The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-24
THE PIVOTAL STATE.
''aocklF, AEat's WHERE WE DE-"
Johnny Mclean B.Ins Corn,rsd Opens the slu.es
!! estes Of BlllluE,sa.s on the oppOsltIOn-Tho
Democratic Executive Committee ia
an uahappy Frame OF Eind.

CINclSsArIi August 9a.@Johnny" Nc.
Lean, Of the Enquirer, at last goes into a
corner and shows that the charges made
against him about setting up the Hamilton
county convention are true. The Commer-
cial Gazette has hammered him so hard
and fast that the following editorial appears
in today's Eqquinr:
t'The ticket nominated at the Highland
Houseion Saturday has, Of course, pro-
voked good deal Of discussion, but 20
more among Democrats than Is expected
after any Democratic Convention. 1t is
only Republicans who are working them
selves into Precipitation over Saturdays
performance. 1t Is only such malicious,
malignant, lying fascals as Murat Halstead,
Of the Commercial, who are fretted to the
extent Of tearing their hair and lending
their linen. That despicable old trickster
hoped that an Inferior ticket would be pre-.
sented. Accustomed as he is to betraying
and robbing his own par;y-iaking money
wherever he can get II to pay himfor Gre
ating distrust, and working TO defeat those
who have the best right to expect bis active
|support-he writhes as he readsjthe names
on an honest ticket, honestly nominated.
TOO LONG BY FOUR DAYS.
The Eaquirer has given the egotistic ras-
cal four days in which to work himself out
OF the scrape he awkwardly waddled into;
but he seems to misunderstood his own
situation. He cannot recover from the
sense Of once having been q bully. He
treasures the tradition of once having
scared people, and hugs the delusion that
he is still q terror among men aud in pub
lie allairs. He has so often been compelled
TO swallow terrible doses Of hard facts
about himself that hehas become hardened
in humiliation. The Enquirer has time and
again pointed him out Nh conspicuous ior
all that Is dishonest and vile among men,
and he has had the same experience at
other hands. HIS business Is 10 confess
himself splotch in society, and, having
no character OF his own to defend, 70 keep
up q warfare on the character of others,
just as be is assailing tho Democratic
County Convention and the nominations 1t
has made. Ilg HiaE23G IIl0sI
This Halstead Ia certainly q fine man TO
say that any body has been guilty Of trick.
cry or robbery. or that any body has been
"skinned." lie never had his equal as a
Professor Of Rascaiity. He stands at the
head as q theoretc Gxer Of conventions
and public officials. In execution, how
ever, he is q miserable bo!cb. he is u be.
nemoth in projection, and,a lillipntin the
outcome, Heis willing TO be as great a
IN cal as can pe found, and his esoilsm is
80 thick u cloak that he is not conscious OF
his self exposure. He is splendid specl-
men to question the motives Of men and
accuse other people OF crOokedness; when
his own partners detest bin aud only as.
sOclate with him in 80 laras the impera,
tive demands OF business require; when
Mr.. Reed, u respectable, decent man-a
Atockholder in the Commercial Gasetie and
writer on that paper-wlll hold no inter-
course with him. Between Mr. Reed and
Hals,ead II is case Of .we never speak as
we pass by" aud there Isn't man con-
nected with Halstead who doesn't know
him to be bully, tyrant and q colossal
liar" ~