The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-03-12
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Drunken DsbAuGh.

CINCINNATI, o., March 1.-THE Wash
ington correspondent Of the Commercial
Gazette telegraphs:
The Associated Press contains q para
graph which originated in the BSlimort
San, Washington correspondence Of yes
terday morning. 1t reCites the fact that I
certain SenatoT.eleCt was the leading
figure, in fact about the only figure, in {
horrible debauCh in public drinking
place in this city, and that members O
his State Legislature who helped elect
him were so indignant and disgusted thai
they declared they would go back home
and set matters in motion to have hil
credentials as United States Senator re-
Voked. The Senator.eleCt alluded Ia the
Baltimore Sun is John W, Daniel, OF Vir.
ginia, and the scene Of the orgy was John
0hAmberlin's. The circumstances have
been well known among the corresponds
ents, but no one mentioned them.
Correspondents are very lenient with
public men In this respect and know a
great deal more about them than they
ever tell. So Mr.. Daniels performances
were treated with the same silence he had
been accustomed to on many previous oc-
CurrenCes Of the same sort,
This silence would have continued,
doubtless, but for the fact OF the prolonged
aud outrageous abuse Of Senator Riddle-
berger by the press and public men Of
Virginia on account Of his drinking habits.
The State papers declared that Riddleber-
ger was disgraCing the State by his habits,
aud demanded his resignation or expul-
sion. The Post here devoted q full column
to the grogsest kind OF assaults upon Mr..
Rlddleberger, treating oi him as common
drunkard and disgrace to Virginia, This
was just about the time that ssnator.elect
Daniel was under the care OF doctors and
nurses recovering from his debauCh,
The Baltimore Sun Is q Bourbon paper
Of the strlCtest stripe and the Bourbon
organ OF Virginia, but 1t has lively
sense Of fair play, and 1t was through
this quality that II printed the expose.
1t did not mention Mr.. Daniel by name,
but it might as well have done 80, for 1t
spoke OF Senator elect" and Daniel is
the only new Senator.eleCt.
The Chamberlain party consisted of Mr..
Daniel and halla dozen Yirginials, among
them several members Of the Legislature
that elected Mr.. Daniel. They began upon
Mr.. Rlddleberger drinking so much and
disgrsCing the proud old State, and then
they drank all around. This was kept up
until the result was q most dIsRraCeful
and Ecandalous scene, that has been the
talk OF tho town. The particulars may not
be given here, but 1t Ia enough TO say, as
was said In the Sun statement, that "a
member OF the Virginia Assembly that
elected Daniel, and who saw the Senator
elect at Ohamberlain's where he had the
door, intended upon his return home To
have the Legislature called together in
joint convention, give an account Of the
nights doings, and moYe reyocatlon ol
the credentials Of the Genator-eleCt."
1t was not in the nature Of things for
silence 10 be maintained concerning Mr..
Daniel when every dog, Tray, Blanche
Sweetheart, Of the Bourbon Democracy
were pouring out abuse upon and print
Ing exposures Of the Republican Senator
whose colleague Mr.. Daniel will soon be-
tand so the latter gets into unpleasant
notoriety through the baltimore Sun and
the Associated Press.
Mr.. Daniels weakness baing notorious
1t showed poor lack of discretion on the
part Of his friends TO keep up the pro.
longed attack upon Rlddleberger, and
the reaction finally came back at then
with q dull thud from their own party
organ.