The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-12

went sorely against the grain. The
! Democrats (who were duly posted be.
forehand) sat laughing in their sleeve:
to see him founder about, contradict
ing himself in every other sentence. Al
first be made all sorts of lame excuse:
for the conduct of the Registrar; ther
he went to work (and hard uphill work
it was) 10 show the Justice of the law
and and its necessity, and ended by
swinging completely agppnd the circle
and coming out clear And hat.footed
against the Jaw and advising its re-
peal. The child was born at last, a2d
of the mountain Hutchinson was bofn
the mouse contained in the resolutions
offered by him, and published in
Tins letter. That the offspring was a
bastard everybody knew, and what is
more. they were we'll acquainted with
the names of those who had spent the
best part of the day in concocting them
For the first time our astonisbed public
are Informed that John is in favor of
universal amnesty and universal suf,
frage." What remarkable conversion
In a few short months Last fall he
stumped the county defending theReg-
istration Law and denouncing the as
sertion that he was in favor of negro
suffrage, as "rebel and Democratic
lie." His new platform proved an abor-
tion, and fell fiat as pancake upon the
audience, with the exception of the
owners of the halfdezen squeaky voices
abuve-named. As a flank movement,
it was strangled in its birth, and only
brought contempt and derision upon Mr.
H., who pretended chow falsely
we all knew to be its pro-
genitor. Its only effect was to convince
the people of Mr.. Hutchinson's over
weening desire to get into the
Democratic party. He sees that
his own party will soon be a
dead horse, and is anxiously squint-
feather his nest. He has been known
for some time to have longings for The
Democracy; indeed at the last election
be caused to be circulated large num-
ber of bogus Democratic ballots, with
his name inserted th1eon as the Demo.
cratic candidate for Rrosecuting Attor-
ney. This desire on Johns part to get
into good company is no doubt very
laudable, but the difficulty is, he don't
know how to behave himself when he
gets there. The truth is, John is about
played out and shouldn't go into any
company at all; and if we mistake not,
from his rapidly decreasing constltu-
ents, will soon have no cheice in the
matter. His want of fidelity to his
friends, his indecent eagernes ts change
his political opinions with every wind
of doctrine, as shown in his speech at
the late Democratic meeting, and his
double dealing with and hypocrisy to-
wards the liquor dealers on the license
question all commend him to an OBJ
llvion which nOlens rOlens must come.
But to return. The birth agonies OF
new platform being now
over, Col. Jackson arose and in a spirit
ed half-hour's speech, gave Mr.. IL. and
his record the most complete going over
that ever heard one man receive from
another. He rejected with scorn his
Dvertures to betray his own party and
receive the Democratic benedictiOu, and
by the time the Colonel got through, Mr..
Il. and his platform were so completely |
that you couldn't tell one from
t 'other. Poor John! | almost pltled /
him as / saw him vince ana squirm un-
Ter the hard and telling blows, but ,
knew they were the reward of merit, |
md bosidaS, Lai not got o"ar Bri nninn |
yet at his new and highly original ~ |
so my pity was of short dura-
lion. After the Colonel had finished,
John did make an attempt to set every
hing all right, and was ready to cut
my amount of pigeon wings occasion
night require. But he was too demor-
llized for the effort After throwing
lis hands out and beating the air some
i've minutes and vomiting up some bali.
Ineligible threats of "hnting dOTn"
and everybody who came in
lis way, be subslded, the laughing stock
If all who heard him, refused and
purned by the Democrats and desplsed
or his Infamous trucking by the
lecent men of his own party.
Then came the resolutions offered by
dr. Sands, wherein Tim thinks he has
ound Joke. Its utter stupidity shows
{ must be Tins own invention. If Tim
will consult his Dictionary, he will fnd
hat impartial mas a very different mean
DR ITOU UHlttTSut, anu ludG IL Nv hI'A'
iollows as matter of course that i'm
partial suffrage means universal suf
rage, than that a horse chestnut is
horse. We think, too, thai
FIN has had his joke all to himself, for
We have heard no one speak of it here.
e was selfish in him to send it all the
way to Wheeling to be cracked. We
want TO encourage native talent, and
We promise Tim that if he will only
make his jokes little better, we will
ry TO laugh at them here.
The meeting did our cause power
If good. We have succeeded in regis
ering our friends almost to man, IN
ipite of every obstacle. and are conf
lent Of success at the coming election.
Yours truly, OBSERVER.
Fires are doing immense damage to
imber in Washington Territory.