The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-14
county, which is frequently lighted at
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WY KRNNA HRslTATEs

To Accept the Congressional COMMITTEE
ChalFmRpShip-Dem0o DlSeontent
LOutsrtlle C0urierJ Journal SPECIAL.
WAsuISeToS, D. O., May Ex-senator
Kenna, Of West Virginia, has not yet con-
cluded to accept the laborlous and re-
spOusibls position Of Chairman OF the
Democratic Congressional Committee. He
d trying to see his way through the dark
campaign road before be Rttempts toll
drive the timid, bAlky Democratic Con.
gressionRl steedA along the denoraiiZed
lines OF the masses Of the Democracy.
senator Kenna wisely takes this view OF
the situation; II he makes . brilliant
campaign and succeeds in landing
Democratic majority in the next House
he is q great man, But on the other nand'
Il the Republicans carry the House,
he is nobody, Senator Kenna has pulled
mis- thinking cap down close to his ears,
and thought over the dangerous obstacles
that the Democratic candidates Will have
10 encounter in the fall campaign by Iea'
son OF the discomfort, which prevails
among the Democratic masses, lie does
not sec how he can make q brilliant and
winning fight with the understanding
that 10 the yanquished belong the spoils,
and that the successful candidates Will ps
expected to surrender their side'arms TO
the whipped Republicans Immediately
upon their arrival in Washington. These
Questions have come up like Banquos
thost in the mind Of Senator Kenna, and
they annoy him exceedingly.
One OF the most brilliant and dashing
Democrats Of the House was asked to-day
II he was going TO run again Tor re'elec-
lion. lie replied: II can't say, l am
studying the situation. My district Is
over 500 Democratic, but all my letters
from home are disCouraging and dlshearL-
ening, THE boys who do the work in
he Campaign and ut the polls feel outraged
at the Republicans being Kept II olhCe,
and do not seem TO understand why they
are. Many Of them seem disposed to
blame me, but, God knows, 1t is no fault
Of mine. | have run my legs nearly OH TO
the White House and through the De-
partments trying to get Republicans
turned out and Democrats put IN their
places, but meet with nothing but lall-
ure and sometimes unCivil treatment.
have kindly suggested changes to the
President, talked III an earnest but dlg-
nited manner with Bayard, lmplOred with
Manning, begged with Villas, beseeched
TrG Lamar, pleaded with Endl.
COLT whispered with Garland and prayed
with Whitney, but 1t is OF no use. why
d-n it, man, | have been mere WlloIe
year trying TO get few Democrats 70
places and the only thing have accom-
plished was in securing q dollar and forty
cents per diem place in the Government
Printing Office Tor o poor woman, and then
had TO insinuate to Rounds that some
day he might want me to do hin favor.
Is not this humiliating to 4 Democrat?
Rounds Is Republican, you know, and
he has Cot several thousand good offices
to throw around to his friends that do not
come under the Civil Service law, so.you
SEQ the situation here. Gosh, am AFRAID
to run again. While, as say, my district
is nearly 1000 Democratic, yet would
not be surprised II 1000 refused to go TO
the polls and 800 voted the Republican
ticket"
II Senator Kenna will keep his ears
open he will hear great deal Of talk like
the above. Your correspondent hears
heaps Of 1t. The rumbling from distant
States Is growing more frequent and dis
tinct as the days jog along. A Mugwump
administration and do.nothing Congress
are disgustingsgood and honest Democrats
all over the land, II might be well for the
young and gallant West Virginia Senator
to talk earnestly aud plainly to the Presl'
dent on the true situation as 1t 70, and not
rs the President would have II and the
Mugwump papera would make the people
believe. Senator Kenna Is credited with
having considerable influence at the White
House. Let him exert it for Democratic
interests and unity. If no can not do this
he had better not accept the Chairman.
ship Of the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee.