Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-14

rad, u New York. ~ made the AN
| didate for v1ce-president-
Grover Cleveland, who became the
| Democratic candidate for the third
| time. received 277 votes in the Electo-
| raj College, to las for Harrison and %
! for James B. Weaver, the Popuiist
candidate. The signal failure Of Pres
| ident Harrison to secure a second term
was a cause Of general surprise
No President standing for re-elec-
ton was ever more bitterly disappoint-
| ed. Up to the hour of the closing OF
| the polls on that November day ne
was perfectly satisfied the country
| was Overwhelmingly for him. Some
of those who were present at the
! White House when the returns COM
| menced to come in describe the scene.
| The President took his position by the
telegraph operator with an air OF Sc
! rene confidence, showing all over that
| he felt it was a mere matter OF form.
AS it happened, the first really adverse
| intelligence came from Illinois. and
when the news flashed over the wire
that it's electoral vote was for Mr..
| Cleveland, General Harrison left the
room and did not return.
After He Left n White House
| General Harrison went back to Wash
ington as counsel for Venezuela before
the Boundary Arbitration Board. His
fee was said to be 500, 000. As gener-
ally understood he only received $780,
600. and the remainder was still q
dispute between him and the Vene-
zuelan Government. General Harrison
accepted the position Of member fol
the United States International Peace
Commission at The Hague, the othel
ex-President, Mr.. Cleveland, having de-
clined. His colleagues or that Commits,
sion were Chief Justice Fuller, of the
United States Supreme Court; Attor.
ney-General Griggs and United States
Circuit Judge Gray.
Yielding to appeals made at the time
when there was a panic over the pos.
sibility of Bryan's election in 1896, Gen,
eral Harrison made one notable speech
and a lot of little ones for Mckinley
1t was admitted his attitude did the
Republicans much good.
In the interval between 1896 and
1900 the ex-President drifted apart
from the President. The colonial poll.
cies and sundry other matters did not
commend themselves to him. Stancl
Republican as he was, strong partisan
as he was, he could not restrain him
self from giving some sort of utter
ance to his views. 1t is fancied in ad.
dition he had some private aso fol
not being cordially disposed toward Mr.
Mckinley. At any rate, in the cam
paign of 1900, although besought AGAR
and again, personally and in writing
to come out on the stump, he resolute.
Nv refused to do so. Whatever Other
motives he might have had for his re
fusal he kept to himself. The only
one he assigned publicly was that HI
had erred in 1896, but could not re
peat that error, as he thought it un'
becoming and undignified in the ex
Chief Magistrate of. the Republic tt
take any prominent part in politics.
Harrison's Wonderful Power
! of speechmaking was shown in tn
campaign in 1888. when, as will be re
membered, he made from two or three
to half a dozen speeches at his hom'
in Indianapolis every day for months
On one of his Western trips while Pres
ident, lasting only a month, he made
no less than 112 speeches, n OF thest
only two were prepared in advance.
Like ex-President Cleveland, he wa!
a great sportsman and much given Il
shooting, making many visits to tn
ducking shores Of Maryland and Nortf
| Carolina and to the West. He pridec