Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-19
DUvAl HAS RESIGNED,
eus Col. o. Says the machIus viii
Keep Going,
Ard Promises a Big Tine at Martins
burg-Hs Nouns the Iutefneeins
War that Is Rsnding the
Grand Old Party.

Written al over him, in large letters and
distinct-''There's trouble on the old mans
mind" It wss tangled in with his DISNEY
elsd hair, sat in his detected face and
sSsm in the moisture of bis melancholy
eye. Something evidently allied Col. ID.
He loupged in one corner Of the Mcclure
House bar and had changed his fayorise
cocktail for simon pure whisky and guiped
this hard liquor down with the air OF
man determined to poison out all bad
thoughts at any hazard. His voice was
husky with emotion as he answered the
REGIsrER mans question with that pathetic
saying of Augustus:
'"Oh, Vsrus, Yarus. what hast thou done
with nv legionsr
In heavens name, Col, what is the
Natter
"Haye you ever tended and nurtured
rose bush until il reached its maturity and
then when you stretched out your hand 10
pluck the Hover get only the thorn? No?
veil, that is exactly my feeling now. Like
the engineer, who, when his hfe-work OF
rtaTiOg 8 tower is completed and as he
stands gazing on its strength and beauty
suddenly sees the wind and the waves
WhiStling and roaring over the spot, so
now look on the fallen tower o. my hopes.
/ had pictured the time when West VIr-
ginia should cast of the chains Of Bour
bOnism and when We, lest and wandering
children of IsIaal, should come into the
promised land. Before my minds eye
glisiened all the flesh pots Of Egypt and
made my home in the soft palace of fairy
future. But noW--bustedH' and the gal
LIANT Colonel took q bath Of whisky and
ssked for = towel. Presently his face
changed; s more peaceful expression stole
over II as the evening sun lights up the sky
after q thunderstorm and facing about, be
continued:
THE snaps all given away and whats
the use of concealment. Duvals gone and
done it and the fight has begun in earnest
But if he, with little Hart dangling onto
the tail Of his kite, thinks he can run this
State he's mistaken. He has shown signs
OF repentance too late and the ninety and
nine that did not stray are not going to b .
forgotten by the next administration
simply to recognize the one erring lamb
restored at the eleventh hour. That's hi,
little scheme. You see he and Hart anu
Pierpont have made an arrangement to
throw West Virginia to Blaine IN spite OF
he'll and high water. Hart keeps say
ing no delegates bat iroa bound
Blaine men shall go to Chicago
and he has so lmbued Duysl with this idea
that tC save.his bacon next year he deserts
the Arthur ship and flies the Blaine dag.
OF couse,' he reasoned, I'D be. no good
under Blaine, as an Arthur man, so, while
ne lamp is burning, I'll change tactics and
~, toward h rising sun Aud he does
aui Hart helps him fix up q two column
&c, unit for the Intelligencer that will send
name RIGGING down the campaign ss
that of q MAJ who became a martyr to
principle, That's not Republican, you
know. It's not & question OF better Sacri
flee an Office to principle, bat, better sac
rihce one year under Arthur TO four under
Blaine. Sec
"Oh. yes. Go on"
We'll, the IntelIIgeneer is trying to sail
before the wind of what il considers Dopu
lsr favor. Four years ago Archie Camp
bell got lAmbasting for writing Sherman
editorials for lot OF Blaine readers, and
little BuIdetty Hart hasn't the stomach for
al other such case. So he's cracking his lit
tie whip, swelling out his little belly and
grinding out Blaine matter. And he gives
Duyal a pat on the back with one hand and
q ckhsnded slap at Golf with the other"
Where does he strike at Gof?'
Where, Doesn't he say this morning
that COT fortified Evans with the informa-
ton about Duyal? OF course he doesn't
mention his name, but he means him.
Just imagine our dear Nathy, the pet OF
the district and the dude of the House,
in the role Of a talebearer.
And this" continued the Colonel, re.
lspsing into melancholy again, sis why
am sad. With these matters driving the
party asunder how can We hope for success.
The s. GOO year I hoped to make as Secre'
tsry Of State under Atkinson looks bigger n
Eve million now. But We ii get EN- yet, al
Chicago" he began, warming up again,
well get 'em vet. All is not lost, No
body OWES free West Virginia, and all the
gsgs in the Intelligencer office won't send
8 Blaine delegation to Chicago. Not while
Atkinson lives and moves and makes good
his promise to me of that dePutyship.
Not while General Beach circulates through
the Third district and whoops up the gel
liant StalWarts. Not while S.ering iayades
the very home OF the recreant Duyal anu
scatters broadcast those winning smiles OF
his. Not while toe two Journals, here and
At PsrkeIsburg, can wither Hart by damn
log comparisons with Archie Cam pbsll.
Not while Mccormick rules the roOst IN
Grafton and Golf sUays the sceptre in
Washington"
"You interest me, Colonel; proceed"
DO you see the clever way in which the
Journal downs the lntelligencer? Motto
that editorial the other night. Scofe is q
regular CsSsius. Did you ever see more
concentrated meaning than is in that little
sentence applied to the IntelliSencer:
Archie Campbell is still traveller PoOr
Hart, How he must suffer when he can be
thwacked over the shoulders of such man
as Campbell. Young man, we are in the
midst Of a tight that will make New Mar
tinsvilIe seem Quiet as a Quaker meeting
When the TitAI 8 OF Ee Dublicaui m assem-
HE st MaruRsburg there will bs music
that, to the Charleston conve alton, shall be
80 the mighty dispason Of a storm, to the
sRt citing souHding Of silver Tyre. Good
by, | may have to torSgo the satisfaction
and the scaGs OF Ran StAlnaker's Office, bat
sweeter still II is 10 feed full mine ancient
gTUdge. / will meet you on the plains OF
Phil mean Martinsburg, and Blaine
sCalps will be thicker there than leaves in
the valley OF the Vsllambrosa," and the
gallant Colonel gulpsd down q tumberful.
seized the chrome offered for the feat, and
made his escape.