Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-30
rashing Through the Grafton Hulk
Doing
uCh Damage to the Republican
Ship as to
Imost Cause Her TO Sink in West
Virginia.
,sat CONSERVATION and Excitement
And
le Probabls Wreck OF the Republi-
can Party.

Editor Hart, after two weeks of reinvigor-
J rest, buekled on his srmor and took
! Ather whack at Collector Mccormick.
b this out q general row may be looked
VI along the line, as the fsctional breach
D wide that sides are taken and the
ground chosen. Alas farewell, Repub-
ism in West Virginia. The Kilkenny
var will end when there is nothing more
hit.
bigger Hart does his great duplex act
be following editorial reproduced from
erday' Inteligencer:
L. S. P. Mccormick, collector of inter
+. I,yeaue fer the district OF West VIZ
-, as been posing as q first premium
service TetCrmer, q martyr to the cause
tbrSli-nce Snd monument Of injured
Ceuce. He and his friends wanted l.
erstocd that II was treason to the Re
lean party to want him lifted out of the
which he got By the removal Of the
soldier West Virginia contributed to
ID efense of the Union. And he got the
because he had cheerfully done wha:
<rral Duval had refused to do-engsged
scheme to thRart the will Of the Rs-
h1csns OF West Virginia.
shis newspaper Mr.. Mccormick has
j printing essays celebrating the beau.
4 4 Civil Service reform. Ia his Col
! rs Office be has called to his aid a
liar kind of writing talent and set up
kbgernment expense q literary bureau
il Ind out for newspapers, Republican
Democratic, that want that kind OF
Trial. indications of himself and as
Il on the Intelhgencer. Sull he was
and unalul4rated Civil Service re-
ier. and to Oust him would be to wrong
Republican party and all the brave men
|X,narched to the front to give up their
4 hr their country.
MNRepubheans Of the State were to be
~ lelieye-if they could be SC de-
al nat here was q patriot who &C
I ice for the pubic good only that
4di sort of hub around which the
IH.r party Of West Virginia must
nj, stop-never to 60 again; that
4 u .1minded man cared nothing for
II Sol's OF Office; and that the humblest
n iOIiean in the party was not beneath
indly care.
Etba1s some good Republicans have
Atfued themselves to be deceived BY this
II nble Civil Service reformer. When he
i g lpced the editor Of the Intelhgeneer as
i ,9gade Democrat who sought to exter'
4 Se the Republican party in West Vir-
i there may have been Republicans
Il Thought Mccormick really an unselGsh
4 bt Who had dug out Gorgon horror
! kld up bis hideous form for the whole
~ dmonition of the good people Of the
A tbel suit Of ex Gsuger Pierce against
tor Mccormick hits the curtain again
hrows the electric light into the dark
q Ntrs Of selfish, morose and intriguing
ac;er The very remarkable official
kSpCHlence shows that the martyr and
Service reiormer and lord protector Of
NRfpu5Icsn party is IN tact sniyehng
Roc'l'e, Who works in tfe dark and Sian
people Who are personally obnoxious
& HIM
9Ir Mccormick professed great regard
the Union soldier; he did not hesitate
keIy TO denounce as of intemperste hab-
and general incapscy the son Of q
ion soldier and support Of any Union
<ker's widow and fathe,leSS children.
raised his canting voice in behalf Of
kublicans iu Office; be intrigued and
De false representations to get a Repub.
" subordinate out Of Office. he hoHled
Ut personal reasons being urged against
lholders: he demanded the removal OF
publican because he was personally
\ Eious" to him.
Pierce does not occupy the cousPic-
position that Mr.. Mccormick has
himself into. But his little Office
Doubtless as sweet to Mr.. Pierce as Mr..
Prmick's greater Office is to him. Mr..
W r is no, great Disorgsnizer, but he
, vote which he gives to the Republican
Mr. Pierce may lack the oily
Pc CT Mr.. Mccormick, and Mr.. Nc
fiCk may have been unable, as he says,
old any official relations with him;
are people in West Virginia who look
pr. Mccormick in precisely the same
this is The man who is doing sll this
80 as Republican martyr