Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-12

Some Republican We've On the
Revenue Position.
The staIwart End Claims One Thing and
the Half Breeds the 0ther---Ths
Old Fight Cropping Out
Again

"Was the resignation OF Collector Duvai
offered; IN good faith. Or had il a good stOu.
string attached, sohe could pullit back
when be chosen
Quite . number of the good people OF
Wheeling. without regard TO party, have
asked esch other this question and the am
y e has varied to accord with the fActional
position Of the speaker The ruled, injured
petulance with which the IraelEigencer
flung itself into the breach, on Saturday,
showed something was not all right. and be-
tween the lines Of its presidentcrushiag
article was told a story Of deeper interest
than in the editorial itself This is not the
first time the IntelIigencer has thrown itself
into double leads, over the collectorship,and
its position requires no label. The attitude
it assumed when the PierpOint-D uval-Mc-
Cormick trouble was on, showed that its
present grief is not that it loves Dnval less,
| but that II hates Mccormick more.
There m Marshal Wells" smiled
| Marshal Atkinson, in the District Court. on
Saturday, when the door opened to admit
Cant. Charles z. Wells, Of Gloyers Gap.
Postmaster Sterling was beside him and the
question Of Federal appointments being In.
troduced, the REGIsrEK man asked Marshal
Atkinson what he thought OF the change IN
colIectorship. !.
II know said he, that General Duvars
resignation was In the hands Of the Presi.
dent in good faith. He has spoken very
| f~reouentig of quitting bis. Office and express
ed himself as anxious to be relieved
sYes,y added Col Sterling, "he has large
interests IN the West and his sons are out
there. BE has been expecting to 60 West
aThen how about the Inteligeaeers lit
tie fling this morningY
"The I~nteIigencer 10 al wrong about
that" and the Marshal went to call 9 wis
ness.
Surveyor Beach said the same thing in
substance. BE said General Daval had
told several special agents since his resigna-
| ton had been fled that be was anxious to
| be relieved, and had written to Washington
on the subject.
All Of this was fatty c~ontradicted by a
gentleman who said it came to him straight
from General Duval, himself. His infor-
maticn was that General Duval was intense
" surprised and knew nothing of the &C
| ceptanee of his resignation until he saw the
dispatch announcing the appointment Of
Mccormick. His resignation was offered
in q spirit Of digni6ed injury, after his com.
muDicatiou with Commissioner Evans; but
when Blaine was defeated and the questions
involved passed out of sight, he has supposed
The resignation subject was over and gone
and his surprise was intense when he read
of the nomination ofhis successor.
The Petersburg Journal. which belonged
to the stalwart and anti-Inteligencer end
of the 6ghi, says:
The In~telligencer accuses the President
Of making this appointment "in payment Of
personal services rendered" and thinks that
it may be that the Senate viii take thi'
view and refuse to confirm the nomination
It also thinks that-if harmony was wanted
that the President has "harmonized with 8
vengeance" Evidently the Intelligsncer i,
bent upon war to the knife in the purity and
if there is to be q ROW" the intelligence
wants it understood that il startedi i; and i,
| proud Of il. We hope Republican, in tni,
end Of the State will refuse to be q party t.
any row" on either side.