The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-12


ing around the Assembly chamber at
Albany. 7to
GRANT wanted waShburne for his sue.
cessor, but "his Illinois friends made that
impossible"
BLA1sE's friends have done well in the
FIGHT at Harrisburg. They have made
him possible and Grant impossible
Cincinnati Commercial.
BEYonR the Harrisburg convention the
newspapers were specializing on Grants
chances. Since that gathering they are
specializing on Blaine's.
CONSIDERABLE fault is being found with
the present administration because II
raises more flowers and less hell than It's
predecessers.-Briek POmeroy'S 'rieEtd La
CroSe [ lPis.) Democrat.
PETER CooPRR has written TO Senator
Beck Of Kentucky reatirming his belief
that there should be no money but green
backs, and urging that the war against ma
tioual banks be continued until they are
wiped out
IT was about this time four years ago
that Blaine said to Tribune reporter that
he feared but one opponent. WHO IS
| tHhL hhlu Iuo lopViSol.
horse" replied Blaine. Probably Mr..
Blaine is saying the same thing'now.
B. GRAFT BRowN, who has been i'm
mortalized by Mast as Greeley's narrative
in 1872, Is for Seymour and Hendricks, as
are Senator Vest and ex-senator Arm
strong, Of Missouri, and the "heft" OF the
Democrats in that State and Kansas.
WHATEVER may be the result Of the
national balloting, the administration OF
President Hayes will not be excelled. The
indications now are that the Republican
party will throw away its chances bymak'
| ing an indiscreet Observation-Disclosures
Transcript.
IPitisa grievous offense for President
to appoint his biographer to office, then
has Mr.. Hayes offended equally with sew
eral Of his predecessors and no more;
4 Presidents Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln and
Grant rewarded their biographers in like
manner Utica Nv " Herald.
oNR other thing demonstrated by the
Harrisburg convention Is the fact that the
4 movement for the third term Is to be
fought, and fought vigorously and etec-
lively, by men who know how to use the
same weapons that Cameron handles 80
effectiyely.-Utiea IN ~ Herald.
EDITOR CowLEs, OF the Cleveland (0.)
Ledder, who sees Jesuit in every way
side brush heap, publishes letter charg-
ing the Catholics with working up the
Sherman boom because they cannot abide
Grants devotion to Republican p institu.
tons, and particularly to public schools.
"Ir that is the case we will have to beat
them at the polls" was thereby OF SeCre-
tary SchurZ to Gen. Farnsworth Of llli-
nois, when the latter told him that the
convention at Harrisburg inevitably point
ed Ia. either Grant or Blaine; at least that
is what Gen. Farnsworth told Chicago
Times reporter.
A REDUCTION in western grain freight
rates about March 1st, is predicted in
well-informed quarters at Chicago, and
there are number OF incidental signs
that railroad war may begin between
the trunk lines some time In the spring,
wholly assuch contest would be opposed
to their real interests.
JAMES Q. HOWARD, Hayes biographer,
nominated as appraiser oil the port OF New
York over the head OF older and more eS-
perienced assistant appraisers, is put in
an extremely bad light by the publication
OF report made in 1878 by treasury de-
partment commission which examined the
New York appraisership.
ATTORNEY GENERAL START, OF Mime.
sofa, has decided that E. p. Barnum, the
Democratic claimant for the office Of Lieu
tenant Governor in that State, has no
claim to 1t, because, no matter who was
or was not eligible, the people neither
wanted nor elected him. Gilman, the
Republican candidate, has already keen
declared elected and sworn In.
JAMES G. FAIR, who Is also millionaire
resident OF San Francisco, will contest
sharon's return from Nevada to the o. S.
Senate. The only interest either have in
Nevada Is the mining property they own
there, and Fair, who is to be run by the
Democrats, will have to spend money lib
orally TO overcome Sharon's influence, as
he claims the support Of II OF the ~ State
Senators who hold over. 1t will be a
shameful scramble for the most money on
both sides. iiIa
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Republicans send
ex.Mayor Sales J. Bowen, Tor Blaine, and
J. P. Cooke, q colored Grant man, to the
Chicago Convention. The pitched battle |
between the Washington politicians lasted |
two days, illustrated that the old Shepard |
ring has lost Its control OF local politics,
and was SO disgraceful In many OF its IN.
cidents as to furnish argument against the |
movement FOR restoring suffrage to the
citizens Of the District. Cooke has been
claimed for Sherman, and Bowen is ag.
gressively anti.Grant.
sevcnty.Ycar old Men In New York.