The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-04-08

/ ~ A'hi' 's"' N''ii liz tillc s.lU
their descendants nrc still in Ohio. Tho
descendants of the others arc in Vir-
| ginia
Twas Ever Thus.
! Mr.. Wilson and l wero born Oh
| farms near Lebanon and reared there, as
l said before, as country boys. 1 attend
eel tho academy, but never graduated,
and studied law with General Durbin
Ward and William Fl. Eamsay of Gin
cinnati, attending Il course of lectures
later. | was admitted to the bar in tho
| spring of 1861, and soon after the war
broke up all professional arrangements,
and you know about that After return
| ing from tho service 1 was appointed
United States district attorney for tho
| southern district of Ohio and soon after
that won my spurs as u politician, over
coming the Democratic majority of over
| a thousand and securing u scat in the
| state senate of the Sixty first general as
sembly.
Those wero stirring times among the
young politicians of southern Ohio, but
outside of our legislative labors we were
sociablo set, the good fellows OH both
sides a11iliating and whether Democrats
OF Republicans wo were all very ardent
southern Ohio and Miami valley men.
1t was after took up my residence in
Cincinnati that was nominated in Mil
ton Sayler's old district in the fall of
1878 l suspect l was put up as a sort
of forlorn hope, but got in that year
and was reelected in 1880, and then
came the big fluke, when, as Governor
Tom Young said, we were such fools
as to shake the red rag at tho Dutch
bull. Pardon the comparison; You know
how Tom Young talked. The plain Eng
llsh of 1T is that we went our length OH
some radical temperance measures and
got thrown full length. 1t was ever
thus. The slaughter of Ohio Republic
ans that year was terrible and of course
1T was worse III Cincinnati and the cities
generally. Ioutlived it, however, as Won
know, and was reelected III 1881, 1856
and 1883 Then l decided to quit poll
tics and try to make some money, for
had never learned how to slight nv
work, and i'll spite of what people said.
or might have imagined from nv being
generally good naturcd about it, / really
toilcd like a slave while | was in con
gross. But let us change the subject.
w 'i''p ''iS soi S'li}s W SsN tlDOUl inc
plaintiff i'll this casc:"
a bright Woman.
"Wcll, it is my business not to talk,
but to hear what You say. This, how
ever, seems to be plain-that Madeline
Pollard may he said to rival Frank
Moulton as the champion witness of the
nineteenth century,
Rival Frank Moulton! Why, Frank
isn't Ill 1T for comparison. She is the
most consummatc actress l ever saw on
the stand. She has all the little tricks
OF the trained feminine witness and
knows just when to turn on the pathct-
&c when she cannot answer question
1t we could only get witnesses to como
into court! But you know how that is.
There arc certain cases in which it is
utterly impossible to prove what every
body in the neighborhood knows to be
true. How often it happens that wom-
an Is notorious character i'll Il country
ncighborhood for 10 or 20 years! In the
whole ncighborhood there isn't Il soul
but knows her reputation perfectly
we'll and yet you might summon the
whole township and not be able to prove
IT. 1t is little easier to prove such
case i'll city-not much either
Just look ut the abuse that has been
showcrod on these men who have tcsti-
fled. Young fellows, as rule will run
off rather than come into court, and mar
lied men come to rs with tears in their
eyes, saying, Dear Mr.. Buttcrworth, do
You want to ruin mc:' OF course we
don't Now, here's woman who has
been practicing OH the Weaknesses of
men ever since she was out of short
clothes, and she has become absolute mis-
tress of her business. She might have
had anything She had mind to ask.
She could have gone to Europe and had
all her expenses paid to complete that
education of which she has said so much.
She might have had any reasonable sum
of money. But she wanted to be idcnti-
fled with great statesman i'll scnsa-
tional case before the public, and then
well, l don't know what-writo Il
book or go on the stage or something
worse She is foolish enough to think
that she can rise on the ruin of his great
ness, and yet she is smart enough in her
way to be, as L said before, Il witness
with whom Frank Moulton is not to be
compared"
Interesting Ruins.
Whether the plaintiffs policy is as Ma
jor Buttcrworth thinks or not one thing
is morally certain. If her intention was
to ruin Colonel Breckenridge, she has car
ried it out His is indeed colossal ruin
But it is picturesque ruin. Baalbec and
Palmyra are not i'll it for comparison
nor all the broken columns and ruined
temples of Thcbes. Much has already
been said Of this feature, too much per-