The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-08
STATE POLITICS.
Meeting of the srsenback and Democratic
Clans at Parkersburg-Henry Walkers
Happy Famlly-PrOceedlnu Of the
Bourbon Executive Committee.
PARxERsauRo, January I.

PAREERsBURG, January.
Special Dispatch to the 1n,eiseuccr.
During the past two days our city has
enjoyed a diversion in the excitement at
tending the meetings Of the GreenbacE
and Democratic State Executive Commit.
tees, whose deliberations were very inter
esting 10 ''the lookers-on in Vienna"
The Grecnbackers.
The Executive Committee Of Henry
Walkers wing Of the Democratic party,
otherwise known as the Greenbackers,
held a council yesterday, the conference
being conducted with closed doors, they
being slammed in the reporters face when
he attempted to gain admission. But his
ubiquity was brought into good play, and
peep through the key.hole revealed
that which they sought to conceal. In
q constrained position, with our auric-
ular appendage glued to the key-hole,
we learned that Charleston was fixed
upon as. the place for holding the conven.
ton. but no time was named. They in.
vited to this political picnic all persons,
no matter what party they were nourished
in, who believe in the dignity Of honest
labor, and who are opposed ts County
Courts and Railroad monopolies. They
determined to wage an exterminating
warfare against the Republicans and the
Bourbon hierarchy, and mapped out the
First and Second Congressional districts
for the sanguinary field, into which they
would hurl their soft money stumpers for
a Pentacostal campaign. The Third Dis
trict, they claim, is solid, and will only
need little watching to keep 1t in line.
Walkers Weakness.
Henry s. Walker, Grand sachem OF the
Kanawha tribes, first tried to accomplish
a coup detat after the style Of that patent
reversible politician, Sam Gary, by deliy-
ering the Greenbackers over to the DEM
ocrats. The kickers, however, elevated
their heels too high for him, and after
vigorous battering knocked the wind out
Of the proposition, and Henry was forced
to desist, and came up smiling, and agreed
TO head the clans for a bushwhacking war
fare.
A sly interview drew from Walker
enough to show that his objective points
the United States Senate. expecting to ac-
this end through the secret Or
sanization Of his party.
An Opening Howl.
Last evening Thompson, OF Jefferson
and Walker addressed large au-
lience at the Court House. Thompson
took the usual text and preached the
Greenback gospel, enunciating the vague
theories Of that faith. Walker INDUCED
in pyrotechnical oratory, slashing around
promiscuously from Maine 10 California,
giving the Republicans fits for their hard
money theories, and upbraiding the Dem
ocrats for holding out fair promises and
failing TO hand over the goods.
Walker left last night for Washington,
to join Denis Kearney and the Green.
back National Committee in a talk over
affairs.
Democratic Executive Committee.
The Democratic State Executive Com
mittee met at the Office Of ]. N. Camden,
in this city, to-day. The three Third Dis
trict members were conspicuously absent.
Greenbackers, who got their cue from
Walker, say they can easily account for
their absence from the councils Of the
The committee decided to issue
Q call for State Convention to meet at
Martinsburg, July 2Sth.
The members Of the National Commit
tee were instructed to vote for Cincinnati
as the place for holding the National Con-
yention. The several Congressional Dis
trict Committees were authorized to select
six delegates to the National Convention,
and they to select four delegates at large.
Col. Alec. Campbell refused to be inter-
viewed on his candidacy for Congress