Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-24
the DEEP QUIET
That Br0ods Over the Potomac's
Classic Waters.
WHY DAKOTA WILL STAY OUT
Southern Men Hold Hospitality Higher
Than Free Trade in Ran
dalPs Case.
The SENATOR'S DARK HORSE.
Special 70 TIE Register.

WASHINGTON, December 23.-The Senate
succeeded in passing an uneyentful day
yesterday, and completely justified the de-
cisiOn Of Senator HOar to stay away after
that date, and that Of Messrs. Black, Don
Cameron and Jackson to start on Joint
duck hunt down the Potomac tonight
which will incapacitate the last named gen.
tlemen for solid work for three days to come.
The Democratic newspapers about the
Capital are pointing to the late disturbances
in Dakota as the best evidence that the Ter
ritcry is not vet ready to be made State,
and that its people are not yet qualified to
assume the duties of self government. To
a large extent their criticisms are justi6able.
The experience Of the past has made it ap-
parent to the wayfaring man, even though
a fool, that Uncle Sam cannot
afford to take into his family
either the hoodlums Of Mexican States or
of Dominion provinces, or even the wild and
lawless communities of the Northwest until,
he has some evidence that they will submit
10 be governed by the same general princi-
pies which control the action of the older
States With Texas and Louisiana and
Mississippi and South Carolina already in
the Union even Republicans will be ready
to acknowledge that it is time for US to go
slow.
The House viii meet once more to-mor-
row morning and will go through the form
Of adjourning again. If Mr.. White, of
Kentucky, who is a champion objector and
rangs IDext to Ben" Holman, of Indiana,
is present at the session of that day he will
compel the House to adjourn from day to
day instead of taking three days at trip.
The reason for this is the fact that the
vast mind and prodigious constitutional
comprehension of Mr.. White has come to
the conclusion that there is no authority
in our fundamental law for an adjournment
of either house, while without quorum for
q recess of more than twenty-four hours.
Kentucky Democrats are very much
worked up over the assault OF Henry Wat
terson on Samuel j. Randall who is per
haps more universally popular among all
classes of Democrats than any leader in the
party. The Southerners abhor anything
that sayors of the inhospitable, and it is
from that standpoint that they condemn the
action of Watterson. They say that what
ever his ideas might be on the tariff, Ran
dali is good Democrat all the
way through and has right to
express his opinions even on that subject
in any part of the South. They assert, how
ever, that the intolerance displayed by Wat
terson amounts to simple bigotry, and will
hurt rather than help the cause OF free trade
to which his devotion is so unhiuching.
Even Mr.. Carlisle goes back on Watterson
and makes it tolerably evident that the Soath
can not afford to depend on shutting Its
/ doors to the advocates of protection, out
| must become battle ground for honest be-
| levers in both economic theories to hght 1t
out on logical basis.
/ The stretch Of bad weather seems to have
! had the effect of keeping West Virginia
! men at home vt any rate very few OF
| them have shown up at the Capitol since
| the visit of the Press Association, which
| was chronicled last week. The same thing
! is true of al other visitors, with the excep-
ton of bridal tourists, who seem to be most
happily unmindful of the weather, and who
| climb ap Capitol Hill with bhssful un-
consciousness Of i'll which sometimes bears
! toward somewhat painful result.
Il is quietly quietly whispered that Char
| Ii" Wells of GloYers Gap is out of the
| fight for the United States Msrshslship after
the lth of March and that he is Major Al
dersons chief competitor for the position Of
| collector of internal revenue. lf such is
| the case the Major will have to look out for
| himself for Wells is not the man to make a
m stake in his discards over the poker
table or elsewhere. He has not
thrown down even bOb-tailed flush to fill
to single ace. The rumOr is that he is
the candidate still untrotted out on whom
Senators Camden and Kenns have united.
He is naturally closer. to the former Senator,
but was told by close friend of the latter
that he would be more acceptable to the
latter than Major Anderson. j. A.