Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-08-10
GATH's GUsH.

He Talks About Wheeling, Blaine, West
Virginia Railroads and the Contempt
Case.
Cath" in yesterdays Cincinnati En-:
quirer, sand;
Il looked at the Capitol of West Vir-
ginia-one of those big new, cracked re-
naissance buildings, with the walls all plas-
tered with mud, as if the Commonwealth
was lying out in camp somewhere for the
present, and meant, ifit could get through
the enemy, to make headquarters in some
fixed place for a while. In other respects
Wheeling has greatly improved since | first
saw it, and is vigorous, ,substantiated town.
But such places as Wheeling and Parkers-
burg, and tperhaps Charleston 'and Clarks'
burg and Msrtinsburg, have hard time to
civilize those
Wild Hills,
where lives a race of people differing but little
from the wild Kentuckians in the inaccessi-
bic mountains. All the frugal virtues reside
among this people They are kind, will
take no compensation for charity, but such
are the most difficult all people to impress
with the changes in our century.
West Virginia is claimed to be debatable
ground by some Republicans, and it is
charged that Mr.. Elkins is to make a fight
for it. Ex-Speaker Grow told me some
time ago that he meant to stump West Vir-
ginia. Mr.. Blaine had rather intimate re-
lations with this people in his youth,
and he went to school in a district
originally supposed to be in Vir-
ginia, but afterward transferred to Pennsyl
vania. Wheeling, even more than Pitts
burg, was the metropolis of Blaine's boy
hood because the stages were going and
coming from his home to the former place.
Blaine inherited, through his mother, per-
haps, some property analogous to the re-
sources of West Virginia, and his latest en-
terprise has been to build a railroad into
West Virginia. was
In Wheeling
last July and inquired what chances the
Republicans had The Republicans an
Swered me that they had next to no chance;
that there was about eighteen thousand ma
jority against them in the State, and that
the Congressional elections the Greenback
movement and other matters of that sort
must not be relied upon in the regular
drawn battle of Presidential year.
Since that time, however | have seen
curious things going on in West Virginia.
Wheeling, with its Sl7,000,000 of property
is claimed to be in a crippled financial con-
dition under the constitution OF the State
which restricts the debt-making power
The day | was in Wheeling the Supreme
Bench of the State, as | understood it to
be- had called
A Wheeling Editor
before it for contempt of Court. 1t seems
that in the corruptions of some kind that
were going on in there the editor put in his
oar, and was forthwith summoned before
the bench. The pen of Cruikshank could
have made queer picture OF this little
boyish-looking fellow sitting out in the Court
before the assembled bench of four men.
The Judge in the middle was great big
giant with straight black hair and q red
face, and he seemed to have concealed
quid of tobacco mp in his eye, for it ap-
parently rolled all around his jaw, up into
his eyes, got into his brain and then came
travelling around again. Every time he got
this quid in good position to articulate
with strength he would raise his voice and
Pin the Little Fellow
who wrote the article with glittering eye
and say to him: This was clearly eluci-
dated in the case Of Jimjam against Pig
whistle page 81, volume II, folio 1000"
The little boy would look up as if he would
ike to play marbles a while if the Court
would please.
Meantime the other Judges sat on the
Bench, dreamy look coming upon their
faces at times, as if it vas good time be-
tween drinks, and then again the majestyof
the law suddenly returning TO them. II
they undertook to sleep the big giant with
blue hair would roar out "Cheesicks
against Nozzle, page 5000, folio 920."
Then he would pin the boy again, who
looked over that assemblage to know wheth-
er there was any common-sense in the COM
monwealth and whether it was not kind
Of dream.
If there was any hesitation on this point
the big giant with the blue hair got the
quid Of tobacco around to the proper place,
lifted one eye and exclaimed: This is
clearly laid down in Bullcalf against Cow
pasture, volume 1000, Sniffers Reports.
Then the culprit seemed to say BY his couu.
tenance: May go home and see my lit
tie sister,