The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-11
''GOVHRNOR" CARSEADON
Talks EntertainingIy about the
Amendment.
INTERESTING AFFIDAyITs
Regarding His Position, which Con.
nlct with His statcmcnt-Thc
Amendments Chances arc
Considered very Poor.

An INTELLIGENCE reporter met the
Hon. T. r. Carskadon, of Keyser, the
candidate for Governor OF
this State, at the Stamm House yester-
day afternoon and had short but very |
pleasant talk with him. He is now OIL
his third trip in this campaign, having
been on the 90 pretty steadily for the
past six weeks, dividing his trips up into
two.weck periods. This present trip
has carried him through the counties Of
Lewis, Upshur, Doddridgc, Kanawha,
CabelI, Peasants, Tyler and Wetzel, and
some two or three other counties. He
has been speaking almost daily and
sometimes twice day, but this arduous
work OF campaign does not appear 10
have told on him to any great extent.
He is the same, widc-awake, lively, well-
preserved old gentleman that the people
Of this State have known for years past
and lie has lost none OF his ready flow
OF language. Laying aside his high
white hat OF the campaign pattern and
settling back in an easy chair, he sail:
"a AIN always glad to meet an In
rELIIGENcEE representative. | have
taken the paper for over twenty-five
years and have had warm personal &C.
1uaintancc with its editors and proprie-
tors; have grown to regard the paper
MS | do one Of my family, and this brings
me directly to what | want to speak
about first. Up to the time Of my re-
cent speech Mt Buckhnnnon have al
ways been treated by the INTELLlGEN-
GER in II fair and courteous manner, but
that dirty report about me ut BuckhGn-
non and the mean insinnaLion published
few days since TO the effect that there
was doubt about what kind Of Il Prcsi-
DENTAL ballot | would cast, made me
mad. Now ! don't care how much
paper ridicules and abuses an opposite
party, but do object when insinuations
are made about q mans characterize
the effect, in fact, that he lacks charac-
ter The first is politics and ! suppose
the second is, but the 1NTELLIGENCER
ought to know me well cnought not to
make such an insinuation against me. !"
"Tell me about the BuckhannOn
meeting"
at was court day, and the court had,
as you know it is the custom to do in
this State during election times, adj
iourned, in order that the people might
have n chance to hear the issues OF the
day discussed. Mr.. William p. Hubbard,
Of this city, was advertised 10 speak
that afternoon, and was to speak in
the evening. | went to Mr.. Hubbard
and told him thatsI did not want to in
tcrfcre with his arrangements but that !
would be obliged to him ii he would
take occasion to announce that was
there and would speak. This he did
not sec fit to do. spoke TO Mr.. Clark,
the Republican editor thele, and asked
him il he thought there would be any
improperly in my speaking after Mr..
HuhhNrd2-it was public occasion,
court having adjourned that the
people might listen TO speaking, and
why had | not us good right
there as Mr.. Hubbard? ! never
spoke TO Il DGmocratabout speaking, nor
Of Il joint discussion; nor did any Demo-
CTut cNtT sUtAh W IiC VII tlhI llllcs
did go and sit OH the 'piatform with Mr..
Hubbard. There were about fifty seats
there and ! had the brass to 90 up and
take one where the people could see me.
handed Mr.. Hubbard the dispatch an
nouncing the death OF his uncle, DR..
Logan, and after he had concluded he
told me OF its contents and said he was
sorry lie could not stay to hear me talk.
/ announced that it was the death OF
one OF our best citizens that called Mr..
Hubbard away, and then made them
rollicking speech and got them TO
laughing, and in such good humor that
that night they turned out to see the cir
cus-hear me speak, in such numbers
that believe We could have filed the
hall even if We had charged admission"
"As regards that insinuation, Mr.. Cars
kadon, it is reported that you are going
10 vote for Mr. Cleveland-that you have
said you were"
"That is one Of the most absurd Of the
many charges that have been made
against me. have never had any Of
ilnity with the Democratic party and
never expect 10 have. The Democracy
was victorious four years ago not because
itrcprcsentcda higher civilization or had
abeltcr moralstatus than the Republican
party. The situation was this: the
moral element in the Republican party
failed on that occasion to measure up to
the standard set by the people and
through the breach thus left the heathens
rushed in and took possession OF the
land. The reason that the moral element
OF the Republican party failed to come
up to the peoples requirements was that
the political malaria arising from the sa-
loon element in politics, after steadily
growing stronger aud stronger, over
powered all else. The better clements OF
politics are fast being crowded out, but
as they fall out they are attracted to each
other and new party is being forced TO
the top. That party strikes at the rum
power, the root Of all the dangers of revO.
luton which threaten this country"
MIR. Carskadon then went on to out.
line some OF the points Of his speech.
His texts are the words of Stephen B.
Elkins about the danger OF the destruc.
ton gof the cotntry from the "over.
capitalization OF corporations" taken
from famous address delivered
before the University of Missouri,
and which address Mr.. Carskadon
claims was carefully prepared by
Mr.. Elkins, Blaine and Whitelaw
Reid, "as able triumvirate as any
country cap product" and also from
speeches made by Senator Colquitt and
Mr.. Beck, OF Kentucky. These texts he
use sto show the combine between the
money interest and saloon interest to
control politics so that the people shall
be robbed. He says that he feels
that he is being robbed and
that that makes him mad. The discus.
sions being carried on by the speakers OF
the old parties are, he says, done to
blind the people TO the true situation.
He says that the reason so little atten-
ton is paid apparently by the Prohibi-
ton speakers 10 the Democratic party is !
that it is avOwcdly whisky party
the Republican party, on the other hand,
has been throttled by the whisky party
and must dissolve before the grand ele-
ments that formed it can again work for
the good Of the people. To bring about