St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-03

upon his bank account, and in the two years
that he>occupied the executive mansion at
Columbus, his expenses are said to have eX-
ceeded his salary ten times over. And when
he ran again in 1856, the corruption of Ohio
politics in nowise added to his depleted store.
By the default OF John B. Mannix, the as
signee of Archbishop Purcelrs estate. Judge
Hoadly, who was on Mannix's bond for S62,-
500, Was financially ruined. Past the age
when men start hopefully out to make their
fortunes, disappointed in his highest politi-
cal ambitions, his chldren's inheritance gone
and his faith in mankind rudely shattered by
those whom he admired and trusted, he fore
swore politics for good and all and came to
New York to practice law. He has been bril-
liantly successful and is once more well-to-do.
Judge Hoadly is a political back number by
choice.
Two interesting reminders of the Tweed
regime, Oakley Hall and Peter B. Sweeny!
During the reign of the Tweed ring the for
mer 1ourished because the ruling powers of
that day found him useful and played upon
his vanity. He came unscathed out of the
investigations, of the rings doings no corrupt
dollar having found its way to his pockets.
AS he puts it himself, he was caught on board
pirate ship After quitting politics and
Journalism on this side of the water, Mr.. Hall
had career in London as lawyer and press
writer. The greatest disappointment of his
life, perhaps, came. to him with the severance
of his connection, with James Gordon Bennett
and the New York Herald. To the elder Ben
nett he had been close and valued friend.
He had, in due time, come to be the friend,
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nett In London lie looked after Mr.. BENEFITS
legal affairs and superintended his bureau of
correspondence. Suddenly there was fall
ing out with Mr.. Bennett, and after time
Hall made his way back to, this city, where
he now practices law in a desultory way. De-
spite his vicissitudes he is still buoyant and
most entertaining back number.
Peter 3, Sweeny was in some respects the
abiest and shrewdest man ever connected
with Tammany Hall. Like Hall, he did not
profit personally by the spoils of the Tweed
ring. He loved political power, not political
prominence and personal profit, and it was
this that led him into association with Tweed.
The city Offices which he held were never
important ones, His friends claim that he
did much to restrain Tweed in his effort to
~ secure supreme control of the city. He pre-
dicted the evils that would flow from the
adoption Of the Tweed charter, and during
the bitter fight of the Young Democracy
against the measure, he left Albany and came
to New York, but was afterward induced to
return and resume his place in the councils
ofthe Democracy. On the downfall of Tweed,
Mr.. sWeeny. went to Europe Suits were in
stituted against him, and he afterward re-
turned to meet them. All his books and
papers were surrendered to Wheeler II. Peck
ham and Charles OConor, who made care
full examination of them, and withdrew the
suits. During the last ten years Sweeny has
alternated between New York and Paris. He
takes no active part in affairs, and only an
occasional paragraph in the newspapers re-
minds forgetfuI public that he is still in the
land of the living.
Ex-senator Thomas ". Ferry, of Michigan,
comes to New York at regular intervals.
Never did public man drop SO quickly and
completely out of sight. Ferry entered poll
tics at an early age and held in quick success
sion nearly every Office within the gift of the
people of his State. He, was four times
elected to Congress and twice chosen United
States Senator. He was presiding officer Of
the Senate during the Hayes Tilden contest,
and has often said that he thinks that he then
saved his country from. another civil war. He
still preserves the pen with which he signed
the document giving the Presidency to Hayes.
Ferry's downfall came in 1883. He was de-
feated for reelection to the Senate, aftera
long and bitter contest, and the failure, soon
after. of the, iron = firm in which he was
partner, swept away his fortune and his
political influence at the same time. He went
to Europe a broken and disappointed man,
and since his return has lived in retirement
at Grand Haven, the little Michigan village
in which he was born. Ferry's career is
signal example of the uncertainties of politi-
cal life. ~,,r. .,-rz,,ce,. =
George M. Robson, Grants Secretary of
the Navy, is another interesting back num-
ber He now lives in Trenton and makes
modest income by the practice Of his profess
sion. His political placement dates from his
defeat for the United States Senate by Cen
eral sewall.. A little later he was beaten for
Congress ina Republican district by an as
piring glass-blower named Terrell, and since
then has taken no part in politics. However,
time has dealt very gently with him and he
is still as red-facedz rotund and jolly as ever
He has regained at the Bar the greater part
of the fortune which he lost in Wall street
speculation dozen years ago. and seems at
peace with himself and the world.
Other political back numbers often seen in
New York are John s.. Wise and General
William Malone, of Virginia; Ex-Governor
Henry c. Warmoth, Of Louisiana; ex-Sena-
tor Charles II. Van Wyck, of Nebraska, and
Bluford Wilson, of Illinois. Wise, after
brilliant but meteoric career ending in his
defeat for Governor of Virginia, quit politics
several years ago, and is now a prosperous
lawyer in this city. General Malone is living
at Petersburg and is said to have given up all
hope of ever again being power in Southern
politics. The same is true of Warmoth. The
latter now spends the greater part of his time
on his splendid plantation near New Orleans,
and regards his political extinction with calm
resignation. As he made millions while car
pet-bag Governor of Louisiana he can afford
to do so. Van Wyck, once the stormy petrol
of the Senate, now lives in Nebraska City. The
railway and land companies of his State drove
him out of the Senate and into retirement
some years ago, but he has wealth, pluck and
brains, and may come to the front again at
any time. He is the liveliest and most hope
full of all the back numbers have named.
Bluford Wilson was Solicitor of the Treasury
under Grant and one of the king bees of the
Whiskey Ring Investigation. Then his name
was in everybody's mouth; now it is seldom
MENTIONED He is lawyer at Springfield,
Illinois, and is said to pine no longer for the