The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-10-16
BERKELEY COUNTY.
THE SUCCESS OF THE FAIR.
Senator B.yar4. ut.A. American E,s Trick.
Some stardy Rcpubiieant-Faalkatr for
GOrsrnor-rhs NaIf Of the Battle
Pisit-HIo Stole Crieraf:
Erm Lhe hlLlor d ihe IatellIaaesr.

Pisit-BIo Stole CrieIaf,.
From he Bitor o. the Latetlgaea.
MARrlNsBURo, W. Va, October 12,-The
resident correspondent Of the INTELIGES'
CIR has left little II anything to be said oi
the Fair, proper. The people ara well sat,
isfied with this effort to revive the old time
Fair and they have come in large number
to look upon their achievement The Fair
ground has the advantage Of picturesque
location, nearnsss TO town and railroad, a
surface sufficiently rolling 10 afford ample
drainage. The gentlemen in charge have
shown that the enterprise Is in good hands.
1t ought to grow, and, from the popular in
terest 1t has aroused, l think it will 60
anead. OF course the race track is great
attraction, but I noticed that while the
horses were dashing around and the crowd
in the grand stand was cheering, farmers
were going about examining the improved
implements OF husbandry, putting we'll
directed questions, watching the machinery
| In operation, and so gathering in new ideas
which will bear their own crop.
QUESTION OF PROTECTION.
You have had by telegraph brief &C
count OF yesterdays speech making. SEN
ator Bayard was the star oil the occasion.
delivering carefully prepared address
upon the resources Of West Virginia and Of
Berkeley county, and citing the results OF
improved agricultural methods in other
lands. He pointed TO the attention given
TO scientific farming in Denmark, and the
abundant results. He referred to the ex.
porting OF Danish eggs to this couatry, due
first to the fact that Denmark produces a
surplus OF eggs, aud next to the method OF
preserving them, and remarked that per.
haps the hens OF Pennsylvania would be
wanting protection. The seeming absurdity
OF the thought made the Senator's audience
laugh. Governor Hamilton, OF Maryland,
took up the egg thought, and there was
more laughter, and more, as the Governor
went further than the Senator. For the
fiscal year 1888 our importation Of eggs
was 15,279,0OO dLzsns, $4,000 dozsns
more than for the previous year.
The money value OF the importa-
ton was S2G79,0 ,00i, and OF the increase
$S69,000 Eggs are duty free. Now let US
suppose that the hens OF Pennsylvania,
some Of which, as I can testify, are old
enough to know their own interests-or
the hens OF West Virginia-or, still better,
the hens Of America shall claim that they
can't lay eggs for the home market in COM
petition with the more or less pauper hens
OF Denmark-what are We going to say to-
them? Carrying outthe same figure olspeech
we protect The furnaces OF Pennsylvania,
OF Ohio, OF West Virginia, Of Tennessee, oil
Alabama-whers there is an American
furnace We protect It. We protect the far.
mer's grain, his live stock, and the bristles
on the hogs back. Is our American hog a
more refined being than our American
hen Our American hen lays her egg in
protected straw; 1t is taken to the house
or 10 market In protected basket, cooked
| in a protected vessel on protected
stove with protected coal or wood, served in
protected dish, broken in protected cup
and eaten with protected spoon. ALI this
protection Is for the common welfare or II
can not be defended. II, on the same
ground, the hens Of America, In mass
meeting assembled, or many other respect
ful way, ask for protection, on what ground
shall We deny their request? A protected
egg, II 1t rest upon right basis, is not so
ludicrors thing after all. The handsome
sum Of 81 677, 900. for whatever purpose ex-
pended, is worth keeping at home.
And here Is another thought. Dam
ish eggs may reach New York
with more dispatch, certainly with less
cost for transportation, than eggs from
those interior portions Of West Virginia
which lack railroads and are not even sup
piled with good wagon roads. When our
back country shall have been opened the
small products OF the farm will add I'M
measurably to the wealth OF the State.
After his Martinsblrg utterance fear that
Senator BayaId will not get the Presiden'
tial nomination from q hen convention.
JUST LITTLE POLITICS.
From eggs good and bad we drop natur'
ally into politics. Congressman.elect Will
son wound up bis stirring little Fairspeech
with gentle allusion to Senator Bayard's
candidacy for the Presidency, and from the
shout that went up think the idea struck
the Berkeley Democracy. Elsewhere in
West Virginia I have found soft side for
the DslsSare Senator. What do our Dem.
ocIatic lrieuds say: Shall We leayethe "old
ticket" To take care cf itself and put West
Virginia down for B4yard in the couven'
,ion? Or, shall We make the cry Butler,
Spoons and Reiom?
Itis no secret that the Hon. E. Boyd
Faulkner Is a candidate Tor Governor his
friends here say that ha will 81 iuto Con-
yention with tue solid Elsiern Panhandle
al his back aud very respectable follow.
ling from the other side OF the mountains,
"ln spite OF my Lord Cardinal, or Of the
"ala:e." which Ii much the satne thing.
some Of this is due to local pride, and
good deal 10 Mr.. Faulkner's personal pop
nlarity, And this reminds me that Re.
nubllcans as we'll rs Democrats speak oil
Indye q. ]. Faulkner as u very satisfactory
man in lila place. A leading Republican
LAWYER Gays that the Judge is pAinstaking
and yery cleSr in bis decisions.
Er.Ssna,or Davis tells me inconddence
that he can't endorse the first nun on the
SsIa,e." Senator Camden's idea is that
the ex- Senator is too busy with railroad In
terests 10 bother with politics. but how
can he prevent politics from b0Ihsrlng
with him ? You sIe how he Is running
through the D5m )cratic press.
STURDY REPUBLICANS.
Naturally enough l have met n good
mapy Berkeley county Republicans. More
saru.st men ara not to be found in the
State. They have some achievements to
poipt TO. and they hope for still better
results in the latutc. The good under
s,nnd;us bctween the Republicans and
e;Tesnbsckers Of Berkeley, to which va are
already largely indebted, grows better aud
strnnvs ar as GreaubSuktn rual 81, that there
Ia no longer . GfeenhacE issr., hut there
ava SAFE is.ups upon which al goot citi.
T Ssns M can c1nbn ag4!ns; BIurboaiam. /,
The Hudld n, ,SEPapct Is doing good
wott In Berkeley, and an glad TO know