The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-11-01
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The honorable Dan Lucas, 1.-THE late
Democratic opponent and competitor OF
Judge lIoge In the Second district, was In
Clarksbury the other day, and while there
delivered lecture or speech on Jellesso.
Man Democracy rs contradistingulshed
from spurious or latter day Democracy, and
also from Republicanism. Mr.. Lucas is
one OF the men who believe In the saint.
ahipand apos,leship OF Thomas Jefferson.
lie regards him as the head Of the Demo.
cratic cllurch-the St. Peter, rs 1t were, to
whom WIS committed the keys Of the
kingdom-and all that IL necessary to
know or believe In regard TO the science oil
government was revealed 10 Jefferson, and
my other doctrine or theory Of govern.
ment Is akin 10 the Arian heresy III theot.
ogy, or to one Of the many heresies that
characterized the theological feuds OF the
DIRK and the Middle ages. Thehonon,ble
Dan regards himself rs IN apostolic sue.
cessor to Jefferson, rs Ill individual upon
whom Amounted bands hnye been hid,
and when he speaks he speaks In the com.
pletc iullness Of knowledge ifnot Of actual
inspiration. He pities all Democrats who
have not his inner light, and as ior Repub.
licans they are simply without the pale
OF salvation, or possibly they are in Il posi-.
ton analogous TO the heather or to the
Jews, TO whom the pure gospel vouch.
saiel to him Is MS II stumbling block and
fooiishness.
All this is but saying, from Republican
stand point, that the honorable Dan issimp.
Iva coRceited Bourbon, who isas incapable
OF taking in the signs Of tho times, the
progress Of events and the real necessities
OF the age in which we live, as ever were
the divine right Bombas Of Naples when
they were expelled from power by the
libcr.y.loving Italians under the lead Of
Glribaldi. lie imagincs that all knowl.
edge died with the Virginia school OF poll
ticians ofthe 1913 and '09 period, who would
I'aye made our government Il rope OF sand,
and who would have reduced this n,agnif.
cent country to sort Of Confederate tribal
condition. &
TO show how much the honorable Dan
reilly knows, we make the following cx-
tract from his speech, rs outlined in the
Clarksburg Ncus:
"This peripatetic Tariff Commission
riding over the country in palace cars, WINS
examining everybody except those chiefly
interested. So fur as | could learn, not Il
farmer nor day laborer, although these
two classes alone constitute directly and
indirectly the great bulk Of our population,
have ever been called before that commits.
sion.'
Ii the honorable Dan had taken the
trouble to inform himself lie would have
known that everybody, representing any
interest whatever, was invited 10 come be-
fore the Tariff Commission, and further
than this that at least dozen farmers were
present in the room here in this city when
the Commission sat here and were repre-
scented by two or three Spokesman. lie
would also have known that the member
OF The Commission from this State, the hon
CRADLE Alex r. Botcler, was the special rep.
resentative Of the agricultural class, and
that in the discussions here before the COM
mission the interests OF the farmers OF this