Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-16
NOTE AND COMMENT.

THE Cameron majority in the lesis-
lature is now cut down To twenty-ninr.
Fifteen anti Cameron Republicans like
Wolf and Mapes might knock that from
under. Pitt. Post.
The Republican party richly deserved
defeat, and has ever since 1872, but il
has been kept in power by Democratic
blunders, and these promise TO continue
until the new issues arise In divide the
voters into new parties. Boston HeroL'.
BRN BUTLER is miraculous old man,
and seems to have been created for the
express purpose of keeping politicians
constantly reminded oil the great TACT
that there il a hereafter. in which ca
pacity he may be said 10 act rs sort OF
antidote to Bob Ingersou and Henry
Ward Beecher., - Hashingto" Post
Ii is really to me green spot i'll the
drtary waste Of the administration, 90
lar H. it has gone, that Mr.. Evarts stands
up 80 firmly and energetically, and ap-
parently, 50 lar rs can judge, In such
statesuIanlike manner against theSe en-
croachments of the colonies, and against
the payment oil the Halifax award, until
all matters are settled. ten. Butler.
TuE politicians OF the country gen-
orally ol both parties have shown
wonderful alacrity in misunderstanding
the public temper and misinterpreting
the meaning of this or that election.
But ii this Washington story Of the
surrender oi Hayes and Eyarts to
Chandler and Conkling be we'll founded,
this administration is in way to sink
below any oil its predecessors. ors.--Nep
York World.
FRuN Detroit comes tho news that
some lively rogues kidnapped police
man nalned Johnson and carried him
off in Yacht to desert island. 80 Tar
VIC have not heard OF any New York
policemen having been caught and car
ried off by thieves, but in these days
the police must he on their guard and
keep vigilant watch over themselves.
N. ]. Sud.
OS u review OF the canvass, il is safe
to say that, had the question ofState re-
form been the single issue, had the
greenback heresy been excluded, ten.
Butler would have been elected. That
in spite OF this heresy, lin which th,
people OF Massachusetts, really take no
stock the independent candidate,
starting out as a champion of State re-
form, secured so large following, shows
conclusiyely how deep-seatcd aud earn
est is the desire ior such reform. .-Nsr
Bedford N,rrnrg.
TuE contest in 1850 will be n square,
front To front, up and down struggle be.
tween the two old parties for ascenden-
cy, One side has the Offices, the patron
age, the treasury and the army, which
will AL be- freely used for the Republic
an candidate, no matter who he may be.
The other side has the Senate AMI House
OF Representatives by narrow majority.
Both sides are on their good behavior,
and the country will watch with inter
est their actions in the next two years.
~. /. San.
The representation nf the Eastern
press that General Butler il badly
broken down in health and spirits Is
the merest nonsense. lie has not
looked better physically for years, and
certainly does not talk like detected
man. There is all the vigor and vim
apparent that he showed when he
opened the memorable contest just
closed, and, whatever may be thought
oi his motives or methods, he il AS far
removed from corpse rs anything YOU
can imagine. York corrrspo"d'"ce
Of IlaAinyton Pot.
VIZ know from the best authority
We don't guess--that while Mr.. De Ia
Matyr will go into Congress bound by
no pledges except Ia stand 10y his utter
ances OH financial and social questions,
he will do all in his power to overthrow
the party which he believes has brought
ruin to the roun,ry'-namely, the Re
publican, ui which, up to 1873, when
he was defeated for state.prison inspec-
tor in New York, he Was an earnest aud
even radical member Golden Rutt