The midland journal., 1901-08-02

Wheeling district, came In and re.
marked:
"Major, have you converted your of.
fee into a rendezvous for Democrats 2"
Whereupon Major Mcdowell answer.
ed.
when l find q Democrat who can
read. am so delighted that am glad
to give him the run of the PREMISES
President Pendleton and Horace Gree.
Icy.
Major McDowelPs mot reminded me
of passage of arms between Horace
Greeley and DR.. William X. Pendleton,
who was for many years president of
Bethany college, West Virginia. He
came of the old Virginia Pendleton
family, which has given so many SOL
diers and statesmen to the republic.
He was an accomplished orator, schol-
ar and gentleman. During reconstruc-
ton days, when all the West Virginia
representatives were Republicans, DIR.
Pendleton, who was Democrat, came
to Washington and while here was in
troduced to Horace Greeley as "Dr.
L NLAhAStoiAI lASSAuCht Va DCtAuAy COk-
lege, West Virginia"
Horace looked at the courtly Virgin
ian and In his shrill tenor said:
"Judging by the sort of congressman
which West Virginia sends to Wash
ington, had concluded that there are
no colleges in West Virginia"
"Ah, Mr.. Greeley" replied Or. Pen
tat,
would have done honor to Lord Ches-
terfield, 'all those West Virginia con-
gressmen whom you have met are Re
publicans! They are not fair samples
Of the intelligence Of our state"
Cleveland and the Tariff.
The Maryland ex-representative be-
fore quoted also made this statement
in the cloakroom: I'm 1888 Senator
German went to the st. Louis conven-
tion as the representative of Mr.. Cleve-
land with a set Of resolutions in his
pocket which had been submitted to
President Cleveland and John G. Car
Isle and which bore interlineations,
changes and corrections in the hand
writing of those two great tariff re-
formers. Arrived In st. Louis, German
offered these resolutions to the commit
tee on resolutions, of which he was
member, as the platform of his party.
He was antagonized by Colonel Henry
Watterson, who had also gone to the
convention with a ready made plat
form in his pocket. He and German
locked horns, and battle royal en-
sued. Watterson won out by one ma
jority in the committee on resolutions,
and the Kentuckians platform was
adopted by the convention, and upon it
Grover went down to defeat. In the de-
bate in the committee Senator German
stated that his resolutions had been
Endorsed and amended by Cleveland
and Carlisle. Some incense burner did
not believe this and telegraphed to
those two worthless at Washington to
find out Carlisle could not be found,
and his secretary telegraphed, signing
Carlisle's name, declaring that he did
not remember or know anything about
1t, and Cleveland has never answered
to this day. Senator German still has
his original resolutions bearing the al
terations Of Cleveland and Carlisle"
l hereby add this as my estimate of
Arthur p. Gorman: He possesses the
most acute intellect, as well as the
most perfectly Greek head and face, Of
all the public men upon whom ever
clapped my eyes. He is facile princeps
of the parliamentary leaders of this
age. While not an orator. he is a terse,
forceful and luminous speaker, and
when he retired to private life the SEN
ate was minus the greatest political
strategist that ever was member Of
that august body.
Taken For Circus Man.
Once when Senator Chauncey NJ. De-
pew formed one of the cloakroom par
ty, the subject of personal resemblances
being up, he said: did any of you gen.
tlemen ever think of my being mis-
taken for a circus man? Well, that's
precisely what happened to me, and
extracted much amusement out of the
contretemps. was walking about one
day In the lobby OF big Philadelphia
hotel, when bustling little man ran
up to me and exclaimed:
"'GOod news, sir; good newsl The
baby got here all right. congratulate
you, SIR
81 asked. What baby are you talking
aboutP
1.-THE baby elephant, sir; your baby
elephant, about which you have been
worrying, cir
"a light dawned upon me suddenly,
and said:
"'For whom do you take me, sirT-
"'Why, SIR replied the man, I took
you for Mr.. Forepaugh-Mr. Adam
Forepaugh-the proprietor of the great
est show on earth. Amt you Mr. Fore
paughr
mo l answered.; 4 am Mr.. Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew Of Peekskiil. N. y"
And with that the senator Joined In the
shout of laughter which followed.
His Enemies Avenged.
One of the features of the capitol is
the large hall back of the speakers
Dtand. denominated "the speakers lob
by" Upon its lofty walls hang life
size portraits of all the speakers, be-
ginning with Frederick Muhlenberg Of
Pennsylvania. think visitors to the
capitol on pleasure and sightseeing
bent spend more time gazing at the
portraits In the speakers lobby than In
examining the statues In Statuary hall.
Mr.. Reeds portrait. in Oil, seems to
attract them more than any other per-