The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-01-28
FROM THE CAPITAL.
CHARLESTON, january 81, 1870.

SlIARLESTON, JunLIIy 81, lo'V'
Correspondence Of AS IHttRi0neer.
To-day witnessed II most wonderful
cabinet mystery" by the Register clique,
that completely knocks tho balls of
the remarkable manifestations" OF Ellis
and Bryce in your city. Every Demo-
cratic Senator voted for the Flick Amend
mcnt. Baker swallowed himself, and
Walker, of the Courier, no longer Stands
erect and looks upon the stars" This
Clique" after denouncing for q twelve
month the amendment as ian Infamous
Radical trick to seducO the Democracy
into voting for negro suffrage" alter throt-
thing it in their convention in June last, in
this very town, and snubbing in choice
Blllingsgate style, the friends Of that mca'
sure, in their convention and out Of it,
and assaulting II in the most violent and
vulgar terms in the Register, and nearly
every other Democratic paper, and on the
hastings, now cast their votes for 1t, and
strange to say, without meeting the fate
OF Ananias.
Such IN exhibition Of ground and lofty
political tumbling has rarely, il ever, been
witnessed. Farewell white mans party"
President Baker found It necessary to come
down from the chair and give vent to his
pcnt IN "pheelinks." Poor fellow he
looked like somebody who had been sent
for and couldn't 90; he struggled like q
whale on q sand bar. "His people, he
feared, would not approve his vote;
but he thought 1t best, he said, to vote for
"poliCy." lie swallowed it-oh, what
dose! 1t took his breath. No wonder
Senators Ice and Alexander voted first
against the amendment, but finding the
"Fing" deserving them, the former quietly
changed his vote; the latter changed his
also, remarking that some OF his people
were for the amendment and some against
II, and he thought It best to vote on both
sides OF the question, so rs to please them
all. What will tho Register now dOy
Where Is Judge thompson His disci.
pies arc making sad work Of the Job he
fixed up for them.
Tho "COnvcntion question Is big
Democratic elephant, which will be hard
to winter. Tho huge animal turned up in
tho House to-day, 10 the CONSERVATION oil
his keepers. A tire.oatCr named Wilson,
from Jefferson, was big with speech,
which had been "workin'" in him ever
since the Legislature convened, and Of
which hc was safely delivered The
speech was intended to fire the Demo.
cratic heart, but II hasn't any, and so 70.
suited In nothing but giving Its author n
chance to make II tool Of himself; and to
make II worse the cruel Ferguson, In q
two minutes speech, put his big paw on
the Jefferson county youth and
sQuClched him. But this question Of q
Convention Is u pulzlor II Inns deaths
head staring any way they fix Ii. The
lacobln wing OF tho Democracy vow most
solCmnly that !! n Convention Is not held,
and the radical Office holders turned out
and Democratic office hunters turned In,
tho party will go TO tho dogs; while the
other wing aver that II u Convention ia
held, taxes must be raised, their pledges
violated, and the party "bustGd" Both
tell the truth. expect 10 sec the Con.
yention elephant in q few days agaln, and
will report, When hO Is disposed OF tho