The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-02

Tug ISTkLllGgNCER cannot permit even
the Republican state Executive Commit
tes to tlace II ina false position. This
newspaper has not "indulged in political
ostracIsm ssainst" Mr.. Wm, S. Meek ION
account Of his poverty" The lSTELLIGEN'
GER merely gave some reasons way it had
not felt at libsrlyto give Mr.. Meek q
hearty support in his candidacy Tor tie
House Of Delegates.
OlO reason was that Mr.. Meek had not
thought enough Of the Republican party
to keep away from boyCottcrs mass
meeting, but must needs 80 thore, taking
his Republican nomination with hin, and
make violent speech which greatly de-
lighted tho boyCotters. Another reason
was that while Mr.. Neck began early to
take hand in boycotting the INTELLI'
aEScsR, when he ordered his copy oI the
paper stopped ho did not think that In
ssvCrng relations with the INrELLlaEScRR
itwolld be becoming TO pay this estab-
lishmont S,Ij IL which he owed it, includ'
Ing $ll7O for subscription to the news
paper which he suddenly resolved ought
toba ruined.
The ISrRLIl0ENcER had been very in
dulgent with Mr.. Meek, as is shown by his
account Of three years standing, and by
the fact that though he was pushing an
active campaign against the morning
newspapers and running tho boycott end
Of the Evening BoycotItrI Ocn, he has
been lot almost entirely alone in these
columns. e..
Mr.. Meek and bis co.laborefG have done
their beat to ostraciss the ISTEL'
LluEScER-to compel it to submit
to unius. demands or be crushed
out Of existence. He has contributed as
much as the most industrious to estab'
liah in this community the swing Of the
bludgeon as the arbiter OF questions OF q
purely business character. The Rspubli'
can State Committee may feel called on to
defend this procedure and TO exhort Rs.
publiCans 10 endorse 1t with their votes.
The partisan z?al OF the lSTELLIGEScRR,
never doubted by the opposite po.
lltlCal party, does not carry this
newspaper 10 that extreme.
Nor can the ISrRLLldgSCER endorse the
proposition that the nomination Of any
party places upon those who advocate the
principles Of that party the obligation TO
close their eyes to the fitness Of the nomi-
nee. The committee makes mistake to
advance this doctrine at this timo aud In
this locality. II Democrats were to act
upon it--as We sincerely hope they may
not-what could Republicans expect in a
Congressional, Senatorial aud Leglsla.
tive district, all Of which cro Democratic
on strictly partisan voteP
The committee must permit tho INTEL.
IloEScRR to think that in its zoal to help
one man who is running on two tickets 1t
places in jeopordy portions Of ths R,pub'
liCan ticket Of iar gtsatsr Moment Tas
committee will the more tilly realz, the
situation when 1t reflects tina. Me. Meek
himself, as member OF the Trades AS
sembly, Is under obligation to cut his Re.
publican ticket and vote for Mr.. Gleason,
RDemoCrat, for the House Of y 3leEateS. II
Aman ou the ticket may do this, may not
everybody else do the same thlng2 Very
likely the State Committee las not
thought Of this phase Of tho question.
The committee is Of the opinion that
MI Meek'S "good Cltlssnship cannot be
questioned" Does the Republican State
Executive Committee regard boycotIlng as
an evidence Of good citia,nship, and doss
itSeriOusly propose that ths R,publicau
party as an organization shall endorse the
hIdeOuS thing at the poIIs2 We think
we know the committee too well 10 be.
llOve this Of 1t, aud the committee knowS
the Republican party to we'll to assert 1t In
the party's name; yet this is tho logic OF
the CommlLtso'S defense Of Mt. Meek.
II is true that "Ihs Republican party
has ever been the faithful friend Of the
poor man and Of tbs laborlug man" but
the poor man and the laborins tnAaiS, as
a rule, good cltiSIa who does not con.
lpFO with other men 10 ruin what hO can
mot rule.