Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-05-26
AFTER THE BATTLE.
A Review Of the Field at Buck
hannon,
An Examination Into the Condition
Of the Dead and Dying.
Shouts Of the !victors and Means
the vanquished.
What Prominent Fusionists and
6reenbackers Say of the Result.
High Prices Paid for Small Po-
taioes.

vention indicates that a celebrated writer
knew what he was writing about when he
says, the air is tainted with the smell o.
blood. There has been slaughter here and
there is murder in the hearts of some who
went away from here The Greenback
Labor party of West Virginia has been
slaughtered by the Republican machine and
its corpse is left to decay without even the
rites of sepulture The murderers flst de,
| filed the honor Of their victim, and then
robbing it of the few jewels it possessed
cast its body to the prey of wolves and vul
! lures.
In some respects the convention held
| here on Wednesday was the most remarkable
/ political conference ever held in this or any
| other State. Ii was desperate contest.
| In all respects the GerceSt, the most bitter,
/ the longest struggle that / ever witnessed
/ For fourteen hours the fight waged in a
close room from which all but the combat
ants had been excluded When at. length
the doors were opened and the Convention
proceeded to carry out the results of the
caucus struggle, the delegates presented a
wasted, exhausted appearance, but close
scrutiny OF their faces plainly showed the
signs OF the ferceneSS of the fight, and the
glare of maddened ewes betokened that the
contest was TO he continued to the death
On the one side was the Republican ma
chine ike a robber, with its hand on the
throat OF a victim who proved more power
ful than he anticipated and to relax his
hold was to be his own destruction. Strug-
Cling against the foul attempt at murder,
Ike "A strong man aroused to the peril of
OF the situation and with the desperation of
a brave man who resolves to die game, the
Greenbackers made as gallant struggle in
an unfortunate effort to preserve their life
aS party organization, as ever graced the
annals of politics They fought like brave
men, long and we'll and in their death dis
PLAYED a heroic devotion worthy the best
! cause.
The Greenback party of West Virginia is
dead. Its body lies on the battlefield at
BuckhannOn and its spirit has gone to dwell
forever in the tOrmentS of RadicaliSm where
the worm of boSSism dieth not and the flame
of corruption is not quenched and the smoke
of test oaths registration laws and credit
mObilier frauds ascend forever and ever.
Travesty On Fate.
1t is sad travesty of fate that a party
| which came into existence as protest
/ against party prejudice and corrupt machine
| methods, should have fallen a victim to
| their practices at last When it admitted
| the Trojan house in which were concealed
Boss AtkinSon's corps of deputies, within
their gates, the fate of the party was sealed
| and its destruction was inevitable.
The resolutions adopted by the convention
contain the usual rehaSh of Republican
| trimming. One single exception of some
thing practicable and sensible is contained
in the last resolution. which declares in IA
vor Of changing the date of assessment in
each wear from the first day of January to
the first day of June
The nominee for Governor. Judge Edwin
Maxwell. Of ChrkSburg, has been known as
a prOminet Republican leader in this State.
He served in the West Virginia State Sen
ate and was afterwards placed on the Su-
preme Court Bench, position he occupied
when the Constitution of 1872 went into
effect aud displaced him. In his social and
private life he is gentleman of strict integ-
1 TllNs NlHu tudEdCleI, ulOGdl purity anu S'A
tcel department In his political and Ju-
dcial career he has diplayed all the quail
ties of a blind, bitter, partisan higot. In
the Legislature he helped to cast blot
upon the fame Of West Virginia by enacting
a system of prOscriptive laws the mos
offensive that ever befouled the legislative
history Cf any country in the world, On
the stump he stamped the stain deeper by
giving judicial assent to a legislative crime.
The man who could voluntarily wreck the
reputation of his State in order to subServe
the purT Ose of partisan bigotry is not safe
man to be at the head of its government,
however pure his domestic life may be.
The candidate for Auditor, Mr. Burt, of
Ohio county, like Judge Maxwell, is a solid
Republican. He is clever gentleman and
respectable type of the class he repre-
seuts. He makes very good bait on the
hook which the Republican machine Is
casting in'o political waters.
He Wanted on.
Mr.. Sturm. the candidate for Treasurer,
begged very hard to get off the ticket. He
SAT on the fence too lOng-the visions OF
the gubernatorial nomination and superin-
tendency of the Penitentiary both faded from
his view before Spencer realized that he
ought to have been down ON the ground
with a good. big Clnb knocking at the per-
simmons before the BOYS had gathered them
all. The empty honor of a nomination for
a position that he didn't want and il he had
wanted it he knew was to be taken from
him and handed over to Straight-Out Re
puhlican when the next deal comes, was
mighty pOOr Solace to his disappointed am
bitiOn There was something tOuchingiy
pathetic in the earnest plea of the old man
10 be left alone in his sorrow and dlsap-
poiutment. But he was in the machine
State. and the machine had to work, no
matter whose feelings were lacerated.
Sturm didn't have the grace that Farms
worth possessed to conceal the wound of de-
! feat Nor did he have the inspiration, for
Farusworth had received the compliment
! Of an earnest and solid vote from all the
simon-pure Greenbackers.
Nobody seems to know anything of Ken
dali the nominee for school superintendent
except that he was puppet in the hands Of
Freer and Morris and that was sufficient
nomination TO the machine. ,
The nomination for Attorney General
and Supreme Judges was left for the RePnb-
lican end of fusion to complete, as also the
riUht TO reconstruct the ticket so far as the
Bosses had fixed 1t up.
some Opinions
Asa matter ofinterest to the public ap-
pepd the expressions of prominent mem
hers of the convention as declined on the
foor aud in private interviews with your
correspondent showing how the working
and results struck the members.
GEo L. SPENCE, of WOOD-"There are
three questions l want answered. FIRST
Is Maxwell Greebacker1 Second II SO
how do YOU know that he wants an nounina,
ton? Third If be is Greenbacker ana
does accept what guarantee have we tnat
the Republicans viii nominate himY
ALFW. BuRSErT-"Want 70 fuse with
somebody Republicans ripe for it. Dem-
ocrstic tears are the oaly ones shed ovee