The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-29
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Under date Of July 25, F. D. NJ. wrl!e
to the above paper as iallows: The la.
Bourbon State Convention wasan interest
Ing ono from more points Of viewthan one
and 1t is not too early even yet to discu.l
some Of itsresults, present and prospective
First, 10 speak Of 1t In descriptive way
II was the largest, no'siest, most turhu
lent, bitter anu an,huslsssie convention
ever h. Id In the 8 ale. Wheeling hiss beer
crowded til her boundaries, would have
been bulged but foI her iron smphithe
alricsl bsltlements oil hills. She hes 10,
three days been drunken, bowling, sweat.
Ing bedlsm, and The elements on The las,
DAY with flood, wind and electricity turned
IN TO make the papdemonium complete.
The daily, and particularly the nightly,
scenes about the McLurs House and iis bar
have beaten ANYTHING in the way Of howl.
Ing orgies that l ever witnessed.
The saloon doors never closed. Hun.
dreds Of men could ret no place 10 sleep,
and they crowded the bar and vicinity ali
night long, making the locality hijeous,
and the trstpale light Of the morning show.
ed them up. red.syed and tspyle.bsired
and wobble-ioin,ed, but !ull ot enthusiasm
e, they were Of bug juice, and ready TO
raise Hades In a convention.
OF course, these remarks apply to bnt a
portion, the drinking portion, Of the vast
crcTl present.. In general, the delegates
were q fine body Of men in point Of per.
soDal appe arance and behavior, and The
average Of intelligence was fair one, but
when a good West Virginia Bourbon ge,s
iull, he gets billin' and NRhtin' full, and
he can get drnnker TO the sQusre inch and
make more noise and get sober quicker
than any other Of the Bourbon species l
ever met. -
I was sleeping at the house OF we'll
known gentleman Of Wheeling, more than
three tquSrs from the Mcclure, but when
my btd.itllow, x Governor Pielpoint,
would awaken me during the dim watches
OF the night with endsavors to pre-empt
portions OF my side OF the bed, or with the
energetic gssticulation Of an imaginary
campaign speech, could plainly hear the
hideous hulshslloo at the roaring McLurs,
even on into the dim light Of the logging
molning, when the steam whistle and
bells Of the grasping and grinding monsp.
ollats began To call the outraged and down.
trodden mechanic to his daily toll, to quote
little from Windy Wilson.
80 GREAT TINE f7R TAE BOYS.
It was great time for the boys, and as
ageneral thing all wes in good na.ured
way, and I saw no fghis or serious
brt sshes OF the peace. The boys
were determined that for once Wheeling
should be painted red, and red she wae.
A portion Of the delegates were handsome,
ly dressed and geu,lemsnly In appearance,
but the larger part were innocent Of neck.
ties, many even Of collars or vests, and
they offered an unpromising market for
petfumc1, blackiDR, ce,melics or soaps
They were the bone snd sinew Of the
grand old party, the till.rs OF the soil and
all that, and they had no uee for lid gloves
and plug hats and Boyd Faulkner:
II seemed that every one wss an orator
and ready to speak at the fall Of the hat on
any sut ject, on any aide and ct any length.
The speaking, upon the whole, wasabove
theaverage in eicquence, and Bome OF the
speeches were really fine. -@s Z
Sometimes the eleQuential fights took the
speakers little beyond the limit, Of COM
mon. sense, but in rip roaring political
convention that Is not a venial Gin.
But some metaphors got 30 mixed they
couldn't tell each other apart, and along
the fowery pathway Of pome Of the painting
and suspender breaking orators were st}ew-
ed bruised figures Of speech, crippled
,ropes, and broken aud bleeding Bimiles
and Illustrations. -.,.s-:- -..,e=. = :;
For instance Of the bewildsripg nature Of
come West Vreinian Democratic oratory
land hear the Republicans are worse of
in this respect than the Bourbone), take
the burning eloquence Of gentleman who
faid ha caue frop the Shenandoah river,
the daughter Of the atsIs. That 1.-THE party
has reached the bridge Of Lodi, whefs the
pathway leads through the pses Of Ther.
mopy e, and We must have 8 stsndaId.
bearer in whose veins courses Spartan
blood that thrills his heart with Roman
courage" t.s-f
And be closed with this ecstatic out.
burstj r5Ff ~.
"The grand old bemoctasIs pbip o. state
-Under the captaincy Ct FsulKn't, the
modern Nelson, will ride in triumph the
surging wavcs that float between the scylla
and Charybdis Of the Republican party 3
speed Sea, spd despite her siren song, will
anchor the pemoctetip parry, DOW famous
forever, 'eafe on peactfdl 4fsrat st lsst.'T
! A man who In le7s than Ten line3 can
make ship Of the Democratic party, com.
manded by q Nsleon Of West Virginis,
and sargipg between aScylla and Chsry.
bdiv, yhich have been moved from the
MediterfsnsS+a to the Dead Sea. and bad
become the Republican paEty, and finish
by landing his peculiar ship, after hot ey-
!raordinary voyage on Mt Ararat, Is no
comnop nan, end ie certainly 70 noritor'
born. He gets po#pletsly away With the
no.sd speaker who derlafed NJ smsll 2
q rat lsee him floating in the air, 7 will
nip him in the bud.", And yet this gen.
tleman eaid many things that were ain.
gularly eloquent and effective. ~. =