The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-26
'0Ire9atelliQetrrer.
A SHARP REVENGE

Inc editor Of the Register is 4 wac
gish fellow-a fellow of INFINITE isste
has a Keen sense of an injury done hin
and knows how to retaliate. Our read
eFs may remember. that he was recent
~ Tor supposed he was) the Democrat
candidate for Congress in this District
me nrst returns showed, what he had
already become aware of. that he ba,
oeen betrayed In the house of hi
friends-sold out-traded off-liclcef
around like old shoes. Even the poo,
worm In the dust will turn on the foo
that brushes it. Any man with a erair
OF spirit would have felt his resentment
kindled by such treachery; and the
editor of the Register has not only
many grains of spirit but numerous
dEachms. How then to pay back his
false friends in kind and have deli
cate and sweet revenge2 The best and
only available way was to entrap them
into betting their money on Democratic
victories. Accordingly the morning
al1ef the election the Register brings
out lts biggest rooster and crows thusly:
IMMENSE DR1IcoRATIo aA1Nsl
THE STATE RRDREMEpl
WEST VIRGINIA DEMoCRATIoI
THE HOUR OF DRLIVERAECRI
$4,000 MAJORITY IN THE STATED
"oH1o COUNTY ALL RIGHT
100 to 400 DEMOCRATIC MAJoRITYI
"a GALLANT FIGHT
"a GLORIOUS y1oToRYl''
And comments as follows:
The returns from the election ves-
terday, as far as received, show i'm
mense and unexpected Democrats
gains. The counties of Wood and Har-
rtson alone show a clear Dsmocfatic
gain of more than 500 votes. we have
undoubtedly carried the State of West
Virginia by majority of 5000, elect
ing Governor, two Congressman and
a majority of the Legislature, thus se-
curing, as we hope and believe, a DEM
ooratie Senator in the place of Mr..
spring. a
We had not anticipated a result SO
glorious. Nevertheless 1t has come,
ike The best blessing of Heaven, and
there Is no reason TO prevent our
friends from rejoicing over the assur-
9nce thus happily given of their re-
demptton from Radical rule and
Radical ruin"
The confiding Democracy were com.
pletely taken in by this seductive array
OF headlines and commentary. Their
confidence was "goJus" and they bet
their bottom dollar. Strange as it must
have,seemed to them, wherever there
was one of these confiding creatures
wanting 10 bet, there was also to be
found an infatuated Radical ready to
cover the Democratic venture. Hun.
dreds, and even thousands of dollars,
in this city were staked in this way and
have all gone into the Radical pockets
that yawned for them. One poor gem
tIeman, who ought to have known bet.
ter, was SO completely possessed with
the Registers madness that, as late
as Saturday, after the INTELLIaENCER
had announced Judge Caldwell's cleo.
ton, he bet 81, eco that PAUL. was elect.
ed. OF course he lost it. We can't
sympathize with him very much. Had
he been a reader of the INrELLIGENCER,
he would be just thousand dollars
richer to day than he is, and could have
subscribed and paid in advance for our
daily Issue for 1873 years without being
any worse OFF than he is now only for
want of reading one number. II men
prefer darkness to light, of course they
must suffer. And the number of these
sufferers, we are told, is legion. Unjust
be confessed the Register man has
achieved "awide and capable revenge"
which is all the sweeter because the
coufding Democracy don't know what
hurt them.
The suspicion that he is secretly
with the Radicals who have
won these bets, and is in this way re.
pairing the damage of the Congression-
al campaign in this district, of course
does our Register friend injustice. That
would be cutting it too fat even for SO
sharp blade as he: