Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-05-02

AGAINST the PLUSED KNIGHT,
How the Blaine Machine HOrked-A Sig
niicant Interview With a Custom
House 0fieial-Honors Even
Between the Factions.


this State, who received frequent instruc-
tions from Washington, have been work
ing like beavers in their efforts to secure
Blaine delegates from every county to at
tend the State conclaye. The anti Blaine
| faction, with headquarters at the custom.
house, has done absolutely nothing towards
setting up delegations by tissue ballots or
by cut and dried gag-lsw conventions.
The Federal officials opposed to Blaine
have not used their time and machinery
that they might have exerted in opposition
10 Blaine and by so doing have controlled
the convention entirely. Blaine men all
over the State have been carrying on the
most disreputable machine practices in or
| der to
stun the state Convention
with Blaine delegates first, last and all the
time. The methods and the results show
that they were identically the same as in.
dulged in by the Grant men in 1880
| throughout the States of New York and
Pennsy lvania The delegations froT those
commonwealths to the Chicago Convention
long as there was any chance OF his nomin.
alton. Yet what did they do? When the
roll was called q large portion Of the dele
| cations refused to vote for Grant and
although an effort was made to hold them
TO instructions the chairman Of the con
Yentions held that each member had q
right to vote as he pleased regardless Of
instructions. This same ruling was made
in 1876 by McPhearson, chairman Of the
Cincinnati convention. Yet the same class
If hypocritical and demsgogical fellows
who have been bowling against bossism,
nachinism and paddock Instructions sud
denly changed their colors and because
they happened to be in the majority oy tne
small vote of thirty rushed through thu
Iron-clad instructions for their faVorite
Blsine, who is to day the very exsmpli6
csIion of all that bossism and machinism
implies. The work of the Blaine men AZ
Asrtinsburg in throttling the voice OF the
minority was q long ana desperate strug-
g.e, but they finally won oy mere
Brute Force.
The Blaine crowd, lead by Hart Cald
well, Moore and Chester Hubbard, claim
that great glory is due them for their so
called overwhelming victory in behalf of
the dear people and the Intelligencsr
thinks 1t sees in the distant sky the early
down fall of the leader of Stalwart faction
q. Wesley Atkinson and the consequent
bankruptcy of It's antagonist for party or
gan boz ors-Ihe Evening Journal. But il
you lCok below the surface OF things it wilt
oe seen that all is not what the Blaine
blowers claim. But one Of the Four Con
gTessionsl Districts have instructed for
Blaine, and the State Convention, as was
stated, instructed by a small majority.
Past history shows that instructions do
not alWsys instruct and they are hardly
worth the paper they are written qPon.
| called to-day at the Custom House to
:, Marshal Atkinson and obtain his views
ON the work of the convention, but found
plm absent To smother prominent Gov.
srDment official | said:
How do you like the rsSult2"
'Oh, first rate. We were not beaten rs
badly as the Blaine men think
How DO you figure tina, OUT"
Because of the entire list OF delegates
there are six sure and probably seven who
are
Not blaine az Heart,
although they may vote for him on the
first ballot. The following is the way they
stand:
BLAINE ANTI BLAINE.
8. B. Doveuer, W. U. Dawson.
Warren Miller, Ell ButElck,
-. u. thompson, /. Z. JACOBS
Lamar q, POWELL. Arnold 4. Snerr,
a. l. he,fn, ol d. u. W. Heavener,
VI. y. c. Church.
pOUBrFUL.
Neil Robinson.
The men that l have clsssed as anti
Blaine above, will as l have ated prooa-
- ha
tNo but they are not heart and soul Tor
yim and do not think he IS the stropges'
msn 10 nominate These men are warn
lrifpds of Marshal Atkinson, and have
cen his devoted henchmen in political
,trugsles of the past. They will consu ~
yitn MIN and register his will wAen the
IN e comes for decisive action.
of these anti Blaine men i may say oi
them individually that Dawson IS the edi-
,or of the Preston county Journal; was
Bristow man in 1876; Sherman man In
$50 and is really q Sherman mao tod
9s Was the Stalwart temporary chairman
4 The Second district convention, aud the
vSrormick crowd tried to rush him
,brouph by scclsmstion as permanent
residing officer. The Blaine men, who
Ssd already determined on Tom StaggerS
kicked vigorously; insisted on the ususl
rommittee on organisation which was or
dertd, and they reported as
The Blaine Machine
dictated. Tom slsggers for permanent chair
man. II the Blaine men could not trust
Dawson as their presiding officer they can
hardly hone TO bind him under their
tyrapnical Instructions.
f l.. Ruttrick, who by the way - tue
leading man in the delegation, sent woro
,brongh A friend to the Custom House
rsreniiy that il they would not hight him'
ne Uoild be with them as he was oy n"
msans an ultra Blaine man and was op'
Iossd 10 instructions.
r. p. Jacobs, editor OF the WetIsl Mes
ssnser. was made temporary chairman OF
The MoundsYille convention oy the grace
Il Postmaster Sterling, which Is one glo1
poiuter. And further be hSs always oeeo
pns of Marshal Atkinson's most ardent
Atkinson embvoglio, Jacobs denounced
P;srnopt bitterly. Atkinson and JACOBS
understand each other and don't let 1t De
srnoId q. Sberr, sheriff OF Grant county,
bss aIwsvs been an Atkinson man ana
tbers is no better evidence OF how ne
stands than was indicated by the niisrieus
Wsy Sam Mccormick threw the soll1 Vosss
of Two counties, which be carried In DIS
trousers pOCket, IOp the Ufdus OouA'J -A
sSherr. ~ said Atkinson 70 me with know
ing wink, "is all o. K"
]. w. Heavener has never defined MS
position. but from all that can be learned
II Is confidentially claimed by
The Atkinson Fellows
that be Is anti-Blaine.
NJ @. @. Church would have been ths
stalSsrt candidate for delegate at large
IsTge from the Fourth district had not tue
hlindfoldpd radicals down there taken hlm
and elected him as q district delegate. DE
ike the late lsmented Guiteau. Is Stai-
yart of the Stslwsrts.
As to the doubtful man, Neil Robins on'
T csn Give no Information except that he
il claimed confidentially by both slaes'
The Atkinson men further claim thai
Lamar @. Powell, editor of the Fairm Snt
West YiIginisn, Is in entire sympathy
With them. His partner IN tnat Pspe. y
q M. Shinn, a pension agent at that pom ,
and one Of the members OF the Federal
CLIQUE. IL Is thought that Powell can De
very easily naBdied- -,