The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-08
OHIO POLITICS.
Columbus Letter In Regard TO
the Senatorial Fight.
~, r,,ppo n January 4


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A MOTLEY CROWD.
happening in this city yesterday, !
soon found myself within the meshes Of
the Democratic Political Whirligig, eve.
rywhere in motion and embracing, in
some shape, everybody and everything it
could reach. All one had 10 do to see
The machine in full operation was 10 Sc
l.ct some position, il such We're possible,
where you would neither be tramped 10
death, smoked out with the fumes OF burn.
ing Rtogies and ancient pipes, or drowned
10 sluiCes OF dog leg tobacco juice Tor,
verify, a crowd Of Democratic REFORM
ers, like the one now assembling in this
city, Ia one OF great expectorations."
Well, not being zone OF the elect" |
kept my hand on my pocketbook and
longed for help to enjoy the scene. Never
before, we venture, was there just such a
crowd assembled in Columbus as o
throng its pavements, the reception rooms
Of It's hotels, its by.ways and hedges, its
street corners and It's saloons.
"Rei spihtsand white.
Blue splits and yray."
Democrats to right of US and button ol-
ing applicants TO left OF us, cheeky. oil:
fee seekers, crying, good lord anything"
in front and all around US.
sQuABBLE FOR PLACE.
Though the political cauldron has
been boiling for a number OF days, singu.
lar as !, may seem, a considerable num-
Der Of representatives have not yet arriy.
ed-pro6ably absent to avoid imminent
dangers Of dismemberment TO which their
positions necessarily expose them.
The squabble for the various gifts Of the
Legislature, from the highest TO the low
est, makes a very lively battle for
position. One listens 10 hear the nine.
inch Senatorial Parrot hurl its echoes
through the tobacco smoke bedizzened
halls OF the "Neil"-and then comes the
rafting musketry clatter Of the imporiu.
nate candidates and their friends for
Speaker, Clerk, S%ergeant.at arms OF the
two houses, To be followed by the agoni.
zipg petitions OF the thousand and one
fearful beggars for Legislative favor.
So II goes every where, in doors and
out, night and day.
A MAN FROM BELMONT.
lhayc Just been introduced to a speci.
men brick-a former resident and officer
Of Belmont county many years ago, but
now Orwell 1t don't matter where. Hes
after an Office anyhow. His name 10
Howe, and from all ! can learn concern.
ing him, he was voting the Democratic
ticket when Bill Allen was born. | took
great interest in him-Worked in his IL
terest-thinking, perhaps, he was, may
be, the "dark horse" 10 the Senatorial
stsbles. But, for the present, my friend
has no particular choice, only he demands
something like the girl, DO
choose one fellar for fear the tother wonld
run away"
Every color-agc, sex and condition
are represented amonng the beggars-
aye, even the colored brother is here In
person, pleading for peace.
Some are 80 old that the hay seed has
long ago sprouted and petriied In their
hair. Yes, 90 old that they had their
political breath blown into their %nostrils
by the first blasts Of Bill Aliens fog horn.
Some are even from Martins Ferry, and
young, tender and virtuous al spring
chickens. There are at least l 4 m told,
fully a hundred applicants for each posi-.
ton.
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.
This evening, Saturday, a general eau.
Gus Is 10 be held for the purpose OF select
ing the minor officers and fixing u time
for the Senatorial fight to open. From
present appearances Neal. Of Butler, will
Be Speaker, and Beach, Of Knox, Sergeant.
alarms, with the chances in favor ofex.
Representative Drummer for Chief Clerk.
O'Myers, till last Thursday, correspond.
ent Of the Enquirer, seems 10 have the in.
side track for Chief Clerk OF the Senate,
while Dodd, OF Toledo, in training by
old Jim Steedman, which, in our judg.
ment ought to defeat him, il being
pressed by his champion for the position,
with the chances In favor OF 0'Myers-and
a tight race. While the Senatorial guns
keep up q constant" rumble and roar"
yet, after all, the noise and confusion "
come from the scramble for The minor
positions and nothing will abate it'll this
contesti Is over.
THE SENATORIAL STRUGGLE.
While the utmost courtesy seems up
on the surface Of the determined fight
for Senator, still II Is very apparent, the
determination Of each prominent candi.
date Ia to die game. There Is now, what
Is alleged to be more than q suspicion
that Morgan and Ewing, in the event OF
the probable defeat Of either, will com.
'bine against Pendleton, not, however, till
they have frst measured lAnces with each
other and fully satisfied themselves that
their individual chances are hopeless.
Then, from all l can learn, Morgan and
Ewing will join forces. This suspected
coalition brought 4 .Peudleton, l am told
to the city, one day sooner than expected.
l was, however, told by q certain en-
thusiastic and prominent Pendleton man,
hat 9while the friends Of the two former
gentlemen had probably asreed to com.
y