The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-13


such reckless affrontssy and such wan
ton audacity as that which has been
swung by the Intelligence, for the last
six weeks2 I have weighed the words
as I have used them. Wanton audac-
itv! With or without cause, with or
without principle, it has been denounc-
ing General Grant and his AdmiRistraT
ton for years past. With or without
cause, with or without principle. it has
always spoken Of Mr.. Greeley with
kindness, with respect and with venera'
ton. With or without: cause, with or
without principle, it,new praises Gen;
eral Grant and his Administrator. iand
il contstnus and in every way detracts
from the respect and venerstion which
Il claimed as due to Horace Greeley.
To such an extreme had this chang,
ling and mendacious serie6ler carried
his hostility to Grant and his psrtyrt6at
he had become an Isbmad among his
own party press of the State, and be
had lost position among them: What
ever was bis grief, he has swallowed It
and whsever was bis offsnse, be has
pocketed it, or dropped It into the Post.
Office in his anonymous editorials 70
Grant.
He is now, par excellence, the dictator
OF the policy aud tactics Of the Grant
party in this State. He has made j. ).
Jacob candidate for Governor, has
openly, and with the scourge whipped
down the politicians in Marshall and
elsewhere who wanted q straight Re-
publican nomination. For years he
has not 80 much denounced j. j. Davis
as made small game Of him as man
of small parts with great pretentions,
whom it took ten years to learn and
put into some shape OF personal opinion
of his own the doctrines OF the resoiu-
tons of '9S, and that he did not learn
them until they were wholly trampled
down in the civil war, and that then be
(Davis) did not know it, and now j. .:
Davis is to him the very Ajax Of great
ness and Mr.. Criswell, member in Con-
vention, their stump speaker sent into
the counties OF the district to assail the
new Constitution, is poor, insignificant
devil, who has simply acted indiscreet'
" and without due consideration in
announcing himself as a Republican
candidate for Congress with two Demo
Gratis already in the. field-if John j.
Davis is not the Republican candidate
of the dictator. Marshal Hagans and
others were sacrificed to the policy OF
no State ticket, and now Criswell is
sacrificed to John j. Davis. And in
like manner Republican ticket in
Ohio county is sacrificed TO- the mafe-
violence of Andrew Wilson and his
capacity to serve Foreman and Hall.
If this is rot the case Of an adultefess
who had gone off with strange men
and then came home and sacrificed her
own household, then l am at loss to
know what is prostitution in private
morals and 10 politicallife. This is the
wauton audacity. .. -. $50.
The reckless effrontery is in taking
the Daily Democrat under its care and
patronage and putting it forth as emit
tied to the confidence and favor OF the
Democratic party; that he should
openly derounce gentlemen of his own
party to favor J. J. Davis and attempt
to foist Davis on the Democracy; that
he should pledge his honor to the pub.
lie opinions Of the people for the
immaculate virtue of Andrew Wilson,
his eonfrsre and compeer in that sworn
club where unofending citizens were to
be plundered by unlawful and Infamous
assessments. 1t is said that misery
makes strange bedfellowsl Not stranger
companions than sacrifice of character,
sacrifice Of principle, and loss Of shame
in paradipg these before the public
with reckless effroDtery and wsnton
audacity.. What's beautiful collection
in that Hall of Arts--John j. Jacob,
the honest associate of these honest
supporters Of Grant; John ]. Davis,
getting that second idea Of his from the
columns of the Intelligencsr Wilson,
Oxtoby and Jim Sweeney taking lessons
from Hall in that old song
Wheel about, and turn about.
Wheel about Just so, ..,..,.
Wheel about and turn about
And jump Jim Crow.