The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-06
COL. TAYLOR's DISTRICT.

Con. Warner SurO OF Dsfant-hcpubllchh
Prospects Brilliant.
Correspondence Of the Inteliigcnter.
CALDWELL, O., September 3.-suAicient
time has elapsed since the great Warner.
Taylor debate on the pension laws to en-.
able IL careful observer to measure the eff.
feet OF ton the soldiers, especially In this
District. Democratic by 1900 ut least the
District seemed hopeless at the start, and
Col. Taylor only accepted the nomination
rs public duty and rs good Republican
with no idea whatever OF being elected 10
Congress from it. Suddenly the whole
force OF affairs has changed and now in.
stead OF fighting in defense tho Republi-
cans are bold, aggressive aud certain Of
clecting Taylor. This is one Of the results
of the Joint discussion, in which, by tho
general judgment, Colonel Taylor iloorcd
Warner badly. Before the debate War
ner's friends assumed Tint he was vastly
the superior OF Taylor. lie took on all the
airs OF Goliath as he entered the debate,
and smiled ut the prospect OF easy victory,
lie came with the prosperity Of Cesar,
and not Il little OF the grotesQue intrepi.
dity OF Don Quixote.
He came ready to shout "Vcni, vidi,
VIGIL" hut returned to Marietta the worst
whipped man | ever saw. In tho five
hours contest before the great assembly OF
the people, General Warner lost his TEN.
per, boosted, fumed, grew pale, foamcd,
stamped, roarcd, shook his fist in Colonel
Taylor's face, and behaved like bully and
Il bulldozer.
Colonel Taylor preserved his temper,
was calm, seli-possessed and bore himself
with such grace and gentlemanly dignity
as to carry off the honors OF the debate.
Confined to pension matters, and General
Warmers conduct MS chairman in charge
OF our pensions, the debate took no very
wide range, and was OF interest. SO far Ms
its subject was concerned, only to soldiers.
But all, citizens and soldiers alike, were
dceplyinterested in the trial OF strength Of
logic between the two great dcbaters. Tay.
lor is so modest, SO knightly and digniic'l,
that the bully seemed at the start to have
the advantage, rs the bully in all contests
ut first seems to have. r:
Gen. Warner is II giant in size and
physical strength. He can roar like
the lion. He put me in mind Of Licuten-
ant Fitz Dabcr, OF the New York Cavalry,
an eccentric man whom NIL your soldier
renders remember well in the Valley in
1854. Fitz was drilling his cavalry one
daywhcn twas my very good fortune to be
present. He had been looking on the
beer us it loaned, until he could hardly
balance himself on his horse. Some OF his
men seemed drowsy and heavy and press
ed the pumcls OF their saddles rs il
stepped in profound thought. They had
been looking on the beer as it loaned.
"Attention, battalion!" shouted Fitz,
squirting his horse like mad, and cutting
pigeon wing clear round his battalion.
Then as his eyes flushed fire, and the wild
meteor-likc hairs OF his moustache point
ed out in all directions, refining IN his
horse and drawing his sword, he bawled
out these acknowledgement words,
familiar rs household words to every SOL
dier who was ever in that Valley:
"Straishten up! Look fierce. Look like
hell. Look like me-" Gen. Warner on
the platform reminded me- OF that man and
l laughed. !, 5}i5i = ,l III, z.
AS he was ranting and bawlins through
that interminable debate l heard many Of
our boys refer to this. 1t seemed to como
up spontaneously to us all. , u.s. 5gf1
But the soldiers say that the fierce
looks OF Warner did not scare Taylor, or
answer the terrible arraignment Of War
ncr, MS presented by Taylor. ]; Colonel Tay-
lor had all the records and proved that
General Warner, rs Chairman OF the Pom
sions Committee, killed off all the bills in
which soldiers have any interest. More
than that, the soldiers ofNYarner's district
did not care to know. That is enough for
them. They will spot him, G,OOO or more
Of them, in October, for killing or their
pension bills. You hear nothing else
spoken OF. 5,E. 4, r, !: fS5ig5 80, /, i Y. 4.
Colonel Taylor exposed Warmers dcma-
gogy, and made his name u kissing and
Il big word. All the soldiers say SO. War
ner challenged him. He soon threw
Warner on the defensive and holds him
there by superior power! Colonel Taylor
is by far the stronger man of--thc two.
That is universally conceded: And Col
onel Taylor's fidelity to the soldiers while
he has been in Congress has made him
solid with that class. The general opin-
ion, rs hear tt expressed, is that Colonel
Taylor will be elected BY 500 to 500 ma
jority. ! cannot doubt il. No soldier can
possibly vote for Warner. il,' + f.
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