Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-10-19
THE INIaUITy OF IhIs AGE.
New York Newspapsrs---Ths Sun
Tumbling DOwn---Ths Herald,
World and Tribune the
Leading Journals
DEFEAT OF FREE TRADE HURD.
The B. & o. Railroad Robert Gar
ret and Captain Clements.

ton of the State The average yield is
thirty bushels to the acre, or nearly that
No better wheat is raised the world over,
not even in the bottom lands of Illinois.
Hagerstown.
Hagerstown, the county seat Of Washing
ton county, was originally called Elizabeth
Town. 1t is nearing the mark OF Cumber-
land population, having between eight and
nine thousand inhabitants. | went to town
several times on court days and found that
the general complaint OF the farmers was Of
expected hard times. Wheat was selling
at eighty-fve cents a buShel and no demand
for produce.
stock Gambling.
Here in a country as rich OF soil and fine
in climate as Western New York are felt
the effects of the villainy OF stock gambling
and grain speculation. When | asked the
farmer why his wheat was so low and flour
so high, he said to me that the price of
| Hour was fixed by the dealers and the spec
ulators And do they fix the price Of
wheat" said |. mo, that owing to over
production, he replied, I'VE have too much
| wheat.
See the inconsistency. The wheat is
| more than We need and the -four vet stands
at the will OF the gamblers.
The iniquitv of this aye is the passion
| Cor dGbhling in stocks for deaung IN cor
| uers and for making monev on false basis.
| A man sells you barrel of -four which he
never saw and quotes 10 Won stocks which
exist only in his Imagination. He buys
with money he never handles; sells wheat
he never laid eyes on and then-what? He
has margin" that is he bought the stocks
at fifty and sold them to you at seventy
FIVE. Yon find the next day that they're
not worth a cent on the dollar That vii
lain is a successful stock gambler. With
| three other co-vllainS he tries to corner the
wheat of Illinois and sets up at Chicago
| and quotes wheat on his blackboard at fifty
| cents The farmer who raises the wneat
| takes the blood suckers quotations and tells
YOU that wheat is worth only half dollar
a bushel. What the farmers need is self
protection. They should regulate the price
cf what they raise instead of having 1t done
for them by gamblers who live on the wrecks
'hev make Of innocent humanity .a
| New York Newspapers.
Since the campaign reached the climax,
and metropolitan press took sides with
the warr:ng elements there has been
tumble in the circulation Of the papers.
| The Sun boasting OF its grand constituency
of one hundred and thirty FIVE thousand has
| come down to one hundred and twelve
thereabouts Mr. Dana hostility to Cleve-
land has driven large number Of readers
to the World, now, by all odds the strongest
organ OF the Democra i'll the Inlted
| States. To counterbalance the loss IN cir
Culation, the Sun hasn't bought or printed
| any correspondence for two months. The
screws has been turned and all purchasing
of matter has been stopped except as items,
uop and then, from Washington. This has
no doubt made up for ihe falling off in cir.
culation, for the Sun is always good and
profitable market for writers of ability 1t
paws generally for available matter more
50 ,han any New York paper except the
Herald, although | DC not know the prices
| of tue World office since Pulitzer took
charge.
lie has made the World a great success.
With him, on the editorial staff is John
Coc&erilI, whose g-nius for paragraphing is
worth fortune to newspaper.
find that here in Washington the best
selling papers on the stands at the hotels
and bookstores are the Herald, World and
Tribune. The Democrats all take the
World, and the Republicans the Tribune;
both sides like TO read the Herald. The
Sun has fallen off greatly.
MIR. Hurd's Defeat.
II NAV be said of Congressman Frank
Hurd OF the Toledo district, that devotion
20 his honest convictions cost him place in
Tie tortv.ninth Congress. Of all the mem
beis OF the Forh-eight Congress, with the
exception Of Carlisle, Hurd is the abest
LAWYER. the superior of all as an eloquent
sneaker, and inferior to no man the world
over in courage or in the reCtitude of his
life. public or private Whatever may be
his doctrine about the tariff, whether true
or false. far above and bPvond it is the
grand and rugged honesty of the man.
Not member Of the House, unless per
haps some fellow with the sonl Of gnat
but will miss this voung man Of matchleSs
eloauence and glorious intellect.
believe it would be we'll if such honesty
should. after all, be regarded by the people
as more thsu paramount in choosing their
public servants.
The most dangerous man is be whose
convictions are those Of his patrons aud
who believes only what will please the gang
that nominated him. The fellow who can
see beyond the horizon of his own selfish,
ness is the worst sort Of demsgogue, and
demagogues are always hypccrites.
Grafton.
went to Grafton TO renew my acquaint-
ance with the balot-box. 1t seemed to me
that the casting Of votes was unnecessarily
DELAYED. and it was nearly sun dowu before
the poll books were closed. Its bad time
to make arguments and argue politics when
man has ballot in his fist ready to de-
post it. Its too late then for philosophy
on the part of the candidates. Pretty much
every man has his mind made up. He
who holds his vote for the highest bidder is
a scoundrel of the lowest grade and fhould
ne hustled out of any civilized community.
There was no disorder at Grafton and the
election was well conducted.
The b. so.
found the hotel at Grafton, owned 6y
the B. 4 o. Company, we'll conducted BY
Hoover. who WAS formerly in the business
; in Cumberland. The table is excellent II
every respect, and the attention of the EN-
ployes is very kind.
Most Of US who have been going to Ne"
York under the arrangement OF the Penn,
sylvauia Company with the B o. are o.
the opinion that the former company Il
playing the hog. There is much OF IN
: Justice in the conduct OF the Pennsylvania
company aud violation ofits contract owns
more than anything else to jealousy OF tn
B. L o. peoples growth and success.
Mr. John w. Garrett once told me ina
he would not be amazed to see Shat ha
come to pass. He said the PeunsyIysnT y
Compsny was NOT satisfied that the b q V
, COMPANY should succeed by its help.
Perhaps thst this great railroad uan