The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-05-10
BOWLES on FENTON.
The Truth About one OF Mr.. Gree
Iey's ToadIes from one or MIR. Gree
Ipy's Friends.

CINCINNATI, May 4, loi-.
To The Editor Of the Commercial;
| find the following in your New
York dispatches of today:
"At this point Mr.. Greeley stated ne
would be glad to see the lies that Sam
Bowles had been circulating 10 the
prejudice OF Senator Fenton corrected.
Bowles has been seduously sowing the
impression that Senator Fenton had
gone to Cincinnati with himself
(Feston) as the first choice to Judge
Davis as second. This was. totally
false. Fenton had not expected the
nomination at all, but did desire the
nomination of the strongest man. If
that was Adams, it was well and good
but Davis was about last in the race.
Only last night he had telegraphed to
the New York delegation to press the
name of Greeley as the strongest can
cidate."
Mr.. Greeley's unexpected nomination
seems to have turned his usual Level
head" he certainly strikes quite wild
here. That Governor Fenton came to
Cincinnati in the Davis intrigue is too
plain to those who know the history OF
this weeks contest for the Cincinnati
nomination to admit Of a doubt; that
he fled back to Washington when he
found it was discovered and broken up,
and that he must confront the question
of earnestly supporting Mr.. Greeley's
nomination or selling him out, lies upon
the surface of that weeks history. All
this | believed and telegraphed. did
not believe and did not telegraph the
rumor that he dreamed Of becoming q
candidate himself, and had arranged to
have his name presented after he had
gotten out of the way. Governor
Fenton's weaknesses do not lie in such
supreme folly as that.
re- But it ia true that Mr.. Greeley's best
friends suffered from two annoyances /:
First, that Governor Fenton come here
at all; and, second, that he went away
again 80 suddenly and secretly; and
the motives of his flight were the &C :
casion of grave suspicion among even
the New York delegation.
Mr.. Greeley owes very little Of his
success to Governor Fenton. He owes
it first, to those who boldly threw
themselves into the arena and smashed
the Davis job that had been so indus
triously put up at Washington, aud in
New Y ork and Pennsylvania and Hi
nois, and deep in which were some OF
those who were protesting to be Mr..
Greeley's earnest friends and advocates;
and, second, he owes it to the appear
ance OF Frank Blair and Crate Brown
upon the ground on the last day, their
breaking up and dividing the ranks OF
the revenue reformers, and carrying off
portion of them to the great hero and
advocate of protection-added, OF
course, always to his own high personal
qualities aud popularity, and the deep
hold be has acquired upon the hearts
Of the people of the South and the
West.
But, with his usual perversity OF
temper and epenness to hsttery, Mr..
Greeley will probably continue to give
his faith and attribute his success to
those who fawn upon him that they
may use him, aud to Islander and abuse
those Drawer and truer friends who
dare expose these creatures to him and
the world, and tell him the truth that
be needs to hear, even il he does not
like it. SAMUEL BowLES.