The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-08
INEVITABLE POSITION
or a Man who Explicitly said
he would vote for Harrison
AND DENIED IT IN TWO DAYS.
Mr. u. =. Yost's Peculiar Record as n
"Fiopper"-He goes back ON his
Voluntary Declaration and
Prints Card Oriental.


Mr.. y. +. Yost, who was referred to in
Mondays INrELLrGENCER as u lifelong
Democrat who had declared his inten-
ton to,vote for Harrison and Morton in
November on the Protection issue,
came out in card in yesterdays Register
denying his intention to do SO. The
Register makes great point on this.
Mr.. Yost's denial, however, is rather
weak. He says: "The statement in the
IXrELLIGENcER of this morning, that l
had changed my views on the great tariff
question and declared it my intention to
vote the Republican ticket, is mistake,
us ridiculous as absurd, yet one forwhich
that paper is not wholly responsible"
He evidently does not enjoy the
plight he finds himself in, and he tries
10 explain his being referred to in the
ISTELLIGENCERa us Il convert to the cause
Of Protection by saying it grew out OF n
joke.
The facts in the case are that Mr..
| YOst came into the lNTELLIGENCER office
and volunteered the information that he
intended to vote for Harrison. He was
not solicited to make any statement, nor
to allow his name to be used. He went
somewhat into detail, saYinghe was tired
of the Register and its doctrines. Three
gentlemen OF unqucstioned veracity
heard his remarks, and when Mr.. Yost
seeks to create the impression that he
did not seriously say that he intended
to vote for Harrison, he seeks to create
an impression not in accordance with
the truth.
What motive Mr.. Yost may have had
| in making an avowal on Saturday which
he denied and repudiated on Monday,
can only be ConieCturcd. The prompt
ness OF his disavowal, and the eXertions
OF the Register to make capital out OF it,
Justify the belief which many enter
tain, that his action was in pursuance OF
scheme to cast doubt on the iNTELii'
GESCgR's before unassaiablc list OF con-
verts from the Free Trade ranks to
those OF the PrOteCtionists. Another
theory is that in thus seeking nOtoriety,
Mr.. Yost only sought some gratuitous
advertising. In either case, ii is doubt
full if Mr.. Yost will be entirely satisfied
with the results when he is done with
the matter.
COMPARE THE RECORDS.
On July Is the INTELLIGENCEg printed
the fact that Mr.. w. l.. Heafne and his
son. Mr.. Frank j. Hearne, life long Dem.
oCrats and prominent manufacturers, in
tended to vote for Harrison. On July
10 interviews with Morris and Bernard
Horkhcimer and d. Il, Brooks, equally
prominent Democrats, were printed, in
which they declared their intention Ia
do the same thing. July %, the INTEL
LlGENcER printed the fact that w. IL.
Casseii, an ex-oAicer OF the Democratic
Marching Club, George Livingstone, Il
cigar maker, an ex-member OF the same
club; and John &. Fcarrett, u wool
grower, had come out for Protection.
", X, McClurg and Mayor Samuel Muir
raw, OF New Cumberland, were Inter
added to the list; William Armour, Of
BenWood, u little later. Judge johnson
of Grafton, was another. Mr.. ?. ii,
Moore, editor OF the Ohio Valley Mdnu'
facIurer, und j. Il. NlcCortnoy, Presi-
dent OF the Warwick China Company,
have also been mentioned, with perhaps
dozen others scattered over West Var
ginia. Dir. Yost was the last convert
named, and he was named on his own
explicit statement. 0i this list, not one
man has denied the truth OF the state
mcnis. eNCept Mr. Yost. Not one case
on this significant list has been credibly
denied.
Now, look at the Register list; 1t has
named but one Wheeling man rs in
tending to vote for Cleveland. 1t has
named few in the State. Among these
was Mr.. A. Burton, Of Harper's Ferry,
who answered in the lNTELLIGENcEE OF
July IS, oyer his own signature:
81 will vote for Harrison, Morton and
the rights OF American Workmen, and
against John Bulls Free Trade hum
bug" ~ -
Among these was also D. D. 7. Farms
wolth, OF Upshur county. This eXu't;
ant announcement, under big head
lines, could only have been made by
somebody who knew nothing OF State
politics. 1t created so much laughter,
even among Democrats, that Mr.. Farms
worth fclt constrained to print in the
RcgiSicT the statcmant that he bad not
been Il Republican since 1876. The one
Wheeling man named was Porter Grigs-
by, coIorcd, who in ringing card over
his own siguatuFe in yesterdays INTEL
IGrScgR said: II intend tobe Repub:,
lican MS long us am ColOred. intend
to be Republican as long as am an
American
These are fair specimens OF the ReJS'-
icr's limited list.
The INTELLIGENCER does not aiui 70
print the names OF all the converts from
Free.Trade to Protection. Had it done
so, it would long ago have named Mr..
Joseph A. Ankle, OF the Eighth ward,
Mr.. Jackoway, OF East Wheeling, Mr..
Godfrey Winzenried, the Market street
ieweler and about $50 others OF whom it
has knowledge. Where change has, II
special significance or illustrates the va
rtety Of Interests affected by Democratic
Free Trade, it is given publicity for that
reason, unless the new adherent OF the
Protection cause prefers that shall not
be.
mn al = AZ