The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-30
THE AFTERMATH.
SOME BRIEF REFLEcIIoNs
On tho Work of the Republican Conference
ut Parkersburg Notes and Gossip
About those who oAttendsd-AIIsrep-
respntatIons of u Correspondent,

special Correspondence " INC ANtHWeNCtE'
PARxRRssvsa, W, Var July 9O,-A
very large number OF those who came tc
attend the Republican Conference remain
ed over until this morning, continuing to
swap views and discuss the gsneralresultin
view Of the days work, Hills Central, the
headquarters, was crowded, "a on the
night before when the Registers correspon,
dent couldn't find anybody here, and
when Col, Hill was turning men away ioE
want OF accommodation. There was very
general satisfaction with the work OF the
day, From Ohio and Monongalia came
the atrongest dissent from the declaration
in favor OF submitting the prohibltory
amendment, There were few gentle
men from other counties who thought the
tune inopporGune or that the question
ought not to be touched at all, Strangely
enough the resolution was opposed
by some strong prohibltlonlsts, who
thought the question ought not
TO be touched, and regarded as
in the highest sense right and expediont
by some who declared themselves rs op-
posed to prohibition, The general sense
Of the gathering was that the question OF
submission ia apart from prohibition, that
II is not inconsistent to favor submisslon
and oppose prohibition. II must bs said,
however, that the view OF the majority
was In favor OF prohibition. The COM
mon remark since the Conference Ia that
the party has greatly strengthened itself
by It's action.
There have bOen many inquiries for the
absent. Mr., AtklnVon, hoped up 10 the last
minute 10 be able to come, but he failed
to make an arrangement with Rev. DIR.
Garter, OF this city, to exchange places
with him in the Mt. Lake Park, temper.
anoe meeting, and was Obliged to keep his
prior engagement. General Golf was also
looked for In vain, as was Mr.. Menager,
OF Mason, who had written that he ex.
pected to be on hand. It was freely said
that the Exposure" Of his conference call
had helped to bring out the large gather.
ing here, representing even the remotest
counties in the State, from the extremes
OF the Upper Panhandle across 10 the
Eastern Panhandle and down to
the Valley OF the Great Kama.
wha. One hundred and four msn
handed their names In 10 the SeCre-
tary early in the day. After that more
arrived. Wood county came in with over
sevsnty. Between thirty and forty attend.
cd the Democratic conference. This was
doing pretty we'll for an ''otf tfyear," and
indicates among other things that the loss
Of the national pap has not starved out
the Republican party in West Virginia.
The vaCuous, silly, and'blasphemous 70.
port In to.days Register has excited amuse.
ment and disgust In the whole Of the
alleged report there were two facts. There
was Conference, and the submiBslon res.
olution was correctly clipped from the
State journal. While Democrats were not
Invited to the meeting and therefore the
Register reporter was not admitted, several
Democrats did stroll in and were not
asked to retire. There was nothing done
that anybody desired to hide under d
bushel, and the work OF the Conferences
was 80 freely discussed alter adjournment
that any seeker after truth need have had
no difficulty to get 1t. 1t was quite unlike
the effort required to get the full and &C.
Curate report OF the Democratic Confer
ence, on which occasion the ISTRLLlaEN.
GER was obliged to do good by stealth
aud blush to find 1t fame" No well.in.
formed Democrat has ever denied the
truthiulness Of that report, and probably
none ever will. There Ia not one Of the
three hundred present at the Republican
Conference but knows that 80 much
Of the RsgiSterS alleged report as Is not
unmitigatedly false ia absolutely ally, the
work Of not verv iacile invention, in
which the impotent malevolence OF the
homo Office eked out the clumsy stupidity
Of the reporter. c. II.