul generalship
in London. The President Of the Unit
ed States draws a bigger salary and per.
quisitss annually than the register Of
deeds, but the latter has no heavy ex-
penses OF any kind and can save more
from the receipts than any President
ever vet saved. President Hayes had
put Sheridan In this position, but there
was no certainty that he could hold it
long under President Garfield. One fine
day President Garfield and Secretary
Blaine came driving down the street on
which the registers Office is located.
Sheridan was standing on the sidewalk.
They saw him and had the driver pull
up his horses. They passed the usual
compliments OF the day and then Mr..
Blame said: General, the President
will want your resignation here pretty
soon. We have been talking 1t over
and will send you as olnsul general TO
Montreal. II is place which pays
well, has little work, and will euahle
you to come back in campaign times to
make speeches" Sheridan asked when
his resignation would be wanted and
the other appointment made. Presi-
dent Garfield said TO him that he would
like his resignation that day, but that
there might appear no haste that would
imply q bargain he would delay the
other appointment three or four days.
The general sent in his resignation i'm
mediately. Two days later the Presi-
dent was shot down by Guiteau. He
had appointed a successor to Sheridan,
but the latter did not get the consul
generalship under President Arthur,
and went on the lecture platform.
Having been in Great Britain for FIVE
or six months investigating the con.
dition of workingmen under free trade
as compared with the prosperity of
American workingmen, General Sheri-
dan is the tirst we'll equipped Republi-
can campaigner to take the field this
year. He has been speaking steadily for
two weeks to meetings in and around
New York city. At Frodham on re-
cent night he spoke for the usual
length OF time, and was preparing to
4. L.. IL Ii
the rear OF the hall whose brogue pro-
claimed his Irish birth, cried out de-
NAL of a statement that the working
men Of England got lower wsges and
lived poorer than Americans. There
was a general demand that the man
should beiput out but the general said
he preferred to close his speech by let
ting the, man explain himself. This
'colloquy took place:
"You say sir" said the general,
"that ! am not telling the truth about
the difference between British and
American workingmen? What is your
trade and what wages do you get?"
81 am q carpenter, and / get $3.50 a
aD,d you ever get such wages in Ire
land, or live as well there as you do
here?" tol
"That was not phwat yez wuz talkin'
about. Yez sed British workin' men,"
"Well, isn't Ireland part Of Great
Britain?, Now, answer fairly-did you
ever get s. so, or half OF it, a day in
ireland working as a carpenter?"
mo, / nivir did. Phwat wud I be
here for, i'll did,"
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hall that shook the roof as the General
said: "Thank you. Ladies and gentle
men, will let this practical illustra-
ton of what l have been telling you
close my speech"
Ex.Congressman Nathan Frank. Of
Missouri, was in New York yesterday
on his way home from Chicago. He
went there to see the fair grounds and
drive the tirst,nail in the Missouri build
ing, that state having appropriated
$4,000 for her exhibit Mir. Frank,
though an ardent Republican, is chair
man of the Missouri commission which
will expend this money. Speaking OF
the Missouri political situation, he said
that the prospect there was more en-
couraging than for several years, and
that Major Warner, the Republican
candidate for governor, has more than
fair chance OF election, The Democ-
racy of the state, he said, is divided by
faetional disputes aud jealousies.
TT. Carran, of Los Angeles, CAL, the
president of.the linton League club, OF
this city, was afvisitor yesterday at the
Gilsey. He chatted about politics and
the certainty OF Republican victory
along the Pacific coast, and incidentally
referred to the famous Murchison letter,
one OF the sensational incidents OF the
last campaign. II don't think it Is gem
orally known in the east" he said,
.'who Murchison really was. His real
name is Andrew 0sgoodby. He 10 q
farmer near Los Angeles and have
known him for years. He conceived
the idea of.writing letters to prominent
Englishmen, asking them how he should
vote, four years ago. He signed him
sell Charles F. Murchison. One OF his
letters was, you remember, sent to Lord
Sackyille West, then British minister at
Washington, Ho was the only one of the
number to whom the letters were sent
who answered. He advised Murchison
to vote for Cleveland. Vests reply
was iiyulged, aud what sensation, as
well as CONSERVATION, 1t created in the
Democratic party, and how mad Cleve-
land became! AT his request the Eng
lish government recalled West, who
had so innocently sought to aid Murchi.
SON in voting. 0sgoodby is a young
.,,,sn If fFI,VaI habitE and hard worker,