Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-07-26
CONVENTION ECHOES
Ringing From the Stormiest Cath
ering
the STATE EVER WITNESSED.
Who Drew Prizes and Those Who Didn't
Little and Zig Bosses and How They
Got in Their Work.

mony Of the body.
Lightning struck the wrong man. The
electric bolt was hunting for Frank Here
ford, whose rod had been up so long the tip
had worn off That's the way it got on to
Hubbard. r.. - r..
The thunder storm quit in disgust after
hearing Bob Blair howl
Dan Lucas felt it his duty to get back
into party traces just as he always goes
out-by kicking. -s...
John Blair Hoge in the chair was the red
flag that started Lucas to paving.
When it was thought that the wind storm
was going to upset the convention hall all
of the candidates wanted to withdraw
The stampede to Dufey the Websterisn
Irishman was the jolliest scene Of the day.
Chairman Brannou objected to the
"court" being interrupted The court was
right about it this time.
Andy Edmiston was one Of the most
orderly and attentive members.
St. Clair got his work in energetcally for
Wilson and got it in well.
Faulkner had no cleverer lieutenant than
John Anderson. While John failed in his
work for Governor he didn't miss it on the
Auditor.
Morgan is a capable young man for
School Superintendent but it did look hard
to defeat a man against whom the only
charge raised was that he had been faith
ful.
If being the Governors Secretary comes
of hard field work and successful manipu-
lating, then Ned Wood deserves it.
Cam Thompson is the only man who held
a ticket that didn't draw a prize in the
grand combination.
The last shall be first thought Caldwell
TO himself, as he stepped in after Todd anu
Darrah had stepped out.
Dennis O'Keefe with Superintendent
Butchers scalP in his hand shows the kind
ofa reformer that Dennis is.
Chronic bolters and party sore heads de,
light in abusing the REGISTER.
1t is better to find out our own faults
than to leave it to an enemy to discover
them for us.
Politicians are a changeable and an
amusing class of people Two years ago
the Newsletter attacked
81. Clair, of Fayette,
as the salaried agent of "bloated corpora
tionS' in his section. employed to lobby the
West Virginia Legislature against the in
terest of the workingmen. At that time
the very name Of st. Clair in the mind OF
workingmen, of Fayette and Wheeling, was
identified with the worst features of mono
poly.
This time. he appeared before the
Democratic CORventionas the special
champion Of the workingmen-an enemy to
monOpOlies and down on railroads. That
must have been sweet meeting between
ST. Clair and FOntaine Smith, when the
latter. az the head of the Marion county del
egatiou went out to consult. 1t must have
awakened some recollections Of a period
when the gentleman from Marion posed as
the friend Of the workingmen of West Nir-
gina on Senate Committee while Mr.. St.
Clair exhausted his aggressive eloquence in
behalf of his monOpolistic (if the term be
admissable) measures.
Another Funny Thing.
One of the humors of the late COnyen-
ton was St. Clairs cheeky charge that the
Faulkner delegates from his part of the
State came on free railroad passes. This
charge, of course, was not made until after
every body else had gotten through, and
no reasonable time left Mr.. Fsulkners
friends for reply. Now it was well known
that Mr.. ST. Clair, at the very time ne
threw this charge into the face Of the
Faulkner delegates, held free pass over
the Chesapeak and Ohio Railroad, and that
he had used this pass in coming to the con
vention. But cheek is. if not the inherit
anee, certainly the sine qua ron OF the pro-
fessional politician. Politics is indeed a
d-(ask Jake Eemple for rest
Mr. Geo. W. TipPett, of the Point Pleas
ant Register-oneI of our most sprightly
contemporaries-left the city to-day. As
he wended his was to the depot he seemed
like big sun-dower, a little wilted by
the heat and work OF the convention, but
still cheeky as the d-newSpaper man.
He declares himself in the pres
ence OF Democratic feast, to
be possessed of the mouth OF a
whale and the digestive powers of ar
educated ostrich. And in exemplihcatiOn
thereof saws he is able willing and greedy
to swallow and digest the whole Democratic
State ticket including the tail end OF the
Court of Appeals and (if allowed to make
a face) the supplemental assessment added.
Tippet came here an ardent worker for
Wilson as Governor. but an open and
Pronounced Opponent to Jackson's Sup
Elemental Assessment Policy.
He is delighted with the nomination of
his fayorite. as well as the signal refusal OF
the Convention to adopt any resolution In
dorsing in terms the State Administration.
A majority of Mason was for Faulkner,
but Tippett held his small Wilson force
solid to the end.
Besides being graceful compliment to
the most Democratic Irishmsn (are there
any other kindly of West Virginia, the
nomination of Pat Duffy gives genuine
strength to the ticket, as q whole.
From the inmost depth of our soul, We
can shout "Hurrsh for Duffy.
They say Thompson, of Cabel, is good
speaker. As candidate for Treasurer of
the State, we may expect to see snd hear
him on the huStings, proelaiming the battle
cry of Cleveland, Hendricks, Wilson and
reforml
The REGISTER is entitled to its own opin-
ions. II. at times, it differs in matter of
criticisms from those in otfce. and confines
that difference within the limits of q manly
protest and an honest warning, no true and
unsel6sh Democrat can complain.
To the REGISTEs il is source Of honest
pride and self congratulation, that the at
lacks make upon il in open Convention,
were by chronic bolters from, and traditional
sore heads. of the Democratic Party of
West Virginia.
The Governorand his organ the Inteili-
gencer, are irving their level best to preju-
dice the Democrats Of West Virginia
against the REGISrER We eheerfully for
eve them-beesuse they have taken from
u no Subscribers THAT pay their bills) and
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