Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-03-25
TWO CENTS
SENATOR WILEY
Early Showed the Stuff that He
Was Made of.
Was Classmate OF the Late Bishop
Simpson at Madison College In unlon-
town-The Latter Made Barrels TO
Pay His Way at School.

Ray His way at School.
Quite number of interesting old
time stories have been published in
the Uniontown News Standard with
in the past year or two. Among
them is the following relating to
Senator Wiley that will be read
with interest:
Waitman l. Wiley was easily the
first citizen of West Virginia. He
was profound scholar, having tax
EN- the first honor in every branch of
his collegiate studies, and being
lawyer OF fine attachments he was
fully equipped for the trying ordeals
which confronted the Western por-
ton of Virginia upon the secession
of the old state from the federal un-
ion. To write his history would be
60 write the history of West Virgin.
Ia. 1t is, perhaps, enough to state
that the disordered fragments OF the
once proud old commonwealth we're
cemented into reorganized state
government, and that Mr.. Wiley
was elected TO the United States sen.
ate in 1861, and again upon the form
alton OF the new state of West Vir-
ginia in 1863. He must have been
in his youth splendid physical
specimen. for he states in his diary,
kept daily from his youth up to
near his death, that when he entered
college at II years of age, he was 6
feet inches in height and weighed
200 pounds. From such a physical
structure one would naturally ex-
pect an athlete. And so he was. His
celebrated broad jump was marked
off on the college campus for years,
being several inches in excess of
the noted leap of George Washing.
ton, and during his entire collegiate
course on each vacation he walked
home, a distance of 40 miles in one
day, and, of course, did the same on
his return.
In his younger days he was much
sought after as stump speaker,
and being full Of wit and repartce
had few equals on the hastings.
The writer will never forget a
speech he made from the porch of
the old Workman hotel in Browns
vile in iS4S. While in the midst of
his speech some bibulous individual
in the crowd yelled out: "Oh, yes,
you do mighty big talking, but we
Democrats did the fighting in the
Mexican war"
Quick as thought and without a
moments hesitation apparently the
reply came: Young man, you re-
mind me of story. Away out on
the Western prairies John and Sallie
built themselves a cabin. One eve
ming as Sallie was getting supper a
bear poked his nose in the door, ana
OF course, John and Sallie flew up
the ladder and pulled it up after
them. Very soon the bear commenced
to investigate the pots and to help
himself to the contents. This was
more than Sallie could stand, and
down the ladder she flew, seized the
butcher knife and, after a long and
hard tussle, succeeded in killing the
bear. After quiet was restored John
poked his head down between the
joists and beloved out: Didn't
we do it to him Sallie?' Now in the
face of the fact that our gallant can
didate, Gen. Taylor, and General
Scott, another ardent Wing, were
the great chieftains Of the war, and
that the hundreds and hundreds of
gallant young Wings poured out
their blood like water on the arid
plains of Mexico, this diminutive
squeak ofends our ears, I'VE did all
the fighting Go home young man,
sign the temperance pledge and read
history