Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-16
TIMES MUTATIONS.
Mcclellan as tho Grand Marshall
at a
DEMocRATIc INAUeusATIoF.
Gallant Sesthfons Who Voted to Put Grant
on the Retired
List.
THE NEWS At THE CAPITAL.
spaa o he Register.

KAsHNGTos, January l5.-h was
little unkind Of the Inauguration Commit
tee 10 ask General Hancock to act as Grand
Marshal ct The inauguration of the FIRST
Democratic President since the war. His
declination might have been expected as a
matter Of eo1rse.ss Bat the committee was
bound to have one of the. de-
feated candidates Of the Democ-
rscy 10 perform the functions
of Grand Marshal, and finally hit upon
Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan, who was beaten so
long ago that he has forgotten it. McClel-
Ian has accepred and viii do the work as
well as any one. The fluctuations in the
tide of the fortunes of George, the unready,
have been many aud varied, but it is not
likely that he ever expected to serve in this
capacity for a Democratic President elect.
The generous action Of Southern Sena-
tors in voting for the bill toput ex-President
Grant on the retired list with full pay ex-
hibits the character of the gallant SouthronS
in the best possible light. They have a
great deal of genuine maniness, and while
they have not in any way compromised
their political differences with Gen. Grant
and his supporters, they recognize the
propriety of taking the present occasion
TO testify their appreciation OF the magma
nimity of the hero of Appomattox Court
House. Whether the Southern men in the
House of Representatives will take the
same course or not is another question.
There is q strong feeling among Democrats
there, that it would be wiser from q party
standpoint to pass such bill after Presi'
dent Cleveland has taken his oath Of Office.
The enterprise OF representative Of one
of the New York morning daihes discovered
recently that the Southern Senators had
formed an advisory board for the purpose OF
letting the PresideRt-elect know just what
the South wants. Messrs. Lamar, Harris,
Cockerill, Vance and Cooke were named as
constituting the advisory board. They all
insist that they know nothing about it. Mr.
Lamar says: III such a board exists
have not only been excluded from its de-
liberations, but have not even been ap-
prised of its existence" Senator Coke puts
It rather stronger. He SAYS: "Fhe whole
thing is fabrication from beginning TO
end. 1t is without the least particle OF
foundation" Senator Harris says: There
is not a word OF truth in it. There
is not Senator mentioned In
that article who would offer to
advise the President elect unless especially
invited tado so. Senator Cockrellremarks,
~ never heard Of such board until the ap-
pearance OF the publication referred to.
Senator Vance is equally emphatic in his
denial All the gentlemen alluded to, IN
sist that the South has only one object in
all that refers to the course of the new ad'
ministration, and that is to have all sec
tionalism lost sight of.
"Ed." Stokes, who killed Jim Fisk, has
been asked to confer with the lnauguraho On
| Committee on the proper arrangements tor
the ball supper. He is recognized as on
authority on such subjects, and will give
nothing but good advice
There will be opposition to the conhrma
ton of Mccormick as Collector of Internal
Revenue for West Virginia. The term o.
the Office, for six wesks or thereabouts, II
not worth fighting over considering the fac
| that the Senators are both Democrats anC
that the Office must remain in the hands o
Republican for that period.
II. Concklin. of West Virginia, is at thu
National Hotel to-day. j. a.