Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-21
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON.
HON AND Why IT WAS DONE IN OHIO.
Plenty Of Prophets Who Can Tell You All
About il Nova Queer Theory Con-
eerning TiIden's Interest in
the Canvass.
Accounting for 1t.

Accounting for It.
WASHINGTON, October 20.-As the
Democratic statesmen return from Ohio
the layman is given an insight into the
causes which brought about the tidal
wave last Tuesday. General Duncan A..
Walker, Secretary of the Democratic
Congressional Committee, says that the
Democratic defeat can be attributed to
the lack OF organization. He says that
there was bad management, not only in
Columbus, but in Cincinnati it was
damnable; that the Chairman OF the
Hamilton County Committee was
very clever fgure-head - a
good man TO 90 to a train and
safely deposit such orators as came
alOng-but that he had no conception OF
details; and that every thing was left to
pot-luck. Says Walker: "The minute
i struck Ohio, knew we had gone up.
i asked Mckinney upon what he based
his hopes of success, and IL was SIMPLY
enthusiasm. The organization IN the
townships and school districts had been
overlooked; in TACT, there was no organ
izatiOn AT all. The Lincoln Club, in
Cincinnati, managed the details for the
Republicans. Ii spent a good deal OF
money, and its mem )ers took direct
AMI personal interest in the canvass.
They were at the polls on election day,
drumming up voters"
Crafty Samuel ].
Anent the Ohio campaign, New
York politician has a queer theory rs 10
why 1ilden took the interest IN 1t he Is
represented 10 have taken. "GOu SEE,
SAYS nv informant, "Tilden wanted TO
DESTROY Thurman. He never had any
idea that Ewing could beat Foster, but
he did seriously believe that the Demo-
Gratis would secure the Legislature.
Hence he helped Ewing, with the hope
that Fosters majority would be SO small
that il would give Ewing a chance 10
compete with Thurman for the Senator
ship; and in that event he would have
still further given substantial aid 10 Ew-
ins Now, however, that the Legisla-
ture is lost, | venture TO say, says this
gracious politician, "that Tilden is not at
all sorry, because It completely elIml-
yates Thurman from the Presidential
calculation.
He Wants it Badly.
Colonrl MOultOn makes haste u en-
phasiZe the statement that, in saying
that he does not believe that Secretary
Sherman wants the Ohio SenatOrship,
il is only his private opinion, based on
nothing derived from the Secretary him
sell, "a he saws he has never talked with
the Secretary on the subject. There are
Others, il can be added, who have talked
with him on the subject, and who
have equal claims % Johns confidence
as has Colonel MOultOn, and who say
that they know that Sherman not only
does want the SenatorShip. but that,
moreover, he means 10 have It.
The Kelly Case.
Efforts are being put forth 10 induce
the AttOney-irnerdl % Withdraw his
recommendation in the Kelly case-that
Kelly bee not pdrlonei-uud either 10
recommend him o Executive Clemency
or send the papers 10 the President
without any Endorsement at all. The
latter course will probably be adopted.
Senator Pendleton
is here. looking for house 10 take for
the winter a. q residence.
US. Supreme Court Decision.
WASHINGTON, October 2O.-Supreme
Court, No. loss, oi 1873, Union Pacific
Railroad Company appellant, vs. United
States. appeal from court OF claims, and
No. 972. OF ISIS, Central Pacific Railroad
Company, et al, appellants, ". Albert
- khs,f
OF the United States for the District of
California. These cases, both OF which
involve the COnst.tutiOnality Cf the
Pacific Railroad Act OF May 9TH, 1876,
known rs the Thurman Act were de
cided and the decision an
nOunced on the ast Monday
of the last term, but owing 10 the great
pressure of business, neither the maJOrl-
ty OF the court nor the Justices who
dissented We're able % prepare written
opinions in time To be delivered when
the decisions were rendered. They
have since, however, been prepared,
and were delivered this afternoon.
Chief Justice Waite real the opinion OF
the majority OF the court, sustaining the
cOnstitutiOnality Of the act IN question,
and the dissenting opinions were de-
hvered by Associate Justices Bradley,
Strong and Field.
Argument Commenced in Taylor Straud-
er's Case.
No. 4O3, Lewis Weitzell, Collector,
etc, plaintiff in error, ". James W.
CAT and Oliver Perrin. Dismissed per
stipulation. No. 763, Taylor Strauder,
plaintiff in error, ". State OF West Nir'
ginia, argument commenced.