Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-16
POLITICAL DRIFT.

Detroit Free Press: Mr.. Blaine and Gen
eral Butler have been invited to the meet
ing of the National Educational Associa-
ton. But Logan was ommitted. There
was good deal OF tact aud consideration
fer his feelings in this.
New York Tribune: Chicago as a sum-
mer resort" is the topic which is now occu-
pying the attention Of the Chicago press, In
these days of careless proofreading this is q
dangerous topic of discnSs. Some paper
will be made to speak of Chicago as bum
mer resort.
n. Y. Tribune 1t is commonly supposed
that the Flower barrel has done yeoman's
service durjuE the preliminary canvass IN
this State 6ut there is a cruel report that
several friends ofits candidate have refused
to present his name to the July Convention,
even II New York should indorse his claim.
Thew themselves admire and love him, but
thew are afraid that about seven hundred
delegates will arise in the middle Of the
nominating speech and shout: who in
thunder is Roswell p Flower, any way?'
St. Louis Republican: We agree with the
New York Times in hoping that the report
that Blaine will 90 on the stump will prove
correct. He viii be a powerful speaker,
but we want the country to know him for
Just what he is bold, audacious and shame
less. All the attraction Of his personal
magnetism, all the responsiveness of his
eloquent tongue. will not avail to stem the
tide of popular disaPproyal, and wherever he
goes the people will remember aud recognize
the tattoo marks which disfgure his moral
being,
St Paul Globe: Congressman Glib son, of
West Virginia, says; West Virginia cannot
be carried for Blaine. He is not stronger
than any other Republican in that State.
We will beat him The West Virginia
people want to look out sharp for Steve FL
kins in that neighborhood. He's full of
tricks on travellers.
Philadelphia Times: The Chicago Con
vention injected into the Republican plat
form so much pension buncOmbe that it
hurrieS the dignifed Senators at Washing
ton to keep up with the pension procession.
Between the fear that the Treasury will be
draiued if everybody Is pensioned and the
desire to keep in harmony with the party
declaration ON the subject, the lot of the
Republican Senator is not particularly
happy one at present.
St. Lonis GlObe-Democrat: II is pleasant
TO notice that the Chicago Tribune takes its
crow in a smiling and graceful way. The
platform it saws echoes as nearly as pos
,ibIe the principles and convictions Of nine
ty-niue out of hundred of all Republican
voters And vet the platform is distinct,
opposed TO the doctrines that the Tribune
has been advocating withsregari to the
tariff the currency, the labor problem, the
pension business and nearly everything else
Of current political interest: The Tribune
has very large and able stomach.
Philadelphia Press Secretary Freling
huySen has at last discovered aEsyigoroUs
foreign policy under which he can safely
assume a threatening atutude-towardS the
Federal Treasury. ~
y. Y. World Does any one bsEsye that
Tildeu would refuse Ia run if he did not be-
Geyc that Blaine was sure to win.-Phila-
deiphia Press.
This is the sort of twaddle that TIE Blaine
organs are treating their readers 10
Mr 1ilien declined denomination for the
Presidency ssur years ago. He has persjs
tently refused to the consent of his name
from that time to the present His most
intimate friends have for more than year
spoken of his reasons for declining to make
the race in the very terms used in his let
ter. The idea that he has heen SCARED OFT
the track BY the nomination of Blaine
man who cannot command the better ele
mentS oil his own party-is so preposterouS
that it is not even worth smiling at
Atlanta Constitution: Mrs Hayes noble
husband has informed his cook that
ne is Tor Blaine We should think that this
fact would convince foreign monarchieS that
hts country is still practically united