The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-24
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Crow and the Eating Thereof
The Renter is much concerned in re
,,,d 10 the "crow question" just now. 1t
i.alled with Joy at the bare idea that the
IS4ELLioEScER may have to "eat crow" by
reason Of General Grants nomination at
Chicago. Well, all we have tosay on that
poipt is this, that We will settle the crow
business when 1t comes before US. We
can imagine even worse dishes than crow.
There are several birds that We know oil
that would be altogether more unpalas-
able than tender crow. Tilden, Tor In
stance, as a superannuated buzEard oil
prey, would be decidedly tougher and
more unsayory and indigesdble than
crow for any ordinary stomach. Even the
Wheeling Regiaer, carniverous and ON
niyerous asit is where a "barl" OF any
kind is in sight, might well gag over an
other mess OF Old Usufruct.
The liability to eat crow, in popular esti-
nation, is one that any independent
newspaper takes on itself in the express
ion Of opinions and preferences in ad-
vance Of party decision. tits liability
that the ISrELLldEScER has never been
afraid to take. The fellow who
squats in silence on the top rail OF fence,
afraid to discriminate where discrimina-
ton is called for, never has any crow to
eat. All he has to do Is to fall of on the
winning side, after the contest has been
lost or won without him, and eat such
diet as is set before him.
The Wheeling Register is delightfully."-
fixed for the support Of any sort Of a Pres
idential candidate, be his principles what
they may; be they, for instance, for or
against any phase Of the financial issue
the issue that has been paramount for
gears past in the public estimation. There
are perhaps not a dozen Democrats in
West Virginia who can tell to-day whether
that paper is for hard or soft money.
Henry q. Davis has finger in one gill Of
the concern, and Col. Ben Wilson in the
other, and between the two it has been
serenely neutral and Indifferent.
As regards the eating Of crow; we have
this assurance to give in advance to all
whom it may in any wise concern, that be
the result at Chicago as it may the INTEL
LoEYcER has no word Of all that it has ut
tered in regard to General Grants can.
didacy to retract or qualify. Simply be.
cause Roscoe Conkling, Don Cameron and
John A. Logan may succeed at Chicago
will not convince US that what they may
accomplish is for the good Of the Republi.
can party. We know enough to know
that the nomination will split and possibly
defeat the party. The organization Of the
"scIatchers" association in New York in.
dicates 1.-THE association that deprived
Cornell OF q, 1000 votes last fall. The pro-
tests from all over Pennsylvania, as pub
lished in the New York Tribune, against
Don Cameron's coup d'etat At Harrisburg,
whereby the Blaine men Of Pennsylvania
were tmothered, they constituting large
majority oithe Republican party in that
State, still further indicates trouble in case
General Grant is nominated. The publish
ed lists in the Cincinnati Commercial ofthe
names Of well known Republicans in that
city who say emphatically that they will
not support General Grant II nominated,
is another Circumstance that indicates
great danger ahead. The certain hostility
Of such men as Carl schuz, Fred Haus-
serek and other German leaders is still an
other ominous herald Of disaster. The re-
sentiment Of the Blaine men in Illinois
against the wholesale manner in which
they were sat down upon, and especially
the appointment Of committee by the
msiority TO select delegates to supersede
the choice Of the Congressional districts, is
another very threatening cloud on the
horizon of the party.
All intelligent Republicans, be their in.
diyidual feelings as they may, know that
the Republican party has no surplus
chances to fool away. At the very best, the
contest is doubtful in New York, New
jersey, Connecticut and Indiana. There
is no majority to experiment on. And in
view Of what is showing itself in Cincin-
natl, this remark applies to Ohio also.
Hayes majority in Ohio in 1875, popular
as he was in that State, was only 274O.
What will be General Grants majority
with the Republican party split over his
nomination. What will be his mSjority
in Oregon, where Hayes only had 547?
Those VINO long ago ioreseeing this divi-
sion and danger to the Republican party
came to'the front and pointed it ont, will
have no reflections to indulge In on them.
selves after the nomination Is made. Their
duty has been performed. 1t Is for those
who took upon themselves the risks TO
then assume all the responsibility OF conse-
quences. All that any man or any Jour.
nal Is then called upon to decide Is simply
as TO whether for the sake oitheir politl.
cal principles thus imperilled, it is their
daty, despite all circumstances, to
do as the loyal Six Hundred did at Bala.
klaya, who, with cannon TO the right Of
them, cannon to the left Of Them" rode
into the contest to do all that men might
do 70 deserve better fate than defeat.