Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-28
CHARTS CONVENTION"
Sons Of the Faithful Won't be
There.
What Prominent Men Think Of This Call"
Setting the Committee Aside and
Bidding for the Lead
ership.

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I'm not wealthy" said q we'll known
Republican, yesterday, "but I'd freely give
$40 to hear what Yves. Atkinson would like
to ssytthis morning, after he reads the In
teHigeneer."
"wbs so?" inquired the REersrEE
scribe.
Didn't you see that conspicuous editor
ial calling for q State Convention OF the
| Republicans OF West Virginia? Well, Yves.
Is chairman Of the State Executive Com
mittee, that's why I'd like to hear him
talk"
~ don't quite catch on" said the pencil
pusher.
Give me q pile driver" said the friend
of Atkinson, and I'll drive it into your
thick head. Atkinson is chairman OF the
committee and it is the prerosative OF the
committee to call State conventions, and
don't YOU suppose Yves. will be madden
than a wet hen when he sees that editorial.
He has been completely ignored and the
committee quietly showed into the shade,
and Yves. is not the man, after his party
services, to be treated that way without
saving something. II he had been ineti'
Gent, 1t would be another matter, but he
las not. Didn't he carry Gof through
but then that would be q reason for the
hltelLigenceT's ignoring him. But there's
something behind all this"
"And what is that?'
at is q little bid for leadership. The
writer of that editorial, not satisfied with
his lecture to the Lincoln club, Is hungry
for recognition. He wants to get up q State
convention in which he, as the leading
spirit, shall occupy the throne and be the
biggest toad in the puddle I'll bet he IS
now engaged in preparing q speech to be
launched out on that occasion
Then you think there will be a conVen-
TOM
'rif there is it will not be a representative
one. You won't see Golf and Hagans and
Mccormick and Atkinson and mea OF that
kind there and without them 1t will not be
much of a convention. The editorial called
on Republican papers for expression and
YOU see how carefully all mention is avoid
ed in the Journal. Oh, the motive IN that
patriotic call is too apparent and it won't
wash" and the friend OF Atkinson swung
on his heel and walked off in high dud-
geOn.
Q The REGISTER scribe undertook to get a
few Of those Expressions the Hte!tIgencer
called for, but the great Republican heart
was not sufficiently stirred TO slop over
and gentlemen cautiously refused to com
nit themselvs. Among certain Democrat
ic officials the "call' created no little inter.
est, but then this was to be expected
Finally a prominent lawyer, who always
votes his ticket straight Republican, ex
posed his hand and showed his agitation
IL am afraid" he said, this editorial
will be more harmful than good. Ii will
not be received with Christian charity by
the Republicans generally, and | fear Mr..
Hart's motives will be misinterpreted.
There is a regular plan for calling STATE
conventions, and this is without precedent.
No doubt Mr.. Atkinson and the rest OF the
State Committee will feel insulted and will
regard the slight as Intentional"
You astonish me-"
There is unfortunately not the best Of
feeling in existence between the htettgen-
| Ger snd certain prominent Republicans, part
Of which grew out of this revenue collector
ship muss. Atkinson, Mccormick, Pier
point, Golf and Marsh Hagans are not a
happy family, and this matter will not
"How will it be received"
Il fear an uncharitsble construction will
be placed in this convention suggestion aud
some people will unkindly say Mr.. Hart Is
thrusting himself forward. Perhaps they
will not, but l I'm afraid they will"
Shortly afterward, the scribe ran across
that astute political whipper in and un'
matched manipulation OF wires, known in
high Republican, circles as Col. 5, and ask
ed what he though OF the now famous eal'
tOrial.
DO you mean the call for this conyen-
tom
Yes"
We'll, that is a hollow mockery. Hart
is irving TO win caste in the party. His
RspnbliCanism, like CAESARS wife, is not
above suspicion; in fact it IS so p~retenti-
Gus that to this time it has failed to take
any one in. He knows that his advent
here, fresh from the editorial columns OF
the Baltimore Democratic Gn.stte, a rank
rebel and free trade organ, is not u sOoth-
ing or enticing introduction TO Republican
confidence or party councils. His paper
has lost its hold upon the party, and some
thing must be done and that, to),
speedily. Hart must be ba:hed
seven times in some river OF Jordan
to wash out the stains of the Bourbon
leprosy that have marked him in the past
and he has found out that turn coats and
political ratters do not find a rapid welcome
10 the control of the Republican party Until
they have lone something to demonstrate
that they are sincere in their double blcS
action somersaults. This must find a
remedy, and the dude editor Of the Four.
teenth street orgau, so called, thinks that
in his sCreed Of this morning he has found a
path thai may lead him TO the maatle that
fell from CampbelI's staiwart shoulders.
"0h, this is funny; a sight for gods and
MIN, that little Burdetty Hart, the Camp,
bell & Frew petdude, a modest little penny
the-iine writer from the decayed Gazette
should set himself up as our oracle aud at
tempt 10 run the whole Republican party
OF the State. Jake Kemple might have
done this. Where's the Executive Con
mittee, and what has deprived it OF its
right to call conventions? Where are
Goff, Hutchinson, Marsh Hssaus, Billy
Stevenson. and the other old.time war
horses? Have they been superseded aud
set aside for q newcomer, a Republican of
yesterday, and one whose faith is yet liable
to be doubted"
80 you think Harte is trying to get re.
c~ogniuoh?"
"Yes. 1t would look nice to have all the
Democratic papers publishing the details
of Harris convention aud to have this
gathering of wisescres and political chiefs
baptize the young man and give him and
his paper the standing they have lost in
the party. But sat can't be sprinSled on
cur tails that way, and our party is a little
too old to be made to patch up a bad rec.
ord by mild chat OF ths kind that We find
III the Hart editorials"
With this this the gallant Colonel sauu-
tered off in search of a gin cocktail to sooth
his harrassed feelings.
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