The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-20
MR.. WILEY AGAIN HEARD FROM.

nc IkopIl6b TO tHo StflCtuEdb VI thS Ahh'
Party Organ of this State.
To he Editor Of tie IaielliOaer:
sIR:-By the kicking and squirminG
of the writer of the structures upon my
letter to your paper, headed stop and
think" am reminded Of an anecdote
read some years ago which was to this
effect: A boy was driving q four-hOrse
wagon load OF hay along a hillside and
his father was upon the load. The
wagon upset, throwing the old man
under the wagon, and while things were
in that tangled-up condition, the boy
standing there holding the horses and
crying as though his heart would break,
there came along a couple of gentlemen,
and when they saw what had happened,
they said to the boy, "Son, don't cry, we
will help you to right VI, IS your " wagon g
and put on your hay" well, said the
boy, hurry up for Gods sake, for my
daddy is under the load" l judge, Mr..
Editor, the writer referred to, as well as
others OF the political third party in this
State are under the the load. They have
taken up more, in my opinion, than they
will be able to carry Mt the ballot box
this fall.
The following appeared in last weeks
Parkersburg Freeman: zone W. H..
Wiley, OF Palatine, had very silly as
well as very vicious letter in the INTEL
LIdESCER few days ago. We are ad.
vised that this is the aforetime Reterend
W. II. Wiley, the same that made him
self ridiculous in the memorable Grafton
convention OF three years ago. But there
is no reed to go to his record for a dag
nosis of his case; his letter is its own
sufficient antidote for the poison it con.
tains. When protested minister OF the
gospel gets so low in politics as TO say,
Il expect to vote for the Amendment ifa
third party is kept out Of the field thus
assuming the role Of the hull-doZlng
ward politician, and that, too, over his
own name in the public press, we sub
nit that nothing he might say would
have any weight with honest and decent
people. AS might be expected, his ven,
emous cant about the crank st. John
causing the defeat OF Blaine, winds mp
with declaration in favorof the villain,
GUS heresy Of high license. Here again
is the antidote for the virus that runs
through the whole letter. This brands
as false his own Boosting declaration i'll
the same letter that he is as good Pro-
hibitionist Us there is in the third
party"
"0f course what he says Of the lead
ing Prohibitionists OF Marion county is
entitled to no more credit than other
portions OF his foolish letter Fortu-
nately, us we have shown, the fragrant
nonsense and bald contradictions OF the
article, furnish the ready and unavoida-
bic antidote for the poisons of its falIa-
cies and heresies. When snakes take TO
biting themselves the community is
safe, Mr., Wiley's letter and threats are
harmless. The Saloon Must Co!
1t has been said that whom the gods
would destroy they first make mad,
and they will find that by their abuse OF
the Republican party in this State they
have made Il good many mad. believe
there are hundreds OF temperance men
and friends to the amendment in this
State, and vet they will not give any aid
nor comfort to the Third party crank
movement, while they are doing all they
can in their power to destroy the Re
publican party. The leaders are known
to be set OF sore-heads. The one who
leads the ticket in this State, said in the
rink ut Fairinont that he wanted no
office, but that he was aCtuated by pure,
philantnropiC motives. Will he accept
Of the nomination? We shall see.
The writer said l made myself ridicu-
lous in the Grafton convention three
years ago. Yes, l suppose | was thorn
in their flesh, in opposing, as did, the
formation Of the third party, and have
the consolation that there were large
number of other gentlemen who on the
floor OF that convention took the same
position did and viewed the matter in
The same light. So l was not the only
one who, in the opinion OF the aforesaid
writer and pure defender and champion
of the temperance political party, in this
State, made himself ridiculous i'll that
convention. did not wish in what |
said about the amendment to bulldozc
anyone. 1t was simply my opinion,
which was my own private property.
He speaks also OF me coming out over
nv own name, as n minister OF the Cos
pcl. and one who dabbles in low politics,
in reply to which wish to say that lam
not ashamed to put my name to what l
write, nor am l a sneGking coward, like
The aforesaid writer, who will stand in
The dark and conceal the hand that
strikes the blow. AS it regards the
minister in politics, how about those OF
the third party, who upon the holy Sab
bath will stand up and advocate the
election Of Fisk and Carskaden. What
right have they to do on Sunday any
more than a preacher OF either one OF
the old parties or any other stump
speaker to champion the cause OF Harri-
son or Cleveland? None in the least,
for the temperance cause is no longer a
moral cause, but political cause, and it
has been made so by the Third party
movement. Yes, it was st. John who
defeated Mr.. Blaine, disguise it as they
may. There are three counties in north
ern New York that always gave Repub.
lican majorides until 1884, when they
voted for the great arch enemy OF the
Republican party, st. John, and who,
according to the showing OF MIR. Finch,
chairman OF the New York Prohibition
State Convention, would have voted for
Blaine.
/ hope the Republicans in this State
will remember that fact this fall. ! know
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