Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-30
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
HENRY WATTERsoN TALKS GENERALLY
On the Fair Prospects Of the SOuth---ldeas
Of Various Men on the Steel Nail
and Its Great Future,
PTTTssURe POINTS PERTINENTLY PUT

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PITTSBURGH, March 28.-Henry Waiter
son, the editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal, stopped in this city for al hour or
two one day this week on his way to New
York. He is a short, thick,set, rather good
looking gentleman, minus his right eye,
which detracts very much from his general
distingue appearance. There is nothing of
the snob about him either in the matters of
dress or OF conversation. He is the most
beautiful and skilltul manipulation Of Eng
hsh on the American press, and his talk is
nearly as pure as his writing. He talks
rapidly, clearly and to the point. Speaking
about the somewhat noted contest for the
position Of Commissioner Of Internal Reve.
nue. between Thompson and Miller he said:
There is a general impression that the selec-
ton Of Miller was a triumph Of the Randall
influence. This is all fudge. Randall had
nothing to do with the appointment of Mr.
Miller. He did not turn his hand to induce
the President 10 select Mr.. Miller. Randall
backed Judge Buckner, of Missouri, who
was one of the Southern members who stuck
to Mr.. Randall for the ~Speakership as
against Carlisle. in Kentucky we regarded
the contest between Mr.. Thompson and Mr..
Miller as one between two very capable men
and accepted the issue in that spirit.
Thompson Is a
Bright, Companionable, Lovable
man. Popular, talented and courageous
he is of course a. fsYorite with his friends,
who did all they could to compass his ap,
pointment.
People throughout the country hardly
understand the merits Of the recent trip Of
Mr.. Randall and the controversy between
his friends and myself consequent there
upon. The last time | saw Mr.. Randall he
threw his arm around my neck and sitting
on a sofa we talked for an hour and a halt.
The next thing l heard from him was that
he was operating with a newspaper man in
Kentucky, who for the last ten years has
imagined that his chief object in life is to
obliterate me. When Randall came South
and visited Louisville en- route, he wa
entertained By the Board of Trade, so-cslled,
which is a very small, in fact a very incon,
siderable local concern This was carrying
the war into Africa, or Kentucky, if you
please. l had the choice of three things
either to remain silent and allow the world
to m~isconstrue and misinterpret my silence,
or to participate IN the proceedings of q
. BANQUET that was gotten up to humiliate and
mortify me, or to fight, and fought. 1t was
q sort of q triangular contest"
The Budding S0uth.
Mr.. Watterson spoke very hopefully Of the
South and Southern prospects. With the
removal Of the incubus of slavery came q
spirit of independence and se~lfrelisnce.
Capital was lacking, but that defect is being
overcome gradually and grsudly, and with
the progress Of years will come q new era
for the South. Cotton and sugar will not be
the leading products. Coal, iron, nails,
glass in brief the leading products Of the
North, heretofore regarded as indigenous,
will be produced more cheaply and plenti
fully south of Mason and DiXon's line than
north of it. Already Alabama is vieing
with Pennsylvania, and today pig iron can
be delivered in Pittsburgh more cheaply
from Alabama than from the great furnaces
of PENNSYLVANIA. The South's development
ia as vet only incipient. The treasures of
the southern terminii OF the Appalachian
ranges and their foothills have LAIN con-
ceaied for generations awaiting the hand OF
energy and the resources of capital, and
thew are about to come. Before the LIST day
of January, A. D. 1900, Pittsburgh will not
be the greatest iron manufacturing city on
the continent, nor will Wheeling be making
two-fNhs Of the nails that are made in
America.
The New Era.
Birmingham, England, that "city OF dark
ness" will have in Alabama a namesake
that in all essentials will more than rival Its
English prototype. OF course none Of this
nrooress will be accomplished By the resi-
dents of the South ofsnd by themselves. They
own the land, but they are nearly all without
means to develop their ore beds, coal fields
and Imstone uuarries. The manufacturers
of the North are sending their sons South
~ locate and, in the course of q few years,
~ become their most deadly competitors.
The questioned tariff Mr.. " atterson ysded
He hoped that President Cleveland will be
able to Understandings graspIt, mere
ore narty ideas at wide variance on the
snb;ect that must be h~srmonized.
The Last to Come In.
Alexander Laughlin, president Of the
Lauohin nail company at Martins Ferry,
aid TO me a day or two ago: Next week
we shall be forever done with pudding: We
bsvin them the exclusive manufacture ofsteel
nsSis, We have been a little backward IN
coming to this determination and have
rsaIly been at times doubtful about 1t, but
~ That we have concluded to 60 into 1t,
We sbsll 20 the length and do no more
bo;;pp. Ii we can get things ready we
hall he making steel nails next week.
The Erect in Wheeling.
Mr.. George Dean. founder for the juno
ton Iron Company at Mingo, in the course
go General discussion of the aspect OF the
Stsel nail situation. said Monday afternoon
last: zone thing that the general manu-
factnTs Of steel nail nails viii accomplish
Iii be the destruction of Wheehng,s promi-
nsres AZ a nail making centre. For years
Wbse6pp has enjoyed the prestige o.
mak;ng the finest nails in the world, These
Ills sold themselves and defed compeor
.;on The characteristics Of steel are such
tSst tbey viii allow no mil any advantage
o1a- another in their production and here
a. he Wheeling manufacturers will be
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