The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-09-03
WILL HE GET IT2
rnr Yrxep QuEsrIoN puzzLtNe
Tho Candidates for the once aad rhsIr
Trisuds as They Consider mr.. TansTs
Desire for the Place. Something
More ffon the Inside talks.


BY politicians and by business men. 1t
was the oCcasion=eE good deal Of rapid
going and coming. To the general public
L was a revelation and some Of the best
informed politicians had got no further
into the situation than iaraway glimpse
Of its shadowy outlines. An active Demo-
cratic politician said, 81 had heard some
thing Of this, bat l could not believe it
possible. did not think that Mr.. fancy
would persume TO ask such thing, and l
cannot vet be made 10 thiuk tnat the
senators will grant it. Why look at it"
The reasons assigned by this politician
were unchsritable and ungraci0us and
need no: bs given further currency In
print.
THE NIsTs ROLLED AWAY.
A candidate for the postoiIice who has
yery strong backing by business men and
polIticians. and hoseiriends have thought
him the coming mau, said, "a good many
thinys are made plain 70 me by the lNTEI..
LlGgSCER's article OF this morning, and
whils did not know all that was there
related. was in possession OF enough OF
The iac.s To convince me that the whole
article was straight. Naturally wanted
to make my papers as strong as possible,
anil wanted good word from our party
newspaper. went to Mr.. fancy aud
asked him t, sigl my petition He re-
pied that while he mad q kindly feeling
Tor me- he felt that no aad the newspaper
ought 10 keep out Il the fight aud that he
was going to put all applicants on par
by not endorsing anybody. l did not then
know that be vas himself in the field nor
did suspgct it, but there was peculiar.
,ty in his manner which left upon my
mind u, impression that Jaems wasn't
toting iAr. | don't believe that he will
ye, the pogtoflice. don't think that the
party can afford to bestow such tst thing
on a man who has never done anything
for it." .,,,.
fancy. | see now, that the scheme Of
himself and friends was 10 work the thing
quietly and slip him in before th9 rest Of
US knew what was going on. The frost Of
publicity uips that IN tho bud"
MORE ABOUT rAE DIRECTORS MEETING.
Candidate No. 8 said, 81 got wind Of
that meeting Of the Register directors.
WHY didn't ths l&rELMGENcEa tell the
whole story? 1t looks to me- as though
ynur paper Sas going out Of its way to help
fancy get the pos!otIice. OF course have
my own idea as to why You want him
10 have il. Now II you know anything
about that nesting oil tho Register direc-
TORS. Won know that three OF them we're
appointed committee 70 go 10 Parkers,
burg and urge Senator Camden to have tbs
appointment made NJ once. Two OF them
backed out. Mr.. Barr was the only man
who had the courage to go. OF course
don't Know what he said TO Senator Cam
den or what the Senator said to him, but
/ did hear that Mr.. Barr brought home
the assurance that II Mr.. fancy could
make o show Of support from the business
men, the Senators would make the deal
with him."
now COMMODORE DAERAH FEELS.
A friend OF Mr.. D4rr4h's hailed an IL.
rELLlGgScER reporter with the inquiry
"Have you seen Tom Darrah 2" MOT
yet" answered the reporter. well, sir
Tom is madden than vet hen. You see
he is stakeholder in the REGE'er, and he
got into the field earlyssand he thinks II il
tough treatment for tho manager ct that
newspaper to play that concern Tor hit
own benefit"
A candidate whose papers are the pride
OF his friends, said he had understood
that the man with the best endorsements
would get the place. II he was wrong,
Mr.. fancy might get it. As far as he
knew, Mr.. fancy hWd no endorsements
at all, though he wouldn't say that the
same nance Couldn't be found on the pc
tition OF every candidate. He had no.
ticed that some men have . weakness fol-
this kind OF autograph writing.
Mr.. rANEY's LITTLE SCHEME,
AZ suppose" said well known man
about town, "you know that Mr.. fancy
was very aetive in getting up charges
against Colonel Sterling. Suddenly come
thing happened to chill his ardor, and
have no idea that he had anything 10 do
with the charges that were forwarded to
Washington. You remember that the IN
TELLIaEScRR bSl an extended publication
about those charges and that to the Bur
prise Of Democrats, the Register came out
with the statement that the ISTELLlGEXcER
was trying to get Sterling bounced. The
tenor OF the ReyiSLer article was peculiar
and people who couldn't understand why
that paper didn't want q change in the
postoffice, concluded that the Register had
simply biundered. The truth was, as |
think your paper knew, that Tapey wasn't
ready for the change to be made and that
was his way Of putting 1t Oft"
Ogs MANS IDEA OF TIE SITUATION,
"He wanted to gain time until he could
get his own case into shaps. The change
Il so near at hand now, that the publica-
ton OF his candidacy with all the details
will rather help him, and II the ISTELLr-
aEEpER wants TO defeat him IL will in my
opinion miss its mark. Your own pgbli.
cation shows that he has the inside track,
and do you think that the othercaudidates
are going to butt their brains out against
neSspaper2" :
will not make the promised visit 10
Wheeling, because they would be way
laid on every street corner with appeals
and protests. II Is thought more likely
that when the President TstIElU they will
quietly slip down to Washington and
have the appointment made.
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