Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-28
STATE TOPICS.

STATE TOPICS.
Down the OhIO-sympathy-F Golf
The River Railroad Greenbaekism
i'm the hanRNa ValIey-Joha kenna
and COL. BY rne.
Special COrTespoRdeRee Of the Register.
CHARLESTON w. VA, September25 %
Have you been down the Ohio lately?
IL Is well worth tho trip, for many
things unheard and never adreamed of
in your philosophy" will present them
selves TO you on such a voyage. At
the present time of the year you will
perhaps have demonstrated to YOU first
that travel by steamboat is to say the
least preearious- At one time You find
yourself running smoothly enough with
a full head OF steam, at another you are
creeping softly along, as if on eudeavor
10 surprise the rocks and sands Of the
bottom into acquiescence in your de-
sire for safe passage over the too
superficial water. And despite your
stealth the grating rasping sound of the
keel in conflict with the bottom will
frequently disturb your equanimity,
and bring you TO mutter dispairingiy
I've are stuck" Your chief cOnsOla-
ton is in company, for you have plen-
", and Noah's ark could hardly have
presented a more molly assembly than
did our steamer last week. The situa-
ton inspires confidence, formality and
ceremony are laid aside, and Republic
can, Democrat Greenbacker and Pro-
hibitiOnists mutually and recprocally
opened their hearts, and make known
their hopes. and their fears.
The first confidential and oracular
statement came from a prominent Re-
publican of the first district whereInihe
announced the certain success of Golf
in his present effort to become an N. e.
A Dem Ucrat ventured the remark that
he supposed Golf would be we'll sup
ported by our Dear Hubbell." On
which the p. r. replied with confidence
that the aforesaid Hubbell had, and did
still refuse to cave the head of his bar'l to
make access for COTS greedy fingers,
saying that Golf was able to and must
supply his own guineas. And this /
give you as coming from authority.
The Republican steamboat rider also
said that Golf would obtain many
Democratic votes through sympathy,
while Good would perhaps be mention
ed at the polls by many German Re-
pnblicans OF Wheeling.
Tears of sympathy for an Oft-defeated
candidate have not often swept away
the barriers and prejudices of party.
allow-citiZenShip is more patriotic
feeling and may carry some votes over
TO our candidate.
NV attention was called to the APP
parently inactive canvass for United
States Senator. Hereford is the only
candidate making active efforts. Sleep
ing Rome was once saved by cackling
geese, but whether these sleeping can-
didates are guarded by the same sacred
bird or not is q subject for speculation
and conjecture.
The engineering corps of the W., P.
& =. road has been ordered out over the
line from Parkersburg TO Point Pleas
ant. Senator Camden says the object
Of this survey is to permanently locate
the road and enable them to estimate
the cost of right of way, and also to
furnish prospective contractors a basis
on which to rest their proposals for con-
structiOn. He expressed his faith in
the near completion of all preliminaries
to the building of the road by saying
that he would be very much disappoint-
ed, il such arrangements rs were neces-
sary to secure the success Of the road,
were not made very shortly.
Col. Jesse Harper, the Greenback
champion, has swept down upon the
Ohio and Kanawha valley in all the
strength or his oratOry.
He gets off some very apt thing as
every man must who has been on the
stump for twenty-five years. But after
all he is an ordinary talker and en-
tirely too prolific. His method Is TO
take up the various nations, showing
how each carried the torch OF civllIza-
tsOn a pace toward the goul OF pertec-
ton, till, with bated breath and quaSlnS
knees it sank, overtaken and its torch
snatched and born onward by another
and Younger nation. Each one in this
way approaching nearer, but finally
leaving ITS approaches to be occupied
and moved on by after nations till
they have accomplished their aim OF
adding to the accumulation Of human
wisdom and human experience, when
they die useless and unremembered ex-
cept in what they have left. To tins
rotation he compares the parties OF the
present day, claiming that the Repub-
iican and Democratic have filled their
measures and are now 10 be superSeueu
by the Greenback. He indletS ootn the
former for want of statesmen ana Tor
the donation of public lands to corpora
tions and places on them the incubus OF
"a 49,. nIStVss~,y IS SlIC pTcseuG sySleul
of Government to secure happiness,
unity and plenty. A Methodist bishop
censured, a few days ago, at Metho-
dist conference in Wisconsin, his clergy
for degenerating into politicians and
Temperance lectures. Would not his
hands elevate in holy horror
at the knowledge that Reynolds,
Methodist preacher himself, and the
present prohibition candidate for Con-
gress in the Third district, was nominal
ted by an Assembly of Methodist
preachers on the Lords holy day? Yet
that Is true, and these Methodist
preachers shall live and preach.
This same Methodist-preaeher-nom-
mated on Sunday candidate Will
not, however, spring any obstacle IN
Kennais smooth way to the 'eity OF adj
mirable distances"
The Greenbackers Of Ksnawha are
unorganized and sccephalous-that Is
without a head, in which deeapitated
state they have been ever SINCE
Walker went to Virginia, and Jno.
Kenna will have q majority over both
parties of at least two thousand.
Col Byrne has returned from short
canvass in Webster, Clay, and Memo
las. He says that IS there were no nomt-
nees Of the opposition parties when ne
was stumping them, he can form no
estimate Of his strength there. 1t Is con-
idently believed, however, that he
will haya O uyyalk oyern
The Central Ohio railroad Is being
rapidly pushed forward, and the track
Is now completed up to the Red House,
a distance Of over twenty miles.
NED MAC, JR.