The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-02-04
A Few Matters Of Serious Import.

About the finest display Of wrath we
have ever seen is this weeks Clarksburg
C0a@rcatire,, The editor is furious over
tho election Of Senator and passage Of
the Flick amendment, and he slIngs
around his fire brands and arrows with
out respect to persons or consequences
We havn't room for any lengthy quota
tons this morning; but here are aifew
sparks that were evidently stricken of at
white heat. For example: a
The Democracy in this latitude are
amazed ut the course Of Lewis Baker,
Chairman Of the Democratic State Com
mittee, President OF the Senate, and cdi-
tor of the Wheeling Register. 7 I
HERE Is another which we copy
"PtV 6oao Baksrd:"j U}t sH4di 80
Now, rs another paragraph liable to
cause q second spasm In the recalcitrant
breast of our worthy State Chairman, VIC
write the following:
II is not only whispered about, but pro:
claimed in .Orotund tones throughout the.
State, that Lewis Baker, tho editor Of the
Wheeling Register, is standing sponsor for
himself, principally. This Is a sad com.
mentary on the Democratic State Com
mittec, and there Is no "mlstake" about
the noise this time.
Here's unwelcome pews;giFgl1 ai
The Flick abortion has passed both
Houses. '.H.' aaji.I ..rt5.
Later advices:
There is positively no intelligence from
Kanawha Court House at this writing,
and since the passage Of the Flick "be
damnment," Il H. best no more news
should be received until an announcement
Of It's abrOgatiOn be heralded.
Then follow these melancholy speCula-
tions:
There is little doubt that there is much
wrangling among the members outside of
their sitting, and the probabilities are the
emcutG will spread and increase inlntensl.
ty alter the sowing Of that wreath OF ul-
Gers gone to sced"-the Flick Amend
ment. .A
And this savage dig ut the JAcKsoNs'
who have what Mr.. BAKER calls "strange
opinions and notions which they call
Democratic"
Now that Wood county and her pcris
trcphic dupes have attained the. object OF
her cajoling and bribery the success OF n
Convention is problematical. aoN
Then the Conservative mans wrath, like
Jobs, takes the form of inquiry; and he
puts in a few pOsers. Here is very
wicked fling at the Legislature:
Are the so.called Democrats at Charles
ton going to have pardoned Jim Ferguson
dictate their policy and expound the doc
trines Of Democracy?
The Parkersburg Journal will have to
sharpen up its wits If 1t answers this:
AquestiOn we want answered by tho,
Parkersburg iStdte Journal: lG 4 ~
What was the chief point Of difference
between tho "lct.ups" and "Bitter-End-
ers" in 1866!
I've suggest nm answer: What Is the
chief end of manO
And now, Mr.. oKEy JOHNSON, will yOU
please rise to explain what mean such
tricks and manners as these: ..'.s
Another ono of those political phenom-
ena which needs ,an explanation Is that
Okey johnson, proiessedly o Democrat,
telegraphs the news of the adoption Of the
Flick amendment by the Senate, TO Gen.
Coll, acknowledgedly radical, first
thing, and never said q word TO his O,cn
friends aboutit, Why was this thus?
OBEY, how could you? And never
say u word to your own friends, neither!
1t Is sad. ..