The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-16

! mans amusement. When the embryo
fisherman had had enough Of the sport
of watching Cummings catch the FISH.
he got up, handed Cummings quar-
ter and walked OF. The congressman
d!a rot protest. but thanked his CONF
rade for the tip. and proceeded to do
bit OF fishing for himself.
In Memory Of 'Dicl' Bland.
In the services in the senate on Mon
day in memory Of Richard Parks
Bland, silver Dick" who was one OF
the most ardent and untlring advo-
Gates OF free silver. and perhaps the
greatest OF the silver leaders. Senator
Vest, Of Missouri. paid 4 beautiful trib-
ute TO his memory, his high-minded-
ness. public works and domestic life.
In the course OF that speech the Mis-
souri, senator spoke OF pioneers blazing
the path and othersreaplng the rewards
and said:
"Mr. President. Richard Parks Bland
should have been the nominee OF the
Democratic party, naturally and logic
ally, at the great national convention
Of 1886, held at Chicago. know per-
sonally that he did not desire the NOM
nation. / know that he, above all
/ others knew his precarious health. that
the icy finger OF death might touch
him at any moment. know from his
own lips that he dreaded the labors and
responsibilities Of the presidential can
vass and OF the great office for which
he was named. He was defeated. as
all leaders OF great popular movements
who have borne the heat and burthen
Of the day and excited the bitter an.
tagnnism Of opponents who have al
ways been defeated in all ages and
countries where success was about to
crown their efforts. Political parties
are actuated not by gratitude, but by
the hope OF success. It has always
been so. and always viii be TO the end
OF time. The reglcides OF England
who behcaded Charles /. before his
palace at Whitehall did not long retain
the power they had Rrasped. but sur
rendered In n short time to Cromwell
and his associates.
Enjoyed the Same Fate.
"vergniaud and the other leaders OF
the GIrondlsts, who inaugurated the
French Revolution, and dragged the
king and queen to the guillotine' fol-
lowed in n few short months over the
same gloomy road.
I'm our own political history, Henry
Clay, the great leader OF the United
states. was showed aside In 1913 to
make room for ..achlry Taylor whose
political opinions were almost unknown.
TO the convention that nominated him.
WlIlIam II. Seward and Charles Sum
Nor sat by the cradle OF the Republican
marty and defended its childhood
against the vltriollc eloGuence Of the
southern leaders. but Doth were sup
erseded In 1856 by John c. Fremont the
Pathfinder. md William II. Seward
was defeated in 1860 by Abraham LIN
coin. who but two years before was un-
known outside Of the limits Of his own
state.
so. in 1895. Richard Parks Bland, the
veteran leader Of bimetlllism. who has
stool by the banner when others fal-
tered and deserted. was put aside for
a Young and brilliant orator. who was
school boy when Bland introduced
and passed through the house OF rep
resentatives in 1913, the first blu pros
yldIng for the free and unlimited colin
are Of silver Mt g to l. Always It has
been so. The hands that place to-day
upon the pedestals OF popular favor
their ideal will shatter that Ideal on
the morrow. Varied the mind OF
desultory man, studious OF change and
pleased with novelty"