The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-02-12
MIR. WISE OF new YORK
Talks Enthusiastically Of Horrld Demo-
Gratis, Politics In General.

Gratis, Politics In General.
HEHRY'S HORRIBLE PREDICAMENT
s1e IEHd to spend the Might sitting
| Up ina the Hut Of s. colorc., Resi-.
dent becausc There We're No lso-
tetsor Hospitality in the Neigh.
borhood According to Mr.. Wise.
MI. John s. Wise. brother to the de-
heateu Republican candidate for Con-
sress from this district, Is, according 10
ms own boast, "half Yankee and half
Southerner," and claims to be iutfma te-
~ next to the idiosyncrasies Of both
oreedS, TO quote again from his elo-
quent II not elegant pnraseology Mr.
WISE IS also n lawyer and has the re-
putat1on of being Superhumanly shrewd
IN matters OF intellect. Bearing in mind
an these facts a Virginian reporter last
| night thought that It last he could dis
cover upon what legal or common sense
grounds Dr.. Wise proposed to get
around the fact that he was nominal ted
oy convention whose legality was
leopardized IL not destroyed later by
the action Of the National Republican
and State Republican Executive Com
| .'iS'HSS POI tiSolttlly TIC latter, IN turn
ing down the members of the State
Executive Committee representing the
wise element and putting in the men
| representing the choice of the anti-Wise
| conventions.
| Accordingly, Mr.. Wise, of New York.
was seen at the Atlantic last night and
asked this question point blank His
| answer was:
| "Bowden cannot find to save his life
thirty white respectable Republicans in
the city Of Norfolk to endorse him.
But that is not an answer, Mr.. Wise !"
argued the interviewer.
| THE ECHO ANS WERS?
mo? Well, then if Mi Mckinley is
going TO recognize such trash as George
! Bowden then he will have to take his
medicine. That Is all have got to say
neither threaten nor predict"
| the gentleman used some other Lam
Guage In this connection regarding his
| friend George, but it is not quoted for
| several reasons.
This IS all the explanation Mr.. Wise,
charitably speaking, cared" to give.
| IN fact. he showed very conclusively
tackle.
In other matters he was pleasantly
communicative, particularly when re-
icrrinE to his son, Henry a, who is So
1ourning III Southampton in the inter-
ests OF his uncle.
| y I1olNtS1bLE solIUAI1ON.
IF any one wants to stack up against
| him, let them try" chuckled Mr.. Wise
iondly; why that boy is down there in
precincts which returned four for Wise
| and making 1t evident that they ought
to nave returned sixty. Henry Il Wise;
my boy, who can count back eight gene
| ia tons Of the finest people that ever
lived, had to spend the night sitting up
IN negro hut because. in country
where there isn't wash tub, there
WASH trnough hospitality to afford him
| 4 shelter. Why? Because there wasn't
one in the neighborhood respectable
enough to possess the courtesy to offer
| him Il bed"
But. Mr.. Wise, you just now said
southampton was overwhelmingly Re
publican?" suggested the scribe with an
| Interrogation point in his voice.
That's all right" replied the New
Yorker. II want people to see how my
boy was treated l am proud Of it.
| like to see some times how low people
can fall. There are going to be a good
many dull thuds in the neighborhood
OF Southampton before long. l wont for
get It,
DON'T LIKE VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS
Mr. Wise then inveighed at some length
about fraud at the polls,' and said.
incidentally, that no election law could
| be framed to prevent illegal voting I'M
der Democratic regime. mot even the
DlVlne law would prevent IL, ne salt.
In Mr.. Wise's creed there Is apparently
no such thing rs an honest Democrat,
at least in Virginia, though, perhaps, he
| may have spoken q little hastily, still
having In mind the picture Of my boy
sitting the lone night through on 4 stool
in a negro hut. Then. too Democratic
dishonesty is one of Mr.. Wise's pet
hobbies and he generally rides it when
| he strikes Virginia.
Speaking of the taking Of dispositions
in Norfolk, he admitted that the Repub-
| licans here have been very apathetlc in
the matter Of coming forward to testify,
but he thought his speech Of the night
before had had a good effect.
NEITHER OUT OR IN.
! "a Referring, to the colored political
brother, he said that the negro was re-
markedly loyal to his party. For
what he gets out Of it, said some one.
Yes, returned John s., che gets mighty
! little in and q - sight less out"
Mr.. Wise will speak tonight to the
Fourth Warders in the Second Precinct.
He was scheduled to speak last night,
but the meeting failed 10 materialize.
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