The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-12
HONE POLITICS.

How theLoeal Pot IL Boillng-Faets and
SpeeuIatlons from all Available
Sourees-SomethinE that .will DO TO
swear BY, But not TO Bet ON
Yesterday was agood day for the politi-
clans as well as the people who were In
terested in matters more enduring. The
warm rays Of the genial sun and an at.
mosphere bland enough for a June day,
brought out the Statesmen who mould
our local politics, and did more to thaw
out that dignifed and mysterious reserve
which is supposed to be an inseparable
attachment Of a tirst-class wire worker,
than all the condolences aud mutual un.
derstandings heretofore existing could &C
complain.
1t is a long way yet to the fourth Thurs.
day Of October or the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, but where
worms are few and birds are numerous
ittakes q mighty early rooster to get any.
thing worth having. and this fact seems
to be better understood among politicians
In this neighborhood than any other fact
In natural history. Hence at this time
there Is about as much work being done
in a quiet way as there will be at any time
before the meeting OF the County, State
and National Conventions and the selec-
ton OF the tickets To be voted for.
PRESIDENTIAL TALK.
There is considerable talk concerning
Presidential candidates, but 1t has not
that definite character which characterizes
conversation about Offices less remote and
more within the control Of the takers.
Judging from the expressions, which
reached all the way. round from Grant,
Sherman, Blaine, Hayes, Garfield and
Washburne, to Sam. Tilden, Bayard, Han.
cock and Charles Francis Adams, the ad.
vocates OF Grant and Of Tilden are most
positive II not most numerous. The first
assert that the nomination Of Grant is q
necessity that has been forced upon the
country by the Gction OF the Southern
Democracy; that he is to-day tue only
man, prominently before the people,
of whom the unreconstructed and rebel.
lfous element have a wholesome dread;
that the third term talk Is a mere bugaboo
to prevent Republicans from selecting the
strongest and most reliablecandidate with
in their reach, and that 1t will neither win
In the convention or before the people.
Tilden's supporters have an equally decis.
i've way OF expressing themselves, declar.
ing that all the talk about other candidates
Ia merely complimentary, that the depri-
yation OF Mr.. 1ilden Of the Office to which
he was elected OF the last election gives
him a right to the seat which he has never
forfeited, despite all calumny to the con-
trary, and that this claim Is one which
neither the convention OF the people
will be disposed to repudiate. AS be-
tween these there are a large number who
express individual opinions in favor Of
individual candidates. Sherman seems to
have supplanted Blaine in the affections
OF a good many in this vicinity, who for
meriy supported the claims oil the Maine
Senator. Blaine, however, has still numer-
GUS adherents in this vicinity. Bay
ard would probably stand second OH the
Democratic list in most straw votes taken
here at this time. Notes OF interviews
taken by our reporters would show these
facts etill more clearly, but as We started
out 10 furnish gossip more particularly on
local politics, we defer the former until
some more convenient occasion.
OUR NEXT CONGRESSMAN.
"Idon't see anything that is going TO pre-
vent Ben. Wilson from getting another
Democratic nomination for Congress-"
-. -. Lo.;,u namo,.at;, na1;t;,;nn
IN our reporter "and | don't see ANYTHING
ISr..sI .~.a.a., a.. pon,h,;,.,s to-
that neeu piesens 'he nepups n
beating him II they make TN proper effort.
He will getthe NOMINATION simply because
men like Alex: Campbell, Good, Gailaher,
Jackson and johnson, who together rep
resent far more strength than wilson,
have not sense enough 70 unite on n OF
their number ana breaK up what mr.;
Wilson now proposes, snail De a perpetual
lease. ms iact, however, ugn
to make II easter 10 peat wilson II ne 10
nominated; ter the members OF the Democ-
racy, who have neither In MS
political honesty or ;eliapility, have pretty
well made up their minus that the only
way to break up MS scheme IS 70 oeat MN
at the polls. Il VIII require q man, now
ever, VINO mas tne means, ADDRESS anu ~
pan Il as n,t;,;ns az be Ia nnscr,.
pulous, and il he had not been he would
have been submerged long since"
With this information noted IN nus men.
~, tbs eo%in Su mar ap who was %st to Ia tackle This
Goliath and lay him out in the manner
indicated. A member Of the Republican
Executive Committee said II he yentured
any guesses It would be John A. Hutchin-
son. Gen. Cot, he thought, would not
run again, although he could get the
Republican nomination II he desired 1t.
Others thought Golf was the man and
that he would take the nomination, II 1t
were rendered him, and make the canvass
necessary to win. There were no Green-
back entanglements this time worth men
tioning, and the prospects for carrying the
district were good on account ofthe dissat-
isfaction OF the. Democracy. The extra
aeaaion M Conpress diaynsted many Dem.