Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-13
DOM PIATT.
THE FAMOUS JOURNALIST AND
ORATOR IN WHEELING.
He Expresses Some Views and Relates
Some Experiences - The Ohio
Situation as Viewed by
National"
A CHARACTERISTIC CHAT WITH THE
CHIEF OF THE "CAPlTAl,"

Col. Dom Piatt, the well-known
Washington editor, brother of the Ma
tional Greenback candidate for Gov
ernor of Ohio, addressed q meeting at
Bellaire on Saturday night, and after
wards came over to this city and spent
Yesterday at the New Mcclure House.
IIither a member OF the REGISTER stall
HE'D yesterday afternoon to have talk
with the witty and Independent Dom.
He found the Colonel making himself
nj home in his room, with his coat off
and cigar in his mouth. As he has
been before the public over century,
it is absurd to say that his portly per-
son and full suit Of hair, with no show Of
gray in it, does not indicate over forty
five or fifty. He looks as il he were at
peace with all the world, which he
SAYS he isn't, and had the best
sort of a stomach, which he says
is not the fact, for Hayes dinner of
fish and milk would kill him in fifteen
minutes 10y the watch.
"Wcll, Colonel, " we asked, after TAX
inc the chair he offered, "What do You
think of the situatiOn?"
"My dear boy" he responded in the
most benevolent and paternal manner,
81 am past thinking; only feel"
"Well, how 90 you leel?'
"Asi L had reen pulled through a
blackberry patch by the heels, or as If |
had been reading the Congressional Re
cord for Il year"
"But how do you feel as to the politi-
cal result in Ohio?'
"Young fellow, are you interviewing
me? Is that the view you take OF this
conversation"
at is"
"Now, my dear boy, don't let's do that.
Let us order mp some cool drinks and
make ourselves comfortable and happy
in our minds"
"Would be glad to, Colonel;
but the moral atmosphere OF Wheeling
confines ones libations TO cold water-l
drink only that"
$50 do l, at home-but the Ohio is so
low that it tails to purify itself, and so |
am forced to fall back on other liquids.
In glass of Ohio water one might get
the condensed essence OF dead horse.
Water from dead horse is worse than
a speech on finance from John Sher-
man."
"You spoke at Bellaire last night?
"To the best of my knowledge and be-
lief spoke at Bellaire to one OF the
largest, most attentive and appreciative
audiences have yet addressed. But |
spoke under difficulties"
GLOW SOP
"Well, that effort at Bellaire seemed
to turn on question OF transportation
more than aught else. You see
some friends of a Republican turn
took me there from Wheeling, and. a
friend of Democratic proclivities
brought me back. Going, the horses
Of the carriage took fright at the low stage
of water; / don't know what else, but
that was enough, and twisted the con-
nections of the tongue in such man.
ner that the horses heels came in con-
tact with the double trees and the
double trees with the wheels. But my
Republican friends didn't seem to know
it, or ii they did they did not let on"
"Aud coming back?'
Coming back my Democratic friend,
a real good fellow, had spirited mare
that kept getting off the road until l
discovered that my friend was near
sighted. So nearsighted that he
could not see the tail of his
mare. Then took the reins
and drove myself. AS it was dark
as the hinges OF midnight and
| was a stranger to the country, | drove
slowly and prayed fcrvently that an elo-
quent National orator might be spared
for future service. thought it an in
iernal tough road until discovered that
we were on a railroad track, and we
bumped along that until we reached the
ferry"
"Then you were all right?"
al thought so. That is, would have
taken the bed OF the river could have
got down to il. But the fcrryboat kept
making so many landings that thought
we would reach Pittsburgh after while.
At last the ferry man, rather impOlite
sort OF a fellow, threatened to get out his
shot gun and bull-doze us into landing,
when drove off. Whether we were on
the Chic or Virginia side / could not
tell, and to-day am so turned round |
don't know which bank Wheeling is
on"
"Why, you did have a rather lively
time"
Didn't |? The tail end of a lively
campaign is always confusing, and this
is the worst one have known for years.
There is so much financial knowledge
got out of Jug that it has made little
Buttercup mixing business of the whole
Affair."
"Well, Colonel, about the RESULT"
"The result, my dear boy, will be
victory"
"But to which side?'
Iiyou will wait till next Wednes-
day l will tell YOU with much pleasure.
But at the present moment there is a
popular word that fully expresses my
condition. 1t is " damphino.'
Thanks. But from what you have
seen, uow?'
"Wcll, neck and neck, with the
chances in favor OF Charley"