The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-05-27
A PLAINTIVE Wall.
EHE oHIo sEAFE sENAEE.
The Democrats Claim that the Hamilton
COpntg Senators were Seated through
Clerk vAllAndIShAm's TrsHehsF1.
OOWEtlI'a Great Game Of BlHh.

County Senators were Seated through
Clerk vallAndIghAm's TFsSshsr9,
COVEtlpu Great Game Of BIuH.
CINCINNATI, o., May 96.-Under the
head OF "Ths Son Of YAllandigham sells
his bIrthright for meas Of pOttage," the
Enquirer publishes the following, which ID
making stir;
There have been good many sly hints
and insinuRtions that Charles L. VallAn-
dighAm is traitor to the Democrat party,
and has betrayed his friends and the men
who elected him to office. Among the
Democratic Senators and those who com.
mune among themselves about such
things this talk has been free for some
time, but it has never been circulated gen
orally. Then follows an interview with
Robert Kuchnett, one OF Hamilton Coun.
ty's Democratic claimants in the Senate.
Senator, can you tell the Enquirer how
the Hamilton county delegation was
bounced, and why the Democrats all went
away, instead OF staying and fighting 1t
iii the Clerk had only remained neu-
trail, and not acted with either party, we
would have won In the end, but he went
over to the Republicans entirely, After
the very first trouble, and about the time
the compromise was effected, Mr., Vallan-
digham said that when the question re-
Cured he was going 10 be Clerk oil thb
Senate, and not OF the Democratic party.
He had been weak all the time, and when
he made this declaration we knew the bot
tom would drop entirely out OF our case.
We knew that when the Senatorial matter
came up again his journal would belong to
the Republicans, and that all We could do
was TO stand up and be slaughtered. We
had no Clerk, and we determined 10 70
away and leave the Senate without
quorum. The night before we left, he
said II the roll was to be called the next
day he would not call 1t, and asked Fisk,
the Enrolling Clerk, to perform that duty.
Still We would have stayed had We seen
one possible chance for victory, We would
have remained could we have relied upon
the Clerk for q true report Of the journal
the proceedings Of the Senate-but we
knew we could not, and we went away to
prevent the State being redistriCted and
the Boards being reorganized.
"Did you have any conference with
Vallandigham after your return from the
South2 ?"
ayes, and that was the final stroAe.
We saw one more chance, and again found
INV NlaRts t,iIh The a1amu IVhan MN Pa
turned from Chattanooga and were again
installed In Covington we sent delegate
to confer with Vallandigham, We were
willing then 10 go back under arrest In
charge OF Ssrgeant.at-A Arms Addison. We
intended to proceed direct to the State
House, take charge OF the Senate Chamber
and remain there until the Senate con.
vened, when we would proceed with bust.
ness, but Vallandigham was against us,
and said he would not call the names OF
the Senators from Hamilton county; go
again we were defeated by his attitude.
The most treacherous action on his part
was when the journal was stolen. With
out even being requested by the Republi-
cans, he went to work and wrote out q
new journal from memory. That showed
Il INV AuAluuu Who W w
"What do you think was the agree
ment between Vallandigham and the Re-
publicans"
"That he was to be kept in his position
until the end ot the year, and possibly
through the term. We notice after the
first trouble was over that he seemed very
much under the control OF Mr.. Conrad
and some other Republican Senators. A
Republican Senator told me that no officer
Of the Senate was 10 be removed except
for cause, and they are all Democrats.
That makes the case very transparent 10
me. They are not to be removed, be-
cause II Vallandlgham were the only
officer retained 1t would show up the bar.
gain as plain as A. b. O."
Similar opinions on the late Demo
cratic Clerk were expressed by the other
Senators, whom an Enquirer reporter met at
Coyington. Senator 3 Neill, at one OF the
CauCusses, with tears in his eyes, said that
1t was about twenty-five years ago when
as q Congressman he, with committee,
waited upon President Lincoln and asked
for permission 10 return i1r q man whom
every Democrat loved and who was then
exilsd to Canada. Under the CirCum.
stances he would torbear 10 mention the
name,
Senator Lawrence was reported as say
ing that the only shadow across the path
ot the Ohio Senators enjoying themselves
in Covington was caused "by the banner
OF VAllaudingham trailing In the dust"