Evening journal., 1902-06-16

First .ratei None better Tor his
business than Jersey Chamberlain"
Where did they liye?'
Part of the time with me-"
General Wilson is the dispenser or
lsuggester OF much OF the patronage Of
Delaware State, the President having
perfect confidence in him. He also
thinks Colonel Roosevelt to be the
man for the place, candid, right-mean-
ing, discreet. ! doubt if he thinks as
much OF any other Of the Presidents
since his great commander laid down
that office.
He observed that the vacancy in Ad-
ministration senators had presented
the object lesson of better officials
without them than with them, the
President appointing men of no po-
lltical dependence, but choosing from
the body of citizens direct
Delaware has now had no Republican
senator since Mr.. Higgins, the Addicks
emeute having dispossessed the party
of its opportunities.
l reflected upon this casual fact as
a relief from the universally OF sena-
torial overlooking.
A man must first be found for the
senator, next for the President.
No scandal has attached to any Off
cial since the vacancy in Delaware, and
in no other State can we study such a
situation.
Perhaps by disposlng of the Senate
in the patronage we will be rid Of our
greatest abuse.
l also reflected upon the want of il
Illumination in local self-esteem.
Here is General Wilson as complete
as national quantity as Lord Kitch-
ener, the Sirdar, of England. But as
he only married in Delaware he is bar
red out of representing it in the SEN
ate, through the frogism of three coun-
ties
This feeling does not extend to New
York State, where Colonel John Arm
lstrong, OF Pennsylvania was sent to
the United States Senate, although but
a recent removal to New York, where
he married one OF the Livingston fam
lily.
In like manner James A. Bayard,
grandfather of Thomas +. Bayard, was
WHOLLY. reared in Pennsylvania and in
New Jersey, but removed to Delaware
for the objects of politics, married
Governor Bassett's only child, and
started the regime which now claims to
be Delawarean sans reproche.
Hence a quantity of senators have
existed in Delaware with no other
merit than that they could have been
distinguished nowhere else.
Half a block from where we dined at
Wilmington was a monument to a GER
tain Cunning Bedford, doubtfully OF
Original Delaware stun, which says
He was one of those who procured two
United States senators for Delaware. A"
Now. as the reductio ad absurdum.
Delaware has left out her senators and
proceeds several years without them.
The vacancy has existed so long that
observation queries the whole sena-
torial sufiiciency.
No scandals, no factions, no cOnceit
mo usurpation, attend Delawares va
lcant senatorship. Jefferson did assert
that in his contest with Burr in 1900,
Bayard, the Delaware representative
who cast the whole vote OF the State
in the Electoral College, drove a bar
gain with Jefferson to keep his collec-
tor OF the port in at Wilmington. The
charge was more than half untrue be-
cause the collector, Allan McLane, was
Sustained like General Wilson, as q
revolutionary officer, and not as a
partisan. Ultimately all the McIAnes
Joined Jefferson's party and swelled
Jefferson's voice against themselves.
Small States want great men TO lift
them out of their minority: Pennsyl
vania never had as great men as thf
aliens from State nativity, Franklin
lGallatin and Stevens.
General Wilson's family proceeded
Through a residence in Kentucky to IL
llinois.
He is a man of the full size. fairly
tal with a pOrtliness of chest anC
breast rather than of the abdomen, al
Though he is we'll fed. He looks whole
lsOme and bright colOred, as from /;
Sound swallow and stomach. His heat
is a study in martial physiognOmy
ldeep swelling into a large bomb behinI
the ears, yet harmoniously curved, an,
oils Jaws are almost doubled in theI
strength the chin powerful rather thai
heavy, but the base OF the head ans
. the neck exhibit vital strength. whicl
in age lis rather emphasized than di
minished, a sunny temperament settle
upon his face like sunset on a mOnu
luent. He has blue or gray eyes.
Lroad face. active temperament, some
e. thing Of the humorous moods Of ]. +
Morgan, the banker, and appears TO b
a renewed and enlarged copy Of Gen
eral Joseph Hawley. with lights throw
in as from the mellow skin Of Georg
Washington.
In Union county, KY, Opposit
ShawneetOwn. H.. the Wilson's begal
probably north Irish Presbyterians.
After serving with Sheridan, Gel
I eral Wilson was sent TO the West an
e broke up Hoods cavalry before Nasl
Q lNlle At the close OF the war "a
l events were so fast and masaed e
e gether In time that they become in
- perspicuous, but Wilson's independer
s army moved through belt of fortitie
F. cities. encountering more resistant
i than Shermans and its great sweep {
I lstrategy cut the ConfedeIacy's we'
a., lin half and caused the surr suder
/, Ian its armies in two weeks. Gener
:. Wilson was a part Of the armies
= lGrant, Sheridan, Thomas and She
y IMAM.
t The operations OF Geeeral Wilso
e put out of the way both Dick rayl,
IS and Forrest. and left little military a
y or fortitude in the Gulf States. Launcl