Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-22

Lincoln said it was with Grant,
"'TWould be 8 good thing IL other gen.
erals would try the same brand"
There isn't q tenth part as much
rinking among public men as there
was ten or fifteen years age. 1t is 60
ing out of style. And yet not every
one that drinks has a reputation for 1t.
For instance, q certain man who has
been offered q seat In Mr.. Cleveland's
cabinet, and who has not yet accepted
Il decline to particularize-Roes along
as steady as a clock for about three
months and then disappears for a
couple of weeks. SIN New York on
business" SIN Chicago" "Gone
south for a few days rest" These are
the explanations given at his Office,
while the facts are he is alone in some
hotel room as dumb as a lord! Yet he
is a brilliant and safe man, and his occa-
sional ''still" is no affair OF ours. AS
the women say, ''You men are so funny"
Senator George Gray, OF Delaware, has
declined a seat in Mr.. Cleveland's cabi-
net, and thereby hangs q tale. Mr..
Cleveland has a weakness for Thomas
A. Bayard. Mr.. BayArd, as every one
who knows him will certify, is indeed q
charming man, but for some reason or
other Mr.. Cleveland didn't want him in
the cabinet again, though he would like
to have him in Washington, So he
fixed up a nice little scheme. Senator
Gray was to be attorney general, and
that would give Mr.. Bayard achance 10
come back to the Senate. 1t was a
very nice scheme, but Mr.. Gray
has knocked it all In the head
by declining. George Gray is one
of the strongest men In the Senate. He
has great future before him there, and
believes Mrs. Carlisle is right when she
says a man does better to stick 10 a
good job.
Henry Cabot Lodge is to be the new
Senator from Massachusetts. His sue
cess has spoiled a good story, and 1t was
very unkind in Mr.. Lodge to go and do
it. Five or six years ago n OF the
brightest newspaper correspondents in
Washington was Mr.. William E. Bar
rett, of Boston. He was active, persist
ent, skillful. One of his greatest friends
was Mr.. Lodge, who has, among other
comforts and attractions, an income OF
800, 900 a year, and precious little OF
that from literature. Why a mar who
has 500, 0 year should bother his
head 1.0out history and musty old docu-
| ments In the State Department is more
thai l can fathom But that's another
story, as Kipling would say.
One day Correspondent Barrett
thought he would like to have a paper
! OF his own. He had his eye on a Bos-
ton paper-the one which he was the
correspondent for in Washington. Mr..
Lodge was appealed to and responded
generously. Mr.. Lodge, through Mr..
Barrett, bought the paper. In the
course Of time, having d genius for
finance as well as journalism, MIR. Bar
rett became sole owner. Then he went
| into politics, was elected to the Legis-
lature, praised some men and %lampooned
others till he won the Speakership, was
twice reelected, and then, though a
mere STRIPPING and amateur, set his
mark for the Senate.
Last fall we heard in WASHINGTON that
he was going TO win and that Mr.. Lodge
would be knocked out, and as fellow
journalists and admirers of nerve and
| genius whenever we see it we were pre-
| pairing to have a good laugh over the
fate of the ambitious statesman who
lent his journalistic friend S25, 600 with
which to buy a newspaper, for, don't
you see, it was the newspaper which
Mr.. Lodge bought for Mr.. Barrett that
gave Mr.. Barrett his political start and
made him a senatorial possibility. 1t
really is too bad Of you, Mr.. Lodge, to
spoil a good story ia this cruel fashion.
l don't like to trench too much upon
the domain Of politics, but | was over
in New York a few days ago, and while
there heard q curious yarn. Unlike
some curious yarns it was true, OF
VIII lch l have the best evidence. Mr..
Cleveland has been wanting to give q
seat In the Cabinet to Judge Walter @.
Gresham, of Chicago, for whom he en-
tertains profound admiration. Mr..
Cleveland seems to be just the man to
do a bold thing like that-for 1t would
be a bold tn ing for a President TO take
into his Cabinet a man who only four
years ago was a candidate for the Presi-
dency within the rival party. Mr..
Cleveland. l am told, would have Of
fered Judge Gresham the Secretaryship
of State or the Interior but for one
thing, and that was q strong hint
through all OF Judge Gresham's friends
that he would not accept.
Speaking of Mr.. Cleveland's enthusi-
astic estimate Of the man who is to be
his Secretary of of the Treasury reminds
me that another mar who stands very
high in the good graces Of the Presi-
dent-elect is James G. Carter, OF New
York. Probably Mr.. Carter is the fore
most lawyer OF the metropolis, at any
rate in admiralty and international
cases. lie is one OF the counsel for the
government In the Behring sea arbitra-
ton, and will havs TO go to Paris next
month TO appear before the court of ar
bitration. Would il surprise you to
hear OF Mr.. Cleveland offering the
Secretaryship of State to Mr.. CarterP
| don't say it will be done, but l
know il has been under consideration.
II Mr.. Cleveland can't induce Don
Dickinson to take it, possibly Carter
will be the man. Dickinson long ago
decided that he wouldn't go into this
Cabinet. He wants to make some
money. But Mr.. Cleveland wants him,
and wants him so badly that the chances
are Mr.. Dickinson will yield.
Everyone in Washington Is glad to
hear Colonel Dan Lamont Is coming
back. He is TO be a member Of the Cab
met this time. That has been decided
upon for some time. he may be Secre-
tary Of the Navy, the post in which Mr..
Whitney made such a fine reputation,
and be may be Postmaster General.
Dan is a convenience to MI. Cleveland;
he can be shifted about from n place
to another, as the exigencies Of Cabinet
making may require. Every n here