Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-05-29


portunity tOSthe noes, declare the question
carried, and with the supremest arrogance
decline to hear appeals or protests. The
unskilled opposition had to submit for they
had no leader on the floor. The only man
who could lead in parliamentary fight on
that side was Farnsworth and as he was
named "a their candidate for the nOmlna-
ton for Governor his mouth was closed
On our side were Freer, John Thompson,
Barbec Burdctt, and Liggctt, with able ad-
viScrS in the committee that Atkinson had
sent up to carry out the arrangements, and
that Is the way we got away with the boys.
Did the Straigt-Out GreenbackerS make
an earnest fight on the floor Of the Conven-
tiony
Il should say they did. 1t was the best
fight that | ever knew an undlSciphned Or
ganization to make. 1t would have touched
heart of stone TO have heard the pathetic
appeal made by old Billy Neale, Of Wood
county. The old mans voice tremhled, the
tears stood in his eyes, and his frame qulv-
cred with emotion as he plead for the life of
his party. He recited his connection with
and services for the Grccnback party he
spoke of his old age of his dear old wife
who had been his companion for halt cen
tury of his twenty-eight grandchildren, aud
then he begged the convention to spare him
the modification of going back home to tell
his wife and his grandchildren that the
parry had been disgraccd and dishonored
by an Infamous sale to the Republicans
The heart of my old woman like my own,
is bound up in the principles ofthc Green,
back party, cried the old veteran, "and
now Tor Gods sake spare her life, for when
| tell her of this disgrace | am afraid it will
kill her But the old mans plea didn't
avail, We had the ticket seated and it hadtO
go through or burst.
Why was Charley Gof so interested in
the Fusion sCheme?'
That is as plain as nose on man
face. II helps his brother Nate by removing
Maxwell as Il congressional competitor, and
vou will also SEQ that pretty much all the
Fusion slate is made up from this end OF
the State That is 10 hold the First district
tor Coll irpossibe.
How about Sam Mccormick?
oh we'll, he is general lieutenant for At
knSun. and was looking after the Boss in
terrsrs And then Sam is candidate for
Prosecuting Attorney in Taylor county, and
is grinding his own axe at the same time.
We'll, what about Morris?
Now YOU strike me on a tender point
feel sorry for poor Pres. lie has done
aS much hard work aS anybody in the State
in the interest of fusion, and now 1t looks aS
it the game was all to disappear You see
the original plan wa> to make Morris fusion
candidate for Congress But since the
Buckhannon convention there has been
such a dickens Of an upr6Nr kicked up
among the real Grcenbackers that we are in
danger of losing the whole concern, and We
have to reconstruct things little. That
brings about condition of affairs that we
will have to give Barbcc the nomination for
Congress in the Fourth district or fusion
won't fuse down in that end OF the state.
We can't afford to lose our grip on the
Fourth district for ii there is one thing
more than another that Boss Atkinson has
at heart it is 10 beat EuStaCc Gibson in that
district. If it becomes necessary to Sa"rl-
fee the balance of the Republican party to
accomplish thab purpose, why the thing
must 90. II is anything to beat Gibson.
And that is why Hughes of the State journal
was such an active participant In the Buck
hannon convention. Gibson'S ScalpiS is the
ONLY thing that can alleviate tn" pain Of that
libel snit, and if the Republican parry in
this State must be sunk in order 10 accom-
pESh that purpose Hughes and Atkinson
stand ready to do it. so poor Morris loses
all he has fought for, aS the nomination
must 60 to Barbee. And when Morris
goes under that takes Romeo with hun
down to the tomb of the CaRlctS.
"PierSol seems to be brainy fellow,
and fought fusion in his paper Just before
the convention, WHY didn't he cut bettC-
figure in the convention?
Oh Won see we snufied out his light in
the caucus. Some time ago WeS Atkinson
wrote to Piersol suggesting fusion OF all
anti-Bourbonistic elements on some liberal
man as a candidate for Governor. PierSol
naturally thinking that any liberal man
must be taken from the Greenback wing
and probably without giving much more
consideration TO it wrote Atkinson in re-
ply asserting to the proposition When he
gOt M i'm caucus and commenced TO hight
fusion John Thompson, who had been sup
piled bv Atkinson with a full stock of am
munition arose and produced Picrsols letter
that had been written so long ago that 'l":-
sol had probably forgotten all about. Bat
il had decided effect and Knocked PierSol
of his pins 50 quick that he never got up
again.
How ito YOU suppose Fornsworth feels
over his defeat?
Pretty sore as he had his heart set on the
rr.auuination for Governor But he has an
idea that fusion is going to sweep the State,
and ovr fellows have been feeding him a
good deal of tafv, and he now really be-
iirycS that when We elect fusion LcgIaturc
he is going TO be sent to the United States
Senate
VIII you give him that position if you
do succeed?
"OfCouSt not. Il is good tafy TO keep
him in a good humor, but do you suPpo''
that after kicking Dan FarnSworth ont
of the Republican party. We are gong to
rive him the best place in the State. No,
Stree. Farnswor,h is as dead politically aS
the Greenback party is. If he had had the
spupk and shrewduess to have led bolt at
Buckhannon and have forced his nomina-
tion on a straight ticket then We would
have been compelled to have paid HIM well
TO come over to US, or have run the risk of
the Democrats taking him up and bursting
Us KS il is we have him and 1t doeSn
cost ANYTHING to keep him.
viii Maxwell be nominated by tLe H.
rubTcan Convention?
"Of course he viii Our folks can do
otherwise. as we are committed to 1t. There
will be some little kicking bv the lntcitlgen-
Ger crowd. because of the advantage Atkin-
sou has gained. But, it won't amount to
ANYTHING. We will whip than into ranks,
and they will march right along with us
DO you thiak you really have a fighting
chaucey'
"Oh now don't press me too clos. am