The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-20
ESTABLISHED AUGUST "a, 1852.
Chs gntellilgettrer,
=. Nos. % and ~ Fourteenth street
TnE WANING BEMoCRAoY.
H.. III. clneInna,l "Euquirsr" Changed
Front?

ci,ce the flop Of the New York Herald
,..,mes nice question TO decide whethe
cincinnati Enquirer has not, or Is moi
y, .S,n, 10 flop also. Is Gath" editing tn
,0sr through his specials from New
Ta,E7 1t really looks that way. See th,
..,,.nee . to Gath" in the interview will
n, Oss.erIing, Of this city, in this issue o
u. Iy1gLLlGESCER. In yesterdays En-
-5,,, "Gsth" reports several Interview
,tu be has Just had as to the likelihood
1.-The result in November. Some Of these
\. reports as follows:
"; S,r Yogx October lS.-General. James
u..sd late Speaker Of the New York
!.s,isture, and Blaine man before the
MENTAL nomination, said to me to-day:
~ Republicans will carry New York
st,,s nv from twenty-five to filth thousand
o,;ority. / have never seen campaign
NJ tbis-not so much for excitement as
T., he enormous change OF public senti-
%.r, W ' ln my district Of Westchester
lsr l.ar,v there are about twenty-five
SSI" S"oJ;ad yo,ars, and two hundred of'these
I.1T, ~ youne men, who are to vote this year
~ " he df,t time, and | believe that every
W S"soi them is a Republican. It is bust.
.as, .as y, mems and q young mems campaign
s,.,stSpr We shall elect enough Con.
r,S. ,,sssnen in this State on the increase TO
s,Es the House OF Representatives Re-
."b,icsn. The marching organizations in
H. State were nearly all got up by
,Ss M vouup fellows on their own accou Mt,
:, al you eau see by the, peculiar suits they
gsar. They have batteries, with cannon
n them, in every part Of interior Kew
York.
JohEC C. New, before he went away to.
ar, rave me some interesting converse.
"tio6, ''The Democrats spent in Indi.
,nsH he said, "Over $3.50, 900, yet threw
ITIy good deal OF their money, putting
Al lt,st $50 600 into professions and bands,
Tbile we did not spend 5000 for that
D1rpOse. No convert was ever made to a
icket By burning a lamp or beating q
drum. We put our money Into thorough
auy4ss Of the State. One OF the first
t5iDg, | did was TO send into each county
dIpdisna and hire q man to take q bug.
~ and drive all over that county and
shnthis men ia, the school districts and let
t,ch Of them understand, that be was
nsDousible in his limits. We then bad
the State well stumped and the issues we'll
Dq. before the people. Some OF the best
sunpers wa had were men like George
Sheridan. Conkling's speeches, four in
number, conferred great credit upon him;
luG while they did US no doubt mnch
Tood. Lecause he is an original and etec.
tive man 70 make an argument, they did
lin, perhaps, more good. He was very
'Iauch struck Sjlh the strength and de-
y.lOpment OF the State. He said to me
lhl, The had little idea OF the West pre-
IoUsly, aud was most agreeably sur
ptsetl.
Referring to the county in which New.
Albany is situated, Mr.. New said: "Wo
made change there In one factory OF
about six hundred votes, but Kentucky
fsPeaters slipped into the back woods and
eOsS.rOads OF the county and voted down
that increase, so that we gained but little
iothe county vote"
AsMr. Tii.len's name Is being brought
Out in diminution OF Gen. Hancock's
capabilities, you may be interested 70
know what Mr. Tilden is about, HespeDds
most Of his time at his new country seat
-Greystoue, on the Hudson-where he
enls'tains considerable company, particu.
luly ladies', his sister, Mrs. Pelton. being
bis hOuse&eeper, and In the family Is the
daughter Of the late nephew Pelton. Mr.
Tilden still speaks in whispering voice,
I1d has one hand disabled, and both his
bands have trembling motion; but he is
mild iniud, expresses little interest In the
Presidential campaign, has not mentioned
JOhu Kelly's name for two or three
yeArs, and regards himself as retired frotn
public affairs, merely exercising a sort oil
senior patronage over the general concerns
Oi the Democracy. he recalled, q few
nights ago TO friend the difference be-
tween nearly forty thousand Republicans
tghung under his standard In 1875 and,
si6, when he had, he Gays, more than
three thousand regular German Republi-
slas OF New York inside the Democratic
make, and the present time, when Demo-
cats appear to be stampeding to the Be-
politicians in almost equal numbers.
IT. Tilden. however, speaks very kindly
d dGeaeral Hancock, and thinks he is q
man Of excellent intentions, who would
make the larty q good young leader and
President. but his followers are by no
means 30 philosOphical. One OF them,
direct from bis hoIse, said to me last Sat
urday: "What do you think OF Hen:
drcks, Of Indiana? He had the audacity
70 think he could insult the bead Of the
ticket, Mr.. Tilden, and become himself
the head this year, by having a new etse'
ton ordered contrary to law through his
partisan Judges. He actually thought that
byStnining the law Ia that way ne could
insult Mr.. TiIden and be elect5d Presi,
dent Why, sir, il Tom Hendricks had
gotto the bead OF the ticket, there would
have been sixty thousand Democrats in
New York 10 slaughter him ct the cleo
ion." 40 2
As to Tom Bayurd, the same person,
tfeah from Tilden, said to me: "He Is
EOthinH and nobody, and represents
nothing. He is going around the country,
utlenEy plaItudes and trying to raise him
cell to tha Presidency BY the straps ot his
boots He don't know any thing about
finance, aud coIld notgo into the primary
Class to Mr.. TildeG." ,,.
ltiSsaid that Mr. Tilden has a cory ol
alettsr he wrote HorStio Seymour In 1870
3Srsring to support him II he would run
iorPFesident; but Seymour wolld neither
run himself nor look complacen1y on TIL,
den running, and pouted. My friend said
mat he feared last spring that the Cincin'
natl Convention would make Seymour the
candidate by q rush, and he went dowI
and told Mr.. Tilden at Gramercy Pars
alt that thing was impending. Ti!den
ne Gays whispered in his ear; "He u too
much Of coward to take the nomination
iass ne would be too much OF o coward 70 rpt
u ne were nominated. Don't give anothe
A9lHht about it."
There is not much here, asyet, reassur
lagto the Democrats. have used respect
S9le enterprise TO find New York mel
sno look cheerful and talk strong reason
Slt tue dowcast face and generally brood
aG countenancs show that they hav
SsSoked in vain for a sail, or cloud n
n'sEer than mans hand.
RspaSIIenn Meeting at Bsnwood.
The epui,ltcans Of Benwood are a