The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-18
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CHAR1EsToN, Feb. 8, 1877
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QGE6 H59eLuUltus Oub J6EuhpS al luCluGub
or two may be overlooked by those whose
duty it Is to keep you advised, q lew Of
which may slip In occasionally as sort
OF "side show"
First, / will say that / am informed that
Davenport has been sober for three days
last past, Billy Miller partially SO; but,
alas | not so the chairman Of the Judicis.
ry Committee. 4.
Mcmillan and Floyd are both GONZALES.
cent. OF former there are some hopes
since you said in a note that his prospects
for Senatorial honors were "in the ascen.
dent"
The course o! the Democracy in these
ends Of the earth Is not running as smooth
" as might be desired. The new consti-
tuition, which was TO be panacea for all
the ills that the Radicals had brought
upon U.s." seems to be an elephant on
their hands which they can't manage or
get rid Of. The most intelligent, even Of
the Democracy, admit that they cannot
make wholesome and intelligent laws un.
der it. The reason is obviOus-the call Of
the convention which gave 1t its exis.
tence, and the constitution itself, were all
for an object not expressed in the title. The
people were not consulted; the evils they
proposed to remedy did not exist; over
six.scyenths OF the men elected TO the
convention having but the ono object in
view-that of securing to themselves the
offices and destroying the Republican par
ty-it is not 10 be wondered at that the
necessary details and provisions were
omitted or overlooked.
The last suggestion / have heard Of, and
perhaps the most tangible one, Is that
they adjourn about the 1st Of March and
leave committee composed OF the wisest
men Of the party, headed by certain
military chieftain Of the Fallstathan per-
suasion who spent four long years OF his
eVentful life in the "Dixie's land" in pur.
suit Of his rights, and still has a banker.
ing after the "Lost- Cause" but the
browning act OF whose life Il do not now
mean military, but judicial was the in.
dieting OF Horace Greeley and the New
York Tribune in the Circuit Court Of
Harrison county and issuing Of bench
udrrdnt for the former, while he was safe.
" ensconsed In his sanctum In the great
city Whether he issued bench warrant
for the latter (the Tribune "deponent
sayeth not" AS the distinguished patri.
arch Of the Kentucky Cross Roads
would say, "what an eternal fitness Of
things is manifested in this arrangement
OF committing the revising and arranging
OF the laws of the great State that
sprung into existence while he was
fighting his bloodless battles in Dixie,
to this great warrior and jurist. But
such, Viewed from Democratic stand
point Is "the eternal fitness Of things"
But this project of securing immortality
by indicting editors and newspapers at
long distances is not original with the
great leader from the Clarksburg district.
I think the world as well as the rest of
mankind are indebted for the origin Of
this sublime idea of protecting Southern
institutions to the inventive genius Of
another distinguished jurist Of magic re-
lief and itch ointment notoriety, Of the
Cabel county circuit and upon whom
the democracy Of that section have again
placed the judicial ermine. Shades Of
the Sumers, Coulter, Lee, and other dis
tinguished Virginia jurists, behold your
successors
But all these extra Judicial proceedings
we're as harmless and ridiculous as was
the bill against the court, and only made
their authors the butt Of ridlcule the bal
ance Of their days. The programme is
after these men have spent the spring
and summer in finishing up the laws, for
the whole body to come together In the
fall and ratify the whole.
Thus instead OF one session in two
years, like old Virginia in 1860 and 1861,
we will be treated to too sessions in ono
gear.
The great problem that Is now engag-
ing the great heart and soul of the party,
is what TO do with the Public Printer. To
carry him will crush them out OF exist
ence, and to do without him Is impossi-
bic. tits only by the adhesive properties
that he controls that the party is prevent.
ed from flying into fragments. The Com.
mittee, lour-tilths Of whom were of his
own party, have found him guilty Of
fraudulently abstracting from the State
some $4,000; but this could all be cover.
cd up ard smoothed into oblivion in the
Committee of the House, in which an &c.
parte examination has been going on for
some weeks, but for few meddlesome
Republicans who keep ,goading them &C.
Casionally.
Col. 10. Snyder and Mr.. Price, from
NIonongalia, I understand, gave them
few br0GdsideS which caused considera.
bic fluttering in the "Foul" banks. A
more demoralized set Of fellows arc not
to be found outside OF PGndemoniun1,
Did the people really know the reck.
lessneSs with which the public money is
squandered without any equivalent, 1t
cannot DO doubted but that they would,
without regard to party, at once beg them
to resign and go home, when the most
sensible OF them demand that, although
some eighty odd days have passed by and
nothing done; nor can anything be done
without running in conflict with the Con-
slitution. Quite number keep constantly
so 6eaStly drunk that they seldom get to
the house, and when they do get there are
unfit Tor any service-some OF these chair.
men OF the most important committees.
Each days proceedings simply repeats
that Of It's predecessor.
Met at 81 o'clock-alter q few resolu-
tons, discuss for short time some unim.
poriant proposition-mostly by those
deepest concerned in their "Cups," then
adjourn.
will give you one days proceedings,
which Is fair average days work. Sit
in committee one hour, adjourn abruptly,
three Of them start down street together
each needing support" they arrange
themselves into sort Of tripod and sup
port each other. House meets at 81
o'clock, an old mutton headed Democrat
feels very kind and patriotic towards q
few page boys" who haYe held their po-
sitions from the first, holidays and all;
they being democratic fAVorites resolves
that the boys Aforesaid, in consideration Of
their extreme failhlulness In bringing our