The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-25
Election News and Gossip.


It requires 4 wise politician to pass
through life and make no Boomerang"
arguments, that Is, arguments that kick
backwards as well as shoot forwards.
For instance, there are three Democratic
Senators, Bayard, Whyte and Stevenson,
who are now being quoted from the last
congressional debates as in favor OF the
theory that the President Of the Senate
alone has the power to count The woes
for President. Then, too, the following
language Is quoted from Senator Aerri-
mon, Of North Carolina:
"But suppose that the wrangle, the
conflict that the Senator suggests, should
erise, and the two parties, or
The three parties, should consent to be
prostituted by party zeal so that they
could not make decision, the contro::
yersy would simply 60 on till the 4th OF
March, when Il would end by Limitation
OF time, and the President pro tempore
OF the Senate would be the President OF
the United States temporarily, and q new
election would take place. uhueF 'u0 SVn-
stitution and the laws"
Another "boomerang" affair is the al.
legged discovery that Gov. Ingersoll DEM
OF Connecticut, is as ineligible for ElecIor
by reason OF his being a Commissioner Of
the United States Circuit Court as the
Vermont and Oregon Postmaster, and the
Hartford Post 'jlst rubs it in" on the
New Haven Register, New York 81. and
World by reproducing their emphatic as
ser,ions that all votes cast for an inell-
gible man are votes thrown away. The
Republicans think they have found an
other ineligible Democratic Elector in
Connecticut, in the person Of Con. VIM,
B Franklin, who Is believed to still hold
the office to which he was recently ap.
pointed Of special commissioner to exam
| ine the work on the new Chicago Post
Office building.
Itappears that the Louisiana Return
ing Board regard the reported results o.
the recent election as "vindication" Of
their conduct in 1874 from the condem-
nation Vice President Wheeler visited
upon it, because Republicans have now
been elected to the Legislature from dis
,ricts where they counted in Republican.
over the elected Democrats, two year.
ago, but the "Wheeler compromise" I'M
seated them. :.
! Parson BrownIOw has always been re
garded as an extreme partisan, whether
a. a Wing, Know Nothing, or Republi
can, and yet he writes as follows:
We would regard the election Of Sam
uel ]. Tilden In the light Of a great ma
,ional calamity, but we would Infinitely
prefer to see him President for the mex
Jour years, with all the dire consequence
of Democratic Supremacy in tile govern
: ment, than to see Gov. Hayes made Pres
ldent with the aid Of single fraudulent
electoral vote. We ourselves lose all re
.pect for the government, and as matte
Of course, we forfeit the respect and cont
z dence OF all other civilized nations. W
| No. mo ,roreo than Maxicanizad nj once
oecome woFse IMAM Ehe@'e"".Ne" a. INV.
The New Orleans people confess thei
disappointment to find their Northern
v;s;,n,s in lc,s NJ A i,dicial frame OF min,
u ,t.n ,,o",.alvas The native beinp use,
I 10 the sort OF things going on down there
apparently takes !! more cody anu pun
j. osophicalIy than the stranger wilhin IN
3 gates 10 whom it ia all new.